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Bryson
Rocket Surgeon
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
 
2011-01-19, 15:04

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Originally Posted by drewprops View Post
How does "automatic transit" work? Surely by some largely mechanical means, as I don't think you can create working internal combustion engines from the giant blocks of crap you guys build with. Or do you have a team of creepers hitched to a wagon?
Mainly it works due to the strange physics in Minecraft. Basically when two carts touch each other, they both accellerate. You can use that to create "boosters". The tricky part, and the bit where my system is clever, is getting the motion started in the first place. I use a modified version of this design so all you have to do is sit in a cart and press a button.

And actually, there are powered minecarts. (You place a furnace and a minecart together when crafting.) But they work really slowly.