The current max speed of minecarts is 8m/s ( 28.8km/h 18 mph ). Those speeds seem a bit low for transit systems and roller coasters. With increased biome sizes I recommend increasing the speed to 16m/s ( 57.6 km/h 35.8 mph ) to help traveling between biomes faster. I would like to hear the rest of the communities thoughts on this.
minecraft in real life probaly dont even go the regular speed that they do in this game. keep in mind its soposed to be a minecart. find/make a mod for this maby with trains or somthing
The problem with faster minecart speeds is that you end up moving faster than the chunks can load (especially in SMP.) This causes your minecart to wait at a temporary dead stop every time it hits an unloaded chunk. Slower and smoother is better.
You can use minecarts in the Nether to travel distances faster, but roller coasters are going to have to stay the way they are.
While it is true that chunk loading times can become an issue, especially in SMP, I don't believe there is a hardcoded max rate for loading chunks. Instead I think it is dependent on the speed of the hardware. I would need to calculate some data transfer rates and CPU usage to know how big of an impact it would have. I can say that it will not be as extreme as flying thru areas where chunks have not yet been generated. So on some systems this may lead to traveling faster than chunks can load. I'm sure there are systems out there running SMP that couldn't keep up if there were a few players traveling in different directions at the current speed without generating new chunks. Then there are some that can keep up with a dozen players heading in different directions while generating new chunks. As is I know my server can handle the load as long as new chunk generation is not being called into action at a fast rate. So the question is how much does this raise the min sys requirements for SSP and SMP?
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You can use minecarts in the Nether to travel distances faster, but roller coasters are going to have to stay the way they are.
Mostly moved on. May check back a few times a year.
Besides, minecarts are fast enough as is.