Talk:Large cart

Should the generic warnings (like building things inside carts) be moved to the cart page, and make it a category instead of a disambiguation page?

Speed

How fast can you go with animals hitched to the large cart?

• 1 old bull dragged it with 0.72km/h on packed dirt. - Ulviirala 23:55, 3 April 2009 (CDT)
• Heard that two bulls dragged a cart at about 5km/h.
• 1 old bull and 1 adolescent horse w/o any "upgrades" 3.60km/h. - Ulviirala 03:27, 9 April 2009 (CDT)
• Same adolescent horse on its own 1.72km/h. - Ulviirala 03:27, 9 April 2009 (CDT)
• Two adolescent/mature horses with QL50 shoes, one with bridle, 3.60km/h.

It looks like the cart maxes out at 3.60km/h with any type of creature. Here's a quote from IRC:

<Rolf> i haven't hardcoded a max speed limit but maybe it's not possible to get it higher with those creatures

<Rolf> ox carts are notoriously slow

<Rolf> part of the siesta manana image

A villagemate had 100 coal piles in his large cart, only the dirts missing. that sums up to 50.000kg. the cart didnt slow down. --KaiH 14:50, 3 May 2009 (CDT)

Notes

The cart doesn't speed up downhill, but it doesn't slow down uphill either. With the latest changes to mounts, the cart doesn't speed up downhill, but it does slow down when going uphill now.

Terrain doesn't affect cart speed.

At steep slopes (20?) the cart might not move. You have to move forward and double-strafe (hold your walk left and your walk right keys), to get up that hill but it's very slow. This has been fixed and it seems that the animals don't move over a tile that has a slope above 27? of any opposite corner (diagonal opposite counts, too). The exact conditions are to be discovered yet.

Dragging

The formula applied to small carts does not seem to be valid for large carts. I propose testing: ((BodyStr * 7 - AmountYoureCarrying) * 10) - 240. - Ulviirala 02:58, 4 April 2009 (CDT)

Locks

My large cart has a boat lock attached, it is "locked" but I can access the hold, drag it, and embark it without the key being in my inventory but in a large chest in my house. Therefore the information added about locks seems to be errorneus. It's to be tested if only the builder of the cart can still access it, and other people can't, I don't have many people around who could test though. --Ulviirala 01:41, 17 May 2009 (CDT)

just checked with my alt. it acts like other boats. the key in not needed. Norill

I added the section on locks as I was testing the specifics. At that time, it was correct. Glad to see it was tweaked a little since then. Othobrithol 15:59, 20 May 2009 (CDT)