i dunno just had the thought seems like it would be a nice thing to have gondolas do other than scrap.
#Woodchip load for gondolas?
royal sable
formal dew
Historically, Gondolas could pretty much carry anything if you tried hard enough
Here's a 4 wheel gondola being used to carry a container!
open wigeon
that's so cursed
but yea, more gondola loads would be cool
aggregate/gravel or sand, if it's not already in, would be cool
zealous wind
Woodchip could be something nice to take from sawmill to, for example, harbor, to make things a bit more varied
iron tusk
sawmill to goods factory to make paper?
zealous wind
Well, sawmill already sends all of its stuff to goods factory
So it would be nice to introduce some more variety there
iron tusk
Ah, that's true. I'd like to see lumber go to all of the different towns for construction purposes.
zealous wind
that is also a good idea
hushed monolith
Why don't we carry rolling stock parts by ourselves and reduce maintenance costs? lol
hard mist
If Simulator is successful we're planning a major job system rework, which would introduce woodchips (and train axles!) as cargo among more than 100 other types (of which 90%+ are already modeled).
With the same rework the cars are planned to be made more flexible to different types of cargo (as in real life), so gondolas would indeed be able to carry containers and other types of solid items if they fit, albeit at a longer loading time than a flatcar.
I hope we'll get to this right after release, but there's also a chance we'll never be able to afford doing it. Will see, depending on how the next few months unfold.
formal dew
will loading come with an animation, or will it still 'pop' into place?
hushed monolith
Probably, No.
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formal dew
On a side note, we had a 4 wheel wagon just for woodchips in the VR
dusty orchid
@royal sable will add this cargo to OTL
royal sable
neat
dusty orchid
suggested routes for it will close in a few days, at this moment thinking florests->towns/city
royal sable
I think that forest to either HB or GF would work best
dusty orchid
both of those are also towns🙂
zealous wind
I'd say also Sawmill to towns/city, perhaps we can finally have a reason to use the SW-HB route
dusty orchid
that one would be sawdust which is one that will already implement, well.....a special kind of sawdust that goes to military base
formal dew
O.O
dusty orchid
@royal sable wagon icon is the wip part but as you can see, you got it, well, not gondola but close enough
royal sable
ooo
formal dew
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latent isle
<@509156227004235787> wagon icon is the wip part but as you can see, you got it,...
New wagons or just Eas-z from B0ss?
dusty orchid
my trailer wagons only to have it, no update on eas-z for now
near lily
I think I should be sawmill to food factory
Since realisticly they would use it to smoke meat
Maybe they go to both places
restive nexus
Sawmill to a paper factory would be eben more realistic
dusty orchid
it goes from forests to cities/towns, woodchips are raw material, sawmill equivalent would be sawdust/wood shavings or something like that
Paper factory error 404
royal sable
I would think it’d go to goods factory to be made into paper or food factory cause smonk
dusty orchid
paper pulp in bales, ~EPAL sized, perhaps, perhaps, not entirely convinced on my googling of texture for it being actually it, looks very regular paper
formal dew
It's been a year. Any updates?