MyFastCartEngine (MFCE)

MyFastCartEngine allows you to customize the speed of minecart rails based on how the rail is built. When riding on a powered rail, platform blocks define the maximum speed. Platform blocks are any block a powered rail is placed directly onto. For the line to reach maximum speeds, powered rails are required, but made easier to craft with this datapack.

Color Platform Max Speeds:

• Black Terracotta: 1b/s
• Red Terracotta: 3b/s
• Yellow Terracotta: 13b/s
• Blue Terracotta: 28b/s
• Purple Terracotta: 48b/s
• Lapis Lazuli Block: 68b/s
• Gold Block: 204b/s
• Diamond Block: 510b/s

Bonus Platform Max Speeds:

• Cobblestone: 13b/s
• Mossy Cobblestone: 28b/s
• Oak Planks: 17b/s
• Any other block (vanilla mode): 8b/s

Important Things to Keep in Mind:

• Minecarts only travel faster than the vanilla limit of 8 blocks/sec when an entity is actively riding the cart. This means all redstone builds involving minecarts will continue to work, even if those builds require MFCE platform block types.
• Carts with passenger entites keep their chunks loaded regardless of player distance, allowing players to send entities over long distances.
• MFCE was built on top of the source code from Darceno’s Minecarts mod v1.4.
• Purple or faster blocks need to be slowed down by at least 2-3 slow blocks (red/yellow) before taking steep inclines, otherwise the player may phase through the floor.
• Diamond is not recommended for long stretches as it’s difficult to load chunks at 500 blocks per second.
• Minecart speeds decrease faster than they increase. It takes several blocks to reach max speed, but high speeds are lost quickly.
• I don’t plan to support Minecraft versions newer than 1.21.1 at this time.

Recommended Additions:

• I highly recommend pairing this datapack with Gamemode4’s “Vertical Rails” datapack. This enables two-way vertical transit lines. Place two lapis blocks beneath the rails at the top of the vertical rail to make it work both-ways.

How to install:

• Locate the folder containing your map’s save file
• Open the datapacks folder
• Place the zip file into the datapacks folder

Versions tested:

• 1.21.1 Singleplayer & Multiplayer (May work as far back as 1.21 and up to 1.21.3)

Goals / Planned features:

• Better documentation.
• Vertical rails, similar toGamemode 4’s vertical rail datapack.
• Customizable line speeds defined by signs placed alongside the rail line’s entry and exit points.
• Alternative block pallete versions.