New Item Suggestion: Mine Cart

[Yolan]

While a cart is useful for holding containers, which in turn can hold ore, I think it would make sense to have, in effect, a chest on wheels. This could be built using, say, a mixture of cast and wrought iron, and hold somewhat more than a chest. At the moment, roads cannot be built underground, but how about tracks for these carts? Perhaps cast iron could be used to build large-size sections to make it worthwhile.
This would be useful for when mines get very large in size, and it is a long way from the ore to the entrance.

[theTrav]

sounds fun, but also like it could be reasonably tricky to implement if you were going to have branching rails etc.

would especially be good if we get veins of particular ores that we want to follow, and some cave-ins for large mined areas

[Jfloyd]

Well, cant you just build carts in a mine right now? Or do they move at Turtle Speed?

[sami1337]

Mines can' be that huge though.

[Jfloyd]

Mines can' be that huge though.

It's annoying when you have to make 10 trips to fill up more than 5 smelters.