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Yeah, pretty much what the other posters said, when I first messed with minecarts I had the same idea: a looping route that would take a bunch of different items from a big stockpile and then would dispatch them to the other stops only auto-dumping what was needed in each stop.


What I wanted to do was a mass storage system that would sort different item types, for example I had 1 wood stockpile and I wanted to load 1 minecart with all the types of wood and then have stops that would take a single type of wood (oak, pine, willow, etc...) in every stop I was pretending that the minecart would auto-dump only the specific type of wood and move on and on until it went back to the source stockpile.


It can't be done like that, at least not with auto-dump, you'd either get what you already have: the cart stopping for a period of time at the stop and a hauler would come to fill the destination stockpile with whatever is accepted there, and when the time's up the cart would be guided/pushed/rode to the next stop and so on.


Or you can have several routes with several carts individually picking only the specific items from the main stockpile and auto-dumping them in their respective destination.

Just from personal experience Rescue Wounded seems to be priority none.

Like, I set aside a team of paramedics whose only job is to go get wounded and do -nothing- else and they still leave them sitting up there for a week, even with a high "helping others" score.


If anyone in my fort is at risk of dying from blood loss... They'll still die from blood loss.  Once the wounds have scabbed over my dwarves might go pick them up.

Actually it seems to be affected by their empathy and helpfulness traits, you know the lines that say: "doesn't care for the suffering of others" "enjoys helping others" and so on...


For the OP, their job list seems to be 1 at the time, since whatever they are doing if affected by a higher priority job, gets cancelled and then a new job is reissued if needs be, and most likely another dwarf will pick the new job.


What people do is segregate dwarves by jobs, for example a carpenter would only have the carpenter job active so they keep making wood items non-stop (except for basic needs) instead of getting distracted by hauling or other jobs.

Can minecarts be filled by dropping items from a floor above? Cause that might make it possible to automate the process using levers and floor hatches.

I was wondering this too.

Quote from: Jimmy on January 11, 2013, 04:18:06 am

Also, has the question been answered as to whether clothing will wear once it's been named? This could seriously affect the viability of creating adamantine cloaks. I'd personally use the Coinstar room to bond my soldiers with masterwork adamantine robes and cloaks for added coverage of otherwise unarmored body areas if I knew it wouldn't wear out in a few years.

These are two seperate things. Dwarves can get attached to ordinary clothes or weapons, which can be quite annoying, if your best speardwarf gets attached to a training spear and only uses it in battle.

Naming of equipment on the other hand is quite uncommon.
When a dwarf names a piece of equipment, that equipment basically becomes a semi artifact and that's when it stops wearing out.

So making candy clothes is still not viable, as they still degrade even is dwarves get attached to them.

things get named by killing enemies, then building a coinstar that uses adamantine cloaks instead of coins and zombies instead of dwarves, add line of sight to a trapped necromancer.

by starting the washmachine the zombies will eventually get killed by the addy cloak, making it score a kill, then the necro revives the corpse and the devices self resets.


addy cloak gets named and becomes unable to wear down or rot.

Has anyone tried using a rail shotgun with minecarts full of coins?

That pisses them off actually and hurts diplomacy.  Just don't mug the Dwarf caravans, or you'll get more than reprucussions  .  You could try digging to magma and make obsidian, I'm not sure though I've never used magma before.  Still just a noob lurking forums...

Not if you repay them for their loses, I actually did just that and published my results in this thread a while ago:
Literrally ripping the clothes off Merchants / Traders / Caravan Guards / Liason

have one military dwarf attack the sponge, while an enemy is being engaged civilians are not spooked by them. at least this worked for me in one masterwork modded game, i was able to have civilians pick-up dropped blocks and build walls right next to a sponge as long it was being punched by a military.