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Boost cart
This is a "lighter" version of the carts mod with some new features.


Showing the item transport, one of the less interesting things.

Positive things about this mod:

• Faster and less CPU intensive
• Switch the direction on crossings (by pressing the movement keys)
• Fully backwards compatible with the original carts mod by PilzAdam
• Copper rails (gives copper an use) - moreblocks equivalent
• Drop items inside the cart and punch it to transport them
• Different rail type support
• Handbrake with the 'down' key

Negative:

• Sometimes gets stuck in walls - hopefully fixed partwise
• Can "jump" over rails (Reason: lag) - same as above

News - MTG carts:
Since version 0.4.15 there are now carts in the official subgame minetest_game. That version of carts is based on boost_cart but does not support mesecons. You can still use boost_cart as before, it will simply overwrite the other mod.

Depends: default, mesecons? (? = optional)
License: CC0
Code: View source | Download *.zip (always up-to-date!)

oooh. Nice.

/me tests

Nice. I still hope there will be client-side support for carts and other entities players might get attached to. That could save a bunch of problems which can't be solved server-side.

Great mod. Would be nice if you can press a direction key and the mod applies it to the next junction. So you don't miss a junction when you travel with great speed. A window of 2-3 seconds should be good, after 3sec the keypress should expire, so you don't take the wrong turn.

Cool mod. It would be nice to have adjustable points/switches.

/me likes :)
Already in Magichet instead of carts :)
Any plans on cart_with_chest (to transport items) or wagons?

Krock wrote:Switch the direction on crossings (by pressing keys)

Could you secify which key?

Why not using a rail switch item to switch a direction?
You place it near to a junction and you can hit it or activate it with a mesecon circuit.

Daïmanu wrote:Could you secify which key?

Why not using a rail switch item to switch a direction?
You place it near to a junction and you can hit it or activate it with a mesecon circuit.

Just the left and right movement key

That's a nice idea to switch them with mesecons but not every cart driver has the same target.
Therefore it might be better as it currently is.

Krock wrote:Just the left and right movement key

How didn't I guess it... Thanks.

Krock wrote:That's a nice idea to switch them with mesecons but not every cart driver has the same target.
Therefore it might be better as it currently is.

I was thinking to a network with a start, and you can select a destination with mesecons buttons.

The latest update improves the cart speedup (punching).
Commit link: Allow to stop cart by punching against the moving direction
Please report bugs.

Update!


The carts now only run on the type of rails it got placed on.
You can define more rails and change the group connect_to_raillike to 2 to separate them from the other rails.
The current master branch doen't display those correctly.

Krock wrote:The carts now only run on the type of rails it got placed on

How is that and advantage? Or am I misunderstanding?

I like boost cart mod.
But, I can not start cart on the power rail connect mesecon switch.
PilzAdam's cart mod is work.

wappo wrote:I like boost cart mod.
But, I can not start cart on the power rail connect mesecon switch.
PilzAdam's cart mod is work.

http://i.imgur.com/aiVEZd9.jpg

No problem, I added that feature right now.
https://github.com/SmallJoker/boost_cart/commit/159d
I haven't tested all possibilities but it seems to work correctly.

Krock wrote:

wappo wrote:I like boost cart mod.
But, I can not start cart on the power rail connect mesecon switch.
PilzAdam's cart mod is work.

http://i.imgur.com/aiVEZd9.jpg

No problem, I added that feature right now.
https://github.com/SmallJoker/boost_cart/commit/159d
I haven't tested all possibilities but it seems to work correctly.

Thanks Krock.
mesecon switch is working.

bugs?
When the cart that was moving, I exited the game.
Next the game, this cart does not work.

Empty cart stop in the very long rail.


Sorry, I can not English.

Have this mod on my family server tho i've not used it personally yet.
My son placed a cart high up in one of his buildings! Dont ask me why, given up trying to understand 7 year olds lol. However, now he cant seem to remove it, any ideas?

Badake wrote:However, now he cant seem to remove it, any ideas?

Hold shift and punch/left click on the cart to take it.

Thankyou Krock, worked a treat he's happy again.

Now for the collision detection!
Oh and by the way the item cart download link says not found

EDIT: Wait I forgot! Cart trains! Made up of multiple coupled carts!

I made a small steering modification for this mod.
When riding inside a cart pressing up will accelerate the cart - similar to how one steers in the boat mod.
My son likes this better then the frantic punching ;)

If anyone is interested here's the commit: https://github.com/graag/boost_cart/com ... 9a937df065

graag wrote:I made a small steering modification for this mod.
When riding inside a cart pressing up will accelerate the cart - similar to how one steers in the boat mod.
My son likes this better then the frantic punching ;)

If anyone is interested here's the commit: https://github.com/graag/boost_cart/com ... 9a937df065

Wow..........your first post on the MT forums was about a contribution to a mod many like :thumbup: :D
Back to the topic. I'm a total n00b at github. How do I download commits?
EDIT: I totally forgot to say that I ABSOLUTELY NEED THIS!!!!!! :D

Just use my fork to give it a try: https://github.com/graag/boost_cart and click "download zip".
Probably you'll have to rename it to boost_cart after unzipping.

ABJ wrote:

graag wrote:...

Wow..........your first post on the MT forums was about a contribution to a mod many like :thumbup: :D
Back to the topic. I'm a total n00b at github. How do I download commits?
EDIT: I totally forgot to say that I ABSOLUTELY NEED THIS!!!!!! :D

PilzAdam's first post WAS a mod. It was carts, July 2012. The good old days. ** stares off into the distance. **

That said, what about my second question?

Krock, I want to contribute to this mod. I'm planning to add more rail types. How do I make the mod work with the rails?

ABJ wrote:Krock, I want to contribute to this mod. I'm planning to add more rail types. How do I make the mod work with the rails?

I do not plan to add more rails to this mod. Create a new mod and add there all your new rails.
To get different types (wide- or narrow-gauge), simply set the group "connect_to_raillike" to 2, 3 or something else.

If you have a rail with multiple acceleration states, use the function

to push the cart after switching the rail to an "On"-state.

What is the "node position" and how many nodes per number does the cart accelerate?
And how about brake rails? Do you simply set the "acceleration" value to a minus one?

ABJ wrote:That said, what about my second question?

First click at commits at the upper bar:



Then select the commit you want to download/view/browse:



When you are in the browse view and the branch button should look like this:



Then press the download button and you get the content of the repo at that commit.

http://a.pomf.se/eabnya.png

We need upside down rails so we can make rollercoasters!