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Minecart Overhaul

The Current Minecarts are a little bland.  Here are my thoughts (As well has wonderful commentors) on how to fix the issues.  
1.  Have the option to build 2 block turns.  IDK how this would be designated.  Perhaps you but regular rail in the crafting table and you get half a turn rail.
2.  Adding on to minecarts.  More workbenches in minecarts would help, as well as adding lanturns onto them for portable Light.
3.  Connecting minecarts with chains.  Pretty straight forward but is a nessesity.
4.  Portal Rail.  Portal rail starts out empty, but you can place an ender pearl on two portal tracks to connect them.  When run over, the minecart would teleport to the other track with the same direction and momentum.
5.  Sticky rails.  Sticky rails slow a minecart down slightly, without doing it toom much.  (unpowered rails job there)
6.  Floating rails.  Combine a lily pad with a rail to get a floating rail.  Floating rail can be placed over water and can allow for some cool tracks.
7.  Gripped rail versions are just all of these versions (minus the floating rail) but with rooted dirt attached to them, allowing for wall and cieling placements.  BUT those require a lot of speed and momentum for the minecart to traverse.
Finely, I am done.  Minecarts are a useful tool but need some work to make them more than a decoration item.

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• February 05, 2022 19:28
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  • August 16, 2021 22:07
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  What you mean is not a Minecart Overhaul, it is a Minecart extension, nothing mods can't handle.

  What I understand from a Minecart Overhaul is, changing and improving the whole track system. It would be great, if you could build actual rollercoasters with it, by not having only such sharp corner, but smoother longer curves over multiple blocks, with leaning angles in different directions. Having different slope intensities as well as maybe making a Minecart hang on a chain, that slides down a zipline type of rail. More rail variety: Rails that teleport you to another rail in a max distance of 16 blocks or so, that one is craftet with an enderperle. Broken rails, for visual, but maybe even rails that just brake your minecart while you fly further and if you land on a special minecart you enter it automatically, if you fall on it.

  Allowing the placement of rails on walls to have 90° drops or to be able to build a loop with it.

  All these options would also give a lot of new possibilities for decoration.

  Minecarts that hang from the ceiling and you can attach a chain or piston to it to pick up blocks from underneath, this would give complete new possibilities of transporting stuff.

  Adding a slime cube to a minecart to be able to attach more blocks to it that drive around.

  So many possibilities.

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  • February 05, 2022 19:29
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  I agree.  I feel like I have combined my Idea and yours very nicely above but continue to comment if I am wrong.  Hope I summarized your thoughts well and thanks for commenting!