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Minecart upgrades

A few Minecart related ideas to match the new caves and cliffs: - Couplers: Crafted using chain and iron, couplers allow players to connect minecarts together. Right click on a minecart and an adjacent cart to connect them. Shift right click or destroy a cart to get the coupler back. - Minecart with Smoker and Minecart with Blast Furnace: The former pulls less but goes faster, the latter pulls more but is slower. - Copper Powered Rails: unlike standard powered rails, copper rails provide less speed and cannot be deactivated. - Chain Rail: Chain rails can be powered with redstone to move minecarts uphill cheaply and slowly, simply replacing the stick in the rail recipe with a chain. Unlike powered rails, an unpowered chain rail will not stop a cart. - Cross Junction: A quality of life item minecarts have sorely needed since day one, cross junctions are crafted with 4 rails and a plank to make a rail that can be crossed in all 4 cardinal directions. -Railway Sign: Crafted with a bell, a sign, two lanterns, and an iron ingot, railway signs can be powered to light up and chime. The noise drives passive and hostile mobs away a small distance so as to serve a small function in single player, but in a multiplayer setting this is just a cute addition to a rail system that may cut through a town or over land While I'm sure it would all be a lot of work and might push the update back a ways, minecarts haven't really gotten a lot of love, and this update seems like a fine time for it.
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    How about one way rails, when the smoker minecrart is not pushing anything it should be slightly faster than a boat in water.

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    It can be very nice if there was a super powered rail too, like a diamond rail or something like that to boost the minecart a lot faster. Maybe 20 m/s or 30  m/s. The boat on the ice go at 40 m/s an a minecart able to concurrence that can be sooo good.