Skip to main content

Feature Overview

This page summarizes the main feature groups currently implemented in BetterRailwaySystem.

Minecart Behavior​

  • smooth acceleration on powered rails
  • smooth deceleration on unpowered powered rails
  • configurable top speed, acceleration, and deceleration
  • safer high-speed travel through substep-based movement
  • reduced derailment on curves and slopes
  • automatic following-distance braking behind another minecart on the same path

Passenger and Rendering Behavior​

  • one minecart can carry multiple players
  • all passengers share the same vanilla minecart entity
  • each player keeps readable local first-person and third-person rendering
  • other onboard player models are hidden to avoid stacking and clipping

Railway Operation Blocks​

  • railway_balise
  • stop_rail
  • train_spawner
  • train_collector

Together these blocks provide route announcements, stopping logic, dispatch, and end-of-line recovery.

Route Recording and Map Systems​

  • station visits can be recorded into a world railway map
  • city and line grouping is supported
  • current line maps can be opened while riding
  • a world railway map can be opened while not riding

Multiplayer and Media​

  • dedicated servers are supported
  • balise images and sounds can be uploaded from a client to a modded server
  • synchronized media is redistributed to online players
  • when the server does not run the mod, client-side features that depend on server networking are disabled