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Plugin: TrainCarts - Linked Minecarts, sign-redstone systems, easy to use and realistic

Version: v1.73.0

Build: 1.7.2 R0.1/R0.2

Incompatible with: RailCraft

Description

This plugin looks for suitable Minecarts and links them together if possible. When two Minecarts are being "linked", the Minecarts will act as one single moving train.

Once carts are successfully linked, an effect is played and their velocity is shared in combination with an individual factor for each Minecart, which is used to remain a steady gap between carts. This gap is adjustable, the force at which this happens as well.

End result: a train! You can move it, make a roller-coaster out of it, split it in half, watch trains collide, whatever you want to do with trains. :)

As for 1.21, it is also possible to safely exit your train by setting an exit offset with a (sideways) push factor for the train. This feature is disabled by default. (only affects dropped items). If you want to display arrival times on signs (see redstone circuit part) you need SignLink, see the downloads on the bottom of the page.

As for 1.35 you can set train properties to make 'special' trains, or to 'finalize' a train

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HangRail

Features

Link minecarts using collision: no commands needed to make a train
Move trains as easily as you would with single Minecarts
Store trains to file for persistence during reloads and server restarts
Use sign-redstone circuits for subway systems, complete railroads and much more
- Station to gracefully stop and launch trains
- Spawn
- Teleport
- Property setters
- Tag systems to switch certain tracks based on tags on the train
- Destination systems to make your train travel to far-away lands all on it's own
Supports Minecart Mania's features
Infinite minecart speeds are possible
Push-away: Push mobs, players and items away from your trains to keep them running
Everything is configurable, if something proves not to be, I will make it that way

FAQ

When players are near, trains reach their destinations. With no one near, they don't. What do I do?

By default trains do not keep chunks loaded, and they will unload once they move into unloaded chunks. To make trains keep the chunk area (and themselves) around them loaded, set the 'keepchunksloaded' property to True. This can be done using the /train keepchunksloaded true command, using a property sign or by changing it to true in the DefaultTrainProperties.yml file. For more information about train properties, see here.

Why not boats?!?!

Incompatibilities

If you have another plugin that performs similar Minecart replacement techniques, it is likely that TrainCarts will not function or function poorly. For the 'chunk persistence' part of this plugin, other plugins that unload chunks without firing events result in this feature failing. Minebackup is known for having this problem.

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This plugin sends server count statistics to MCStats.org. You can (globally) opt out in the PluginMetrics/config.yml file.

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Forge_User_89910936
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Posted May 18, 2014
the switcher sign doesn't work anymore

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Mylriahd
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Posted May 17, 2014
@Mylriahd

Update to my update: it DOES happen after awhile; the train will successfully run with the stations pushing off after 5 seconds, but after maybe... 15 minutes? ... they stop again. And no amount of remote signs work once the name of the train is red it seems. :(

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Posted May 16, 2014
@Mylriahd

I've figured out this does NOT happen if I have the stations set to push off again after 5 seconds (maybe up to 10 seconds.) Beyond that, it's like the train parks and unloads itself.

Any ideas on how to extend this?

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Posted May 16, 2014
@bergerkiller Can you please help my?

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Posted May 15, 2014
@bergerkiller Hij wil niet laden kan je aub helpen?

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Posted May 14, 2014
For some reason. This does not work! I get no errors or any problems. They just don't link? Why? I'm using craft bukkit 1.7.9. I have this plugin and BKCommonLib and lots of other lib plugins. The server is happy! But the carts don't link! Why?

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Posted May 13, 2014
Hello! Thanks to this incredible plugin, my son & I have been using this to build a virtual model railroad. Well, that's the plan anyway. Here's my problem:

I have only 2 stations. They are around 700 meters apart. I will set up a train, and send it on it's way.

Each station reverses the train (or even "left / right") 30 seconds after the train arrives.
If I have someone standing at each station, the train will dutifully bounce back and forth. It gives the illusion of a timed schedule you have to wait for. This is the plan BUT!!
If one of the stations is unmanned, the train will run 2 or 3 cycles, and then stop running. In the '/train list' the name of the train goes from green to red. I'm assuming this means the train is unloaded or something.

I am keeping chunks loaded (which is the only reason the train makes it to the other station; otherwise it would just disappear halfway to the destination), so I'm not sure what more I can do to resolve this. I tried searching through this conversation thread, but it's hard to search or find anything related to this.

Thanks for any ideas!

(Edit: I'm using Bukkit 1.7.2, and the matching versions of TrainCarts)
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Posted May 13, 2014
On server restart is there a means to get the trains to start running in the direction they were running before the restart if they weren't all stopped on a station sign? Without putting a sign under every block that is.

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Posted May 11, 2014
@pernodpepper

That would be awesome as a 'sub-plugin' like tc-hangrail

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Posted May 11, 2014
@TNTPata

Hey, Will you please provide a screenshot of where the sign is positioned? Thanks :D

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Posted May 11, 2014
The switcher won't work, i have a 8 car train looping around my coaster. I have it setup like this [+train] switcher 1 1 -ish

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Posted May 10, 2014
Hey when i make a roller coaster that goes straight up with a ladder, when I'm not in the cart it goes straight up, but when i get in, it fails and stops then goes back down, like it can't go up. Please help!

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Posted May 10, 2014
Hey Dude, i found a really nice thing on youtube you can maybe add it The video is dutch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVGdnpOYiHw

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Posted May 5, 2014
@andrewvpo

Thanks, it's fixed. :)

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Posted May 4, 2014
@rcth

Can you set it using [cart] rather than [train] ? I'm not certain - but give it a go

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Posted May 4, 2014
I have this specific spawning procedure created:

http://i61.tinypic.com/2m4x17r.png

The procedure first spawns the cart on the left, where playerenter is disabled. When the cart stops in the station, I can't enter. Good. After that, the other 5 carts spawn, where playerenter is enabled. When the 5 cars connect with the 1 cart in the station and stops, I can enter all carts, even the first cart.

How can I fix this? It's really important that people can't access the first train.

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#2226 Posted Apr 29, 2014

I love traincarts but I've been having issues with it while it runs on my server:

My automated trains (usually only about 3 to 5 trains) can run fine for hours, no lag or anything but then overnight, I'll come back and trains are missing and this is in the console:
(Top is most recent of course. Start at the bottom.)

29.04 08:09:58 [Multicraft] Starting server!
29.04 08:09:58 [Multicraft] Loading server properties
29.04 08:09:57 [Multicraft] Server stopped
29.04 08:09:57 [Multicraft] Server shut down
29.04 08:09:57 [Multicraft] Forcefully killing server
29.04 08:09:56 [Multicraft] Terminating server via signal
29.04 08:09:24 [Multicraft] Stopping server!
29.04 08:09:24 [Multicraft] Ping timeout! Restarting server...
29.04 08:09:00 [Multicraft] Server ran command Admin Say
29.04 08:05:34 [Server] WARN java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
29.04 08:05:34 [Server] WARN Exception in thread "Server thread" 
29.04 08:05:03 [Server] INFO Disabling Blacksmith v1.1
29.04 08:05:03 [Server] INFO Stopping server
29.04 08:03:16 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 54605ms behind, skipping 1092 tick(s)
29.04 08:03:16 [Server] ERROR The server is running out of memory! Do something!
29.04 08:03:16 [Server] ERROR Failed to perform physics on train 'train1' at Troyland_-337_62_-542:
29.04 08:02:21 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 90089ms behind, skipping 1801 tick(s)
29.04 08:02:21 [Server] ERROR The server is running out of memory! Do something!
29.04 08:02:21 [Server] ERROR Failed to perform physics on train 'train7' at Troyland_-239_52_-631:
29.04 08:01:11 [Server] ERROR The server is running out of memory! Do something!
29.04 08:01:11 [Server] ERROR Failed to perform physics on train 'train7' at Troyland_-239_49_-663:
29.04 08:01:01 [Server] ERROR The server is running out of memory! Do something!
29.04 08:01:01 [Server] ERROR Failed to perform physics on train 'train7' at Troyland_-239_47_-696:
29.04 08:00:51 [Server] ERROR The server is running out of memory! Do something!
29.04 08:00:51 [Server] ERROR Failed to perform physics on train 'train4' at Troyland_-593_63_-313:
29.04 08:00:35 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 2806ms behind, skipping 56 tick(s)
29.04 08:00:30 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 18370ms behind, skipping 367 tick(s)
29.04 08:00:00 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3532ms behind, skipping 70 tick(s)
29.04 07:59:56 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 15972ms behind, skipping 319 tick(s)
29.04 07:59:23 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 5786ms behind, skipping 115 tick(s)
29.04 07:59:11 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 10304ms behind, skipping 206 tick(s)
29.04 07:58:51 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 8570ms behind, skipping 171 tick(s)
29.04 07:58:33 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 12590ms behind, skipping 251 tick(s)
29.04 07:58:10 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 9856ms behind, skipping 197 tick(s)
29.04 07:57:47 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 5817ms behind, skipping 116 tick(s)
29.04 07:57:40 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 20391ms behind, skipping 407 tick(s)
29.04 07:57:07 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 10415ms behind, skipping 208 tick(s)
29.04 07:56:47 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 9666ms behind, skipping 193 tick(s)
29.04 07:56:25 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 5619ms behind, skipping 112 tick(s)
29.04 07:56:18 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 13397ms behind, skipping 267 tick(s)
29.04 07:55:58 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 13444ms behind, skipping 268 tick(s)
29.04 07:55:54 [Server] INFO World saved.
29.04 07:55:54 [Server] INFO CONSOLE: Forcing save..
29.04 07:55:54 [Server] INFO CONSOLE: Enabled level saving..
29.04 07:55:51 [Multicraft] Auto-saving world...
29.04 07:55:28 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 6565ms behind, skipping 131 tick(s)
29.04 07:55:08 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3850ms behind, skipping 77 tick(s)
29.04 07:54:52 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 2845ms behind, skipping 56 tick(s)
29.04 07:54:38 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 6013ms behind, skipping 120 tick(s)
29.04 07:54:25 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 2834ms behind, skipping 56 tick(s)
29.04 07:54:01 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 6237ms behind, skipping 124 tick(s)
29.04 07:53:40 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3710ms behind, skipping 74 tick(s)
29.04 07:53:30 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 8935ms behind, skipping 178 tick(s)
29.04 07:53:08 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3291ms behind, skipping 65 tick(s)
29.04 07:52:53 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 5710ms behind, skipping 114 tick(s)
29.04 07:52:29 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 2927ms behind, skipping 58 tick(s)
29.04 07:52:10 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3387ms behind, skipping 67 tick(s)
29.04 07:51:50 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 9184ms behind, skipping 183 tick(s)
29.04 07:51:15 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 2826ms behind, skipping 56 tick(s)
29.04 07:50:51 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3262ms behind, skipping 65 tick(s)
29.04 07:50:28 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 8912ms behind, skipping 178 tick(s)
29.04 07:50:00 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 6163ms behind, skipping 123 tick(s)
29.04 07:49:25 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 9731ms behind, skipping 194 tick(s)
29.04 07:49:15 [Server] INFO The updater found an update, but because of the UpdateType being set to NO_DOWNLOAD, it wasn't downloaded.
29.04 07:48:32 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 6034ms behind, skipping 120 tick(s)
29.04 07:47:07 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3637ms behind, skipping 72 tick(s)
29.04 07:44:37 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 6756ms behind, skipping 135 tick(s)
29.04 07:43:59 [Server] WARN Can't keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 3224ms behind, skipping 64 tick(s)

It seems maybe a memory leak? There is never anyone on the server but me, and this always happens hours after I log off.

I'm using both the latest versions of Traincarts and BKCommonLib. (1.73.0 and 1.57) & Craftbukkit 1.7.2 (Updating to later versions breaks BKCommonLib.)
I have more than 2 Gb of ram (supposedly. I'm not very happy with MCProHosting and wouldn't be surprised if they're lying.)

Last edited by _ForgeUser10372912: Apr 29, 2014

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Posted Apr 26, 2014
@exfabianex

I don't think you can set it with a property sign, you need to configure it in your train defaults file (one of the .yml files - look for a 'pickup' setting in the config files) :)

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Posted Apr 25, 2014
@martsmartie

Have you tried running the latest (unsupported) development builds?

http://ci.dj-tcraft.nl/job/BKCommonLib/366/artifact/target/BKCommonLib-1.58-SNAPSHOT.jar

for BKCommonLib ^{^}

and...

http://ci.dj-tcraft.nl/job/TrainCarts/49/artifact/target/TrainCarts-1.73.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

for TrainCarts

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Posted Apr 25, 2014
This is a lovely plugin indeed and I already got my server operating about 9 large train lines in which 7 of them being around 1024 blocks in length with 2 being 2048 in length. However, I noticed that if I update to version 1.7.9, it will completely kill the TrainCarts systems that I have worked hard to construct on my server. I would highly appreciate it if you could generously perform an update to version 1.7.9 to allow players like me to continue using this great plugin.

Sincerely, Mephisto43

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Project ID

31515
Created

Aug 28, 2011
Last Released File

Jan 2, 2014
Total Downloads

209,850
License

MIT License

v1.73.0
Jan 2, 2014
v1.60B36
Mar 18, 2012

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When players are near, trains reach their destinations. With no one near, they don't. What do I do?

Why not boats?!?!

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