Create: Railbound — 1.0

Ready-made trains for Create. Pick a locomotive or carriage from the creative menu, click it onto the track at an assembly station, and you get a complete, detailed carriage. It assembles and runs as a normal Create train, so schedules, stations and signals work as usual.

Railbound 1.0 is the first full release. Everything below has been tested in game, in single player and on a dedicated server. As with any mod that changes trains, back up your world before adding it, and please report bugs on the issue tracker.

In game

What's in 1.0

Steam Tank Engine

• A working boiler. Coal heats the water and builds steam pressure, and pressure sets how hard the engine pulls. Run out of coal or water and the train coasts to a stop. There are no explosions: on low water the fire is dropped automatically.
• Coal (coal, charcoal or coal blocks) goes into the coal bunker by hand or through a Portable Storage Interface. One lump lasts about 80 seconds at full power.
• Water comes from a bucket, from Create pipes while the engine is parked, from a Portable Fluid Interface, or from the Water Crane beside the track.
• A cab to drive from. Sit in the driver's seat and you are driving; there's nothing extra to click. A second seat faces backwards for running bunker-first. Gauges show pressure, coal and water while you drive.
• Sound and smoke. Chuffs and smoke follow the driving wheels: heavy when pulling hard, light wisps when idling. With two engines in a train, each one is heard from its own end. Use Create's horn key to whistle. Engines driven by a mob conductor whistle by themselves when leaving and approaching stations.
• Animated driving wheels and rods, in both directions.

Standard Passenger Coach

• Walk inside, right-click a seat to sit, and walk through to the next coach.
• Sliding doors open at stations, and an end door slides open when you right-click it.
• Luggage racks, lamps, a toilet and luggage shelves.
• Steps let you climb in from the ground.

Goods wagons

• Box Van holds 160 stacks of items, the same as a 2×2×2 Create vault.
• Tank Wagon holds 144 buckets of fluid.
• Opening them: sneak + right-click a wagon with an empty hand, either when it is parked or when its train has stopped.
• Loading and unloading: use Portable Storage and Portable Fluid Interfaces on a train, or hoppers, funnels and pipes on a parked wagon.
• Pickup is refused for a loaded wagon, so you can't lose a load by accident.
• They ride on their own Freight Trucks.

Couplers

• Knuckle couplers and gangway bellows that bend with the track, even on Create's tight curves.
• Splitting a stopped train: wrench a coupler. The half with the driver keeps the schedule.
• Joining trains: reverse slowly into another Railbound train and they couple.
• Knuckle Coupler block: place it on your own hand-built Create carriages so they couple to Railbound cars with a knuckle instead of Create's chain.
• Partial disassembly: a long train with its tail on a curve can still be disassembled at a station. The cars that fit the straight are disassembled, and the rest stay behind as their own train.

How to use it

1. Build a Create station beside straight track and switch it to assembly mode.
2. Take a locomotive or carriage from the Railbound creative tab and right-click the track with it.
3. Add more cars. Sneak-click to place one facing backwards.
4. Press Assemble Train. Drive it yourself, or seat a mob in the driver's seat and give it a schedule, just like any Create train.
5. To take a car back, disassemble the train at a station, then sneak + right-click the car with a wrench.

A steam engine needs a driver: you, or a mob in the driver's seat.

Requirements

Needed on both client and server.

Known limitations

• Creative only. There are no crafting recipes yet; recipes, crafting parts and Ponder scenes come in the next update.
• Only one locomotive so far. Diesel and electric trains are planned for later updates.

Next phase update notes

The next update, Phase 2: More carriages and crafting, is in the works. Plans can still change, but this is what's planned:

• Crafting recipes for every trainset, built from new Railbound components, so survival players can make their own trains.
• Ponder scenes that show how to place, assemble, fuel and couple trains.
• More carriage types, including a sleeper coach, a dining car, an open wagon, a hopper wagon and a flat wagon.
• Bogey, coupler and anti-climber blocks for decorating and building your own carriages.

After that, Phase 3 brings fuel-burning trains and Phase 4 electric trains with overhead wires.

AI disclosure

This project contains AI-generated content.

License

• Code: MIT.
• Models, textures and other assets: All Rights Reserved.
• Modpacks: you're welcome to include the official release.

Full terms are in LICENSE.md.

Create: Railbound is an unofficial addon. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Create team or Mojang Studios.