For this, a "placer"(will be explained later) mine cart would have to be added. And this idea involves a train on 3 minecarts. It will be set up like this: -placer minecart
: storage minecart
:Furnace:powered minecart
, moving to the right.
The placer cart takes rails out of the storage cart and places them in front of it. Tjhe powered cart oushes the other 2 carts foward.
This would allow you to put rails into0 a storage cart, activate the placer and powered carts, and let them place a railway while you do whatever.
How it would work with gold tracks:
Lets say a gold track pushes your minecart 10 blocks, the placer cart would put a gold track every 9th block if available.
If it comes to a point where it cant place more tracks(a cliff for example) the train would stop.
If it comes to the edge of a cliff or water, it would fall off the cliff / into the water and stop working.
The train would be able to place tracks up a slope of .5. Illustrated below:
It will not be able to work on slabs.
Post questions below, please comment weather you like the idea or not.
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Hey you know, this idea is actually really good!
I love the idea, it's great. But, there is a problem though.
If you say that the Mcart will drive forward placing track ahead of him, how will he know when he'll have to take a turn?
It'll be typical for me to just be mining and after 10 min I look around and had all forgotten about my Mcart. It has driven all through the map, making my file >10mb?
Good question.
It will only work in chunks you have loaded, it will not load any new ones.
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Hmm, I see.
Well, I can always just make my Mcart carry 20 pieces of track, then go after it, and turn it, and put another 20 in it.
Pretty good idea mate!
That would be a drag though ...
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I like this, this is basically an explorer probe that explores the map allowing you to fast travel after it regularly to see if it has found anything cool/useful.
But I think it has a too many limitations to be useful, there isn't that many places where you can find flat land without cliffs, water or hills that are steeper than 0.5.
If you could place a digging unit on the front allowing it to dig a tunnel and lay track it would be more useful as you could then dig down a few blocks and start it below the surface thus bypassing most of the obstacles.
It's also where ideas are born from the ashes and soars high in the sky, burning brighter than any can see.
Eighth blocks, drainage grates, farmcraft, the aether, you name it are born here. Consider them to be the struggling orphans in a war torn country, trying to piece together a life in a place no one wants; trying to build credibility in a land of infamy.
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:Furnace:powered minecart
The placer cart takes rails out of the storage cart and places them in front of it. Tjhe powered cart oushes the other 2 carts foward.
This would allow you to put rails into0 a storage cart, activate the placer and powered carts, and let them place a railway while you do whatever.
How it would work with gold tracks:
Lets say a gold track pushes your minecart 10 blocks, the placer cart would put a gold track every 9th block if available.
If it comes to a point where it cant place more tracks(a cliff for example) the train would stop.
If it comes to the edge of a cliff or water, it would fall off the cliff / into the water and stop working.
The train would be able to place tracks up a slope of .5. Illustrated below:
It will not be able to work on slabs.
Post questions below, please comment weather you like the idea or not.
Thats where ideas go to die.
Good question.
It will only work in chunks you have loaded, it will not load any new ones.
That would be a drag though ...
But I think it has a too many limitations to be useful, there isn't that many places where you can find flat land without cliffs, water or hills that are steeper than 0.5.
If you could place a digging unit on the front allowing it to dig a tunnel and lay track it would be more useful as you could then dig down a few blocks and start it below the surface thus bypassing most of the obstacles.
It's also where ideas are born from the ashes and soars high in the sky, burning brighter than any can see.
Eighth blocks, drainage grates, farmcraft, the aether, you name it are born here. Consider them to be the struggling orphans in a war torn country, trying to piece together a life in a place no one wants; trying to build credibility in a land of infamy.
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But I can't see it being put in.