With the new experimental Minecarts out, I have 3 suggestions on how Minecarts can be further improved, and made into a viable system of transport for the Midgame.
1. Multiple Cross Rails: We all know the frustration of Minecart Rails only ever turning in one direction, so what I suggest is that placing Rails in certain ways, for example, an X shape, will cause the middle Rail to turn into a “Scissor Crossroad” as it’s usually called, allowing for Minecart tracks to overlap onto eachother. Another one would be to update the Lever system with rail, so you can stylize your Minecart tracks to look like they have Sidings, or storage bays that are separate from your “main line”
2. Minecart Couplings: I feel like this one has been a long time coming. Couplings would connect multiple Minecarts together, and Furnace Minecarts at the head of this “Minecart Train” would pull a certain amount of Minecarts. Maybe like 5, and any more would reduce the speed of the Furnace Minecart.
Of course, you could always add more Furnace Minecarts in front to not only haul more loads, but also increase the speed of your Train.
3. Improved Minecart Furnaces: Minecart Furnaces have gone unchanged for most of Minecraft’s history, with the only attempt to change them being all the way back in 1.8, and that change didn’t even make it through. So here’s my idea:
Furnace Minecarts have a speed increase depending on how many are coupled together. So for example, one would move at the default speed, and 5 would move at 15 Blocks a second, only slightly faster than a maxed out horse. They would also now have a new UI, and take any source of Fuel that would usually be used with Furnaces, as well as Water. To me, I think the idea of the Furnace Minecart being Steam Powered would be cool. Hoppers above the Furnace Minecart would also put new Fuel and Water into the Furnace Minecart, but note that if a Hopper is put below a Furnace Minecart, it will only take the empty bucket, and not any of the fuel. The Furnace Minecart isn’t a chest, after all, so the fuel stays in.
With the new experimental Minecarts out, I have 3 suggestions on how Minecarts can be further improved, and made into a viable system of transport for the Midgame.
1. Multiple Cross Rails: We all know the frustration of Minecart Rails only ever turning in one direction, so what I suggest is that placing Rails in certain ways, for example, an X shape, will cause the middle Rail to turn into a “Scissor Crossroad” as it’s usually called, allowing for Minecart tracks to overlap onto eachother. Another one would be to update the Lever system with rail, so you can stylize your Minecart tracks to look like they have Sidings, or storage bays that are separate from your “main line”
2. Minecart Couplings: I feel like this one has been a long time coming. Couplings would connect multiple Minecarts together, and Furnace Minecarts at the head of this “Minecart Train” would pull a certain amount of Minecarts. Maybe like 5, and any more would reduce the speed of the Furnace Minecart.
Of course, you could always add more Furnace Minecarts in front to not only haul more loads, but also increase the speed of your Train.
3. Improved Minecart Furnaces: Minecart Furnaces have gone unchanged for most of Minecraft’s history, with the only attempt to change them being all the way back in 1.8, and that change didn’t even make it through. So here’s my idea:
Furnace Minecarts have a speed increase depending on how many are coupled together. So for example, one would move at the default speed, and 5 would move at 15 Blocks a second, only slightly faster than a maxed out horse. They would also now have a new UI, and take any source of Fuel that would usually be used with Furnaces, as well as Water. To me, I think the idea of the Furnace Minecart being Steam Powered would be cool. Hoppers above the Furnace Minecart would also put new Fuel and Water into the Furnace Minecart, but note that if a Hopper is put below a Furnace Minecart, it will only take the empty bucket, and not any of the fuel. The Furnace Minecart isn’t a chest, after all, so the fuel stays in.