As you may have noticed, minecarts lose speed much more rapidly when you're not riding them. Usually it's better this way—if you accidentally get out of a minecart it would be annoying to have to run the rest of the way to chase it down. Sometimes, however, this can cause problems. I recently laid out a long redstone line from one side of my minecart track to the other, so I can "call" the minecart from the other side, similar to an elevator. I had forgotten, however, that I'd need many more powered rails for it to be able to make it without someone inside.
What I suggest is to be able to make a minecart that isn't affected by this, maintaining its speed just as well when empty as when it's full. It could be crafted with a minecart and a gold ingot or two. Why gold? Well gold is the densest element on the periodic table, even heavier than lead. It's also conveniently present in Minecraft, and it's already associated with making minecarts go faster, so I think it makes perfect sense.
The minecart could look like a regular minecart only gold-colored (as if it's gold-plated), and drop a minecart and a gold ingot, like the other minecart-with-X entities.
As you may have noticed, minecarts lose speed much more rapidly when you're not riding them. Usually it's better this way—if you accidentally get out of a minecart it would be annoying to have to run the rest of the way to chase it down. Sometimes, however, this can cause problems. I recently laid out a long redstone line from one side of my minecart track to the other, so I can "call" the minecart from the other side, similar to an elevator. I had forgotten, however, that I'd need many more powered rails for it to be able to make it without someone inside.
What I suggest is to be able to make a minecart that isn't affected by this, maintaining its speed just as well when empty as when it's full. It could be crafted with a minecart and a gold ingot or two. Why gold? Well gold is the densest element on the periodic table, even heavier than lead. It's also conveniently present in Minecraft, and it's already associated with making minecarts go faster, so I think it makes perfect sense.
The minecart could look like a regular minecart only gold-colored (as if it's gold-plated), and drop a minecart and a gold ingot, like the other minecart-with-X entities.
Not quite. Osmium is the densest element, at 22.59 g/cm3 . Gold is only 19.3 g/cm3.
However, gold is already in the game, and could do with more uses. And I personally like this idea.
Why gold? Well gold is the densest element on the periodic ta-
Bzzzzzzzt - wrong. That would be Osmium at 22.59 g/cm3 as mentioned above.
I'm not 100% against the idea, and Minecraft isn't the most logical game out there, but your idea makes extremely little sense. Technically, it wouldn't solve the problem of minecarts zipping away from you. If you want bring real life logic into the mix, adding more weight in the cart would do two things:
Make the minecart much harder to get going because of the weight inside it.
Make the minecart much harder to stop once it builds up speed, because the all of that moving mass is harder to stop.
So if you really think about it, you're not truly fixing or changing anything.
Yeah, I forgot about osmium. I knew that gold was denser than lead, but I forgot it still wasn't the heaviest.
And I'm aware that in real life a minecart would go slower when weighed down, but it's obvious the opposite happens in Minecraft.
I'd still like a 100%-vanilla-no-cheats way to disable what appears to be an Anti-Frustration Feature.
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What I suggest is to be able to make a minecart that isn't affected by this, maintaining its speed just as well when empty as when it's full. It could be crafted with a minecart and a gold ingot or two. Why gold? Well gold is the densest element on the periodic table, even heavier than lead. It's also conveniently present in Minecraft, and it's already associated with making minecarts go faster, so I think it makes perfect sense.
The minecart could look like a regular minecart only gold-colored (as if it's gold-plated), and drop a minecart and a gold ingot, like the other minecart-with-X entities.
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Not quite. Osmium is the densest element, at 22.59 g/cm3 . Gold is only 19.3 g/cm3.
However, gold is already in the game, and could do with more uses. And I personally like this idea.
Bzzzzzzzt - wrong. That would be Osmium at 22.59 g/cm3 as mentioned above.
I'm not 100% against the idea, and Minecraft isn't the most logical game out there, but your idea makes extremely little sense. Technically, it wouldn't solve the problem of minecarts zipping away from you. If you want bring real life logic into the mix, adding more weight in the cart would do two things:
- Make the minecart much harder to get going because of the weight inside it.
- Make the minecart much harder to stop once it builds up speed, because the all of that moving mass is harder to stop.
So if you really think about it, you're not truly fixing or changing anything.And I'm aware that in real life a minecart would go slower when weighed down, but it's obvious the opposite happens in Minecraft.
I'd still like a 100%-vanilla-no-cheats way to disable what appears to be an Anti-Frustration Feature.
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