Real Minecarts

Players link vanilla minecarts with vanilla chains to form a train. A leader cart pulls the trailing carts through a damped spring that keeps spacing steady, prevents overlap and slows the train through curves. Trains are persistent: their links are stored in the cart data and recovered exactly, and a sneak-use with a chain disconnects a cart from its neighbor. Rideable chest, hopper, furnace and TNT carts, along with standard-derived modded minecarts, can join a train.

Redstone power placed beside an activator rail chooses a speed for the train passing over it, using a level from 1 to 15. Signs close to a platform show a station name and a stop duration in seconds, so a train can halt and continue on its own. Several furnace carts add traction, and an optional high-speed mode allows stretching that breaks one link, analogous to a snapped chain. Link timers stop while a linked cart is unloaded, and a train pauses and resumes after normal chunk loading without skipping obstacles. Chunks can be forced to keep a route loaded.

Real Minecarts is server-side only, so multiplayer works while singleplayer needs nothing extra. It requires Fabric API, runs on Minecraft 1.20.1 with Java 17, includes English and Russian language files and a JSON config, and is released under the MIT License. Files are published for Fabric only, for 1.20.1, with 1.0.0+mc1.20.1-fabric as the latest file, first published and last updated on 2026-07-22.