MineCoasters 1.7

Adds the Water Coaster — a steel coaster that splashes down. MC 1.21.1 / NeoForge 21.1.230. Existing worlds carry over.

Water Coaster — the fourth entry in the Coaster tab's Water rides row, and the odd one out: it's a real steel coaster for most of its circuit and only floods the sections you choose. Styled on a Mack water coaster, its cross-section is a dish that cradles the boat — two running rails forming a flat floor, a second pair raised up and outboard, and curved plates sweeping between them. It carries a hand-built 8-seat boat (4 rows of 2) that rides on top of the rails.

Build it like any other coaster: lifts, launches, brakes, drops and inversions all behave normally, and it sounds like a coaster — rumble, wind, and a real chain lift.

To make a splash-down, tick Flume section on the Segment tab of the anchors along the stretch you want flooded. Each ticked anchor floods the track leaving it in the direction of its forward arrow. Only plain Normal track can be flooded — a lift, launch or brake is always dry.

A flume section encases the track in a water trough, with the water standing above the rail line so the hull dips in. Riding through gives you the full water treatment: a speed-scaled splash on entry, water drag and a flowing-water rush in place of the coaster roar, whitewater foam, a waterfall roar on a flooded drop, and a weir where the pool meets dry track. Out the far end it's a dry coaster again.

Where a flooded run ends, the chute and its water carry on a short way with the dam at the end of that, so the track passes clear over it rather than straight through. Build the exit as a climb (or the entry as a drop) and it looks right.

Also in this release

• Track rails are now round on every style. Skeleton, Triangle, Box, Wooden and the new Water Coaster all drew their rails as four-sided box tubes, which read as visibly square close up. They're now proper cylinders with rounded end caps. Purely cosmetic — collision, physics and placement are unchanged, but existing coasters will look slightly different.
• The mod's licence text no longer shows mangled characters in the Mods list.

The existing Log Flume, Boat Ride and River Rapids are unchanged.