We will continue to build the railway, but this time, our construction will become more complicated. In the article we will consider complex interchanges, the basic rules for the construction of railways. You can connect new paths to existing paths and build more and more complex path schemes. To illuminate the paths, pressure rails are placed and lamps are connected to them. Or put red torches through the inverter. Everywhere there is a southeast rule, the rule - T, the rule of descents.
Descent rule, T rule, southeast corner rule.
Descent rule- if perpendicular rails are brought to the descent, when passing along the latter, the trolley will go down.
Rule T- if you bring another one to the turning track, when passing along the last one, the trolley will go straight.
southeast corner rule- if you bring perpendicular rails to a straight line, when passing along the latter, the trolley will always turn to the south or east.
How to build correctly (building features)
Trolleys
Minecarts can only move automatically if they are on rails. Minecarts that are not on rails can only be moved by constantly pushing them. There are 5 types of carts:
- Passenger - transport the player and mobs, they can be pushed, dispersed by electric rails or a trolley with a stove;
- Freight - for the transport of goods, the same traffic rules as the previous ones.
- A trolley with a stove - like a diesel locomotive, sets in motion other trolleys, slips through the electric rails "without noticing" them, like ordinary rails.
- Minecarts with TNT - these carts explode when passing activated activating branches, while the railway tracks are not damaged.
- Carts with a funnel - you can put rails on a chest or funnel and then things from minecarts with a funnel will be transferred to a lower funnel.
You will not be able to disperse several trolleys at once on the tracks, on turns the trolleys collide and the next trolley rolls back, but this movement rule does not apply to the movement of trolleys with a stove.
Slides
An example of a railroad uphill.
When climbing uphill, the trolley with the stove should accelerate well. To move uphill on electric tracks, you will have to put several blocks of electric rails one after the other. When going down a hill, a simple cart accelerates, but a cart with a stove does not change speed.
Diagonal paths
diagonal paths.
You can lay the rails as in the picture - while the trolleys will normally move in a straight line without shaking. It is possible to build such paths in order to cover more territories and it is more convenient to build turns.
Safety regulations
Your railroad can be threatened by water and lava, so build your railroad away from them. If the rails are located below a water source close to them, then they will be washed away by the current when the lowland is filled with water, the creepers explode, or the wall of the water tank is damaged. Rails burn from lava.
A creeper that creeps up can blow up the ground around the rail and blast the rails off. You can protect yourself by enclosing the rails with a fence or impassable blocks.
The nearby minefields can also damage the railway.
In hell, gasts can blow up the railway - these are giant jellyfish spewing fire.
To monitor the state of the road, the player can lay a red dust track with repeaters along the railroad and turn it on at the beginning with a red torch. If the wire is damaged from the explosion, the torch will go out.
Railway stations
In the game, train stations perform useful work- accept trolleys, can change the direction of their movement. Railway stations can be installed in any economic object - a house, a mine, a forest.
When building a station, you first need to lay the rails, demolish the curved rail, and lay it again. Red dust to the rail is carried out from the button on the side of the opposite curvature of the rail (see figure). On the same side, a rail is placed - a button, otherwise the trolleys will not stop at this station. After work, the trolleys need to be removed from the rails or an automatic station built.
automatic station
To build, you will need: 10 electric rails, 2 pressure rails, 3 red torches, 2 buttons, 4 to 6 blocks of earth, 4 blocks of red dust, 1 repeater for 0.8 seconds (as a signal delay), ordinary rails in the desired design quantity - in our design - 10 pieces.
First, we lay the automatic starter of the movement. Before version 1.5, the trolley did not move even when the rail was turned on under it. It could only be pushed, which is difficult to do while in the minecart. This misfortune is solved if a block is placed close to the rail. Put a block of earth, put an electric rail on it, then close the usual rails and 3 blocks of electric rails, and to them to turn on more blocks and a button. The red torch can be hidden under the rails by digging under them to remove the torch one block from the rails. Next, combine the paths, you get a fork. Further, on the path indicated by the fork, replace the descending rails and those opposite from the arrow with pressure ones. From them, a redstone path leads directly to the arrow. Set the repeater to the maximum delay - otherwise the trolley will not have time to slip to neighboring tracks - the arrow will switch in front of it.
Automatic station for two cars.
On the presented sample of the station - each stopped by the trolley will be poked in the pockets to the first free slot. True, you have to push the trolley standing on the pressure rails. The trolleys will leave directly, without stopping at each pocket. An unlimited number of trolleys can be driven to such a station, for this you need to redo additional slots as in the figure.
Or make the path inclined so that the trolley can accelerate when driving down the mountain. Unfortunately, both options are not very good: the trolley with the stove has a slower speed than the player, and it is rather difficult to maintain the necessary slope of the tracks all the time.
efficiency: minimum.
Disadvantages: difficulties with overclocking the trolley.
Simple two-lane roads
The second simplest type of railway. It is built similarly to single-lane tracks, but you will need at least 2 times as many rails to create a simple type of railway. The ends of the tracks must be connected to each other so that the trolley can endlessly travel along the tracks in one direction.
For this type of railway, a trolley with a stove is best suited - it will be able to move until the fuel runs out.
efficiency: coal).
Disadvantages: with each new activation, the trolley with the stove moves in the opposite direction to the one it went to the last time. This creates some difficulty (provided that the cart with the stove is pushing other carts).
looped paths
They are built as single-lane paths, but the ends of these very paths must form a loop so that the end of the loop looks in the direction opposite to the end of the paths. When creating such paths, do not forget about the “southeast rule”: the cart always tends to turn either to the south or to the east.
For acceleration on such tracks, a trolley with a stove is best suited.
efficiency: medium (one coal is used for each trip).
Disadvantages: Due to the "southeast rule", it can be difficult to create correct loops. However, next to the arrow, you can put a lever that will force the trolley to turn in the right direction.
electrical paths
At the moment, the simplest and fastest type of tracks - the trolley can move along them indefinitely, without fuel consumption. However, such rails are quite expensive to build.
Paths with an accelerator (Does not work with beta 1.6 and later)
They are ordinary paths, but the trolley is accelerated using an accelerator. This type of path was often used until the beta 1.5 update, which introduced electric paths. Electrical paths are more efficient, but the booster can still be used in the early stages of the game until the player has enough gold to build the latter.
efficiency: >100%.
Disadvantages: The accelerator is a rather bulky design. The trolley can stop if something interferes with its movement. (for example, a mob on the paths).
Weak accelerator
Since version 1.2.4, the ability to build an accelerator has again appeared. It is based on a bug, if there is a player or a mob in the trolley, then the trolley passing by receives a weak push.
building
1. We put a block near the railway.
2. We put the rail block, and then another solid block.
3. We put a trolley on the rail block and plant a mob in it.
efficiency: 100%
Disadvantages: Very little acceleration, easier to use Electric Rails.
Paths with a small accelerator
They are built like this: every two blocks a block is placed and rails are placed on them, it turns out something like this:
Path modifications
Railway lines
Rails, under the influence of red dust or mechanisms, can change their direction. This can be used to create simple railroad junctions, as well as to create complex schemes that control the railroad.
When switching rails, the “southeast rule” applies to them.
dynamic lighting
With the help of pressure rails and red torches, it is possible to create dynamic illumination of the paths. To do this, you need to install pressure rails and connect lamps to them, or red torches through an inverter (which is less efficient).
Building features
Trolleys
Minecarts can only be placed on rails (any), and only on rails will they move freely, otherwise they will simply freeze until they are pushed. There are 7 types of carts in total:
The player and mobs can sit in them, they can be pushed or dispersed using electric rails or a trolley with a stove.
Used to carry things.
A cart that pushes other carts. Electric rails have no effect on her.
Minecart that explodes when it hits activated activating rails does not destroy the rails and the blocks they rest on when it explodes.
Since version 1.5.0, rails can be placed on chests and other funnels if you sit down. The Funnel Cart will transfer items to the Chest/Funnel located under the rails.
Executes a command when it passes over the trigger rails.
This cart is a mobile spawner, so it should be used to spawn on a specific path.
Slides
When descending a hill, a regular minecart speeds up, but a minecart with a stove does not change speed.
To lift the trolley uphill, you need to give it enough energy. The Kiln Cart can lift several other Carts up the hill if it has time to accelerate horizontally. Electric rails can also be installed when climbing a mountain, as needed.
Diagonal paths
If you arrange the rails as in the picture on the right, the trolley, despite the seeming impossibility of a normal trip, will normally move in a straight line, without shaking. Although it will fluctuate between two opposite positions, the player will notice this only by changing the texture, this does not affect the mechanics, even the trolley with the stove will continue to run normally. This increases the possibilities of railway communications in terms of coverage of the territory, and also allows you to make more rounded turns, on which there is noticeably less shaking.
Track damage
Water, lava and explosions destroy the rails. To prevent this from happening, you need to follow a few rules:
- Isolate rails as much as possible from water and lava.
If the rails go below the nearest water source, then be prepared for the fact that they can be flooded in the event of a griefer attack, an explosion of creepers, or an accidental digging of the wall of a water tank. The water will simply wash away the rails, the lava will also burn them.
- Beware of creepers.
Creepers can explode, destroying not only the ground, but also the rails near the explosion site. Therefore, it is not recommended to drive at night and in the morning on rails that are not enclosed by a fence or impassable blocks. The radius of destruction of the rail is 1 cell greater than the radius of the explosion.
- You should not arrange minefields next to the rails.
- Beware of ghasts.
If you decide to build rails in hell, then beware of gasts. They can blow your way.
In order to timely determine the state of the tracks (they are intact or destroyed), you can lay a path of red dust along them with repeaters and feed it at the beginning with a red torch. If the wire is hit by an explosion, it will "go out".
Other
In the game it is impossible to disperse several trolleys on the same tracks at once (only if they are not being pushed by a trolley with a stove)- on turns, they hit each other and the trolley in front transmits the momentum to the one behind it, forcing it to move in the opposite direction.
Railway station
Very often there is a need to supply railways with stations so that you can easily move between a house, a mine, a pond, a forest, a farm without transfers. In general, stations are a very useful thing. The station must be able to accept the cart and send it in any direction (forward or backward) without destruction. Exist different variants stations, but the simplest and most functional are presented below.
When building a station, you first need to lay the rails, demolish the curved rail and put it back on. After that, the wire to it must be placed from the button opposite to the side of the rail's curvature (as in the picture). Don't forget to put the button rail on the same side, otherwise the carts will overshoot this station. And don't forget to remove minecarts from the rails after use, or make a bus station like this:
automatic station
Sooner or later, you will get tired of removing the carts from the rails, or you may have an emergency when you forgot to remove the minecart. In this case, you should build a station with two\three\four (1 track per cart) end tracks. The simplest example: you and a friend decide to build a railroad to exchange resources. But what if, when you already have one cart, your friend sends another one? Then she will not be able to properly park, and maybe go back.
Red dust straight to the arrow. Don't forget to set the repeater to the maximum delay: otherwise the trolley will not have time to enter the neighboring tracks (the arrow will switch right in front of it). If you did everything as in the screenshot (the fence and lighting are optional: mobs just interfered with the author), any cart that drove into a busy parking lot will poke in the pockets to the first free slot (unfortunately, the cart standing on the pressure rails needs to be kicked, which levels all automation However, the trolleys will leave "directly", without going into each pocket). The theoretical capacity of such a station is unlimited: it is enough to remake additional slots like the right one in the screenshot.
One of the ways to get around in Minecraft is to ride a trolley on railroads. But they can also carry valuable goods. To create railways, you need rails and trolleys. How to make trolleys, you can see below, and how to make rails, we will look at in more detail.
Types of trolleys
- Regular wagon.
- Truck with engine.
- Trolley with dynamite.
- Trolley with a funnel.
Rail types
There are 4 types of rails in Minecraft:
- ordinary;
- energy rails;
- pressure;
- activating.
conventional rails
The easiest to create, the most frequent to use.
At the very beginning of the composition, a trolley with an engine is required, otherwise it will not budge.
To create regular rails you will need:
- One stick (can be made from planks of wood of any kind).
- 6 iron ingots (to get an iron ingot, you need to smelt iron ore in a furnace).
Energy burners
To create, you need gold, which is not so cheap. But you don't need a lot of them, energy rails are used for acceleration. They can be turned off and on, and require a red torch/redstone block to be placed next to them, or an activated lever to make them work.
It is also a good option to put rails with a pressure plate in front of the energy rails.
We will need:
- One stick.
- One redstone.
- 6 gold ingots (to get a gold ingot, you need to smelt gold ore in a furnace).
Push rails
Used to turn on the power rails, and can only be activated by the Minecart.
To create we need:
- 1 stick.
- 1 stone pressure plate.
- 6 iron ingots.
activating rails
Does not affect the speed of minecarts. A cart with TNT on the activated rails will explode after a few seconds, and a cart with players/animals will drop off passengers.
They need to be activated. Activated in the same way as energy rails.
For crafting you will need:
- 2 sticks.
- 1 red torch.
- 6 iron ingots.
Types of railways
We know what rails are and how to make them, but what's next? How to make a railroad?
There are many types of roads, but we will consider only three main ones.
- Single lane. It is built in one lane, the minimum cost of resources. Only rails and two blocks are required, the efficiency is the smallest of all types of railway.
It is necessary to lay a straight line of rails, and put blocks at the ends.
- Two-lane. Much more resources are required than for a single-lane, but the efficiency is also greater.
It is built according to the same principle, but the two-lane road is closed, unlike the single-lane one.
- looped. It is similar to a single-lane railway, but at the ends there are not blocks, but loops. If you make loops more, then you can make stops.
How it is built, you can see in the image.
Now you know how to make rails in Minecraft, what are railways and trolleys. Thanks for reading the article!
This design works according to the following principle: a trolley rides, drives onto pressure rails and stops at a stop. At this time, the signal from the pressure rail is delayed by the repeaters, and then goes to a stop. Thus, the trolley leaves after some time. And here are the instructions on how to build minecraft train station.
Digging a trench 5 blocks long, 1 block wide and 1 block deep. We will consider the first block of the trench to be the block from where the movement begins. That is, the trolley drives to the first block, then goes to the fifth and leaves it. Then you need to put the rails as follows: on the first block - electric rails. Ordinary rails are placed on the second and third. On the fourth - push. On the fifth - electric rails. Immediately after the fifth block, you need to put pressure rails, but do not dig anything else, but put them on the block above.
Making a trench
Thus, it turns out that the delay lasts 10 seconds, which is enough to get into the car. But if there are freight trolleys running, then you need to increase the delay, since it takes time to put the load on the freight trolley. Then it remains only to run the wire from the repeater along the dug trench to the electric rails on the first block.
Today, attention will be presented to one of the most popular toys for PC called "Minecraft". The railroad is an item that you will have to learn how to create. This is far from the easiest task that users are aware of. You will have to show perseverance and ingenuity. Fortunately, following some tips and tricks, you can bring the idea to life. So how to make a railroad in Minecraft? What should every player be aware of during construction? What exactly will he need?
Rails or road
Initially, it is important to understand what exactly the player wants to get. The thing is, there are several similar objects in Minecraft. The first is rails. This is a very common item that is used in a toy. Often used for traps. The second is the railroad. Usually, it means a complex structure, consisting of many different objects. Rails form the basis.
Accordingly, the player must clearly understand what he wants to get in the Minecraft game. Railway - the construction of this object will have to be dealt with. At the same time, it will be possible to understand how the rails are created.
What is required for the road
So, the first step is to understand which components will be useful to the player. IN Minecraft game the construction of a complex railroad can be carried out as desired by the user. In the scheme being studied, you will have to find and prepare such items as:
- tracks in Minecraft;
- electric rails;
- pickaxe (diamond);
- ax (diamond);
- shovel (made of diamond);
- a place for discovered things;
- torch.
In addition, it is advisable to draw up a construction scheme in the Minecraft game in advance. The railway here will be built according to a certain algorithm that the user will come up with. The main thing is that all actions take place directly on the map. Therefore, it is recommended to find a suitable place for construction.
Creation system
As soon as the user has all the listed components (how to get them will be discussed a little later), you can start building. What tips and tricks will help bring your idea to life?
You can follow the instructions below:
- It is better to start building a railway in Minecraft 1.7.10 (or any other version) from the steps. Digging straight down is not recommended. In order to make steps, a hole 2-3 blocks wide is enough.
- Build an underpass. It should not be too deep. Since we are talking about a complex railway, it is necessary to make a transition with several exits to the station.
- At each exit, it is best to put a sign (for example, wooden) with the name of the railway.
- Next to the exits (preferably made of stone), build a sign for the schedule. Hang wooden tables on it and write the departure time of the trolley trains.
- Not far from the place where the road is laid, it is recommended to place a chest. This is an optional step. It is required in order to get all the necessary items as quickly as possible.
- As soon as the decoration is finished, you can start the main construction in the Minecraft game. The railroad is made up of iron rails. They are needed in large numbers.
- Place the rails along the entire planned path. At the very beginning, you will have to put 2-3 blocks with electric rails without torches and with a red stone. Repeat this procedure at each stop.
- Every 10-14 blocks with rails, add a pair of electric ones with a red stone on the wall and with a torch. This technique helps to speed up minecarts.
- Similar procedures should be done with all branches of the proposed station.
Accordingly, at the end of the process, a high-class railway will be obtained. The main problem is thinking through the paths. You can work with the game "Minecraft 1.7.10", and with any other version.
regular road
Nevertheless, in practice it is more important to master the construction of an economy class railway. This process does not imply anything difficult. The main thing is to learn how to create ordinary rails. And complex structures will help to build the downloaded mod. The railway ("Minecraft") is a very common object that you can download and install as a modification for the game.
An ordinary railway is represented by a chain of rails. Nothing difficult or special. To maintain the speed, you will have to add some electric rails.
The rest of the algorithm of actions is reduced to:
- Creation of a group of conventional and electric rails.
- Laying a small chain of previously created objects that personify the railway.
- Providing redstone and torches where needed.
That's all. Now it is clear what schemes are used to create rails. But, as already mentioned, initially you will have to prepare some components. How exactly are they created?
About creating items for the road
In fact, there is nothing difficult in providing the railway with everything you need. It is enough to be guided by the recipes for creating items in the Minecraft game. The railroad provides the following crafting methods:
- ax, shovel and hoe - are created from two sticks and several;
- redstone torch - one redstone and one stick;
- regular rails - 1 stick and 6 blocks of iron (obtained from iron ore);
- electric rails - stick, 1 redstone and 6 gold bars;
- pressure rails - 1 stone pressure plate, 1 red stone, 6 iron ingots.
Nothing difficult or special. Now it’s clear what will help build a station in the Minecraft game. The railway here is far from the most complex construction. Some problems may arise when mining redstone and diamonds. But the rest of the process will not take much effort.