Audaki Cart Engine - Release 3.0

(faster & better Minecarts)

Video Showcase

Video: https://www.youtube.com/v/i9WxH_ehMRo

New in Release 3.1

• Brakes now stop a ridden cart in exactly 1 brake tile

New in Release 3.0

• 34m/s speed in all directions
• Now works full-speed on slopes & inclines
• Now works full-speed on diagonals
• Faster Direction Changes

Other Features

• 100% glitch-free
• Redstone builds unaffected
• Hand-Designed & Play-Tested
• Designed for Vanilla Survival
• Fabric Only

Foundation

Audaki Cart Engine offers well designed and properly balanced, competitive and viable cart-based passenger transportation.

This mod is a server-sided (and SSP) mod based on Fabric.

This mod was created since other mods I found which increased the speed of minecarts didn't work with existing rail lines and they broke most redstone stuff when your cart moved with more than 10m/s.

I wanted a mod which works with existing rail lines and with redstone mechanisms!

Quality Engineering

This mod is currently a huge overhaul of the vanilla minecart code to support higher speeds (up to 34m/s) while still supporting existing lines with curves, ascending and descending rail pieces are no problem.

Additionally redstone rails like detector and activator rail still work.

The Cart Engine was tested under a lot of different conditions but if you find an edge case it'll be fixed

Game Design / Balancing

The goal for this mod is not just to implement a new Cart Engine of course, but also to provide good game play!

To support this goal a whole lot of stuff was tweaked so the powered rail (i.e. Gold) required to reach certain speeds is well balanced, so creating a high-speed railway is actually a proper end-game goal.

Additionally the speed is balanced in a way that riding the railway is a lot of fun and it's better than packed ice.

Due to the balanced acceleration curve railways can still be used early-game with lower speeds and less gold investment

Construction Tips for Consistent Speed

Thanks @BeardedThorgi, See:

https://github.com/audaki/minecraft-cart-engine/wiki/Construction-Tips-for-Consistent-Speeds

Features / Balancing

• Raised maximum speed from 8m/s to 34m/s for carts with passengers
• Designed acceleration to require more powered rails for higher speeds
• Designed acceleration to feel good and somewhat train-y.
• Tweaked "kick-start" speed when starting from a standing block with a powered rail
• Carts temporarily slow down for direction changes, Detector & Activator Rails, but keep momentum and regain speed afterwards
• Fixed a long-standing vanilla bug that doubles the Cart Movement Speed when a block is skipped in a tick
• The mod can be added and removed at any time and everything will work. It's 100% vanilla.

Enjoy!