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That will indeed work IRL.

OK. I was still thinking about simultaneous drop.

If you pick up a magma cart or pick up the magma[833] stack, fiery death ensues.

Objection! My haulers were moving magma carts pretty well just a day ago. Did Toady change this in 34.09?

Can anyone improve on this system for filling carts with liquid?

Why do you fill the cart from upper z-level? It just needs to be submerged into a tile of water. I think you can remove the second pump and replace the wall under it with wall grate. Also I`d try to use a wall grate from other side instead of floor grate to avoid gaps in the tracks, and the water would flow from left to right, not from top to bottom, but I`m not sure how the flow would affect minecart.
Also I`m thinking about a big cistern of water with rollers on the bottom and some doors and pressure plates to prevent or minimize leakage when minecart enters and leaves.

Does crashed fluid cart send a shotgun style?  Are obsidian collides possible?

Hmm. If we make two parallel tracks, set two stops with drop order and launch two minecarts with water and magma simultaneously... And if the drop point is hanging in the air...
Automated cave-ins?

Quote from: jwest23 on May 17, 2012, 01:53:59 pm

Quote from: webber on May 16, 2012, 05:11:19 pm

Is manual unloading of minecarts via "give to stockpile" broken for everybody or it`s just me doing something wrong? The only way I can empty the minecart is to dump the contents on a stop.

I had this same experience in .08.  I can't test it now, but is it any different in .09?

I was unloading just fine in 08. Did you remember to set a stockpile link from your route>stop panel?

Aw, it was just me. Didn`t pay attention that the "give" menu says "kept items", not "desired", and was always ordering to keep in cart all items I wanted to unload.

So I noticed no one replied to this (except the Dwarven Quantum Entaglement remark) and it would seem that water effectivly transfers KE like a newton ball. Can someone confirm?

I suspect that the water isn`t our problem. Will test this on a dry track tomorrow. Possibly, this happens when two minecarts share the same track.

Long hallway, pressure plate at one end and powered roller at the other.  Activate the plate and the roller gains power, sending the cart accelerating down the hallway. 

Kobolds do not trigger pressure plates.

Have you (or someone else) tried to have a powered roller that is completely submerged by water/magma? I guess that should make it possible to move the minecart through the liquid

Yes.
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=109460.msg3284866#msg3284866

I'm not sure minecart towers will replace pump stacks anytime soon.

It all depends of needed quantities. If you just need a single magma tile 100 levels above magma layer, you can just fill some magma-proof minecarts with magma and assign them to a little track near your destination point. Your haulers will just bring the minecarts there, and then you can dump the contents.
But for siege-burning purposes pump stacks are still better.