Minecart Improvements

Minecart Improvements is an experiment in Java Edition that makes various changes to minecarts. According to developer Ulraf, the developers want to make sure they find a good time and a good approach regarding minecart improvements, because they don't want to break the things players have already made with them.^[1]

Gameplay

• Added max_minecart_speed game rule that changes the maximum speed of minecarts.
  • Defaults to 8, range from 1 to 1000 blocks per second.
  • Setting it to a specific value does not guarantee that a minecart will reach that particular max speed - there are built-in air resistances and similar effects that the speed added through slopes or powered rails needs to overcome.
  • This gamerule only exists in worlds with the experiment enabled.
• Added a new accessibility setting that makes players follow the rotation of minecarts they ride.
  • Defaults to off.
  • Only has effect when within a world with the experiment enabled.

• Minecarts now articulate their movement better when going fast, riding on the rail all the time.
  • Minecarts now smoothly turn along with the track and are less likely to halt or derail.
• Improved minecart jumping.
  • They keep their vertical momentum when the track ends with a slope.
  • Minecarts now tilt to visually articulate while in the air during a fall with horizontal movement.
  • No rail grinding sound is played when minecarts are flying through the air.
• Minecarts can no longer be placed within another minecart by the player. However this can be bypassed by dispensers.
• Minecarts can now consistently be placed next to each other along a track.
• Minecarts now pick up mobs more consistently when moving along a track.
• Minecarts now more easily come to rest at opposing slopes.
• Minecarts no longer phase through blocks on slopes when going up or down, they collide instead.
• Minecarts are now placed (or dispensed) with the correct rotation straight away when put on rails.
• Dismounting a Minecart no longer puts the player to the right of the Minecart. Instead, the player is put either in front or on top of the minecart depending on travel direction.