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Minecart Chains

Minecart chains, the item that could save the furnace minecart!

When used on a minecart, a clink sound plays (coupling, thanks Pyrarson) and the chain is attached to the minecart, much like a lead attached to a fence. Using the chain on a different minecart will play the same clink sound and connect the two minecarts, and using a chain on a minecart and using the chain on the same minecart will remove the chain. Clicking on a chain connecting two minecarts will drop the chain and disconnect the minecarts. This would work well with furnace minecarts, imagine the trains!

Using a chain on a minecart and then moving will pull the minecart as well. Combine this with a fence-connecting ability like with leads and you can keep a minecart in place for the time being, making minecart transport easier without all the messy redstone.

Edit: I haven't touched this post in a while, and WOW all of you really like this post, even being the first result for "chains" and it's impressive! I'll try to integrate some ideas with this post over time to make it better. Feedback!

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    I have a vanilla realm I wanted to build a Queendom of naturally spawned villages connected by rails and other infrastructure. I want to take a long time to find an kill the ender dragon for realism. This idea came to me naturally I even tried it because it felt like something that might already be in the game, I was so happy to sea a community of like minded individuals.

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    This should be added to Minecraft. Along with it maybe Minecraft should add stopper rails which will slow down such trains.

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    thought of this idea before they added chains then when they did i was so sad you couldnt connect maincarts 

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    a bit janky, but nevertheless allow proper coupling/connections between minecarts so they can be pushed/pulled as one. At least pulled. That sound easier to code.

    We can just use the existing chain for simplicity. We don't need a separate item just for linking minecarts together.

    This will also give furnace minecart a bit more use, although it's still incredibly slow (and useless). Maybe buff that to be between a (normal) minecart on normal rails and a (normal) minecart on powered rails.

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    my few cents: I'd like furnace minecarts to last much longer under the same amount of coal, as well as a way to check if a furnace minecart is fueled up or not, and output a redstone signal based on that (allowing for automatic refuels at stations).

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    I think it would be nice if the more cars you connect, the slower the "train" will go (if it does not have red stone tracks underneath) with the maximum 15 cars coupled, causing the speed to be reduced to 0. This would involve joining another wagon with a furnace, expanding the capacity to 15 more wagons, or increasing the speed if the number of wagons is lower.
    It would also be necessary to make the maximum number of cars with oven in the same train two.
    If you try to attach a wagon with oven plus it will not be coupled.
    The maximum number of towed wagons will be 30 (15 per locomotive). It wouldn't make sense to add one more since the train wouldn't move.

    If the wagons are on red stone tracks there would be no need for wagons with oven.

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    If you guys add this, please add this to bedrock! We really need it.

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    Si esto es lo que todos quieren

    VOTEN

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    also with this update it could add the furnace minecart to bedrock edition

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    I’d love this! This would be amazing for me (my world has loads of railways linking places together)

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    Yes, and by use of either leads or the decorative chain block (would tend toward the latter due to minecarts being heavy equipment and not animals)

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    We need this in the game seriously

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    Just add it please

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    my friend asked if this was a thing just the other day, and was dissipointed to hear it was non

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    That would be very cool, that way, we will be able to bring more mobs like the villagers or monsters to the trip, it would be an incredible journey like the Trans-Siberian Railway.

    Furnace minecarts seem very useless, if it's linked together without using chains, they will stop the other minecart or separate it, linking minecarts with furnace minecarts are a bug that was never fixed.

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    just found this and i hope this can be put into the game honestly

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    We need to improve minecarts as a whole tbh.

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    Bitte fügt es hinzu es währe super, dazu wäre außerdem noch ein Zug der so groß ist wie das Minecart cool. Den man natürlich mit Coole antreiben kann. Bitte fügt es hinzu ich würde jeden Tag neue Schienennetze erstellen. BITTE!!!

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    A request to improve the minecart connection system, because when you want to go on a travel with the minecart system, they break up at every turn, and it's even worse when you hit another minecart and go in the opposite direction, for example, I wanted to go on a travel, I created a composition with crates and locomotives at the first turn, everything it fell apart.
    I hope in the nearest update can upgrade minecart system.

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    Maybe it could be made into a minecart coupler item?

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    This would be a great feature! This would give new uses for an actual transportation rail. A
    s a bedrock player, I would hope Mojang would add the linking feature and re-add the furnace cart again.
    Never really understood why they removed it from bedrock in the first place...

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    With the new minecart speed update in the snapshot, I hope they consider this

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    Under specific conditions, the deputy can carry out attacks.

    Considering the attack interval of weapons, when the main hand holds the weapon and the deputy is empty, the main hand is used for attack by default; On the contrary, if the primary hand is unarmed and the secondary hand is armed, the secondary hand is assumed to attack. (This can also enrich many gameplay options for PVP)

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    I thought of this like a year ago and I didn't know how to post ideas yet! And well....Im so happy someone did post this! I'm building my own private city and my metro can only have one mine cart...And I thought of this like a LOT and if mojang adds this, I will scream to the top of my lungs so they better add this feature or else...

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    it would also be cool if you can attach mobs and other things like making a villager upside down with his legs tied and roasting him on a campfire but either way this idea is GREAT

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    Y E S

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    With the new leash updates to the game, i hope they consider giving us something similar to this.