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Rails

Nodes

Render of Railway and Boat nodes.

Render of Cable Car¹⁾ and Airplane nodes.
Blast resistance	TBC
Luminous	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Created by	Jonathan

Rails

Icons of Railway and Boat Dashboard.

Icons of Cable Car and Flight Dashboard.
Rarity colour	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Created by	Jonathan
Created by	BDark000

Trains, boat, cable car and airplane (on the ground) require rails to run on. As of version 3.0.0-beta-5, trains no longer use the default Minecraft tracks. Instead, custom rails with custom shapes can be created.

There are two parts for rail creation: the rail node and the rail connector item. A third component, the rail remover item, can be used to remove rails if a mistake was made.

Breaking

Rail, boat, cable car and airplane nodes require a pickaxe to be mined, in which case it drops itself. When mined without a pickaxe, it drops nothing. It has a hardness of 2.

Rail connectors and the rail remover can only be obtained by crafting.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Crafting Recipe
Rail Node	Iron Ingot + Iron Block + Log Shaped Recipe
Boat Node	Iron Ingot + Iron Block + Log Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Wooden)	Log + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Stone)	Stone + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Emerald)	Emerald Block + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Iron)	Iron Block + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Obsidian)	Obsidian + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Blaze)	Blaze Rod + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Quartz)	Quartz Block + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Diamond)	Diamond Block + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Connector (Platform)	Redstone Block + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe
Rail Remover	Lava Bucket + Rail + Iron Ingot Shaped Recipe

Usage

The rail and boat node is a block that is used to mark where a section of rail starts and ends. The rail connector item is used to create the actual rail between two nodes.

1. Place down a rail node in the world. Boat nodes can only be placed on top of fluids. 1. Place down another node in the world, at least several blocks away from the first one. 1. Right click on one of the nodes with any of the rail connector items. The rail connector item should start flashing in the inventory. 1. Right click on the other node with the same rail connector item. If the nodes are oriented logically, they will be joined. See the [Valid Rail Configurations](#valid-rail-configurations) section for more information. Different node types cannot be connected to each other.

Types of Rail Connectors

Each of the rail connector items serve a different purpose.

Rail Connector Type	Function
Wooden	Sets a passing train's speed to 20 km/h
Stone	Sets a passing train's speed to 40 km/h
Emerald	Sets a passing train's speed to 60 km/h
Iron	Sets a passing train's speed to 80 km/h
Obsidian	Sets a passing train's speed to 120 km/h
Blaze	Sets a passing train's speed to 160 km/h
Quartz	Sets a passing train's speed to 200 km/h
Diamond	Sets a passing train's speed to 300 km/h
Platform	Creates a platform (visible on dashboards Slows a passing train to a stop if the train is set to stop at the platform Keeps a passing train at the same speed if the train is decelerating but not set to stop at the platform

Each node can have multiple rail types (except for the platform and siding rail type) connected to it. Only one platform or siding rail may be connected to each node.

If a rail connector is used over an existing section of rail, its type will be replaced with the type of the new rail connector. For example, using an iron rail connector over two rail nodes already connected with a stone rail connector will overwrite it, creating an iron rail of exactly the same shape.

If a node is destroyed, all rails connecting to that node will be removed as well.

The NTE addon also allows for rail curves, inclines, and appearances to be edited. See NTE Page.

Rail Remover

The rail remover works just like the rail connectors, except that it is used to remove existing connections.

Find two rail nodes that have been previously connected.
Right click on one of the rail nodes with the rail remover. The rail remover item should start flashing in the inventory.
Right click on the other rail node with the same rail remover item. An existing rail connecting the two nodes will be removed.

Note that existing coloured signal blocks will be removed.