Transporters

About "Transporters"

Transporters is a data pack that adds a few features to minecarts, activated by placing specific colors of wool underneath the tracks, as well as other cart-related features.

Lime / Red wool under tracks

Placing lime wool under the track will give minecarts an "engine" that continually makes them move at maximum speed.

The engine can be removed by placing red wool under a section of track. The engine is also removed when a cart leaves the track.

Purple wool / "endpoint" armor stands

To make carts fly through the air (and even through solid walls) towards a destination, name an armor stand "endpoint" and place it where you want the carts to fly to, then place purple wool under the tracks at the end of a railway, and carts passing over the wool will begin to fly towards the armor stand.

Keep in mind that if you have multiple armor stands named "endpoint," carts will only fly to whichever one is closest to them.

Additionally, note that the chunk your desired enpoint is in must be loaded.

Ziplines via light blue wool + named armor stands

This is identical to the purple wool functionality, with a few bonus features and requirements. You can create multiple flight routes this way without them conflicting.

To use ziplines, place light blue under the end track, and then name an armor stand "startpoint_##" (where ## is a number from 1-32). place the armor stand on the same track the light blue wool is under.

Then name another armor stand "endpoint_##" to match the startpoint, and carts passing over the start point will fly to the end point.

Just like the purple wool, carts will fly to whichever matching endpoint is nearest to them, as long as the chunks are loaded.

Orange wool

Placing orange wool underneath the tracks will destroy carts that pass over it.

Pink / Magenta wool

Pink wool will force nearby entities, including players, to ride carts as they pass over it.

Magenta wool behaves the same way, except it only works for players.

Use vanilla activator rails or orange wool to force entities or players to dismount a cart.

"pointer" armor stands

Naming an armor stand "pointer" will turn it into a front-facing arrow attached to nearby carts.

This can behave weirdly if multiple carts are nearby, so using F3+B to show the hitboxes is recommended as an alternative if you run into issues.

Ladders / Shelves

Carts can climb ladders and wooden shelves, and will do so whenever they are in the same block space. The carts will also dismount at the top, in the direction they are facing.

Use ladders if you dont mind players and mobs also climbing them, use shelves if you want it to be carts-only.

Magenta Glazed Terracotta / Tripwire

Carts will change direction and move in the direction specified by the arrow on Magenta Glazed Terracotta placed under a tripwire beneath the cart. Perfect for turning carts around in a tight space!

This behavior does not work with rails due to Minecraft forcing carts to snap to rails, so you will potentially need to recover speed by placing lime wool under the next track section after a direction change.

Routing with lecterns

Lecterns placed next to normal rails will invisibly assign passing carts to a specific route based on the current page number the lectern is turned to, up to 32.

Lecterns placed next to detector rails will test passing carts to see if they match the current page number- and if they do, redstone wires connected to the lectern will be replaced with redstone blocks. If the passing cart does not match, the redstone blocks will revert to redstone wires again. This can be used to create switch track systems to route carts wherever you please!

Detector item frames

Item frames containing detector rail items, and placed adjacent to detector rails, will detect passing carts based on their type or passenger, and replace redstone wires with redstone blocks in a similar manner to the lecterns. The main difference being that the redstone blocks will revert to wires automatically after one second.

Select the desired detection type by rotating the item frame.

Tutorial/Trailer (severely outdated):

https://youtu.be/NAcXhlJShS4