Railbound

railbound v0.3.2

Initial release

TRAINS

• Couple minecarts into a train by right-clicking them with a chain (shears to uncouple). Any fuelled locomotive anywhere in the train drives the whole thing along the rails, and top speed doesn't drop as the train gets longer. A cosmetic chain renders between coupled carts (chain-visuals toggle).
• Couplings snap if two carts are pulled too far apart or the rail is mined out from under a moving train; the chain drops as an item.

CARTS

• Blast-furnace cart: the engine -- three fuel slots plus in-GUI -/+ buttons that set a cruise speed in redstone-sized steps, and a high, configurable top speed. Emits dynamic light while lit (optional DynLight plugin). A plain lit furnace minecart also works, weaker.
• Coal tender: a 9-slot fuel-only inventory that auto-feeds any furnace or blast-furnace cart in the same train.
• Dispenser cart: fires one item straight up over a powered activator rail; projectile items launch as their real projectiles.
• Hoppers and containers load carts: a hopper pointing in, or a container directly above, fills a cart -- fuel carts take only fuel, the dispenser cart takes anything.

RAILS

• Special rails must sit on flat, straight track -- placed on a slope or curve they pop back off as an item.
• Junction: a 4-way crossing -- carts keep their heading instead of curving, so lines can cross without turning.
• Controller: sets a train's cruise speed from its redstone signal (0 stop, 15 full) and holds it after the train leaves; a run of unpowered controllers makes a stop-and-hold station.
• Destructor: drops a passing cart and its whole contents into the container below, or on the ground. Mechanism (glue) minecarts are exempt; vanilla chest/furnace/TNT carts are recycled too.

REQUIRES

• DefCoreLib: the carts and rails live there; this plugin enables their recipes and drives the logic. Tuning in carts-config.yml.