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Better Minecarts | Fast minecarts and automated rail placing! (1.20.6)

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brisai's Avatar brisai
Level 41 : Master Engineer
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This datapack is the standalone version of a feature made for Minecarft, my survival rebalance. Check it out here!

Better Minecarts overhauls vanilla minecarts to be a viable transportation option for survival minecraft. Over the years minecarts have been pretty heavily overshadowed by other transportation options and so I wanted to fix that. I recommend trying out building your tracks in the overworld, I find it to be a lot more fun. Better Minecarts is multiplayer compatible.

Features:

Minecarts are much faster, traveling slightly faster than blue ice boats
Minecarts automatically slow down for corners and bends to prevent visual clipping and derailment
Minecarts accelerate and decelerate much more smoothly
Rails now craft to 32, and powered rails craft to 16
Chest minecarts now can automatically place rails and powered rails
Furnace minecarts now load the chunks they are in while fueled



How to use Chest Minecarts
Insert rails for it to place, and put in ingots to program how the chest minecart will place them. Insert iron ingots to place rails, insert gold ingots to place powered rails, and if both ingot types are present then the amount of each ingot will determine how many rails/powered rails are placed consecutively before swapping to the other rail-type.

The chest minecart will automatically start laying tracks on the ground in the direction you push it, spending the tracks in its inventory while (generally) adhering to the same rules as the player when placing tracks. Pairs great with a furnace minecart.

The chest minecart can go up and down hills automatically, but cannot detect when it should turn. However, if you place rails ahead of time to create a curved rail at each intended corner of the track (pictured below) it will follow the change in direction. Use this to your advantage.

Better Minecarts | Fast minecarts and automated rail placing! (1.20.6) Minecraft Data Pack


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A fresh chest minecart will start its pattern with whatever rail-ingot combo is first inserted. For example, if a chest minecart has both rails and powered rails and you put a gold ingot in before putting in an iron ingot then the pattern will start with powered rails first.

You can swap what rail type the chest minecart starts with by making the other rail type invalid. For example, for a chest minecart with both rails and powered rails and both types of ingots, you could remove and reinsert the gold ingots (or powered rails) to get the pattern to start with regular rails.

If the chest minecart cannot fulfill its current pattern (ie it runs out of powered rails/rails when it needs to place a powered rail/rail) it will stop placing any tracks until it's inventory is replenished for that rail type. Once the chest minecarts inventory is replenished it will start placing rails again and resume the pattern.  
CompatibilityMinecraft 1.19
toMinecraft 1.20
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Update #4 : by brisai 05/31/2024 10:41:57 pmtoday

updated to 1.20.6

and i also messed up bumping the post i still messed it up but idc anymore
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S_hach23
06/01/2024 2:20 am
Level 1 : New Miner
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nice, however, i think that minecarts should be nerfed down to 40 blocks per second.
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uuuuguguug
05/29/2024 8:49 am
Level 1 : New Miner
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will you update to 1.20.6 ? the receoies dont work
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brisai
05/31/2024 10:43 pm
Level 41 : Master Engineer
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updated :)
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User5146817G
05/20/2024 6:22 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
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this removes the rail recipe from my game, what to do?
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Lumin0us
04/28/2024 12:13 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
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does this work on 1.20.4?
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brisai
04/28/2024 3:54 pm
Level 41 : Master Engineer
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yes!



minecarts will work in 1.20.5 as well, but the chest minecart mechanics are currently broken
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flashteens
04/13/2024 3:49 am
Level 64 : High Grandmaster Technomancer
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I like your design on making minecarts much faster, especially how you dealt with each minecart when approaching curved rails to avoid derailment even if it's at the full speed of about 85m/s (or 306 km/h.)

But unfortunately looks like it doesn't work as expected on PaperMC server environments. I was testing it on PaperMC 1.20.4 and the minecart stops immediately instead of going faster when it goes onto a powered rail. 😅

I actually have designed a similar datapack called BulletCart for building high-speed railway lines, and I encountered the same issue as well. Finally I have figured out that /tp command in PaperMC 1.16+ automatically reset the Motion NBT tag of the minecart, so I guess you might need to "backup" the Motion NBT before performing the /tp command, and then restore it after the teleportation to fix the issue.
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brisai
04/14/2024 5:30 pm
Level 41 : Master Engineer
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Wow that is super helpful, thank you so much! Lots of people have noted this issue and I've never been able to figure out why this would happen. Will be releasing a papermc version soon :)
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Amelia-chan
03/16/2024 1:47 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
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THANK YOU!!!!
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RainyPuddle
03/14/2024 4:30 pm
Level 2 : Apprentice Crafter
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doesnt seem to work on 1.20.1
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