That is exactly what happened.

So maybe im just an idiot... but what does this sentence... mean. I know nothing of that option or what this may entail. And i do need to boost the fps lol

Dwarves complain about not being able to reach the minecart with temperature turned off. Though it might be this only happens with the stockpile method of filling minecarts.

@@kban6748 you can disable a few settings, which improve FPS with tradeoffs. Turning off temperature is one of them. No temperature does speed things up significantly (don't need to model temperature for the whole map anymore!), but makes magma and fire work differently. It still flows, but I believe it doesn't melt/burn things anymore. You can also disable weather - for most biomes, this is free FPS, but disabling weather in an evil biome with evil weather that turns people into zombies is kinda cheating.

@@kban6748 if you have 'temperature' turned off any tile that has had lava on it will remain impassible forever b/c it never gets a chance to cool down. it's necessary if you are using say bridges to flood a small room of carts and then draining the lava, also comes in handy when mining deep

@@kban6748 The game calculates the temperature of every bit of clothing, etc. so turning off temp sensing can help as will turning off weather effects. Stair design, Atom smashing excess inventory, are all ways to improve FPS Too many animals, the game calculates lots of data points for every object in the game.

So while i am not a great player and cant rly help, Nookrium also has a reclamation fort going rn. There may be some insights in that one that will help.

@@kban6748 ty

@@okonkwojones np, hope it helps!

There is a max speed at which carts can be going and get filled, and it is pretty low.

Same problem here. Have tried 1 and 2 wide lava trench but same thing. carts siting in the lava. Will fiddle with it a bit more then give up and use a screw pump to make a fill room.

How did you get the carts out of the lava? I'm running into the same problem but don't know how to clear the area to begin fixing it.@@michalec1974

you do for brakes though.

Indeed, that's the friction part like I said. Specifically in your video, the first stop doesn't need to be an actual track stop, you could just put the cart there before it's pushed off into the lava.

DF is a little confusing in that regard. When you're setting a cart route you do need to specify a "stop" where the route begins, but this can be any tile, it does not have to be a constructed "track stop". You only actually need the latter if you want to slow or dump a moving cart.

Yes, you wouldn't usually dump it back out in a circle like this. This vid is teaching how to fill and how to empty (or not) the lava cart. You then decide where to dump it - like a magma furnace pit - in your own fortress. This is just a quick simplification.

How did you hook the cart out when it was stuck in the lava? I'm having the same issue.

The same thing with me. I watched another tutorial, and did as it told. Using drawbridges and waiting for lawa evaporate takes a long time indead. I also aked myself: why use drawbridges when there are floodgates, which do the same job and also work with levers? I also carved a long track in the floor, which goes also the way up to my base, and it worked decently, except that dwarves with minecarts used to bump into cats and other dwarves, spilling magma and making the whole process even longer. Then I decided to widen the pass to prevent bumping (1 tile for tarcks and the other for creatures to walk. And from that I got another bug: dwarves started hauling heavy minecarts in their hands instead of pushing them on the tracks. I don't know why it's happening. )

@@Wanderer1258 The reason you use drawbridges over floodgates is because a raised drawbridge with no open space directly above it is indestructible, while a floodgate can be destroyed by any monster that has the door/portal destruction ability. (there are variants of these native to lava and water alike) Because of this property, there's little reason to use floodgates for much of anything, save possibly safety for low-pressure, fully-secured waterworks within your fortress.

@@atmosdwagon4656 Thank you for the tip! I use floodgates, because it for me it's aesthetically pleasing. But it's usefull to know.

@@Wanderer1258 I prefer floodgates for aesthetic reasons myself, but use drawbridges when it could compromise fort security too easily.

It would take absolutely forever, but you could do it. But usually there is any easier way to move water with gravity and a few pumps, since you can usually get water at the top of the map but not the bottom. Magma is of course the reverse.

building destroyers can destroy grates but they can't destroy fortifications. A few of them live in the lava and will occasionally come onto your map.

@@cinifiend hmmmmmm. interesting.... and concerning

if it is 7/7 they will just swim through fortifications anyways@@cinifiend

You have to smooth the stone first and then carve. More steps, sometimes just easier to build it depending on how far your materials are

@@fpypnts no need to smooth. You just smooth to remove the engraved tracks

It does take a long long time, better to kick the minecart through the channel than have to wait for evaporation

My assumption is the dwarves are not strong enough to kick the cart far enough. From my testing (this used to work perfectly in older versions) it seems to be like 1 in 50 of my dwarves get it stuck.

@@BlindiRL OK! good to know thanks :) I will try to play around elevations to get the cart to move fsster

Building destroyers can break vert iron bars if IRC. A combo might work, Fortification 1st then Iron bars. I've heard using Horizontal bars and a pump is bullet proof for critters.

I think that works because apparently building destroyers cannot destroy things on a z-level above them. So locked hatches and grates are invincible to anything coming from below. …I hope, because I do that a lot! Has always worked so far though.

Blind covered that in a minecart bucket vid where he filled minecarts then dumped them into a single trenched hole then later built a magma furnace on top

@@eugenec1733 Apparently I did not notice such a video on this channel.🤷‍♂ Because I only remember MAGMA "BUCKETS" from Twisted Logic Gaming

@@HeartOfDarkness2013 You are right I thought "Blind" did it on his channel but I have also been watching Twisted Logic as well.

Iron melts around 1500c, and lava is about 1250c. The cart will be a too damn hot to handle when it comes out, but it won't melt.

Nope, just some rando person on youtube and twitch

You can use this as a method to fill up a space elsewhere to power magma furnaces/forges/kilns/etc. Or fill up a moat (would take a while). Or traps. Whatever you want to use magma for, really.

Can lava be transported using pipes?

@@bodyguardik From the WIKI Pipes, or pipe sections, are used as components in the construction of screw pumps. You can't build pipes by themselves in the current version, nor connect them to form a conduit - to move water or magma from one place to another, see aqueduct.

He means he should have channeled a hole on the left to dump the lava into. That way there wouldn't have been the 1/7 tile of lava spilled under the minecart at the end

@@kalaksed Okay that makes sense

Magma forges. So you have free fuel and don't need wood for that.

Obsidian is a very sharp for cutting weapon types as well. People construct obsidian farm setups by dropping water on a magma pool or trench, then mining the obsidian, then refilling with 1 layer of magma, adding more water.

All sorts of uses for magma. Magma forges/smelters/kilns/glass furnaces don't need fuel and filling minecarts like this lets you build those industries on safe layers instead of places where you'd potentially deal with things like fire imps or magma crabs Can also use the magma carts as a trap of sorts, hitting enemies with a speeding minecart full of magma is a great way to ruin their day Or just use them to fill up other places slowly, for more direct magma traps, moats or the like Someone else mentioned making obsidian, but i generally feel it's easier to bring water down to magma than magma up to water if making obsidian farms. If you're gonna obsidian cast stuff on the surface, it is also probably better to use quicker magma delivery methods, too

Moving it is the point.