TrainCarts

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About TrainCarts

Trains in Minecraft! Automated metro networks, rollercoasters, gondolas, ski-lifts or amusement park rides. TrainCarts does it all with support for custom models, animations, automation with signs and a large API that supports add-ons that can do even more!

This plugin requires BKCommonLib

Join our discord server for help: https://discord.gg/wvU2rFgSnw

Please do not use very old versions with older versions of Minecraft. The latest release of TrainCarts and BKCommonLib are backwards-compatible with older Minecraft versions.

WIKI

Discover how to use this plugin over at https://wiki.traincarts.net/p/TrainCarts

Custom Trains

With the Attachment Editor you can customize the appearance of your trains. Create custom cart models in Blockbench and ride inside them in-game. Large models are possible by adding multiple sections of a model as separate (Armorstand) item models. TrainCarts will do the animating for you and move the parts as a whole.

Recommended reading before going into this: Custom Item Models in 1.9 and Up

Ingame Map Editor

Animations

For custom ride enthusiasts, trains can be fully animated. This means you can have doors that open and close, carts that spin around, or even create theme park rides like Ferris wheels, spinners and merry-go-rounds!

Demo Resource Pack

Download

TrainCarts has a demo resource pack that you can download that includes a couple of train and rollercoaster cart models. You can already play around with these without having to delve into Blockbench yourself

The locomotive and carriages were made by Nullblox. Maxi made the different color rollercoaster carts.

You can download the zip file from here or use the server.properties configuration shown on the webpage: packs.traincarts.net

Physics

Trains don't just follow a line or are limited by Minecraft's own Minecart physics. They are simulated in real-time with gravity physics, rail switching and wheels that track the rails.

New Speed Limits

It is possible to make trains move much faster than the usual 0.4 blocks per tick. Zoom! The default (configurable) maximum speed limit is 5 blocks per tick (300kph!).

Keep Chunks Loaded

Trains can be set to keep chunks loaded. Then they act as moving chunk loaders, keeping themselves and a small area around them loaded and animated. This way they can run autonomously, no matter if no players are nearby.

Waiter

Make trains automatically slow down or stop completely when another train or occupied mutex zone is up ahead. An acceleration and/or deceleration can be set to make trains stop and start realistically to avoid obstacles. ➦Wiki

Properties

There are lots of other properties to change the train's behavior, and more are added all the time.

• Banking, gravity and friction: create realistic rollercoaster rides, or turn it off entirely
• Collision: change whether mobs enter automatically, or what happens when a player collides with a train
• Player enter and exit: Whether players can get in or out of your train
• Change view distance of the occupants (Paper server only)
• Tags: tag a train and route it through the train network, or do special things to it along the way

➦Wiki

Sign Actions

Signs placed along the rails are used to make the trains do things. Change train properties, launch trains, create stations or automatically switch junctions. With an extendable API anything is possible. ➦Wiki

Path Finding

Make your train network come alive with trains that automatically travel to destinations all over your Minecraft world. ➦Wiki

Commands

Everything that can be done with sign actions, and more, can also be done using commands. ➦Wiki

Selector Support

Use the @ptrain selector to use the player passengers of a train as an argument in other (non-TrainCarts) commands. Or use @train to perform actions on multiple trains at once. Trains can be selected by cuboid, distance, set properties and many more.
➦Wiki

Featured

This plugin uses the Cloud Command Framework for handling commands

If you're impressed by the quality of TrainCarts' command auto-completions, suggestions and help menu and want this in your plugin, check out Cloud by Incendo!

Addons

TrainCarts exposes an API that allows third parties to extend the plugin. Primarily it adds support for new rail types, new attachment types and custom action signs.

• TC-Hangrail: Trains floating below iron fences and also below/above other kinds of blocks (by TeamBergerhealer)
• TC-Coasters: Rails in the air without requiring actual rails blocks (by TeamBergerhealer)
• SmoothCoasters: Minecraft Client Fabric mod that, if installed, smoothens armor stand animations and improves the first-person camera view
• TCTicketShop: Use sign interaction to buy train tickets (by DefinitlyEvil)
• LightAPI: Powers the built-in Light attachment. (Use this fork for MC 1.17.1 and below)
• TCJukebox: Plays music for players inside the train using MCJukebox (by melerpe)
• TC-Portals: Teleport trains between servers in a realistic way (by J0schlZ)
• TC-Destinations: Cross-server train destination pagination and helpful clickable commands (by J0schlZ)
• TrainCartsDestinationSelector: Adds clickable signs so players can select train destinations
• Traincarts AdvancedSigns: Adds additional sign types, particularly useful for rollercoaster rides
• TCAnimatronics: Play Animatronics animations with a TrainCarts sign

FAQ

checks:
  moving:
    vehicle:
        enforcelocation: false

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