Ideas for fixing minecarts

Re: faster minecarts: this might sound weird, but I always thought that the original powered rail should have gold replaced with copper, and then make an "upgraded" powered rail with the old recipe. That way old systems don't break and rails immediately become slightly more viable because of how ridiculously easy it is to find copper

Linking minecarts with other minecarts with chains is such a good idea

Minecart used to be a core part of Minecraft... can't believe they didn't update them during the Caves & Cliffs update. I really hope they add the powered rail/momentum changes and linking minecarts at some point soon

I've always used minecarts for one thing : underground transportation. Especially since the cavern update. You can use a lot of things for transport on the surface, whereas underground, it's a pain to reach the depths, it takes forever. You can also use the minecart chest to send your loot back to base during long mining sessions.

It literally hurts me to think about how hard mojang abandoned the minecart. It's such a fantastic feature that never gets the love it deserves, unless you play with the Railcraft mod.

Minecarts used to be THE method of inventory management & transportation, providing a safe passage that is, more often than not, lit up and relatively safe. Carts in the present are suffering with the same syndrome as boats did before Mojang's boat patch years ago. Worst part about this is there could be an alternative to hopper minecart - it's only a matter of time until we get the new Elytra of hoppers. One last thing - Minecarts, for whatever reason, prefer some directions than others. You'd get different behavior when it goes to the west, compared to north.

A mini minecart update would fit great into another, larger update. Kind of how they did observers, skulk sensors, and lecturn. An additional feature in redstone to further add to creativity

8:34 Use a trapped chest instead of a lever. It's nice and big and easy to click on, and when you get too far away, it automatically closes, returning the intersection to its default state.

I feel like the Elytra really took a lot of the creativity out of the game. It made so many cool methods of transportation nearly completely obsolete. I never see huge railway stations in SMP servers anymore, and that was one of my favourite things about early Minecraft.

I remember that experimental change where they increased the minecart speed and made them derail under some conditions... I really didn't expect them to abandon that idea completely after reverting it, but now it's been so long...

For the furnace Minecart chunk loading feature, make it a gamerule that is false by default. That way large servers don't need to worry about lag and small servers can enjoy the feature.

Crazy when he said "10 years ago" I was picturing bright green alpha grass and was shocked when I saw the Savannah biome

The chunk loading minecart would immediately set minecarts apart from other modes of transport, as a playerless item transport. It would be beautiful. Regarding your project, I made a small circuit that checks if a chest minecart has a particular item, then returns it to the minecart, and if there is a match, the path changes. This could be used for chest minecart routing, which would only be useful if it could travel further than loaded chunks.

A moving minecart being an automatic chunk loader would be cool. You could have chest minecarts transport your items all over the map without having to supervise them. Villager transportation would be much more convenient too.

Another change I thought of would be to make moving minecarts load chunks in a 3x3 area. This way they could cross chunk borders and travel long distances by themselves, without the player having to be there to load them. This could make them viable for transporting items and entities long distances autonomously.

Something i like about minecraft, despite the slowness compared to elytra, is its relaxing. While elytra is high speed and can be dangerous, minecarts are slow and you can actually step away for a moment to stretch or relax as you head somewhere. If you wanted, you could make bridges or tunnels, make cool scenery, or just ensure safety by making a tube. I like that minecarts are, at the very minimum, reliable for long distance travel safely for individual persons.

Furnace minecarts could be great chunk loaders, since they will naturally run out of fuel eventually, They would just have to make sure they aren’t infinitely remotely refuelable

Furnace minecarts should definitely act as a lazy chunk loader (same as nether portals) as long as it has fuel in it. I'm honestly surprised junction rails aren't a thing.

Chunk-loading furnace carts and linking via chains I think are what I'd want to see most, even in the modern era I could really see myself wanting to use them again with just those additions. I used to love getting lost down in a cave and leaving a rail behind me leading back to an unloading station at the entrance, and sending back a loaded-up chest cart to empty my inventory every so often. Really felt like I was mining, and it was exciting to get back and look over the total haul at the end. At least until I realized I had gone too far and unloaded much of the track, and 20 carts had piled up halfway down the line. I doubt we'll ever see minecarts be the optimal item-transfer method again, but to me they will always be the most fun and "Minecraft-y" way to do it, so it really would be awesome to have them updated; at least a little.

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