Automatic Minecart Shotgun for Dwarf Fortress

I have recently been obsessed with computing and machinery in Dwarf Fortress. I decided to apply what I was learning and built a series of memory cells and logic gates that control a 3-shot automatic minecart shotgun. Thanks to Vjek for inspiring this effort, and Bloodbeard for his research into minecart-based Dwarf Fortress computing.

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• Category

  Gaming

[Joe Ryan]

The only thing I can't figure out is how the stuff on the cart bypasses the wall in front of it. I see no opening for the spilled goods to pass through.

[TinyPirate]

Oh, it hits the wall and then drops down through a hole, shotgunning its goods over the wall and through the fortification.

[Dreamlore Degenerate]

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

[TinyPirate]

BUY MY BOOK AND I WILL! :D

[violence5919]

Australian?

[TinyPirate]

New Zealander. A better class of colonial =)

[MjrIssues]

This is a minecart shotgun. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It contains gold bars. On the item is an image of elves in foetal positions. The artwork depicts elves being destroyed by a volley of gold bars.

[DevoniusTrud]

Fill it with cats

[DGneoseeker1]

The only thing that could make this more awesome would be loading it with Pitchblende ore for the full "depleted uranium" experience.

[Nathan Williams]

amazing

[omikronsc]

Great! How about using magma instead of gold bars?

[GlassPike]

I can't believe you've managed all that, its incredible

[Kuroinokaze]

Better idea:

construct noble bedrooms above the load stage with floors that can be dropped to dump said nobles into the carts.

Use useless nobles are ammo.

[snerd8]

fill it with kids, 2 birds in 1 stone.

[MrCheezeNip]

fill one with fluffy wamblers and shoot it at some bronze colossus