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[Romeofalling]

I'm guessing the answer to this already exists, but it seems to me that you should be able to create a Training Spear-laden Danger Room that attaches to a series of pressure plates on a minecart track, rather than a lever with repeating Pull tasks. Has anyone laid out a QuickFort blueprint for this yet? Links to discussions, please?

[PatrikLundell]

I've never used a danger room, but I routinely use impulse ramp driven mine cart repeaters to trigger menacing spike trap arrays, and what you want is just a single trap. I found the design by going to a thread referenced by the wiki on mine cart repeaters.
The design uses a 3 z levels by 7 by 8 footprint.


z

wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwhdhw
wwwwwwwwww

z-1

wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwwwwww
wwwwwhwwHw
wwwwwwwwdw

z-2

wwwwwwwwww
wddddddddw
wdwwwwwwdw
wdwwwwwwdw
wdwwwwwwdw
wdwwwwwwdw
wdwwwwwwdw
wddddwwwww
wwwwwwwwww

where
w = unchanged wall
d = dig prio 4
h = channel prio 4
H = channel prio 5


- Carve a track at all the 'd' tiles in the obvious direction.
- Carve N/E impulse ramps at the three ramps (2 on z - 2, one on z - 1)
- Place a hatch cover over the E chute on z and define a track stop there (with a mine cart, of course), and remove the default movement orders for the stop. Hook the hatch to a start/stop lever.
- Build a mine cart activated pressure plate anywhere on the flat track (i.e. not any ramp). I place mine 2 tile N of the drop chute starting the repeater.
- Hook the pressure plate up to the menacing spike trap(s) you want to control.
- Clear out or forbid all the debris in the tunnel, or you run the risk of creating road kill as someone goes to pick it up.

I think you can figure out yourself when to pull the activation lever...