Create: Trackwright

Laying track

• Placement guide on screen: offset, length, reach, turn and radius, the real climb, track cost, and whether it will connect.
  • Names the turn shape you're about to get, and says "walk N blocks closer" if you're aiming too far away.
  • Shows markers for which heights connect when a slope won't work.
  • Says what's in the way and why Create refuses a placement.

• Lock the widest turn: a key that keeps Create's maximized curve on. (Unbound by default)
• Straight track through solid blocks: a blocked straight line becomes one connection, instead of track with missing parts in it.
• Bore mode: with a pickaxe, shovel, axe or hoe in your off hand, a blocked straight, curve or slope gets mined into a real tunnel with normal track.
  • Drops go to your inventory and the tool takes durability.
  • Respects claim mods and won't break chests or unbreakables.
  • 1 block of headroom by default.

• Blocked curve ends: without a tool, a curve or slope whose straight end runs into blocks is refused and names the block, instead of Create laying it with holes. (default on: refuseBlockedTrackEnds)
• Convert: lay the two ends of a straight-through-blocks again, and it turns into normal track.
• Connections up to 128 blocks, without long track keeping distant chunks loaded.

• Undo: press U or type /trackwright undo to take back your last 3 placements within 2 minutes. A bored tunnel stays, only the track comes back.
• Client options:
  • always show the placement squares
  • preview from farther away
  • count plants as the ground below
  • turn the height markers on or off Trains
• Full speed on straights: trains no longer slow down on straight connections as if they were curves.
• Safe passengers in rock: seated riders and conductors stay in their seats when a train passes through blocks and take no suffocation damage. (default on: protectTrainPassengers)
• Drills on trains clear their whole face on curves, diagonals and slopes, sand and gravel too, instead of leaving stubs in the walls. (default on: trainDrillsFullFace)
• Drills and rollers on trains no longer break track, stations or signals.
• Rollers stop breaking cargo when crossing water.
• Optional roller settings: break powder snow, and ignore water.
• "Switch Train Actors" schedule step: turns a train's drills, rollers, etc. on or off between stops. (default on: contraptionControlsSchedule)

Fixes to Create itself

• Stations on curves can't build or take apart trains by any route, which stops trains being rebuilt in the wrong place.
• Splitting a track network no longer leaves a stray copy on the client.

Works with

• Steam 'n' Rails gauges and Create Connected paving.
• Some features need both client and server to play, but can be installed on only one side.
  • Player with on a server without gets the guide and lock-widest-turn key
  • Players without the mod can still join with access to everything except:
    • Trackwright's guide, squares or height markers
    • Lock key and the U key (/trackwright undo still works)
    • Passenger protection
    • Switch Train Actors
    • They get refusals as a red chat line

Planned

• Looser track geometry: minimum turn radius, maximum angle, steepness and S-bends
• A radius lock for exact quarter circles
• Very tight road turns
• Curves that climb while they turn
• Unbreakable block markers
• Clearing blocks that poke through track
• Moving track end points

Requirements

• Minecraft 26.2: Create Fly 6.0.9-1 or 6.0.9-2, Fabric Loader 0.19.3 or newer, Fabric API 0.152.0 or newer, Java 25.
• Minecraft 26.1, 26.1.1 and 26.1.2: Create Fly 6.0.9-4, Fabric Loader 0.19.2 or newer, Fabric API 0.145.1 or newer, Java 25.
• Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge: Create 6.0.10, NeoForge 21.1.248 or newer, Java 21.
• Optional: Steam 'n' Rails, Create Connected.

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later