DWARF FORTRESS Steam ~ 37 Basics of Minecarts

[@TheWaldleufer]

Some Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:44 - Track Design (Carved and Laid) 4:08 - Minecarts 5:54 - Laying the tracks (quickly with intentional mistake) 9:20 - (Not) Weaponizing minecarts (weight comparison) 10:50 - Efficient loading stockpile setup 16:38 - Why are my dwarfs carrying all the stuff back to the loading stockpile?? (And how to avoid that) 17:52 - My dwarfs are constantly unaliving from walking over the tracks (And how to fix that) 19:37 - Minecart stations explained really well 22:03 - Fixing an error in the tracks (properly) 27:00 - Routing 29:27 - Speed measuring of kicked minecart and hints for automation 33:03 - More routing 36:36 - opposing *guided* minecarts bypass each other. 39:55 - setting a number of wheelbarrows per heavy stockpile 42:05 - Hint towards a specialized class of cart haulers 43:18 - Hauled minecarts take the shortest route, skipping the unload in this instance 49:39 - Outro Thank you for this really handy and detailed video about minecarts! Figured while watching it, I might as well take note of some timestamps. If you like, you can add them to your video’s description, thus creating chapters. Thanks again and have a nice day!

[@namcobadguy6816]

thankyou for these really handy timestamps! cmon folks givem a thumbs up

[@joyjoy534]

@@namcobadguy6816 👎 The route will fail. The Dumps setup are incorrect.

[@eugenec1733]

Tip I learned: Guided minecarts can pass each other in opposite directions on the same track. TY

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Makes no sense:)

[@TheWaldleufer]

Well if they are guided, then the dwarfs can derail one by hand let the other one pass and rerail it afterwards. But if they are not guided that won’t work. So makes sense to me 😉

[@mgh7634]

Thank you so much for the detailed minecart explanation. I know you apologized for the length but in this case I very much appreciate it and was looking for a more long-form explanation. Really helpful stuff for newbie DF players like me.

[@rzu1474]

So your telling me. I could take a lead Minecart, engrave it with the dwarven equivalent of "eat this" and shove it down 100z levles into a forgotten beasts face?

[@yobgodababua1862]

FYI: You set "Upper Dump" to "Guide North" even though the stop is on a stretch of East-West track. It might not have even shown if the cart was moving under it's own power because the momentum would carry it through the dump stop, but since it's guided I'm not sure if the route will fail of if the cart will be derailed. Either way, you'll find out soon enough! Stay Dwarfy and Keep Striking the Earth!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

18:30 the best and easiest to understand explanation for the pathing

[@thegeneralsolution]

But how do you dig a channel 100 layers down without manually clicking one tile at a time? :( Is there a way?

[@pupyfan69]

4:40 there is one reason to use metal minecarts if you aren't weaponizing them: unless you have nether-cap, magma-safe metals are the only way to make magma-safe minecarts.

[@KyleJohnson-ny7uu]

The minecart knows where it is because the minecart knows where it isnt

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Any chance to go more indepth to mine carts working up hill? I can't get them to push them. I create a 2nd stop but this then just makes them pick up the minecart and carry it upstairs instead of push it.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Got it working. They wouldn't push it up as no stop the other end in the "route". So even though the end of the route is just a dump point, you still appear to need to tell them to go to that route in the list. Also one of the ramps was unusable so I had to rebuild it which you then can't carve so had build that part of the track. I knew you can join carved track and built track together.

[@boweniscool]

Gosh, really hard to pay attention and learn along when my Dwarfs keep turning into WereTortoises Lolz X3, Rained right before the Full moon so I was off by a day or so to quarantine them Love the vids!

[@Teppic11]

There's already a default work detail for stonecutters. It's probably there because it's used for smoothing too.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

Surely if a wooden mine cart is full it's dangerous anyway, cart full of stone is dangerous. What ever it's made off

[@GraniteRock]

Great tutorial! Would be cool to see the final layout in action.

[@bruceh72]

I feel like I'm missing something here. At 6:30 you seem to be selecting between 2 spots and "it knows what to do" but I can't seem to make it know what to do even over 3 z-level changes with nothing in the way. What have I missed?

[@stefano8936]

bruh stone cutters is one of the predefined jobs

[@PiersCawley]

I'm not sure I understand why you're forcing the minecarts around the loop. Surely with one cart and one route running over the tracks, it doesn't matter, you can simply dump the goods, then send the cart back along the way it came.

[@PiersCawley]

Dumping trackstops don't need you to actually stop there, they'll just work as the cart passes them.

[@stephankuebler762]

Hi, again great Video THX... Q - Can somehow the Carts be used as "Rail Way" not to Transport things but Dwarfes? My map is 8x8 and i made all Tombs at the Edge of the map... Now my Dwarf are to lazy to walk there...

[@mikegillespie5218]

I'm playing along with my own fort. Once the minecart track was created, I've noted that at times (not always?) a dwarf will pick up the cart and walk it all the way up to the top via stairs, or all the way down to the bottom. Any theories on what could be going wrong?

[@wielkiedrzewo]

At your track, set the "end point" so that dwarves push the cart the OPPOSITE way whenever the cart is at 0% of desired items. The opposite settings to what you have at the start.

[@mikegillespie5218]

@@wielkiedrzewo turns out the issue was that I mined a space next to the track (beside a track ramp and under another track section) which somehow impacted the route. I ended up building new track overtop and it’s now working.whew!

[@Draaven]

Thank you for the tutorial Das :)

[@Lozza9000]

Do impulse tracks still work in steam version? How would these be designated?

[@HappyHounds]

How did you tunnel down? I can't carve to multiple levels....

[@alexanderafonin1688]

Danke Sie!

[@kingcos19]

Just found you 🎉🎉🎉

[@TheNuclearManx]

Great video. I was wondering how to find magma - on my world I have dug down to -95 but have only found two caverns - and if I go below -100 there is a lot of Fun right?

[@jamespritchard9930]

Just keep digging, unless something as gone weird you should not encounter anything FUN without being greedy with your Candy. There Should always be a magma sea first.

[@yoshipops]

anyone else having the problem where instead of pushing the cart down the track they pick it up and go down the stairs?

[@saitamablz1512]

Stonecutters is normaa option skkssks

[@stafuishi1613]

For the life of me, I can't get ramps to work

[@DarkWolper]

That was a bit much for a Basic Tutorial. Not that the informations arent usefull, but almost an hour is too long for a tutorial. such a big topic would be better if splitted into different videos The explanations themself where good and helpful

[@ZeroG]

This tutorial is useless because you don't show how the heck you created the ramps and tunnels that the cart travels through. Please show the whole process from a fresh save where you don't already have anything dug into the mountain yet. For example how do you create the ramp that goes back and forth all the way down from above? When I build a ramp like that, it's just a huge gap in the world and nothing can pass through it.