Stagecoach
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Craftable stagecoaches in eleven woods: build a road network, discover stops and pay XP to travel between them.
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Description
"Hey you, you're finally awake..! You were caught crossing the border to skyrim."
A mod that brings the travelling system from Skyrim into Minecraft, in a vanilla friendly way, and a bit of extra flavour added to it.
Stagecoaches in eleven woods, and a road network between them. Place a coach and name the stop. Discover the stops other players have built, then pay a few XP levels to ride the road to any of them. While you travel, a scene of hills, trees and fence posts rolls past, with a countdown to your arrival.
"Uhm.. but isn't that just Waystones?"
How it's different from Waystones
Waystones is about teleporting. Stagecoach is about the road.
- Travel takes time. Waystones teleports you. A stagecoach journey takes time: 75 blocks a second, up to 10 minutes (by default). You ride it out behind a travel screen, and you can cancel on the way to get your levels back.
- You set off from a coach, and nowhere else. You have to stand within 12 blocks of a stagecoach to leave. There are no scrolls, stones or inventory buttons for travelling from wherever you happen to be.
- Every stop is built by a player. No stagecoaches generate in villages or anywhere else in the world. Each one is named by whoever placed it, and by default only its owner (or an operator) can take it down.
- A network is earned. At 27 diamonds a coach, a road network is something a server builds up over time.
- No escaping a fight. You can't set off within 10 seconds of being hit (by default).
How it works
- Craft a stagecoach in any of eleven woods: oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove, cherry, bamboo, crimson or warped.
- Place it. It needs a clear space 3 wide, 3 tall and 6 long, and it faces away from you. Hold one and aim at the ground to see a see-through preview: green means it fits, red means it doesn't, and anything in the way is shaded red. If it still won't place, the action bar tells you why. When you place it, you name the stop.
- Discover other stops by right-clicking them.
- Travel. Right-click a stop you know to open the destination list. It shows each stop's distance, cost and travel time, and you can search it by name. Pick one and you're on the road.
The journey
- You pay XP levels up front: 1 level, plus 1 for every 5,000 blocks or part of that, up to 10 levels (by default). Creative players travel free.
- The journey takes time: 75 blocks a second, at least 5 seconds and at most 10 minutes (by default).
- While you're on the road, you stay safe where you set off. Cancel at any time to get your levels back.
- You arrive on safe ground in front of the destination coach, in your own game mode.
- You can't set off within 10 seconds of being hit (by default).
Built to be trusted on a server
- Crash-safe. If you quit, the server stops, or the server crashes mid-journey, you come back at the start with your levels and your game mode restored. Every journey is written to disk before anything about you changes.
- Server-authoritative. The server checks every request: distance, cost, discovery and permissions.
- Owner-only breaking (by default). Only the owner or an operator can take a coach down, and explosions can't.
- Solid. Every block of the coach has real collision, generated from the model itself.
Compatibility
| Mod | What you get |
|---|---|
| Jade | Look at any part of a coach to see its name, its owner, and whether you've discovered it. |
| JEI | The recipes, and an information page on every coach. |
| FTB Chunks | A coach can't be placed with any part in a chunk you aren't allowed to build in. The action bar says why. (1.20.1 and 1.21.1 only. FTB Chunks isn't out for 26.2 yet.) |
| Sodium + Iris | Checked with both installed on Fabric 1.20.1 (no shader pack active). |
| Mod Menu | Name, description and icon (Fabric). |
All of these are optional. Stagecoach doesn't need any of them. The integrations were checked in game on Fabric 1.20.1; the other builds carry the same integrations.
Recipe
Per coach, shaped:
| Planks (of the coach's wood) | Chest | Planks |
| Lead | Block of Diamond | Lead |
| Block of Diamond | Block of Gold | Block of Diamond |
It's a late-game build: 27 diamonds and 9 gold ingots per coach. The recipe book unlocks it the first time you hold a block of diamond.
Installation
Download the file for your Minecraft version and loader, and put it in your mods folder with what it needs:
| Minecraft | Loader | Also install |
|---|---|---|
| 1.20.1 | Fabric (Loader 0.15+) | Fabric API, GeckoLib 4.8.4+ |
| 1.20.1 | Forge 47+ | GeckoLib 4.8.4+ |
| 1.21.1 | Fabric (Loader 0.17+) | Fabric API, GeckoLib 4.9+ |
| 1.21.1 | NeoForge 21.1+ | GeckoLib 4.9+ |
| 26.2 | Fabric (Loader 0.19+) | Fabric API, GeckoLib 5.5+ |
| 26.2 | NeoForge 26.2+ | GeckoLib 5.5+ |
On a server, install the same files on the server. Every player who joins needs them too.
Configuration
config/stagecoach.json is created on first launch. A missing setting uses its default; an invalid one also falls
back to its default, with a warning in the log.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
baseCost |
1 | Levels every journey costs |
blocksPerLevel |
5000 | One more level for every this many blocks (or part of that) |
maxCost |
10 | The most a journey can cost |
blocksPerSecond |
75 | Travel speed |
minTravelSeconds |
5 | Shortest journey |
maxTravelSeconds |
600 | Longest journey |
allowCrossDimension |
false | Allow journeys between dimensions |
onlyOwnerCanBreak |
true | Only the owner or an operator can break a coach, and explosions can't |
combatLockSeconds |
10 | How long after being hit you can't set off (0 turns it off) |
About this mod
Solo project by Feelix. I'm a designer first, not a full-time coder. Every mechanic, idea, and texture in this mod is my own. The code was generated by AI (Claude) using Linen, a framework I built for steering AI code generation. It's the structure, rules, and reference codebase that make the output fit my design. The promo art is also AI-made.
AI wrote code, but it didn't make this mod. Designing the mechanics, building Linen, testing, fixing, and tuning everything until it felt right took many hours of my own work. Give it a try and judge it by how it plays. If you find a bug or have an idea, drop a comment. Feedback from players is what shapes the next update.
Rendered with GeckoLib.
Licence
All Rights Reserved. You may use Stagecoach in your game, on your server, and in modpacks published on CurseForge or
Modrinth that download it from its official page. See LICENSE in the download for the full terms.
The Stagecoach Team
