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Sticky Minecarts

Introduction

I propose the addition of 'sticky' minecarts to minecraft. This would allow for minecarts to stick to eachother, creating chains of multiple minecart.

 

Crafting

I suggest that a sticky minecart can be obtained through crafting.

A player could craft a sticky minecart by simply adding two slime balls on either side of any minecart variant, in turn creating a sticky minecart; sticky minecart with chest; sticky minecart with hopper; etc.

In addition to turning a minecart into a sticky minecart, a sticky minecart can be combined with the crafting materials currently used to make minecart variants in order to turn a sticky minecart into a sticky minecart with chest; sticky minecart with hopper; etc.

 

Behavior

I propose that when a sticky minecart comes into contact with any other minecart, stick or not, the two minecarts will stick together, creating a chain of minecarts. The entire train of sticky minecarts will maintain the same speed and direction. This behavior will be maintained as long as the minecarts can reach eachother by being connected through a continious track, for example, when a long chain of minecarts rides over a section of track which is turned by a redstone signal, the chain of minecarts will break, resulting in two chains of minecarts going on opposite directions.

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    There's already a suggestion about minecart chains that attach minecarts to each other.

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    I always wanted to do something like that. :D good idea.

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    Maybe you could also do this with leads?

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    "There's already a suggestion about minecart chains that attach minecarts to each other."

    I realize this, and I had actually written a lot more for this proposal, including the chains idea, but I hit the character limit.

    I think my proposal is a lot more consistent with the current minecraft universe, as sticky things already exist. It reduces the number of extra items that would need to be implemented and it makes it overall more simple in my opinion.

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    "Maybe you could also do this with leads?"

    I don't think leads make sense in this case, as they generally don't guarantee tight connections between entities, while stickiness would.

    Also I think leads has more of an association with lifestock, whereas slime is more associated with the technical area of the game, such as redstone.

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    Great idea and this will also create potential for the powered minecart to be used again

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    This would be an great idea, but I feel as if your "train" should go slower based upon how many powered carts are moving vs how many empowered carts are perhaps 1 average Minecart with player could pull 10 other carts so you would need more people in the chain or furnace carts with coal or powered rails to pull more.

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    I like the idea, but maybe the sticky aspect might not be an option. Carriages / minecarts are by nature supposed to be connected to each other. This is just something missing in my opinion.