Life has not been easy without Minecart Mania. I thought I could use Notch’s blocks as an alternative, but as I said before, they don’t even come close to the simplicity of MM.
There’s not even a fucking alternative! If there is, it’s either for SSP or not 1.0.0 compatible.
I have gone through alot of tutorials. Most of the “latest” ones involve making an ugly, unneeded ramp for a minecart to stop at stations (that often cause them to bug), and not one of them is complaining about it to Notch. If they are, they sure aren’t saying it in their videos.
I have seen other people complaining about the blocks, but nothing about how Minecart Mania was better.
Angry, being the way he is and having an even worse sleep schedule than my RP friend, I was forced to ask bukkit, minecraft.net, and Youtube for help. For example, I needed help with an idea I mentioned in my earlier post; a four-track station. But I couldn’t figure out how to get the switching to stay where I wanted it to.
Turns out the answer was right under my nose, that I needed an RS NOR Latch. Looked in Youtube and found a somewhat helpful tutorial on how to set one up for a switch.
That took time but I figured it out and got it working for the idea. But not everything wanted to work in my favor. The launcher didn’t, and I was told the fucking launcher has to be ANGLED for it to work.
Angry came back earlier than expected, and tried to help me. But told me that Booster blocks have to be angled to work when it comes to incoming carts. I know he’s getting tired of me continuously whining about how I need Minecart Mania back.
And I think to the point he got bored and did his own things while I struggled to deal with what I had. Before I knew it, he started to grief up the new map without even apologizing. First, by spawning a shitload of minecarts on a ramp and see how far they’ll go, lagging the server. Then using TNT on the ground. There’s four holes near where I had my eye on for another station idea (one on the side of the river). On top of it, he put his house directly in the path of the route.
Thanks to MCEdit, I was able to repair the damage he caused for the most part. Got rid of all.. 1,257 Minecart entities, “patched” the holes he made with grass (love the new Brush Size options), and fixed the hole on the river.
I’m not really mad at him. Well, I guess a bit. But I’m … I just want Minecart Mania back! So much that I’m sick of this shit and going back to WoW. I’ll wait ’till Afforess gets off his ass and works on getting MM 1.0.0 compatible.
Minecart Mania was the reason that kept me in that game. Without it, there’s really no reason to be in here.