Quote from: Malkere on June 30, 2012, 12:20:34 PM
are we planning on using powered carts for anyone that wants to travel the whole span, or in time are we hoping to add powered rails *_* at maximum intervals? assuming this is raised (except for some extreme mountains maybe) I think a powered rail every so often could go a ways.... only go 4-5 straight up... I'll figure out the distance later if someone doesn't know off hand.
I have chests full of cobble, and will be getting a lot more now that I've moved into the new world. Hope I get some good spawners beneath me =D
It says on the mine craft wiki, that the optimal usage of powers rails is 1 per 37 normal rails (assuming that the cart is occupied and there is a 0/1 slope) with a .4% slowdown rate whilst taking 251 seconds to travel 2 kilometers when the fastest is traveling 2km in 250 seconds with a slowdown rate of 0.0% meaning the rails are giving you maximum power and you get this buy placing in a powered rail:normal rail ratio of 1:33, and 1:<31 so we need a lot of rails but not like as many as regular rails. You can space them out as far as one per seventy-nine regular rails but at that point you are practically going through cobwebs. And if you aren't going to make it completely flat, then I believe that a 1/1 slope needs a booster every nine nine regular rails. The reason this is is because you need to spend 3 ticks (20ths of a seconds) on a rail or 1/3 of its power is wasted. Each tick you are on, it increases an occupied minecart's velocity by .9 m/s so you miss a whole block per second of speed if you miss a tick.
Haha I practically just summarized the article on powered rails for you.
