A new use for Furnace Minecarts
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Mojang planned to make more uses for Furnace Carts and also Minecarts being lava boats. How about mixing the two together?
A Minecart will connect to a Minecart on front of it. The three types of carts can combine regardless of how long it already is. Though it has drawbacks: The train gets slower the more carts there are. Powered rails will be needed even more to speed the train up. Or even Furnace Minecarts.
Carts can only combine if the rails are straight.
When right clicking on lava while holding any kind of minecart, you will place the minecart on the lava. Carts cannot connect on the lava, but you can connect them first on rails to connect before putting on lava.
A complete set of a lava boat would be one Furnace Cart (REQUIRED), One Ridable cart, and one Storage Cart.
This is useful especially in the Nether if you want to send something to a person on the other side of the lava sea but the server prevents you from placing blocks across the sea. Just connect a furnace cart and a storage cart together using rails and send it to the lava and power the cart.
Controlling:
You need a shovel in order to steer the lava boat.
Whatever shovel you're using, as you keep steering, your shovel will keep getting damaged every second till it gets destroyed.
(idea: Breaking animation: Burning
A and D will steer the lava boat left or right but will not work without a shovel.
Right click on the Furnace Cart to show gui and then click the On/Off button to make the furnace stop or start operating. Needs fuel to operate.
In the gui, there are also arrows that point to up and down. Clicking up will make the boat go faster but also use more fuel, as clicking down does opposite.
(Tip: with a bucket, you can scoop lava from the lava sea you are sailing on and use it as a long-lasting fuel
Another idea is the Furnace Cart showing a GUI where you can place any kind of fuel (not just coal and charcoal)
In order to destroy the cart, you need to hold a pickaxe, as pickaxes make more sense in destroying steel
"The oceans of minecraft are vast and nearly endless... and we just have a floating little box to traverse across them..." - doctorseaweed2
Strings could burn. But slimes could also evaporate... So yeah I think there should be nails
I never said there would be a limit to carts ON A RAIL. I only said ON LAVA.
but would it not be weird to use a minecart as a boat?
maybe a lavaproof diamond boat?
i dunno
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There is no "stickiness" value in the game for sticky pistons, they are simply hard coded to move the block in front of them forward when powered, and backwards when unpowered.
As for the idea. Cart trains have been suggested countless times, and like others have said, ease up on the realism. Just make lava boats work like regular boats, but in lava, with or without a shovel to use as a paddle.
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Diamond burns.
Also, iron has a higher melting point than granite (stereotypical stone which I will use as an example for magma/lava). Sure, the iron would get really hot, but it probably would not melt. Diamond shovels would also burn. In general it's a bad idea to say "iron and wood and gold burn and melt when touched with lava" because iron has the highest melting point out of all the tool materials in Minecraft. And it's also a bad idea to say "diamond is fireproof" because it's made of carbon, which burns.
In general, I don't like this idea. Furnace powered iron boats? Yes. Lava compatibility? Yes, but no quirks for making it move. Making furnace minecarts better? Yes, but it's better to simply give it's speed a buff.
Yeah how about all shovels will keep getting damaged till they get destroyed