12 years ago

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I want to make a track that I can put a chest in a cart and transport materials from my current house, near one stronghold, to a new build site near another stronghold. I will also use the minecart for my own transportation as well. I have read that the distance a powered rail can provide momentum varies whether the cart is occupied or not.

1. Does occupied mean having a player in the cart or anything, chest, furnace, animals, etc?

2. How often should I place the powered tracks?

3. How do you end the track? Can you simply place a block at the end and let the minecart run into it? Or do I need to do some sort of off powered rail to slow it down and stop it at each end?

I think that is all for now, it will take me a bit of time still to acquire the iron and gold to make all of the track pieces.

12 years ago

#2

1) I think it has to be a player, but it's possible any living entity counts. (Not powered or storage minecarts)

2) 1 rail every 38 blocks lets you travel just under max speed the entire way. (It'll take 1 second longer than having rails spaced closer to travel 2k blocks).

3) An powered rail that isn't receiving power can stop a cart. You can also place a block at each end of the track, with a powered rail right up against the block, and button to activate the rail. The block will stop the cart, but having the powered rail connected to the button there makes an easy launch point. (If a minecart is on a powered rail, and can only travel in one direction, it gets launched in that direction, even if it was initially still)

For more info:
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Powered_rail

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12 years ago

#3

Any living entity counts. I used to use pigs for my minecart testing.

This is what I have copied down from some old post on this board:

Flat Runway, Occupied car = 1:37
Flat Runway, Unoccupied car = 1:7 or 1:8 (1:8 works but it's slow)
Uphill, Occupied car = 1:2
Uphill Unoccupied car = 1:1

12 years ago

#4

...This is what I have copied down from some old post on this board:

Flat Runway, Occupied car = 1:37
Flat Runway, Unoccupied car = 1:7 or 1:8 (1:8 works but it's slow)
Uphill, Occupied car = 1:2
Uphill Unoccupied car = 1:1

Good info there. I typically lay down powered rails about every 16 blocks (w/ detector rails to restrict direction), so I just have to decrease the gap to help automate my skyrail network to accommodate empty carts.

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