I was messing around on creative mode the other day, testing out powered minecarts so i could make a minecart system in my SMP server, when i noticed, powered minecarts SUCK. They're extremely buggy, to where they wont even puch a minecart going east or west, and they just bump into other minecarts, instead of pushing them.
I understand that you could use powered rails, but if you are making any sort of expansive track system, it gets extremely expensive. Also, powered rails are an endgame item, and powered minecarts serve as a substitution until then.
That is why powered minecarts need to be fixed. I think the way to fix it would be to get rid of all of the bugs, and then modify the minecart system a bit. Tired of minecarts constantly bumping against each other when you try to form a train of them? Well what if, when you clicked on the side of a minecart with an iron ingot, the minecart had a bar sticking out of it, so that when another minecart was pushed into that minecart they would be connected. This would solve minecarts annoyingly bumping against each other, and would make it so that powered minecarts could pull other minecarts.
It would be that easy to fix the powered minecarts. All it would take is some already needed bug fixes and a slight modification to the game.
This is something I want, perhaps give Notch and/or Jeb the idea! I would also like to add on to the idea. What if the furnace cart was able to go into a reverse while connected and a forward while connected?
This is something I want, perhaps give Notch and/or Jeb the idea! I would also like to add on to the idea. What if the furnace cart was able to go into a reverse while connected and a forward while connected?
If this happens, then I give it a few
Well yeah it would be able to depending on which side you click on it with the coal needed to power it, like as it is right now.
I understand that you could use powered rails, but if you are making any sort of expansive track system, it gets extremely expensive. Also, powered rails are an endgame item, and powered minecarts serve as a substitution until then.
That is why powered minecarts need to be fixed. I think the way to fix it would be to get rid of all of the bugs, and then modify the minecart system a bit. Tired of minecarts constantly bumping against each other when you try to form a train of them? Well what if, when you clicked on the side of a minecart with an iron ingot, the minecart had a bar sticking out of it, so that when another minecart was pushed into that minecart they would be connected. This would solve minecarts annoyingly bumping against each other, and would make it so that powered minecarts could pull other minecarts.
It would be that easy to fix the powered minecarts. All it would take is some already needed bug fixes and a slight modification to the game.
If this happens, then I give it a few
I win!
Well yeah it would be able to depending on which side you click on it with the coal needed to power it, like as it is right now.