The newest Java snapshot added some experimental minecart changes that make it obvious that Mojang is thinking about updating them, and I'm very excited. Therefore I got a very good idea that I think should be considered.
Now we only have powered rails made with gold. But I think that there should be more powered rail variants. Give them the same crafting recipe, but change the gold ingot to something else. The obvious first choice is copper. Maybe make gold powered rails move the minecarts at very high speeds, and add new copper powered rails that only move minecarts at the current max minecart speed. Maybe add more minerals like iron and netherite for different maximum speeds. At the very least, add copper powered rails. I think this is, quite literally, the perfect use for copper that I can think of, and giving this ore more functionality would be a great idea. This also makes for an excellent way to implement minecart speed regulation without the need for complex things like redstone power level. But maybe those could be used to regulate acceleration.
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