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[TempAcc]

Would it be possible to use the rail framework thing to create a way to move siege engines around? I think it was mentioned somewhere in the DF talk but I'm not sure. What else are you planning to use rails with in the future? Are moving wall sections a possibility?

[Urist McDepravity]

I wonder if I'm only one who considers proper stockpiles/workshops relation graph implementation (w/out these silly restrictions on count or direction of links) even better than whole minecarts stuff?

[monk12]

Stockpiles can now be set to give items to multiple stockpiles. You can also set stockpiles to give to a workshop, in which case the workshop will only use items from its piles.

Aw hell yeah. Now I can have a Mason's Workshop for all my magma safe stone, and my garbage stone, and training Forges drawing on shit metals... good times.

[cephalo]

Sometimes a big cause of hauling inefficiency is just have too many idle dwarves. Imagine having 50 stones in some distant, deep room and you want to move it to a stockpile in the fort. It would be best to have a couple of guys load up a minecart and send it home along the tracks, but you know it wouldn't work that way, especially if you have 50 or more idle dwarves. Most likely they would all like to pick up a stone, put it in the minecart and then walk all the way back to the dining room empty handed, for a gain of zero efficiency.

Solving this problem sounds technically difficult, so I want to ask:

Are there cases where a busy dwarf will be considered a better job recipient than an idle dwarf? How have you handled this so far?

EDIT: Now that I think about it, we can handle it ourselves by simply having few stone haulers. Heh, maybe this issue does not require complex problem solving.

[MrWiggles]

What else are you planning to use rails with in the future? Are moving wall sections a possibility?

Yep.

Its listed twice on the Development Page. Even the moving Siege weapons part is.

Moving fortress sections (lifts, crushing traps, etc.)

Siege engine improvements depend on state of boats, lifts/moving fortress sections, since these should all use the same framework

[Khym Chanur]

Stockpiles can now be set to give items to multiple stockpiles.

Wheeee!

You can also set stockpiles to give to a workshop, in which case the workshop will only use items from its piles.

Wheeee!

[Cobbler89]

Sometimes a big cause of hauling inefficiency is just have too many idle dwarves. Imagine having 50 stones in some distant, deep room and you want to move it to a stockpile in the fort. It would be best to have a couple of guys load up a minecart and send it home along the tracks, but you know it wouldn't work that way, especially if you have 50 or more idle dwarves. Most likely they would all like to pick up a stone, put it in the minecart and then walk all the way back to the dining room empty handed, for a gain of zero efficiency.

Solving this problem sounds technically difficult, so I want to ask:

Are there cases where a busy dwarf will be considered a better job recipient than an idle dwarf? How have you handled this so far?

EDIT: Now that I think about it, we can handle it ourselves by simply having few stone haulers. Heh, maybe this issue does not require complex problem solving.

The hauling changes have begun. This afternoon there were dwarves running around with bins, bags and barrels, vacuuming up items. Seeing a single dwarf clean up a seed-ridden dining room as a single job is a beautiful thing.

I don't know for sure, but this devlog suggests a single dwarf loading an entire room of stones into one container (in this case a minecart) as a single job, thereby bypassing the problem of getting one dwarf to do the same job in the same area over and over.

[PTTG??]

I have to say, minecarts and hauling have been two of the most demanded changes to fortress mode for years. What's next? Dwarves who realize they're on fire? Lights?

[Keldane]

What's next? Dwarves who realize they're on fire?

Unless I'm mistaken, that was the other thing that was supposed to be in this update. I can't access the main page right now, otherwise I'd hunt down the relevant devlog.

[Knight Otu]

Unless I'm mistaken, that was the other thing that was supposed to be in this update. I can't access the main page right now, otherwise I'd hunt down the relevant devlog.

Not in the next update most likely, but during this cycle of bugfixes (that is, before Toady gets back to the caravan arc releases - it's not quite a bugfix cycle anymore). Also better support of resizing the window, and maybe, maybe, other ESV items.

[Manveru Taurënér]

I have to say, minecarts and hauling have been two of the most demanded changes to fortress mode for years. What's next? Dwarves who realize they're on fire? Lights?

"The other thing I said I would definitely do is make dwarves respond a little better to fire"

From the latest df talk ^^

[Chthonic]

I didn't listen to the latest FotF . . . will a dwarf that's on fire cause nearby dwarves to get a "douse flaming dwarf" job?  Are there going to be personality effects?  I can picture a cool-headed dwarf grabbing a bucket of water from a water stockpile (we should totally have water stockpiles) and putting himself out, while a more high strung dwarf might dive into the nearest body of water regardless of egresses or angry inhabitants, and a most nervous dwarf might run around screaming until an ignominious end in the booze stockpile.

[Jervill]

Zoning a pond would work too instead of a water stockpile.

[NW_Kohaku]

I wonder if I'm only one who considers proper stockpiles/workshops relation graph implementation (w/out these silly restrictions on count or direction of links) even better than whole minecarts stuff?

Nope.  WHEEE! Logistical management!

Man, when Toady starts on something, he REALLY goes whole-hog.

I'm just a little disappointed that it doesn't appear as if stacking will become a part of this update.

[MaximumZero]

Moving fortress sections (lifts, crushing traps, etc.)

Siege engine improvements depend on state of boats, lifts/moving fortress sections, since these should all use the same framework

boats

Dwarven Pirates, awaaaaay!