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I like building a 2x2 stair with 2 spiral ramps wrapped around it.  You can fit 4 spirals around it, if you want to get crazy.  The tracks are automagically designated low traffic, so they should take the stairs and stay on the stairs when they bump into someone.  You can designate the stairs high traffic, if you are paranoid.

I tried this once with 2 ramps wrapped around a 1x1 stair.  So many road kills.

I have the stairs exit one level below the tracks and go under them.  Set to guide up and push/ride down on the route.  Or guide down if you're paranoid again.

When you carve the track be sure to designate beyond the ramp so it know where it's going on the upper level.  To put another way, designate carve track on the down ramp and the up ramp.  Only the up ramp gets carved, since down ramps are really just open space, but it knows to carve a track that goes through the up ramp, instead of stopping in the middle.

As usual, I would experiment with a practice mine cart route, cause you're going to screw something up.  And remember you can smooth stone to remove tracks then recarve them.
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Yeah, the floor grates are working ok.  The occasional cat or peachick is washed over the edge.  Only a couple dwarfs have fallen, and they land on the grate below with no injuries.

I'm looking forward to the first births, to see how babies fare.  Muwahahaha!

My machine invariably killed the dogs after a few cycles.  And there's no way to treat the injured ones.  I had 3000 seeds in it.  Maybe with less?

I turn off seeds in all other stockpiles and make a seed only stockpile next to the farm plots and disable barrels for it.  They'll put individual seed bags in the pile.  You'll still get a bit of cancel spam, but only for one bag at a time. 

If you want to really fiddle it, you can force the creation of multiple seed bags with forbidding and dumping.

Edit: too slow!

So, longer version.

Channeling out ramp, side view.  Going down and to the right.

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If I fill the down ramp spaces with a fortifications, it will block water flowing down the ramp.  Because a fortification has an implicit floor.

My question is, will wall grates and/or vertical bars block water falling down?

Wiki claims that wall grates are identical to fortifications, but it seems weird that a wall grate would have an implicit floor.  Guess I can just build it and see if everyone drowns.

T'all you fine dandies so proud, so cock-sure, prancin' aboot with your heads full of eyeballs! Come and get me I say! I'll be waiting on ya with a whiff of the 'ol brimstone.

Explosives are very Scottish.

Awesome!  Thanks!

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