First Line

This tutorial gets you to a working first line as quickly as possible.

Goal

You will build:

• a short rail loop or shuttle
• one minecart
• at least one powered section
• a test ride for speed behavior

Steps

1. Place a short vanilla rail line.
2. Add powered rails and power them with redstone.
3. Put a minecart on the track.
4. Ride the minecart and observe the acceleration behavior.
5. Add one unpowered powered rail segment and observe the smoother braking behavior.

What You Should Notice

• acceleration should feel progressive instead of immediate
• the cart should hold momentum better than vanilla in many cases
• braking should not look like a hard instant stop

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After this, continue with First Balise to add your first station event.