Rail Wand is a Minecraft Forge mod that automatically builds powered railways when the player right clicks a starting point and then right clicks an ending point. Rail Wand finds the shortest path between two points (provided there is a path between the points). It goes around water and steep cliffs. Install by copying the jar into your client mods directory and in your server mod directory if you run your own server. Craft a Rail Wand with one powered rail and two sticks - starting from the top and down the center using three slots. Railway distance limitation depends on your computer memory. Make super long railways by creating multiple segments. Enjoy and watch out for those creepers!

Here are some tips that I find helpful:

• Build narrow paths underground between villages (two blocks high and one block wide)
• Find villages using mineatlas.com. You can find your level-seed in your server.properties file (if running a server) or enter the "/seed" command in single player mode