Powered Rail


Obtaining

Powered rails can be crafted and previously-placed powered rails can be broken with bare hands or any tool, dropping themselves as items. To remove a powered rail, attack it:

Block
Rails
Hardness 0.7
Tool
Breaking "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by minecraft time
Hand 1.05
Wooden 0.55
Stone 0.3
Iron 0.2
Diamond 0.15
Golden 0.1
  1. ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

A powered rail will also be removed and drop itself as an item:

If lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still minecraft flows into a powered rail`s space, the powered rail will be destroyed without dropping itself as an item.

Info

A powered rail is a type of rail that is used to decrease or increase the velocity of moving minecarts Minecart Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 42 PE: 84 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID minecart Drops Minecart (1) Health points 6 () First appearances See History Data value minecraft .

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Trivia

  • Powered rails were originally a suggestion for golden tracks.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe
Gold Ingot+
Stick+
Redstone











6

Natural generation

Powered rails can be found in 27.1% of chest minecarts Minecart with Chest Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 43 PE: 98 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID chest_minecart Drops 1 Minecart 1 Chest plus contents Health points 6 () minecraft in abandoned mineshafts Abandoned mineshaft Biome Any Consists of Wooden Planks Fence Rail Torch Cobweb Dirt Monster Spawner Minecart with Chest Can generate post-generation No First appearances See history "Mine" redirects here. For information about mining, see Mining. minecraft in stacks of 1⃢₀ₓ4.

Usage

See also: Tutorials/Minecarts This tutorial covers basic minecart stations and systems and is designed for those without significant redstone knowledge and only minor experience with minecarts and rails. This tutorial doesn t touch on furnace or storage minecart. Images minecraft

A powered rail can be used as a rail and as a redstone component.

To place a powered rail, use a powered rail item while pointing at a surface facing the space the powered rail should occupy. A powered rail can be placed on:

A powered rail cannot be attached to the side or bottom of any block, but attempting to make such an attachment may cause the powered rail to attach to the top of a block under the destination space. For instance, if a fence is on the ground, attempting to attach a powered rail to the side of the fence will cause the powered rail to be attached to the top of the ground next to the fence instead.

When placed, a powered rail will configure itself to line up with any adjacent rails Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 66 hex: 42 bin: 1000010 Name rail See the standard rail. For other uses, minecraft (including activator rails Activator Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name activator_rail An activator rail is a type of rail that minecraft , detector rails Detector Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 28 hex: 1C bin: 11100 Name detector_rail A detector rail is a block that can transport minecraft , and other powered rails Powered Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 27 hex: 1B bin: 11011 Name golden_rail A powered rail is a type of rail that minecraft ), as well as adjacent rails one block up. If there are two adjacent rails on non-opposite sides, or three or more adjacent rails, a powered rail will line up in the east-west direction. If there are no adjacent rails, a powered rail will line up in the north-south direction (but if a rail is later placed to the east or west, the powered rail will re-orient itself in the east-west direction even if it is already connected to another rail to the north or south). If a rail it would line up with is one block up, a powered rail will slant upwards towards it (with multiple options to slant upwards to, a powered rail "prefers", in order: west, east, south, and north). Other configurations can be created by placing and removing various rails.

Rail

Powered rails (and other rails) can be used as "roads" for minecarts Minecart Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 42 PE: 84 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID minecart Drops Minecart (1) Health points 6 () First appearances See History Data value minecraft . A minecart that enters a powered rail`s space from either end of the powered rail will continue to move in the direction the powered rail is facing, but its speed may change depending on whether the powered rail is active or not (see below). A minecart that enters a powered rail`s space from the side will turn east or south (depending on the powered rail`s orientation), or in the downward direction for a slanted powered rail.

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit See redstone circuits. For other redstone-related articles, see Redstone (disambiguation). Contents 1 Redstone basics 1.1 Redstone components 1.2 Power 1.3 Power level 1.4 Redstone update 1.5 Redstone tick 1.6 Signals and pulses minecraft

Powered rails can be used to affect the speed of minecarts that travel over them.

Activation
A powered rail is a redstone mechanism and can be activated by:
An activated powered rail will also activate any adjacent powered rails it is connected to, up to eight away from the original activation source. Thus a single activation source can activate up to 17 rails (one original in the middle and eight on either side). An activated powered rail will not activate adjacent rails which it is not connected to.
Behavior
An active powered rail will:
  • increase the speed of a moving minecart in the direction it is already moving
  • accelerate a non-moving minecart away from a solid opaque block the powered rail is facing (so a non-moving minecart will move away from the block when the powered rail activates, and a moving minecart will "bounce" off of a block an active powered rail is facing because it stops and then gets accelerated away)
An inactive powered rail will reduce the speed of a moving minecart, usually stopping it within one block`s distance even on a downward-slanted track. If a slanted powered rail activates with a non-moving minecart on it, the minecart will start moving downwards (because it is no longer being braked by an inactive powered rail) and will then be accelerated downwards.
Powered rails cannot increase the speed of a minecart to more than 8 blocks per second on either the north-south or east-west axis. The speeds that can be achieved with varying numbers of powered rails or intervals of normal rails between powered rails is complex -- for a thorough discussion, see Tutorials/Minecarts This tutorial covers basic minecart stations and systems and is designed for those without significant redstone knowledge and only minor experience with minecarts and rails. This tutorial doesn t touch on furnace or storage minecart. Images minecraft .

Data values

A powered rail has the ID name minecraft:golden_rail and is further defined by its block data. A powered rail also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

Block data

See also: Data values

A powered rail`s block data stores its orientation and activation status:

Bits Values
0x1
0x2
0x4

A three-bit field storing a value from 0 to 5:

  • 0: flat track going north-south
  • 1: flat track going west-east
  • 2: sloped track ascending to the east
  • 3: sloped track ascending to the west
  • 4: sloped track ascending to the north
  • 5: sloped track ascending to the south
0x8 Set if rail is active.

Block state

See also: Block states
Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition minecraft Value Description

⃂powered
true
false
True if rail is activated.

⃂shape
north_south
east_west
Specifies the rail`s orientation.
ascending_north
ascending_south
ascending_east
ascending_west
A rail that ascends towards the direction noted.
For instance, an ascending_west rail is a straight rail that goes upwards from the east towards the west.

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History

Beta
1.5 Added powered rails.
1.6 Increased powered rails` effectiveness as a response to fixing the minecart booster bug.
Official release
1.9 15w44a Powered rails can now be found in abandoned mineshaft chest minecarts Minecart with Chest Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 43 PE: 98 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID chest_minecart Drops 1 Minecart 1 Chest plus contents Health points 6 () minecraft .
1.11 16w32b All rail types` hitbox heights are decreased from a full block to a half block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.8.0 build 2 Added powered rails, but the rails are always powered.
0.13.0 build 1 Powered rails no longer have intrinsic power, i.e. they need to be powered by an external power source.
Console Edition
TU1 CU1 1.0 Patch 1 Added powered rails.

Issues

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Reference


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    Sources

    Powered rails may be found in some Abandoned Mineshafts, inside Chest Minecarts. Alternatively, they can be made in a Crafting Table using the following arrangement:

    Powered Rail
    x6
    Gold Ingot
    None
    Gold Ingot
    Gold Ingot
    Stick
    Gold Ingot
    Gold Ingot
    Redstone
    Gold Ingot


    Mechanics

    Powered Rails are operated by Redstone currents, which may come from a Lever, a Button, another circuit, a Redstone Torch, or a Detector Rail.

    On/Off Switch

    Powered rails, much like redstone wire, have two possible states: on or off.

    A rail that is "off" slows any passing