Modern Minecarts

ModernMinecarts

The Minecart Update you've been waiting for.

ModernMinecarts is all about rekindling your love for Minecarts.

It makes them a viable method of transport for players and items again, while keeping a vanilla style.

Features

Short Feature List without the fluff:

• Copper Rails: Twice as fast, slow down as they age.
• Chains: Chain Minecarts by shift-rightclicking Minecarts.
• Furnace Minecarts: Twice as fast, accept all fuel, have UI now.
• Shared Inventories: Chained Chest/Hopper/Furnace-Minecarts link their inventories.
• Rail Jump: A ramp created with a regular Rail and a Stick.
• Rail Crossing: Acts as a straight Rail from all sides.
• Directed Powered Rail: Works in one direction only. Works on stationary minecarts,
• Powered Detector Rail: Accelerates stationary minecarts once full, or once empty if inverted.
• All values from crafting recipes to rail speeds can be modified via config.

Copper Rails:

These rails are twice as fast as powered rails.

However, oxidation causes them to become slower over time, down to half the speed of powered rails.

They are crafted like regular powered rails, using copper instead of gold.
Wax them with honeycomb to keep them from oxidizing.

Chaining Minecarts:

Chains now allow you to create trains with as many minecarts as you want!

Connected hopper minecarts and chest minecarts join their inventories, allowing loading and unloading from a single hopper minecart.

Furnace Minecarts:

Furnace Minecarts have gotten an upgrade, now travelling twice as fast.
They have a new UI screen with a speedometer and a fuel slot that accepts all fuel types.

They also refuel themselves from attached chest and hopper minecarts and load chunks as long as they are burning fuel.

Furnace Minecarts slow down under heavy load, which can be avoided by chaining multiple Furnace Minecarts.

They stop on unpowered Powered Rails, giving you more control over them,

New Rail Types:

Rail Jump: This ramp lets minecarts leap over gaps, even when not using experimental features.
It is crafted with a rail and a stick, or by using a stick on an already placed rail.

Rail Crossing: A simple rail intersection that acts like a straight rail from all directions.

Directed Powered Rail: Always accelerates minecarts in the same direction.
This includes stationary minecarts, allowing you to build redstone controlled trainstations, as well as one-way rails.

Powered Detector Rail: Merges the functionalities of powered and detector rails.
Stop empty carts or trains until fully loaded, or invert it to unload full minecarts and send them off once empty.
Shift right-click to swap the direction it faces.

Customizability

The Mod now features a config file that allows you to customize the mod to your liking.

The following features can be disabled:

• Furnace Minecart Chunkloading
• Minecart Chaining
• Copper Rails
• Rail Crossing
• Directed Powered Rail
• Powered Detector Rail
• Rail Jump

The following values can be tweaked:

• All Rail Speeds
• Copper Rail Recipe yield
• Powered Rail Recipe yield
• Directed Powered Rail Recipe yield

Other Changes:

• Doubled results of the powered rail crafting recipe from 6 to 12 rails.
• Reduced air drag on minecarts to allow for further jumps

Huge thanks to Cammie, who's mod MinecartTweaks the chaining mechanic is based on.

Check out what I'm currently working on or buy me a coffee:

View Changelog

v1.2.0 Changelog

Feature Changes

• Removed Copper smithing templates
• Added Copper Rail crafting recipe (Powered Rail recipe using copper)
• Shift-right-clicking in the air with a chain now removes its linking nbt-data.
• Added Fabric and Neoforge as supported ModLaunchers.
• Added configs for custom rail speeds, disabling specific features and changing crafting recipe yields.

Bug Fixes

• Furnace minecarts now work independently from chained minecarts again
• Furnace minecarts no longer consume fuel on powered rails.
• Removed warnings and debug statements to prevent log spam.
• Fixed bug that prevented villagers from becoming toolsmiths
• Fixed issues with wax on and wax off achievements
• Improved architecture on Fabric and Neoforge, which should lead to more mod compatibility on these versions.
• Readded regular rail to creative menu on 1.19.2
• All modded crafting recipes now appear in the recipe book.

v1.3.0 Changelog

Directed Powered Rail

This new rail type always accelerates minecarts in the same direction. This includes stationary minecarts, allowing you to build redstone controlled trainstations, as well as one-way rails. It is crafted like a powered rail with an additional redstone dust at the top.

Other Changes:

• Added config option for furnace minecart speed.
• Added config option for directed powered rail speed and crafting recipe yield.
• Added language support for german, french, spanish, ukranian and russian. #### Bugfixes
• Linked minecarts now correctly use the max speed set by the configs.
• Fixed compatibility issue with Porting Lib on Fabric.
• Fixed copper rails on Fabric 1.21.11.
• Fixed modded item names on Fabric 1.21.11.
• Furnace Minecarts now stop on unpowered copper/powered rails across all versions.
• Powered Rails and Copper Rails now share redstone signals with each other on Fabric (Parity with Forge versions).
• Fixed bug that let Furnace Minecarts continue to drive off rails while burning fuel.
• Fixed Chained Furnace Minecarts interaction with Rail Jumps.

Curretly supported versions

Forge

• 1.19.2
• 1.19.3
• 1.19.4
• 1.20.1
• 1.20.2

NeoForge

• 1.20.1
• 1.21.1
• 1.21.3-1.21.4
• 1.21.11
• 26.1
• 26.2

Fabric

• 1.20.1
• 1.21.1
• 1.21.11
• 26.1
• 26.2

If you come across a bug, please report it along with the version, modlauncher and how to replicate it here.