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[Sukasa]

Coal dust was -deadly- back in the day.  I don't have any references on hand, but I'll guarantee you that people have died from coal dust explosions in DF-style mines.

[Vactor]

hmm, sounds like theres another use for the mill and quern, grinding coaldust for fire traps

[Lokomotivet]

hmm, sounds like theres another use for the mill and quern, grinding coaldust for fire traps

Couldn't agree more.

[Techhead]

I have a request.
"Switch Pressure Plate"
A mechanic goes to the pressure plate and toggles it, so that levers are not required for the first time a water-sensor system runs.

[MadAlchemist]

I have a couple suggestions here to allow for some rather nasty traps:

Movable walls:

As in constructed walls that can be linked to a trigger to move to an adjacent empty space - horizontally or vertically.

Aka, crusher traps! 


Pressure plates in same tile as other constructions:

This one has been mentioned before but it would be pretty dang handy for setting up traps and probably necessary for the above trap to work at its best.
It would also allow for nifty pitfall traps when a pressure plate is combined with a floor hatch or retractable drawbridge.
Plenty of options for pitfall traps: long falls to solid stone, spikes, water, magma or... another trap. 


Additional liquids:

One type of liquid I would absolutely love my dwarves to be able to make is acid... and then fill a pool with the stuff.
I guess lye could be considered a corrosive acid but I'm pretty sure it can't be used to fill a pool with.
Flaming oil and explosive oil/alcohol are other ideas, but they would need a few other things to be implemented for them to be useful.

[Forumsdwarf]

The "waterproof axle" suggestion began life as the "gasket", a wall-like construction that allows only axles to pass through it (i.e. is impassible and water-tight).  If you want to be thorough you might mention it, unless the "waterproof axle" works identically but just has a different name.

Another suggestion you haven't put on your list is for drive belts.  A drive belt transfers power like an axle, follows rules appropriate to the technology (without an intervening mechanism drive belts can only be linked to other belts linearly or axles at right angles, etc.), and is made of leather or cloth instead of wood.

[LumenPlacidum]

Steam power could be added simply by having steam be pressurized or not.  Steam already exists in the game, it just needs that one addition.  Don't do turbines, but make waterwheels movable by steam flow also.  Then, you have steam as a source of power and/or a source of aesthetics.

Misters, when you get right down to it, are a grate plus pressurized water.  We have these now (they just have the slight engineering challenge of killing everyone).

Also, I'm all for the drive belts.  It's a nice, simple thing to add.

[Granite26]

Life is hectic right now (still no power at home), but I'll sort all these in when I get a chance.

[tigrex]

Think of all the awesome things we could do with movable walls and floors. .. .. Traps of all kinds, lifts, construction aids, Water diverters, a walking fortress.

[Silverionmox]

To make lifts and powered transport, only 3 new elements the size of one square are needed:

- Tilting floor: need 1 block, 2 mechanisms (and optionally 1 bar): tilts slightly when activated, thereby shoving off any objects 1 square in a specified direction (pick one of north-south-east-west, like catapults). Combine at will to form a conveyor in any direction, add new elements when needed. Alternate their states (flat-tilted) to obtain efficient transport. They would require power, but not an extra row of gearworks/mechanisms to transfer it. Could be walked on normally when flat.

- Rising floor: need 1 block, 4 mechanisms, and 1 bar: The same as tilted floor, but the two states are flat and up, at which point the floor finds itself at the height of the floor, 1 z-level higher.. or against the ceiling.

- Pusher: need 1 block, 3 mechanisms and 1 bar: installed on square 1, when actived pushes anything on square 2 to square three. Much like a rising floor, but horizontal. Useful for pushing objects off tilting floors, onto rising floors, and back off them again.

Combinations of these three could solve most of the demands for automated transportation, would provide more applications for power, can easily be put to other uses (don't tell me you didn't think of what would happen when there was no open space over a rising floor), and are probably (I'm guessing) easier to code tidily and maintain than a contraption that is spread over multiple squares that requires them to function.

(Another idea that came up while writing this: dwarf-sized balancing scales, and their implications.)

[Granite26]

Updated to add:
Coal and Flour Dust
Acid
Drive Belts
Small Mechanisms
Optics
Pressure Plate Comparisons (Balance Plates)

I also tried to add enough information to the Waterproof axel to make it obvious that it's code for 'Some sort of method to put the power through a waterproof wall'.

[Sukasa]

Also, for the tilting floors, we'd need a way or mechanism that can select which way to tilt somehow, so that you can have splitting paths for them.

[Silverionmox]

Also, for the tilting floors, we'd need a way or mechanism that can select which way to tilt somehow, so that you can have splitting paths for them.

Clarified the previous post.

[Login]

Revolving door with a pressure plate inside + trap and a deep pit.

Goblin gets inside. Pressure plate notice it isn't a dwarf.  It turns and the trap opens. 

in   T| P  out    P= Pressure plate.
   |--0--|         T= Trap= deep pit.
   |P | T|          0= axle  Turns left.

[Veroule]

I thought of something rather specific for putting pressure plates into other buildings.

First anything that a lever could be linked to currently is a valid target for a pressure plate.

Second the mechanics workshop is where the job is created.  Titled something like "Build Plate Into Building".  This would then go through the same target selection method that is used to link things, and would go through the same pressure plate setup screen.

Third after the plate is built into that building then q'ing over the building should display the pressure plate job menu as well as whatever the default options for that building are.  This would pretty much only involve the addition of the line "a: Add new linkage".