Create: Railward

Create: Railward

Modern railway equipment for Create

Create: Railward is a Forge addon for Create, bringing modern railway equipment and rolling stock parts to your train networks.

Created by Shurgent.

Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

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Early access: Railward is under active development. Features and behavior may change as the addon evolves; keep this in mind when planning to include it in a modpack.

Updates aim to preserve existing worlds and avoid breaking changes to APIs and established gameplay mechanics, but compatibility cannot be guaranteed. Always back up your worlds and configuration files before updating.

Overview

Railward expands both how Create trains work and how they look. Train controls, coupling, signaling, and freight handling work alongside building parts for locomotives, passenger carriages, and freight wagons.

Build out your railway with coordinated body panels and roofs, locomotive equipment, bulk-cargo storage, cisterns, and loading and unloading infrastructure, all designed to work with Create's train system.

Features

Automatic train coupling

Shunt rolling stock into place and couple trains by slowly approaching a stationary train on straight, level track. Couplers also let you manually join and split assembled trains.

Bidirectional train controller

Drive forward and backward from a single controller using a dedicated reverser. Animated levers reflect throttle, braking, and direction during both manual and scheduled operation.

Modern train controller	Reverser set to backward

Responsive diesel exhaust

Give locomotives startup bursts, idle pulses, and heavier exhaust under acceleration. Smoke behavior follows the train's operating state, whether you or a scheduled conductor is driving.

Custom railway bogeys

Build freight wagons with the 18-100 freight bogey and locomotives with the triple-axle equalized bogey, complete with detailed frames, wheelsets, and suspension components.

18-100 freight bogey	Triple-axle equalized locomotive bogey

Bulk freight handling

Build multiblock cargo containers with visible fill levels. Unload through wagon hatches into receiving inventories or unloading bunkers, with falling-cargo effects and unloading sounds.

Multiblock cisterns

Build tank wagons in several sizes and colors. Transfer fluids between assembled trains and station infrastructure using cistern hatches and fluid terminals.

Railway signaling

Equip your network with modern upright and ground signals, bring signal aspects into the cab, and use configurable speed signs and whistle signs to control passing trains.

Locomotive lighting and sound

Illuminate the track with projected spotlight beams and fit marker lights that change with travel direction. Configurable primary and secondary horn sounds let you use both a whistle and an air horn on the same train, with separate controls for each.

Modular rolling stock construction

Shape locomotives and carriages with matching walls, windows, roofs, working doors, railings, and copycat parts. Combine multiple colors and liveries across passenger and freight builds.

Schematics

Download example locomotive and wagon builds for your railway. Create and Railward are required to use these schematics.

Build	Download
ChME3 diesel locomotive	chme3.nbt
Cargo platform	cargo_platform.nbt
Dump-car platform	dumpcar_platform.nbt
Green gondola	gondola_green.nbt
Green open wagon	halfcar_green.nbt
Green tank wagon	tank_car_green.nbt
Light gray tank wagon	tank_car_lgray.nbt

Place the downloaded .nbt files in your Minecraft instance's schematics/ folder, then load them using Create's Schematic Table.

Compatibility

The project targets the following Minecraft and Create versions on Forge:

Minecraft	Create
1.18.2	0.5.1.i
1.19.2	0.5.1.i
1.20.1	0.5.1.j
1.20.1	6.0.8

Install Railward and its required dependencies, Forge and Create, on both the client and server. The two Minecraft 1.20.1 builds target different Create versions; choose the one that matches your installation.

Minecraft 1.18.2 is the primary development and runtime-verification target. The newer Minecraft versions and Create 6 are maintained as additional ports.

Optional CC:Tweaked Integration

When CC:Tweaked is installed, Railward extends Create's Create_Station peripheral with arrival and departure forecasts, station identifiers, and live schedule information. Connect a wired modem directly to the station to read this data from Lua.

CC:Tweaked is optional and is not bundled with Railward. See the station peripheral documentation for the Lua API and examples.

Source and Development

The source code is available on GitHub. See the multi-version development guide for build instructions and testing information.

Music Credits

The mod includes a music disc featuring Shurgent - Echoes, written and performed by Shurgent.

Railward's custom sound effects are original recordings by Shurgent.

License

This project is distributed under the MIT License.