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Once boats are implemented, a lot of people will be killing dwarves with them, just so they can say they boatmurered something.

Dear unknown spirit,
Since that bug where rollers accelerate all minecarts simultaneously was supposed to have been fixed, why is the minecart still accelerating every time the other one is sent on its merry way?
You killed a guineahen, I hope you're happy.
Sincerely,
GreatWyrmGold, Overseer.

(It was a fort from 0.34.08, in case it matters.)

Dear everyone,
You guys suck. Not only did you never unload the minecart sitting just south of the trade depot, leading to the death of one much greater than yourselves, you refused both to feed or water Urist McArmorerAndMason AND to move him to the new hospital, where there was a spare bed. The word "suck" does not begin to describe you guys. Did I mention that this is this fort's FIRST death, despite a few troglodyte attacks on sleeping dwarves and that troll the militi commnder picked a fight with a while back?
Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.

Dear Urist McMilitiaCommander,
Why do you keep dodging out of the barracks?
Sincerely,
GWG, Ovrsr.

You could make "picks" that used, say, the lasher skill, but that would make them unable to mine.

Here's a system I have in my one fortress for moving wood: Big stockpile on the surface, minecart leading off stockpile, being dumped (via track stop) into a pit, pit leads into little wood stockpile, dwarves are supposed to take wood from little stockpile into medium stockpile next to carpenter's workshop. A similar system could probably be set up for sand.

That's an amusing image.

I dunno. The idea of soiley rubble appeals to me; rubble impeding movement appeals to me; unavoidable, movement-blocking rubble always occuring in the first few layers you dig through does not appeal to me, as it'd slow down mining out the beginning of a fortress (to say nothing of farms!) immensely.

Plus something (accuracy?) to make it better than slinging a minecart at something.

I think it would be easier (for the player, at least) to be able to say, "Ten wheelbarrows will be reserved for building constructions" (or whatever) than having to say "This group of constructions can have five wheelbarrows be used for building them," every time you build a separate cluster of constructions. If you make more wheelbarrows later, you could increase the number reserved for constructions.