Detector Rail
While the detector rails were a nice addition to the game, one common complaint in vanilla Minecraft is that they can't detect the contents of a minecart. These variations on the detector rail allow you to do just that.
These are two additional detector rails: wood and soulforged steel while the original stone detector rails are changed as follows.
- Wood detects any minecart passing over it (Same properties as stone detector rail when Minecraft is not modded)
- Stone detects any occupied minecart (furnance, chest, mob, player, ..)
- Soulforged Steel detects only a minecart which has a player inside.
These changes can be extremely useful in routing carts to various locations in an automated rail network.
Crafting
Name | Ingredients | Input » Output | |||||||||||
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Detector Rail | Iron Ingots, Redstone Dust, Wooden Pressure Plate |
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Detector Rail | Iron Ingots, Redstone Dust, Soulforged Steel Pressure Plate |
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Applications
- Automatic cart sorting station
- Minecart clock with different intervals/sequences on one track
Keep in Mind
- The changes to the stone (Vanilla MC) detector rail
Demonstration Video
Better Than Wolves Lab - Detector rails & Obsidian pressure plate
Note: Before version 4.85, the obsidian pressure plate was used instead of the soulforged steel pressure plate for the exact same purpose.