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Railway Improvements: Locomotive, Furnace Cart

This is a response to the request for railway improvements.

It's glaring how Minecraft has railway and no locomotive; furnace cart. Powered rail has its place; in automation of farms. However, to achieve a real mining operation, which we all want, we need the locomotive, furnace cart, to be re-introduced. 

Players didn't use furnace carts because they were slow and ran out of fuel by making a U-turn. We need a fast, logical and easy to use locomotive. If done right, driving a locomotive can be a game within the game. Below are ideas for locomotive properties in response to the request for railway improvements:

-Use steam power.

-Lava can also be used as an energy source along with charcoal and coal--each having their normal burn rates.

-One bucket of water can generate steam for three min. Steam will decrease faster with faster speed and incline.

-Indicator in locomotive menu would show how much steam and heat is left.

-Control of the locomotive is critical. Toggle speed (8x speed), braking (with skidding from inertia) and direction (forward/backward) in locomotive menu. Do away with the zigzag rule for furnace carts. 

-Locomotive menu can hold 9 buckets of water and 9 sources of fuel; each feeding into their item use slot with water on top and fuel underneath.

-Improve locomotive and cart linking--make a real train. Link and unlink by button selection. Rail cars shouldn't unlink by turning or going uphill.

-Allow painting locomotive with dyes.

-One locomotive can optimally pull 8 fully loaded carts.

-Two linked and powered locomotives can pull 16 loaded carts optimally.

-Speed decreases by one level going uphill.

-One speed level penalty for every two fully loaded carts added beyond the original optimizations.

-Stack carts with chests in inventory, 4 high.

-Sensor rail, railcart type.

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• May 31, 2018 21:52
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  superflowagamer commented

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  • June 10, 2018 06:46
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  And they shuld have a way to put Minecarts together

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  karl smink commented

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  • June 20, 2018 18:52
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  Yes. Simply being able to daisy-chain multiple chest carts together, and either manually drive them, or send them off via engine, to be sorted and stored at the front/top of the line, is EXACTLY what we should be making happen. 

  Item elevators and hopper lines are neat, sure, but it doesn't feel like "mining." It costs so much iron to make a good rail system, which are slow and inefficient in terms of automation, that it's never worth it.

  The game's namesake should be a more integral part of the gameplay. 

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  Jonathan Bailey commented

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  • November 06, 2018 04:40
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  I totally agree with all of you on this. It would be nice having better furnaces in the mine carts. To make them more like real steam engines.

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  meadcwlark commented

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  • November 25, 2018 04:41
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  I hope we get something like this in the future. I REALLY hope they don't make them as incompetent as the old furnace minecarts, though.

   

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  AmethystAir commented

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  • May 06, 2019 03:42
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  Here's my suggestions for carts:

  Make them faster. A cart should be faster than a horse.
  Fix the furnace cart. It's too slow and awkward to use right now.
  Add the ability to link carts together.

  Those 3 additions would vastly improve rails and carts, and hopefully lead to a lot of creative rail networks in players' worlds.

   

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  AKAMIKAZEL commented

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  • August 23, 2019 04:56
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  cross rail, wye rail, better switching.

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  quecosa commented

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  • September 25, 2019 13:01
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  You've got a lot of details here, but put simply let's say:  Let us link carts together, and give us a coal powered engine ;)  That would be awesome :D