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Also on a side note, matter movers are VERY powerful at moving small throughput items like missiles, drill cutter heads, mob drops to where they need to go and you really should have turbines before considering matter movers at all.
but mostly because there is no limit to the number of carts you can actually have on the track, so assuming you have the resources to make them, and built the track infrastructure to receive the output you could pump 20-30-60 carts a min. it would start off slow, but you could just keep adding carts to the system till you have the through-put you want.
However to make them easier to use, it would be great if there was a track layer that will spiral minecart tracks up a 3x3 or 5x5 tunnel.
To go with it, the auto excavator could have an option to do 3x3 or 5x5, possibly requiring an upgrade...? idk
do camobots spawn mostly in the cold cavern? they drop organic rock I think, I haven't hunted them much.
Yeah I hope he adds vertical rail system as spiral is hard to do.
My effective approch is to use lvl2 bombs to mine down a huge hole to place a large rail system.
Really don't see any issues with it. Tube/belt have nothing over minecarts once you set them up.
You only need to setup a single track then to incrase ore throughput all you do is add carts after that.
You can have as many cart as you want on one track. I have easy over 200 large carts. Lost count to how many i have at this point.
But now boost your operations by 2x... 3x...4x? That's 700, 1050, and 1400 total tubes respectively for a 350m mineshaft(I'm down in the 600m area right now mining biomass and other ores). I don't know about you, but I think tubes are pretty expensive so I don't really wanna have to keep doing massive runs of those! Minecarts you just keep tossing onto the track as your operations expand. Right now my minecart network handles over 90% of my proliferation operations and my source hoppers rarely have anything in them! Though I think if you've got the power for it, a pure matter mover based network would be pretty friggen fast.
tl;dr = I think once your operation expands signficantly you'll see the enhancement that a rail network provides over tubes, movers, or belts...
I dont use minecarts. Sure, organic rock is not rare anymore but you need excessive amounts of carts to reach the spead of a conveyor line and placing an autobuilder takes very little time. From a cost perspecive, I doubt that a minecart track is that much cheaper.
Cuz fast ones don't go much faster along flats, just and down hill.
T4 will leave you with little option. :)
minecarts are not better nor are matter movers in any reasonable way.
i just wanted to bring this to light, i would love to use other forms of transport to move items around it would be nice to not have to look at tubes/belts all the time just because they are so good. while i could use other forms right now, it would just be plain stupid to do so.
i don't want minecarts to be god teir or matter movers, its just i want a reasonable thoughtput out of other forms of transport for reasonable amounts of time/items invested into said transport.
I would like to add that carts, at the moment, are only useful to transport ores to a sorter and then to a smelter.
Also finding the organic rock is not difficult at all. Go exploring for half hour or so, you'll be suprised how much rock you will have gathered
are you takling above ground or below?
i remember in my old world there was alot above ground but i thought because my map was all kinds of broken i thought it was just a bug or something =S
A few minutes of caving can get you you a bunch too. They aren't rare at all, I'm not at the point where I'm considering carts, but I have about a stack of organic rock just sitting in a crate. I have not gone out of my way to gather it.