What is an electric railway in Minecraft? Construction of the railway. Simple single lane tracks
Decide how long the railway network you want to build. The length of the network is not limited, but you need to know approximately how many blocks it will take and how many rails it will take.
- Try to walk from the supposed start of the railway to its end. This will help you plan your route and also figure out what obstacles there are along the way.
Memorize the components of a railroad. To build a railway network, you will need four main elements:
- Trolley- a means of transportation on rails.
- Rails- ordinary rails on which the trolley moves.
- Electric rails- rails that are activated by a red stone and speed up the trolley (or prevent it from slowing down). If the electric rails are not activated by the red stone, they will slow down (and eventually stop) the minecart.
- Red torches- power supply for every 14 electric rails. Such torches are not needed for regular rails.
Gather the necessary resources. To create a railway network, you will need the following elements:
- Iron ingots- every 16 rails can be crafted from six iron ingots. The trolley is made from five iron ingots. To get iron ingots, smelt iron ore in a furnace.
- Sticks- for every 16 rails you will need one stick. You also need one stick to craft one lever and one red torch. To get four sticks, add two planks (one on top of the other) to the workbench.
- Gold bars- used to create electric rails. For every six such rails, six gold bars will be needed. To get one gold bar, smelt gold ore in a furnace.
- Red stone- get the red stone with an iron pickaxe (or better).
- Cobblestone- to create one lever you will need one cobblestone.
Open the workbench. To do this, place it on the ground and right-click.
Create a trolley. Add one iron ingot to the top left, top right, middle left, center, and middle right slots of the workbench, then drag the created minecart into your inventory.
Craft the rails. Add one iron ingot to all slots of the left and right columns of the workbench, add one stick to the center slot, and then drag the rails to your inventory.
- You will get 16 rails; if you need to create more rails, increase the crafting ingredients accordingly.
- On the console, go to the "Redstone and Transport" tab, select the "Rails" option and press "A" or "X" until you have created enough rails.
Craft electric rails. Such rails are needed significantly less than conventional ones. Add one gold bar to each slot of the left and right columns of the workbench, add one stick to the center slot, and then add one red stone to the bottom middle slot. Now drag the electric rails into your inventory.
- This way you will craft 6 electric rails; If you need to create more of these rails, increase the crafting ingredients accordingly.
- On the console, go to the "Redstone and Transport" tab, select the "Rails" option, scroll down to the "Electric Rails" option and press "A" or "X" until you have created enough rails.
They are ordinary tracks, but the trolley is accelerated using an accelerator. This type of path was often used before the 1.5 update, which introduced electrical paths. Electric paths are more efficient, but the accelerator can still be used in the early stages of the game until the player has enough gold to build the latter.
Efficiency: >100%.
Flaws: The accelerator is a rather bulky design. The trolley can stop if something prevents it from moving (for example, a mob on the tracks).
Weak accelerator
Since version 1.2.4, it has again become possible to build an accelerator. It is based on a bug: if there is a player or a mob in the trolley, then the trolley passing by gets a weak push.
Construction
1. Place a block near the railway.
2. Place a block of rails, and then another solid block.
3. Place a trolley on the rail block and put a mob in it.
Efficiency: 100%
Flaws: Very low acceleration, easier to use electric rails.
Paths with a small accelerator
They are built like this: every two blocks a block is placed and the 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 both regular railway junctions and complex circuits that control the railway.
When switching rails, the “southeast rule” applies to them.
Dynamic lighting
Using pressure rails and red torches it is possible to create dynamic track lighting. To do this, you need to install pressure rails and connect lamps or red torches to them via an inverter (which is less efficient).
Features of construction
Trolleys
Trolleys.
Trolleys can be installed anywhere, but only on rails will they move freely, otherwise they will simply freeze until they begin to be pushed. There are only 3 types of trolleys:
They can be seated by the player and mobs, and can be pushed or accelerated using electric rails or a motorized minecart.
Used for transporting things.
A trolley pushing other trolleys. Electric rails have no effect on it.
Gorki
When going down a hill, a regular trolley accelerates, but a trolley with an engine does not change speed.
To lift a trolley uphill, you need to provide it with enough energy. A stove trolley can lift several other trolleys up a mountain if it has time to accelerate horizontally. Electric rails can also be installed when climbing a mountain, as needed.
Diagonal paths
Example of 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 move normally in a straight line, without shaking. Although it will oscillate between two opposite positions, the player will notice this only by a change in texture; this does not affect the mechanics; even a trolley with an engine will continue to move normally. This increases the ability of railway communications to cover the territory, and also allows you to make more rounded turns, on which there is noticeably less shaking.
Damage to tracks
Water, lava and explosions destroy the rails. To prevent this from happening, you need to follow several rules:
- Isolate the rails from water and lava as much as possible.
If the rails go below the nearest source of water, then be prepared for the fact that they may be flooded in the event of an attack by griefers, an explosion of creepers, or an accidental undermining of the wall of a water tank. The water will simply wash away the rails, and 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 travel at night and in the morning on rails that are not surrounded by a fence or impassable blocks. The radius of destruction of rails is 1 cell greater than the radius of explosion.
- You should not set up minefields near the rails.
- Beware of the ghasts.
If you decide to build rails in hell, then beware of the ghasts (giant jellyfish spitting fire). They can blow up your paths.
In order to timely determine the state of the paths (they are intact or destroyed), you can lay a path of red dust along them with repeaters and power it at the beginning with a red torch. If the wire is touched by an explosion, it will “go out.”
Other
In the game it is impossible to accelerate several trolleys on the same tracks at once (only if they are not pushed by a trolley with an engine)- on turns they hit each other and the trolley in front transmits an impulse to the one behind it, forcing it to move in the opposite direction.
Railway station
Very often there is a need to equip railways with stations so that you can easily move between a house, a mine, a pond, a forest, or a farm without transfers. In general, the stations are a very useful thing. The station must be able to accept a trolley and send it in any direction (forward or backward) without destruction. There are different options for stations, but the simplest and most functional are presented below.
When building a station, you first need to lay the rails, remove the curved rail and install it again. After that, the wire to it must be placed from the button opposite to the side of the curvature of the rails (as in the picture). Don't forget to place the button rail on the same side, otherwise the trolleys will overshoot this station. And don't forget to remove the trolleys from the rails after use
This design works on 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 instructions on how to build Minecraft train station.
We dig a trench 5 blocks long, one block wide and one block deep. The first block of the trench will be the block from which the movement begins. That is, the trolley enters the first block, then goes to the fifth and leaves it. Then you need to install the rails as follows: on the first block - electric rails. On the second and third, ordinary rails are installed. On the fourth - push ones. On the fifth - electric rails. Immediately after the fifth block, you need to install pressure rails, but do not dig anything else, but place them on the block above.
Making a trench
Thus, it turns out that the delay lasts 10 seconds, this is enough to board the carriage. But if freight trolleys are traveling, then the delay must be increased, since it takes time to put the cargo into the freight trolley. Then all that remains is to run the wire from the repeater along the dug trench to the electric rails on the first block.
Or make the path inclined so that the trolley can accelerate down the mountain. Unfortunately, both options are not very good: the trolley with the stove has a lower speed than the player, and it is quite difficult to maintain the required slope of the tracks all the time.
Efficiency: minimum.
Flaws: difficulties with accelerating the trolley.
Simple two-lane tracks
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 can move until the fuel runs out.
Efficiency: coal).
Flaws: with each new activation, the trolley with the stove goes in the direction opposite to the one in which it went last time. This creates some difficulties (provided that the trolley with the stove pushes other trolleys).
Looped paths
They are built as single-lane tracks, but the ends of these same tracks must form a loop so that the end of the loop faces in the direction opposite to the end of the tracks. When creating such tracks, do not forget about the “southeast rule”: the trolley always tends to turn either south or east.
For acceleration on such tracks, a trolley with a stove is best suited.
Efficiency: medium (one coal is used for each trip).
Flaws: The "southeast rule" can make it difficult to create proper stitches. However, you can place a lever next to the arrow, which will force the trolley to turn in the desired direction.
Electrical paths
At the moment, the simplest and fastest type of tracks - along them the trolley can move endlessly, without wasting fuel. However, such rails are quite expensive to build.
Accelerated paths (Does not work with beta 1.6 and later)
They are ordinary tracks, but the trolley is accelerated using an accelerator. This type of path was often used before the beta 1.5 update, which introduced electrical paths. Electric paths are more efficient, but the accelerator can still be used in the early stages of the game until the player has enough gold to build the latter.
Efficiency: >100%.
Flaws: The accelerator is a rather bulky design. The trolley can stop if something prevents it from moving (for example, a mob on the tracks).
Weak accelerator
Since version 1.2.4, it has again become possible to build an accelerator. It is based on a bug: if there is a player or a mob in the trolley, then the trolley passing by gets a weak push.
Construction
1. Place a block near the railway.
2. Place a block of rails, and then another solid block.
3. Place a trolley on the rail block and put a mob in it.
Efficiency: 100%
Flaws: Very low acceleration, easier to use electric rails.
Paths with a small accelerator
They are built like this: every two blocks a block is placed and the 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 both regular railway junctions and complex circuits that control the railway.
When switching rails, the “southeast rule” applies to them.
Dynamic lighting
Using pressure rails and red torches it is possible to create dynamic track lighting. To do this, you need to install pressure rails and connect lamps or red torches to them via an inverter (which is less efficient).
Features of construction
Trolleys
Trolleys can only be installed on rails (any kind), and only on rails will they move freely, otherwise they will simply freeze until they begin to be pushed. There are only 7 types of trolleys:
The player and mobs can sit in them, they can be pushed or dispersed using electric rails or a trolley with a stove.
Used for transporting things.
A trolley pushing other trolleys. Electric rails have no effect on it.
A trolley that explodes when it hits activated activating rails does not destroy the rails and blocks on which they stood when exploding.
Since version 1.5.0, rails can be placed on chests and other craters if you sit down. A minecart with a funnel will transfer items to a chest/funnel located under the rails.
Executes a command when driving along the activating rails.
This cart is a mobile spawner, so it should be used to spawn on a specific path.
Gorki
When going down a hill, a regular trolley accelerates, but a trolley with a stove does not change speed.
To lift a trolley uphill, you need to provide it with enough energy. A stove trolley can lift several other trolleys up a mountain 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 move normally in a straight line, without shaking. Although it will oscillate between two opposite positions, the player will notice this only by the change in texture; this does not affect the mechanics; even the trolley with the stove will continue to move normally. This increases the ability of railway communications to cover the territory, and also allows you to make more rounded turns, on which there is noticeably less shaking.
Damage to tracks
Water, lava and explosions destroy the rails. To prevent this from happening, you need to follow several rules:
- Isolate the rails from water and lava as much as possible.
If the rails go below the nearest source of water, then be prepared for the fact that they may be flooded in the event of an attack by griefers, an explosion of creepers, or an accidental undermining of the wall of a water tank. The water will simply wash away the rails, and 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 travel at night and in the morning on rails that are not surrounded by a fence or impassable blocks. The radius of destruction of rails is 1 cell greater than the radius of explosion.
- You should not set up minefields near the rails.
- Beware of the ghasts.
If you decide to build rails in hell, then beware of ghasts. They can blow up your paths.
In order to timely determine the state of the paths (they are intact or destroyed), you can lay a path of red dust along them with repeaters and power it at the beginning with a red torch. If the wire is touched by an explosion, it will “go out.”
Other
In the game it is impossible to accelerate several trolleys on the same tracks at once (only if they are not pushed by a trolley with a stove)- on turns they hit each other and the trolley in front transmits an impulse to the one behind it, forcing it to move in the opposite direction.
Railway station
Very often there is a need to equip railways with stations so that you can easily move between a house, a mine, a pond, a forest, or a farm without transfers. In general, the stations are a very useful thing. The station must be able to accept a trolley and send it in any direction (forward or backward) without destruction. There are different options for stations, but the simplest and most functional are presented below.
When building a station, you first need to lay the rails, remove the curved rail and install it again. After that, the wire to it must be placed from the button opposite to the side of the curvature of the rails (as in the picture). Don't forget to place the button rail on the same side, otherwise the trolleys will overshoot this station. And don't forget to remove the trolleys from the rails after use, or make a bus station like this:
Automatic station
Sooner or later you will get tired of removing the trolleys from the rails, or you may have an emergency situation when you forgot to remove the trolley. In this case, you should build a station with two\three\four (1 track for each trolley) final tracks. The simplest example: you and a friend decided to build a railroad to exchange resources. But what if, when you already have one trolley, your friend sends another one? Then she won’t be able to park properly, and maybe even drive 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 adjacent tracks (the arrow will switch right in front of it). If you did everything as in the screenshot (the fence and lighting are optional: the author was simply very disturbed by mobs), any trolley entering a busy parking lot will be poked in the pockets until the first free slot (unfortunately, a trolley standing on pressure rails needs to be kicked, which neutralizes 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 one on the right in the screenshot.
Today we will present one of the most popular toys for PC called “Minecraft”. The railway is an object that you will have to learn to create. This is not the easiest task that users are aware of. You will have to show persistence and ingenuity. Fortunately, by following some tips and tricks, you can make your idea a reality. 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 the rails. This is a very common item that is used in a toy. Often used for traps. The second is the railway. Usually it means a complex structure consisting of many different objects. The basis is made up of rails.
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 addressed. At the same time, you will be able to understand how rails are created.
What you need for the road
So, the first step is to understand exactly which components will be useful to the player. In the Minecraft game, the construction of a complex railway can be carried out as the user wishes. In the scheme being studied, you will have to find and prepare such items as:
- paths in Minecraft;
- electric rails;
- pickaxe (diamond);
- ax (diamond);
- shovel (made of diamond);
- place for discovered items;
- torch.
In addition, it is advisable to draw up a construction plan in the Minecraft game in advance. The railway here will be built according to a specific 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 (we will talk about how to get them a little later), construction can begin. What tips and recommendations will help bring your idea to life?
You can follow the following instructions:
- It is better to start building a railway in the game Minecraft 1.7.10 (or any other version) from the steps. Digging directly down is not recommended. In order to make steps, a hole 2-3 blocks wide is enough.
- Build an underground passage. It shouldn't 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.
- Build a schedule board near the exits (preferably made of stone). Hang wooden tables on it and write the departure times of trolley trains.
- It is recommended to place a chest near the place where the road is laid. This is an optional step. It is required in order to get all the necessary items as quickly as possible.
- As soon as the finishing is finished, you can begin the main construction in the Minecraft game. The railway consists of iron rails. They are needed in large quantities.
- Place rails along the entire planned path. At the very beginning you will have to place 2-3 blocks with electric rails without torches and with 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 a torch. This technique helps speed up the trolleys.
- Carry out similar procedures 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.
Ordinary road
However, in practice it is more important to master the construction of an economy class railway. This process does not involve anything difficult. The main thing is to learn how to create ordinary rails. A downloaded mod will help you build complex structures. The railroad (Minecraft) is a very common object that you can download and install as a modification for the game.
A conventional railway is represented by a chain of rails. Nothing difficult or special. To maintain speed, you will have to add several electric rails.
The rest of the algorithm boils down to:
- Creation of a group of conventional and electric rails.
- Laying out a small chain of previously created objects that represent the railway.
- Providing red stone and torches in places where it is needed.
That's all. Now it’s clear what schemes are used to create rails. But, as already mentioned, you will initially 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 necessary. It is enough to follow the recipes for creating items in the game Minecraft. The railway provides the following crafting methods:
- axe, shovel and hoe - created from two sticks and several;
- red stone torch - one red stone and one stick;
- regular rails - 1 stick and 6 iron blocks (mined 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 game Minecraft. The railway here is far from the most complex structure. Some problems may arise when mining red stone and diamonds. But otherwise the process will not take much effort.