Sable: Physical Minecart

Unofficial addon for Sable. Not affiliated with the Sable team.

Your minecart becomes a real physics object: crash at full speed and it flies off the rails, tumbling and flipping with you still inside.

Features

• 💥 Crashes derail minecarts. Hit a block at speed and the minecart is thrown off the track.
• 🛤️ Track ends are no longer a wall. Run off the end of the rails fast enough and the minecart keeps flying.
• 🎢 Real physics. The wreck is a Sable physics body: it rolls, flips, bounces off terrain and other Sable structures, and keeps exactly the speed it had on the rails.
• 🧍 You stay inside. Passengers ride the crash out in their seat. Press Sneak to get out, even mid-air: you keep flying with the speed of the wreck.
• 🪓 One hit to clean up. A wreck stays where it lands until you hit it. One hit breaks it and drops the minecart item, with the same sound as a normal minecart (nothing drops in Creative mode).
• 📦 Nothing is lost. Chest and hopper minecarts keep their items inside the wreck.
• 🔄 Optional: derailing on curves taken too fast, and automatic cleanup of wrecks (vanish, drop as item, or turn back into a normal minecart on the rails).
• ⚙️ Everything is configurable, plus a game rule to turn derailing off per world: /gamerule physicalMinecartDerail false.

Vanilla minecarts only: no new items, no recipes. Your rails work exactly as before until a minecart goes too fast.

Compatibility

• Install on both the client and the server.
• All vanilla minecarts can derail: normal, chest, hopper, furnace, TNT and command block minecarts.
• Minecarts from other mods do not derail by default. Modpack makers can add them to the entity tag sable_physicalminecart:derailable_minecarts with a datapack or KubeJS.
• Create trains are not minecarts and are not affected.
• Not tested yet with other minecart mods (speed mods, custom rails) or with the experimental vanilla minecart improvements. If something behaves strangely, please report it.
• ⚠️ Minecart farms and sorters: by default every minecart can derail, empty ones included. If fast empty minecarts in your contraptions hit a block at speed, set Minecarts that can derail to With a player or Any passenger.

Configuration

Mods → Sable: Physical Minecart → Config, or edit the file config/sable_physicalminecart-server.toml. The server’s settings apply to everyone. To use different settings in one world, put a copy of the file into that world’s serverconfig/ folder.

Translations: English, Russian, Ukrainian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean.

FAQ

Is there a Fabric version?
Not yet. NeoForge comes first because most Sable modpacks use it. A Fabric version is planned.

Can I use it in my modpack?
Yes, no permission needed. Monetized modpacks are fine too.

Do I need it on the server?
Yes, on both the server and every client, like Sable itself.

My minecart farm keeps crashing. What do I do?
Set Minecarts that can derail to With a player. Then only minecarts with a player inside can derail.

How do I get rid of a wreck?
Hit it once. Or turn on Remove wrecks automatically in the config.

Bug reports and source code

Found a bug? Please open an issue on GitHub and attach your logs/latest.log.
Source code: github.com/Roostyk/sable_physical_minecart.

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License

Free to play, use on any server and include in any modpack. Re-uploading is not allowed. Full text: the LICENSE file inside the mod jar.