I think we all have to admit that minecarts are basically useless for mining. I think that there should be Underground Lodes (similar to a digsite). I heard somwhere that dig sites are places that you can keep coming back to and would want to build around and thats exactly what Lodes should be. They should have chunks of unique rocks that contain ores and minerals that need to be extracted by minecarts. The minecarts will not break the block which means that you can farm it for a very long time. They would require a lot of minecart related materials and maybe a new item to make it a late-mid game thing.
These Lode farms would be powered by player mining to encourage player mining. This could be done by wearing something like a synced mining helmet (No lamp on it. The helmet could sacrifice protection but could also protect you from small amounts of gravel). Mining nether gold and quarts speeds up the farm a little, iron, gold and copper speeds up more, diamonds and coal boosts it up a lot (diamonds and coal give a lot of speed because they drop their item; silk touch doesn't boost. Nether ores are also too common to give a lot of boost ). Other blocks and silk touchd ores that dop it's item will give very little but at least some so that people who are building or clearing out an area will also get some items for their efforts.
These are just some ideas that could make minecarts the new meta for mining. Minecarts are currently more redstone-cars then actual minecarts.
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