I built a small homage to the booster while revisiting an old world, given that its place now lies in our hearts… and behind a glass case, museum style.
This is placed alongside an existing piece of railways I'm upgrading to powered rail. I'd like to slow down the cart enough to let people see this for a few moments, only to regain momentum as they reach the powered rail further ahead.
I'm having trouble doing that, however. I tried placing exactly one piece of unpowered rail, and it caused the minecart to stop to a halt immediately.
I tried putting two powered rail right before the powered off rail, but the cart still came to a complete stop.
I tried replacing the track piece altogether, and I got stuck in the hole.
I tried using a stone pressure plate, and while sometimes it works, other times it derails my minecart.
How can I safely slow down the cart without having it come to a complete stop?
Best Answer
Unless your minecart has a lot of momentum (not speed), powered off minetracks will stop your minecart. This wasn't the case.
The solution was placing powered minetracks right before, but I got the quantity wrong. Even with generous amounts of powered minetracks at launch, I needed four or five powered minetracks to barely offset a single powered off. That's perhaps because, since you stay on a powered off track for longer (you're slowing down after all), they cause more of an impact on your speed and momentum.
In my case five powered minetracks did the trick. Now the minecart walks those four pieces of track very slowly, giving passengers a chance to get their shot of nostalgia, and then picks back up the pace with more powered rail.
This approach isn't cheap, obviously, if you're not using
/giveor/i.