Give us some basic rail infrastructure so we can move our dozens of ore, stone, and coal stockpiles around without giant hassles.
Rails can travel through z levels and can be coal powered or hand pushed (inb4 minecart alts)
jorb wrote:Ideally the game should play itself.
Kaios wrote:Fast travel teleportation for an object/stockpile thing sounds a bit weird and continuous z-level travel might not even possible, I like the idea of mine carts a lot though.
Instead of instant travel but as an alternative to boring manual pushing that would end up being done by an alt anyways, carts could be given a single push to start moving along the track and the speed the cart moves at would be determined by strength of the pusher. The cart would still move to the end of the track regardless but at different speeds depending on your strength and how much the cart has been loaded. It'd be cool to have multiple carts moving along a track transporting your ore while you're in the process of mining more, send the carts back and load up again.
At least that sounds a little more interactive to me. It doesn't even have to be ore you're transporting, it could open up possibilities to create rail tracks between villages for transporting other stuff beyond ore and create interesting opportunities to intercept someone else's carts that instant travel doesn't allow for.
Kaios wrote:Fast travel teleportation for an object/stockpile thing sounds a bit weird and continuous z-level travel might not even possible, I like the idea of mine carts a lot though.
Instead of instant travel but as an alternative to boring manual pushing that would end up being done by an alt anyways, carts could be given a single push to start moving along the track and the speed the cart moves at would be determined by strength of the pusher. The cart would still move to the end of the track regardless but at different speeds depending on your strength and how much the cart has been loaded. It'd be cool to have multiple carts moving along a track transporting your ore while you're in the process of mining more, send the carts back and load up again.
At least that sounds a little more interactive to me. It doesn't even have to be ore you're transporting, it could open up possibilities to create rail tracks between villages for transporting other stuff beyond ore and create interesting opportunities to intercept someone else's carts that instant travel doesn't allow for.
jorb wrote:Ideally the game should play itself.