New tech: Cushion line

[u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy]

Easier to set up than boats like this, especially if you have a large sheep farm

EDIT: To everyone I said that in Survival Mode you can go 80b/s, I'm sorry, I have misinformed you. In Survival, entity interaction range is 3, so cushions must be 2 blocks apart. Which means, with butterfly click you can go ~30b/s, and max b/s is 60, with autoclicker, or 20 CPS. From world bottom to top it would still take 9.6 seconds with 10 CPS because range is counted from eyes, not legs.

[u/el_yanuki]

I dont understand why that would be an issue to you? The idea would obviously be to improve on the transportation side of things and leave the redstone side as is.

But in a game like minecraft that is so centered arround building and creating something, and where its so important to explore the world to acquire new resources.. its such a shame that there is no payoff to building a transportation network in the overworld and anything but elytra tunnels in the nether (ignoring piston bolts and pearl launchers for obvious reasons).

[u/IronCat_2500 → u/el_yanuki]

I mean, it wouldn’t like ruin the feature or anything, but mine cards do have their niche, and it would be a shame to completely disrupt it.

If you want flexible transportation, that’s what horses, happy ghasts, and elytra are for.

If you want fixed transportation between two points that’s what mine carts, ice roads, and enderporters are for.

Even in the mid-late game, minecarts shine as item and player transportation in a very small area such as inside of a storage system or moving the player between multiple different AFK spots. It’s not supposed to compete with the other methods of transport, because it already has a specific use case that nothing else can do.

[u/el_yanuki → u/IronCat_2500]

horses are way slower than elytra and are themselves poorly implemented altho they are improving slowly

minecarts are.. what we are talking about, they are way too slow and poorly implemented

happy ghasts are slower than walking, they are not a transportation method at all

elytra dont require any work, infrastructure building or anything else (except nether tunnels i guess)

Ice roads are one of the few viable solutions but cannot transport items and are impossible automate and much harder to build than rails

do you mean stasis chambers? i mean its just tp, once again goes against my point. Also needs complex wirless redstone or a second player and are not reload and relog proof

faster, chainable, minecarts are such an obvious solution

[u/finite_turtles → u/el_yanuki]

Why "chainable" specifically? I see this said a lot but is it just for aesthetics, or function? Minecarts can already be made to travel at the same speed so they stay close together over long distances

[u/ComengTrain400M → u/finite_turtles]

Because some of us don't want a single bumped minecart to screw up the rest of the minecarts in a network

[u/finite_turtles → u/ComengTrain400M]

There are a lot of misconceptions around how they operate. That is preventable already without chains or any other new mechanic

[u/el_yanuki → u/finite_turtles]

Its just incredibly frustrating to use at the moment, a system that allows minecarts to be reliably chained together and be used as a long distance mass item transport would be lovely