Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

Author Topic: Build a Wagon?  (Read 829 times)

gamzeeLover

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Build a Wagon?
« on: September 19, 2014, 11:34:44 pm »
Simple: Are you able to build a Wagon?
Logged

StagnantSoul

  • Bay Watcher
  • "Player has withdrawn from society!"
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2014, 11:49:07 pm »
No.
Logged
Quote from: Cptn Kaladin Anrizlokum
I threw night creature blood into a night creature's heart and she pulled it out and bled to death.
Quote from: Eric Blank
Places to jibber madly at each other, got it
Quote from: NJW2000
If any of them are made of fire, throw stuff, run, and think non-flammable thoughts.

Illogical_Blox

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2014, 09:03:07 am »
Nah, it only appears on embark or when non-elf merchants show up.
Logged
Me: "Just imagine a load of dwarves sitting round a table, and one of them says, 'I like stranglers for... for their... their...'"
Brother: "SOFT HANDS!"

Quietust

  • Bay Watcher
  • Does not suffer fools gladly
    • View Profile
    • QMT Productions
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2014, 12:21:36 pm »
Quote from: Illogical_Blox on September 20, 2014, 09:03:07 am
Nah, it only appears on embark or when non-elf merchants show up.
Those are two completely different things - caravans bring Wagon creatures, while embarking puts your suplies in a Wagon building.

In theory, you could build one using DFHack, but you can't make them normally.
Logged
P.S. If you don't get this note, let me know and I'll write you another.
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

Deboche

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2014, 01:56:30 pm »
And wagon creatures die very easily if you mess with the merchants. I don't think you're supposed to have the stockpiling capabilities of a wagon available to you.

Wagons are pretty weird, the only creature in game that's roughly to scale with the world, allows you to store way more than in a same size stockpile, dies easily, disappears while trading is taking place and reappears afterwards and there used to be even more magical things it could do before toady fixed them.

Animal assistance for hauling is planned though.
Logged

Illogical_Blox

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2014, 12:54:51 pm »
Quote from: Quietust on September 20, 2014, 12:21:36 pm
Quote from: Illogical_Blox on September 20, 2014, 09:03:07 am
Nah, it only appears on embark or when non-elf merchants show up.
Those are two completely different things - caravans bring Wagon creatures, while embarking puts your suplies in a Wagon building.

In theory, you could build one using DFHack, but you can't make them normally.
Huh, you learn something new every day.
Logged
Me: "Just imagine a load of dwarves sitting round a table, and one of them says, 'I like stranglers for... for their... their...'"
Brother: "SOFT HANDS!"

Xinael

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2014, 11:18:33 am »
Is there a particular thing you were hoping they would be good for, or did you just think it might be cool? If you're having problems transporting items, you might find minecarts, wheelbarrows, garbage dumps, and quantum stockpiles useful.
Logged

MonkeyHead

  • Bay Watcher
  • Yma o hyd...
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2014, 11:20:09 am »
OP, you need this thread in your life: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=128593.0

Logged
This is a blank sig.

Quietust

  • Bay Watcher
  • Does not suffer fools gladly
    • View Profile
    • QMT Productions
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2014, 11:26:54 am »
As a side note, even if you were able to construct a Wagon building, you wouldn't be able to do anything with it - the only purpose it serves, aside from carrying the items you brought during embark, is providing a Meeting Area for your dwarves, and an activity zone can replicate that easily enough.
Logged
P.S. If you don't get this note, let me know and I'll write you another.
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on September 17, 2009, 10:47:58 pm
It's amazing how dwarves can make a stack of bones completely waterproof and magmaproof.
Quote from: Neruz on September 18, 2009, 06:58:26 am
It's amazing how they can make an entire floodgate out of the bones of 2 cats.

Triaxx2

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Build a Wagon?
« Reply #9 on: September 22, 2014, 05:05:15 pm »
I almost suspect that for fluff purposes, the wagons become the trade pavilion to trade in, should inclement weather roll in.
Logged