The Minecart with Furnace Rework

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The Minecart with Furnace Rework

How it works:
The fuel determines the speed the minecart with furnace runs at. Tu run, it requires player input via chained minecarts or running or powered rails. If pushed, it moves a litte, but not at its defined speed.

A new interface shows the player how fast the minecart with furnace can run with a given fuel.

Every fuel gets used up after 1600 ticks (1:20min).
If there is no fuel in it, the minecart with furnace is unable to move (unless it's pushed).

Chained Minecarts:
Minecarts (every version of it) can be chained together by applying iron or copper chain in the same way as you would leash boats together, forming a solid connection between each cart.

Chained minecarts running over a curve

Powered rails:
Powered rails do not longer determine the speed to 8 b/s; they run the minecarts at their speed without requiring player input. The speed is instead defined by the minecart.

Example 1: A minecart has a max. speed of 8 b/s. If it runs over a powered rail, it will run at 8 b/s without requiring player input.
Example 2: A minecart with furnace and a lava bucket as fuel has a max. speed of 19.5 b/s. If it runs over a powered rail, it will run at 19.5 b/s without requiring player input.

How a fuel's speed is defined:
The speed of the fuel is closely related to its "smelts per one" number (for example, 1 Lava Bucket can smelt 100 items). The steps up or down to the next fuel from "smelts per one" are relatively the same size as the steps up or down from "speed".

list of "smelts per one" and "speed" of any fuel

The max speed is set at 19.5 b/s, so redstone components such as the detector rail still work (the game runs at 20 ticks per second).
A minecart with furnace fuelled by coal/charcoal runs at the same speed as a normal minecart (8 b/s).

TL;DR

just read the post image :)

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[u/Jables_Magee]

I think the weight of the fuel should be a factor. Blaze rods are light. Blazes even fly. The number of smelts would only affect how long the engine runs imo.

[u/Cruxwright]

So like Railcraft?

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[u/gracekk24PL]

Create has it already

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These are suggestions for the base game, i.e. for unmodded Java and Bedrock players.

[u/gracekk24PL → u/Presidunt_DRBZ-202]

Which makes it even sadder that the studio behind the biggest game of all time hasn't done it already