Weaponised Minecarts - Dwarf Fortress Tips

hey there I'm further reading today we're talking about Minecraft now with Minecarts what your quote-unquote supposed to do is using the transport Goods faster from place to place but that's not how I use Minecarts we we don't do that here I use my cards for and violence they were really talking about this bad boy the Minecraft grinder the Minecraft grinder is very simple yet very effective trap you could put in your base it consists of two Minecrafts I use plaque on my cards because they're incredibly heavy traveling in a circle on a track they are being powered by these rollers on either side they are powered by gear assemblies that are linked to my main power grid as they move they are going to impact With the Enemy and push them you'll see here I've got these pits that the enemy get pushed down into well now that you understand how it works let's talk about how to build one I'm going to use this section my base to explain how to build it from scratch let's say that the enemies will be coming here for this out so we're going to make a little Corridor and now we're going to make a five by tree boom this is where the track is going to be then we're going to curve out space on either side that is where the gear assemblies are going to be and then we are going to curve out these channels this is where the impacted enemies are going to fall down hello I'm slightly further than the teacher my dwarfs are finished mining now it's time to add the track you can either construct the track or you can curve it into the floor it's video clue which one you want to do you're going to want to do it in stages but first we'll do the top then we'll move it down then we'll do the bottom and then we'll move it up you can see now it's done correctly all of the turns and right place while waiting for the dwarfs to carve that out we are also going to build our gear assemblies we will put one on this left side and one on this light side you then want to connect this to your power grid I would recommend connecting it from the Z level above and maybe even a couple of Z levels just because in the unlikely situation that a building store can destroy the assembly you don't want then to have a access to a base dead to your power grid but by putting it a couple of Z levels up unless they're Flyers they won't be able to get up there in addition we're gonna put down some rollers so we do B for building we go to machines and fluids and we do a roll up we're going to do it at the maximum speed and this one is going to be heading north we'll put it right here you click twice we're going to give some mechanisms and give it some kind of change doesn't really matter what then on the other side we'll do the same thing maximum speed going south we're going to double click and we are going to give it some mechanism and we're going to give it some kind of chain and then finally we are going to need to put down some doors so I like putting my doors up here and over here once we have the doors down let's also put down a couple of stops so we're going to add two new routes we're gonna add one stop here to the left add one stop here to the right we are going to give them both Minecarts um again ideally you want to have Platinum Minecarts for this because they're quite heavy or some other really heavy metal like that at the moment I don't have much to work with a bunch of spare iron ones so let's go ahead and do the iron ones for now in addition we are going to go to the conditions and we're gonna turn off all of the conditions because we don't want anyone doing anything with these minecartes you just basically want them to be sitting still and now we're gonna wait for our dwarves to build everything hello from the future everything's been placed down now we want to connect up our levers I've got some here already just so there's some close by uh one lever I like connecting to both of the doors and then another level I will connect either to both of the gear assemblies or maybe I might have another gear assembly somewhere else that it will connect to in order to take power away from the system and also make sure to name the levels that's important because otherwise you're going to forget what they are that's the doors lever and this is the power lever so doors are going to go now and connect all of them up while we're waiting for that to happen you want to think about what to do with this middle section if you leave it open like this then an Envy can actually Sprint up here and they're actually likely to avoid the Minecraft to do that well I won't say they're likely to do it but they're not unlikely to do it if that makes sense so I like to also put down a wall you can put one down here in the middle and that's fine if you want as well you can put one on either side too and that way then the enemies have to be on the track at all times you have no option to dodge out of the way of the Minecarts it's kind of up to if you want to do that it is possible if there's a lot of enemies one place that the minecart may not have momentum to keep going through them it's unlikely but it is possible so by giving them areas to dodge into you prevent that from happening in addition when the Minecarts are placed uh you want to lock them the main reason I like doing this is because if they are not on their stop and they're not in motion a door for one to come and oh you've named The Shield very good Alice machine I thought that so the reason why you want to lock them is because while they're moving no one's going to want to touch them when they stop moving it's possible that maybe this one's gonna be on that side and vice versa so then your drawers will want to swap them back into place and this will prevent that job from generating you will have other ways to keep them out of this room and also to be honest if you have to stop the room isn't too dangerous anyway but still just be extra safe I like lock it up just to make sure that they stay where they are I mentioned those go explain the doors the reason I have the doors here and here is as you can see the doors are right next to the rollers so that means that when I follow the levels at the moment the doors are closed when I pull this lever the door is going to pull open I'll pull this out for power and it's not spinning and then when I want to stop it let's say I want to collect some looters in the area or there's something's gone wrong I just fix something in my in my grinder Hall I will pull this door lever that's going to close the doors and then the minecart will impact the doors and stop and I'll stop on top of the rollers that means I don't have to move them again they're exactly where I'd even to be when I want to restart the the grinder one thing to keep in mind is when the door gets the signal to close if the minecart is on the same tile as the door door won't close it'll stay open if this happened with both doors you can just pull the lever and it'll be fine maybe next time it will work properly if only one door gets closed it gets a bit more difficult but luckily the minecart is going to impact the back of the other one and then they'll both be stopped and you can safely get your dwarves into uh he said everything I already know to make it the next step is what you actually put in these holes to make sure that chop is going to damage or hurt the enemy's cotton it ideally you want a drop a really big drop this drop goes down 32z levels and as you can see it's a bit of a mess when they fall down the um it's quite severe this arm come with I think the over here is where the body is and you see not our distance that's that's pretty cool the first time I built this I used a 10 level drop it mainly because if you see here you've got the carbon layer over here so I made it this 10 level drop and it worked well at all it's a log that shows a goblin that filter here he took no damage in that version I also had spikes on the holes they can fall into and the spikes also missed if you are stuck for vertical space this is another option we'll see for this option I've put these lead bars between the Gap and the track so when the enemy gets hit they'll get hit but they'll get squashed Between the Bars and the minecart and they get hit a bunch of times and on paper they will only go through once they've dead once they're dead because once they're dead they become a stack of items both the equipment and also the body parts or whatever and the bodies should get pushed through and land down in the safe area of a collection however when I was testing this I had an Ant-Man Dodge through the bars enemies can dodge true bars and qualifications things like that so he dodged through the bars and fell down here and he took a bunch of damage from the cart but he's still fine but then of course I've got these stairs here it goes up the stairs he has to go back and he's in the same room again so if you're stuck with vertical space you can do something like this and just have them keep going up and keep getting hit and again and again and eventually they will die and only the items will be left in this area here in terms of how long you should make the corridor I found three sections it seems to work well I've had some get up to this part here but I haven't had anyone yet actually come through the bridge and keep going but the vast majority of enemies are actually getting hit in this first area it's quite weird they get past this first area but I found having tree seeds so far to be a good way to approach this that was how to build a Minecraft grinder in Dwarf Fortress I hope you found this guide useful if you did feel free to like And subscribe you know so check me out on Twitch where I stream door Fortress pretty regularly or watch any of the videos on screen right now hopefully I'll see you soon

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Length: 9min 20sec (560 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 27 2023