Balanced Minecarts
by tomandoawa
Balanced Minecarts changes the vanilla powered rail recipe and the copper rail upgrade for players who want faster rails with a different crafting cost.
What it does
Balanced Minecarts is a reworked take on Modern Minecarts by lordkipama, adapted by tomandoawa mainly for the author's own use. The author states it was not taken from Modrinth and that unless a change is listed, the mod works exactly as the original does. Changes include removing the copper upgrade template, adding a recipe that crafts copper rails, and replacing the gold rail recipe with one that uses vanilla gold ingots, redstone and a stick.
The vanilla powered rail is renamed Botched Rail, its texture is changed, it can no longer be crafted, and it is given loot tables, so it appears in chests instead. The copper rail is described by the author as slightly worse than vanilla and as not rusting. The author made the changes because some features of the original did not suit them.
Balanced Minecarts is published for Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1 only, with 1.5 as the latest file released 2026-04-18. Servers that run it need every player to install it too. The mod is released under All rights reserved and is not open source.
Key features
Gold rail recipe
The gold rail is crafted from vanilla gold ingots, redstone and a stick, and the author describes it as twice as fast as vanilla powered rail.
Copper rail recipe
A recipe crafts copper rails, and the copper upgrade template has been removed from the mod.
Botched rail
The vanilla powered rail is renamed Botched Rail, given a changed texture, made uncraftable, and added to loot tables.
Copper rails do not rust
Copper rails are described as slightly slower than vanilla rails and as resistant to rust.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
How it compares
Modern Minecarts is the original mod this version is based on. It supports Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.19.2 – 26.2 and is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, and it is not open source. More Minecarts is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 under the MIT License, and it is not open source either. Balanced Minecarts is limited to Forge and 1.20.1.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced Minecarts | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-04-18 |
| Modern Minecarts | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-09-05 |
| More Minecarts | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2025-06-27 |
Questions
Does Balanced Minecarts need to be installed on the server?
Which Minecraft version does Balanced Minecarts support?
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In the catalog
Balanced Minecarts is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,908 Transportation mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
Hi. This is a modified version of Modern Minecarts by lordkipama I made this because: - It wasn't on modrinth - I didn't like some of it's features
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/balanced-minecarts
- Owner
- tomandoawa
- Published
- 2025-11-22
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-04-18
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15