BearMetal Carts

The mod aims to finish the experimental minecart changes in an accessible way. Moving minecarts submit chunk loading tickets for the nearest chunks they traverse, lasting two seconds. A minecart that comes to a stop loads the 3x3 chunk area centered on its chunk, and the load lasts 30 seconds. Instead of stopping when they collide, minecarts keep moving forward together at a slower speed.

Furnace minecarts can push other minecarts, up to a chain limit, before the system starts collapsing under its own resistance; the author describes this part as unstable for now. Furnace carts hold one spare coal or charcoal and use it automatically when their fuel runs out. Fuel is supplied through a hopper: a hopper feeding a parked furnace cart resumes its movement in the last heading. If a cart is placed below a fuel hopper, the hopper uses the direction it faces instead.

The mod adds recipes for additional minecart tiers, which are either faster or slower than the standard minecart and have a higher mass. The tiers reach every minecart type except the command block and spawner variants. One command, bmc, controls the attributes of minecarts, and only its maxspeed option applies. BearMetal Carts requires Fabric API. It is open source under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, and the latest Fabric file is 1.2.0 for 26.3.