Build a Railway System on Minecraft

Is walking around your great Minecraft city too tiring? Try these steps to help yourself build a city with trains that could help your transportation build.

Steps

High-Class Railway

  1. Make an inventory with items you only need. Don't get too many items, See this list of what you need:
    • Rails
    • Minecart
    • Powered rails
    • A pickaxe (stone or better depending on what you will be going through)
    • An axe (optional)
    • A shovel (optional)
    • Sign (for posting information)
    • Extra space for mined items
    • Map
    • Redstone torches (activate powered rails)
  2. Create a (real life) map. Draw out your plan of your railway map, bridges, tunnels, signs etc. The map of your Minecraft city must also be needed to help building.
  3. According to your real life map, start building. This is a high-class railway system, so you must build a station for the railway. A tunnel is always the best so it won't block your buildings that you might build on the ground.
  4. When building the station, don't dig directly down. Dig in a direction, so you could build stairs instead of ladders. Dig in 2-3 blocks wide.
  5. Don't make it too deep. Make sure you make it convenient enough for yourself. Dig until you reach 8-15 blocks deep.
  6. When you finished digging till your point where it isn't too deep, create an area cleared up. If there is a cave, change your direction.
  7. Build your space for your train tracks. It could be 1-2 blocks wide. You could put it to the side or end of your station.
  8. Don't start putting the tracks down yet! This is a high-class type, so you must make your station clearer and nicer. Start putting more exits of your station, so it would be easier for you to get to it. At each of those station exits/entrances, add signs that says whatever the name of your station is. Since the wideness is 2 blocks, put 2 signs. The signs should be on top.
  9. Add signs that show the direction of where the station platforms/concourses are. It could be like an arrow pointing to the direction on the sign.
  10. Add information based on your real-life map. That should be showing where the exits lead you to, where the trains head to, etc.
  11. Put staircases on your stairs that lead up to the exits.
  12. You could change the colour of your station, not just some boring cobblestone colour. Put gold, diamond whatever you like.
  13. Put a chest that contains Minecarts so you could get them easily (consider using ender chests since it saves you the trouble of running around replacing mine carts later). It is true that you could get it off your TooManyItems cheat, but this just makes it more real.
  14. After you decorated your first station, start building your railway. Put minecart tracks along the way, but two or three powered rails at the start of the tracks without redstone torches, this helps stop the cart to stop moving. You must do that for all stations to help it stop. Between 7-14 Minecraft tracks, add one or two powered rails along with redstone torches on the wall. This speeds up the cart so it won't stop.
  15. Use your player Minecraft map to help yourself guide you where your next station is going to be. According to building your first station, you must decorate this station too.
  16. Repeat these steps until you finished your first line. Then, name your line.
  17. For interchanging stations with different railway lines, you have to put a note for information about it too.
  18. If any of your lines go through the sea, make sure you dig deep enough for your railway tracks to not get flooded.

Low-Class Railway

  1. This is a low class railway system. You won't have to build anything underground.
  2. Start planning what stations you want on your city.
  3. After planning, start building. Create a name for your stations, then build your rails on the ground. Make sure you have powered rails, rails, redstone torches and Minecarts.
  4. Also, put powered rails along the way for boosts. You will need a redstone torch too for each rail.
  5. If any of your stations go across the sea, create a simple bridge with dirt.
  6. Make sure you put a powered rail with no redstone torch at every station for it to stop.



Tips

  • These instructions could be confusing. You could go on Minecraft Wiki to help you build your knowledge.
  • If you are in Survival, it is recommended that you use resources that are not to hard to find.
  • If you are in creative mode, putting bedrock under the rails can save them from creepers.
  • Make different style stations. Don't make your passengers get bored!
  • Try making flyovers and railway bridges. That way your track looks amazing.

Things You'll Need

  • Minecraft
  • TooManyItems cheating system to help you get things from it. If you don't have it, you could learn how to insert it onto your computer then to your Minecraft system in any OS. If you don't want to cheat, it would be extremely hard and tiring to help you find resources.

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