Linkart
Linkart adds the Linker, a new item that you can use for cart linking, optionally, by default, consuming Chains. Carts have a frontal "locomotive" which dictates which direction they go in.
SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK to select the parent of a cart.
SHIFT + RIGHT CLICK again on another cart to mark it as a child of the parent.
LINKER is the item used for the previous actions. It can be disabled.
CHAIN is the item used by the LINKER for the previous actions. It can be disabled.
If the LINKER is enabled, and CHAIN is enabled, the player requires CHAIN in their inventory to link carts.
If the LINKER is enabled, and CHAIN is disabled, the player does not require CHAIN in their inventory to link carts.
If the LINKER is disabled, whether CHAIN is enabled or not does not matter. Cart linking can only be done by third-party mods that register a linking item.
Whenever the parent moves, the others follow - simple as that!
I know you won't be making a forge version yourselves, but is there a mod similar to this for forge? I just want minecart trains, dammit...
In reply to ganon_main57:
there is, quark mod has this, create mod also adds this
Would it be possible to make the source code available, since the mod is MIT? I kind of want to try and revive this, since it's a really cool mod.
In reply to Camellias_:
Sorry for intruding your comment, but i was looking for someone to help porting/forking/bringing TrainCarts (originally a Bukkit plugin that allows not only to link carts but add a whole automation system and remake the train physics to allows to fully automated railroads) natively to Fabric. I've talked with the author (bergerkiller) and he said he considered doing that, but that would be a huge work to make alone (considering he also support not only Bukkit/Spigot/Paper but also several variants and hybrid servers with Forge.
If you have interest in looking to this project, i can send you the invite of his discord support server.
In reply to Vico_13:
You would effectively need to redo the code to turn a plugin into a mod, and vice versa. Spigot uses an abstraction layer that prevents plugins from ever touching vanilla code directly, whereas mods dont use such abstraction layers. They're confined to whatever Spigot gives them access to which, to be fair, is a lot.
If I had an idea of how to make the mod from scratch, I probably would have already. I have no clue how Linkart handles attaching carts code-wise, and if I had to guess, it's nothing like what I would have done.
In other news, I found the repo so I know what Im spending my weekend doing.
It should mostly work when you remap the code, I just kinda lost track of where the source was 😅
I'll see if I can update it this weekend.
In reply to Martmists:
:O
1.16.5 when?
Oh, I forgot about this.
Can you make a Forge version? Because I want use this mod with other mods.
the 1.16.3 version should still work on 1.16.5, and no we're not making a forge version.
Hope to see 1.17 support soon-ish!
i've encountered some problem, it wont work with my modpack, i was thinking of making huge rail system with this made, but, it wont work, it keeps crashing.... it only crashes when i link all carts and i use minecart with furnace...
Whenever I get in a minecart, whether it is linked to another or not, my vision is locked to a specific orientation. PLEASE HELP! Also, no, it is not because of the rotation-locking mod, I don't use that mod.
In reply to ajpalermo22:
very very very late response but, hope this helps ALMOST EVERYONE, i also had this problem so i had to scroll down the comments and found that at ver 2.0.2 and ver 2.0.3 got the camera stuck bug fixed, so i looked at my linkart mod that i've downloaded and noticed that its at version 1.3.3, which is an older version, if you're using fabric 1.16.1 to 1.16.5 it will still work even if the version 2.0.3 is at 1.16.1
Aww, that's so sad. Why did you discontinue the mod? Also, can we have the source code at least, pretty please?
In reply to Forge_User_57037877:
It's available on GitHub, https://github.com/vini2003/Linkart.
I personally won't be working on it due to burn-out from modding, and I doubt Martmists will be doing anything :P
Shut, I'll get to it eventually
NVM just empty message...
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Well, thanks a lot for this mod. Really shows cart-linking is a thing (contrary of what some "experts" say...)
I will try to find something more similar of TC (mainly the automation part), but while i would use Linkart.
Again, thanks for your patience!
In reply to Vico_13:
You can probably use redstone to automate the process... (I mean make redstone contraption) Main thing what you need to do is to set first (parent) minecart to get going. You can stop it by using unpowered power rails.
Oh hello! First of all thank you so much for this mod!
I currently using a hybrid server (Forge+Spigot) just to play with TrainCarts installed, which is a plugin with almost the same premise, so the possiblity to have this functionality native (and be able to play in singleplayer) really captivates me.
I just have some questions about Linkart:
- How your mod manage physics of each "train" (row of linked carts)? Could we choose in options for what action the train does when colliding to any entity (like push the entity aside, bump, apply damage)?
- TC have an option to dynamically keep loaded the current chunk and the chunk the train is currently heading to, what is essential to allow long-distance railroads (different to make the whole railroad loaded via /forceload or a chunk loader block, basically impracticable for weak servers with long railroads). Is this an option currently on Linkart, and if not could you add it?
- And finally TC have a basic automation system for stations (make the train stop at a spot, wait x seconds and go, or forward or reverse). Is this something implmented in Linkart already? If not, did you have plans to add any kind of automation (besides anything already possible - or not - with vanilla redstone).
Again, thank you so much for this! It will help me a lot!