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Let's talk about Minecarts! [Java Snapshot 24w33a]

In this snapshot we have added a new experiment with various movement changes to minecarts. Our long-term goal is to make vehicle travel, like minecarts, a viable late-game travel option for players. To achieve this, we aim to make riding minecarts a smooth experience, with consistent and predictable motion and rotation.

Movement changes:

  • Minecarts will articulate their movement better when going fast, riding on the rail all the time
  • Minecarts will now smoothly turn along with the track and are less likely to halt or derail
  • Minecarts can now jump better
  • Added a new accessibility setting that makes players follow the rotation of minecarts they ride
  • Added new gamerule minecartMaxSpeed that changes the maximum speed of minecarts 

We are aware of that these changes will break some existing contraptions, which is why we are eager to get your feedback on this experimental feature.

Known impacts

  • Contraptions such as 'piston bolts' will not work at all, or have their behavior changed
  • Very delicate rail networks will have their timings changed due to slight changes in speeds, movement distance, friction etc
  • Contraptions that rely on minecarts snapping to rails will no longer work, or have their behavior changed 

How to try this out:

Enable this feature by selecting "Minecart Improvements" in the Experiments menu when creating a new world. 

You can find all previous changelogs in the Knowledge Base in Snapshot Information and Changelogs.

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    Suggestion: Improve Powered Minecarts! 🚂

    The recent minecart updates might be good (changing max speed), but powered minecarts (with furnaces) need more attention! Right now, they don’t feel good at all. Here’s how that could be fixed:

    • Adjustable Acceleration: Let players adjust the acceleration to make the minecarts feel more like a real train, if they want.
    • Faster Maximum Speed: Increase the default maximum speed to 7 m/s and make it adjustable for more customization.
    • Chaining Minecarts: Allow minecarts to connect and form trains for transporting resources or players more efficiently.
    • Powered Rail Compatibility: Have powered minecarts stop on unpowered powered rails and continue when the rail is powered - perfect for train stations!

    These changes would make powered minecarts much more useful and fun to play with!

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    on the topic of customizable minecart speed : let minecart furnace run at different speeds based on the fuel used.

    Fuel that last longer in a furnace could make the minecart furnace (and the other minecart it pushes) run faster

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    I think it should be in the game, but toggle-able, maybe by a world setting or game rule. I understand that is how it is currently, but I think that it should still have a toggle even out of snapshot/beta.

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    I Love this new Minecart update! It is extremely fun to play around plus I have made a minecart metro system that goes around my whole world and is around 30,000 blocks long and having faster minecarts is very fun and useful! The default speed for minecarts can be 40 blocks per second. Every helpful update hope this update will make its way to the official game! I feel like that will make transport very balanced in the game. The elytra are fast and fun to play on different routes or games, and they have freedom and minecart and are very fast but only on set routes. Then the boats and other options for other use cases. If it does make its way to the real game, it should be a setting or block to craft to change the setting of the speed for hardcore players or players that do not have command. 

    Please add feature for minecarts like:

    Adjust acceleration
    Chain Minecarts together to make a minecart like a Train
    Thanks! 

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    Please let us minecart stack again. And if you revert all of the changes again Can man is going to keep on complaining.

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    Add them to bedrock

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    we want a new fast grass block in minecraft on my laptop.

    and its nice can you pick it us.

     

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    One of the biggest concerns I have seen from many redstone engineers is the new changes specifically to the red stone have broken a lot of builds and removed consistency. I am posting this because I am seeing a lot things here about mine crats but barely anything specifically about the redstone.

    While at this point this is a months old snapshot here are the pros and cons that I am hearing most from people...

    Pros

    • New Texture of torches is nice.
    • Pistons now all being able to extend and contract at the same time if in a row.


    Cons

    • There is a lot of confusion on new changes with placement of redstone setups. In general it has caused a lot of debugging issues and this should be looked into to fix.
    • Red stone dusts quasi-connectivity is just totally ruined. 0-tick piston doors are broken. Flexibility of powering components with transparent blocks is just gone and there are many builds that cannot be fixed. This is just an important part of redstone builds and design. PLEASE fix redstone dust update issue or just revert the change.
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    This ruined a bunch of my old redstone. (But please keep The Faster Minecarts.)

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    Thank you for letting us try out these new changes! :)

    After extensively trying out a lot of different speeds, I think that minecartMaxSpeed should be set to 16 by default. Minecarts should not be endgame transportation but they need to faster to be a feasible long term option given the effort required to build large railways. I think it's interesting to note that the Legacy Console Edition minecarts traveled 16 blocks/second shortly after they were added if I remember correctly too.

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    I love it, who's idea was this.

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    Maybe leave old minecarts and tracks as they are and instead make new types of tracks, carts and ways of modifying existing ones, using a variety of items and other cool mechanics to simply compliment the entire minecart system. This might seem pointless but a way to dye or engrave minecarts with armor trims too.

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    Use lightning rods to supercharge a cart or special type of track. This can even work underground by putting a lightning rod on the surface and something else. Some new super expensive crafting recipes to do with minecarts giving us more late-game goals to work towards.

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    For the most part, I love the experimental minecart changes. However, it is extremely difficult to slow down any fast-moving minecarts if the max speed is much higher than pre-experimental. Some way of allowing more control over deceleration and / or setting the exact speed would go a long way toward making complex minecart networks and technical builds work with the new features.

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    PLEASE ADD THESE CHANGES INTO THE GAME!!!!
    I just want to build a high speed rail way