12 years ago
Tue May 24 2011, 09:38PM
While it will be technically possible to travel 8x as far and use 8x less rails, I don't think this will be a viable option. First, you still won't be able to ride rails through the nether portal. All notch did was fix the crash if you were on a boat or cart passing through the portal blocks. You still have to pause in the portal blocks to be teleported, and you can't have a track placed where a portal block is (the purple energy field). So... I have my doubts about riding into/out of the nether. Perhaps a way to "jump" the cart off the tracks into the portal?
Even if we just set up a rail station in the nether and portal there as normal on foot.... there are other "obstacles" we are going to have to deal with. The ghasts are just a small issue compared to the bigger one: Broonie intends to have the nether a "wild west" area. That means, liberal use of TNT, also PVP is allowed, and he has stated it will be an "open griefing zone". I can't imagine having an extensive rail system survive that over time.
We might be stuck retro-fitting the rails with power tracks, if the c-boosters stop working.
How about if the mine cart was stopped on Earth with a block on the other side of the portal so the transition could take place...
Then in the Nether there is a slopped rail directly after the transition so when you cross, gravity takes over then drops you straight downwards onto a rail again..?
Or would that mean it gets stuck in a block in-between rails and therefore motionless?
Even IF we tried that (and I have no idea if it'd work), what minecraftblock0 said kind of ruins that. Griefers? People attacking you while riding? The Nether is not a safe place for travel, unless you're packing armor and weapons, and stay on foot.
Latest Tweet from Notch puts the release time for the 1.6 patch pushed to "early Thursday". Not sure how long it will take the bukkit team to get a working version up.... could be hours, or days even. One patch (the first beta version), we had to wait around a month (Broonie moved us to a temp map).
I'll remind everyone to use the new launcher (minecraft.exe) and not accept the update as soon as its released. Or, back up your 1.5_1 minecraft folder if you want to play around with 1.6 in single player.
Hm. Now to see how long it takes before Bukkit updates.
Yes, that's what Minecraftblock0 posted in the first post...
