• JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Minecraft is a great game to shelf for longer periods of time and come back and learn all the new stuff they added and just nerd out for awhile. Idk why but I always have to build some ridiculously long minecart system every time lol

    • sappho [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Minecart systems were much more interesting to build when you had to use old-school booster tracks

      • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I always enjoyed making trains with furnace minecarts and chest minecarts

        • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I use to try to make little jumps with the minecarts, it would work most of the time and other times you end up taking a bunch of fall damage but that was part of the thrill

      • Spinoza [any]
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        4 years ago

        uhhhh...i still use those, is there a better way?

        • Starlet [she/her, it/its]
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          4 years ago

          no you don't, they haven't worked since 2011. you're probably thinking of powered rails

          • Spinoza [any]
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            4 years ago

            ah shit you're all right, i jumped in a little too late for those

        • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I don't think she meant powered rails. Before powered rails were added, you had to build a special section of track with another minecart on it next to your main track to keep the minecart rolling.

    • Fakename_Bill [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I used to build minecart subways on the servers I played on as a teenager. Each town had a station with one incoming track and several outgoing tracks. I would plan the tunnels so that tracks going in similar directions stayed next to each other, and tracks with the same destination would merge by dropping minecarts onto downward sections of existing tracks. It was fun.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        4 years ago

        I was the Minecart Guy (and the Redstone Guy) on my servers when I was a teenager too. This was OLD minecraft, so I had to set it up with that perpetual motion machine, with the two carts inside each other continually moving back and forth forever.

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        that sounds awesome. mine are always chaotic cause i've never planned ahead for even one moment of my waking existence

    • JohnBrownsBooty [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Oh wow, they've been busy for 4 years. Welp I'd better get started on my sprawling cobblestone castle.