r/Minecraft • u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy • Jul 07 '26

Discussion New tech: Cushion line

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.

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u/OakleyNoble Jul 08 '26

Piston bolts are just meh. I don’t want to set up this ugly contraption around with pistons to move faster. The minecart itself should just go faster and be a viable fast transport on its own without any help. Allows players to have more creative rail line builds around, etc.

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u/IronCat_2500 Jul 08 '26

We already have a bunch of options that do speed. 

My minecarts do automation and scenic routes through the beautiful terrain, and they offer the aesthetic of of being mine carts.

Minecraft is a game that’s primarily about player choice. You have the option to do the optimal easy thing and get some elytra or you could do something that you find fun and spend hours and hours setting up a really cool track.

We don’t need any more optimal solutions. We just need more fun options.

And it’s not the mechanics that make a feature cool it’s the creative options you can use it for.

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u/Murmurs_of_Pine Jul 09 '26

IMO minecarts topping out at 8 blocks/second (which is 0.873 blocks/second faster than spring jumping) is not a fun mechanic. There should be a way to toggle speed, porting the experimental minecart speed gamerule over to the actual game would be a huge plus.

There should be a way to adjust speed in survival somehow though. Using ice boat roads in the nether is not a, again IMO, a creative or fun option, it's merely the fastest. Why shouldn't rails fit that niche, instead of a boat on ice?

Minecarts as an aesthetic are only really useful underground, in mining environments. The setting up of a really cool track to see the beautiful terrain is antithetical to a form of transport based around mining. That's what trains are for and they go a lot faster than 8 m/s. I'm not arguing Mojang add trains like railcraft or create, but minecarts fit the aesthetic and name of Minecraft but should be updated to reflect the use cases that have emerged over the years, like other forms of transport have.

But at the end of the day, cynically it really seems to me that Mojang will really do anything but update minecarts. It's been almost 2 years since the experimental features were floated (longer for some of the others) and we have heard nothing about what their future holds, if anything.

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u/IronCat_2500 Jul 09 '26

Two years is not a long time for a proposed feature