VehicleSpeed

VehicleSpeed

A lightweight Paper plugin for changing the speed of minecarts, boats, and horses with simple commands.

VehicleSpeed gives players an easy way to customise the speed of common Minecraft transportation without adding complicated systems, GUIs, or unnecessary dependencies.

Set a vehicle's speed while riding it, restore it with a simple reset command, and configure the allowed speed ranges for your server.

Features

• Change minecart maximum speed
• Change boat speed
• Change horse movement speed
• Reset vehicles back to their original/normal behaviour
• Smooth custom acceleration for boats
• Individual vehicle speed changes rather than one global speed
• Configurable minimum and maximum speeds
• Configurable boat acceleration
• Tab completion for reset
• Built-in /vehiclespeed help command
• /vspeed shortcut
• Commands available to normal players by default
• Lightweight and dependency-free
• Designed for Paper 26.2

Commands

/vehiclespeed

Displays the VehicleSpeed command list.

Alias:

/vspeed

/minecartspeed <speed|reset>

Changes the maximum speed of the minecart you are currently riding.

Example:

/minecartspeed 1.5

Reset:

/minecartspeed reset

VehicleSpeed remembers the minecart's original maximum speed before changing it, allowing reset to restore its previous value.

/boatspeed <speed|reset>

Changes the speed of the boat you are currently riding.

Example:

/boatspeed 2

Reset:

/boatspeed reset

VehicleSpeed uses its own movement system for modified boats, including smooth acceleration toward the selected speed. Resetting the boat removes VehicleSpeed's custom movement setting and returns it to normal Minecraft behaviour.

/horsespeed <speed|reset>

Changes the movement speed of the horse you are currently riding.

Example:

/horsespeed 0.6

Reset:

/horsespeed reset

Each horse's original movement speed is saved before it is modified, so resetting restores that specific horse's previous speed rather than applying a generic value.

Permissions

vehiclespeed.help Allows use of /vehiclespeed and /vspeed.

vehiclespeed.minecart Allows use of /minecartspeed.

vehiclespeed.boat Allows use of /boatspeed.

vehiclespeed.horse Allows use of /horsespeed.

All permissions are enabled for normal players by default.

Server owners can override them using their preferred permissions plugin.

Configuration

VehicleSpeed automatically generates a config.yml containing the allowed speed ranges:

minecart:
  minimum-speed: 0.1
  maximum-speed: 5.0

boat:
  minimum-speed: 0.1
  maximum-speed: 5.0
  acceleration: 0.03

horse:
  minimum-speed: 0.05
  maximum-speed: 1.0

Minecart settings

minimum-speed controls the lowest value players can select.

maximum-speed controls the highest value players can select.

Boat settings

minimum-speed and maximum-speed control the allowed boat speed range.

acceleration controls how quickly modified boats accelerate toward their selected speed.

Horse settings

minimum-speed and maximum-speed control the allowed horse movement-speed values.

Restart the server after changing the configuration.

Installation

1. Download the VehicleSpeed .jar.
2. Place it inside your server's plugins folder.
3. Restart the server.
4. VehicleSpeed will automatically generate its configuration file.
5. Use /vehiclespeed in-game to view the available commands.

Requirements

• Paper 26.2
• Java 25
• No additional plugins or libraries required

Why VehicleSpeed?

VehicleSpeed is intended to stay simple.

There are no menus to navigate, no complicated vehicle framework, and no large dependency chain. Get into a vehicle, run a command, and go faster.

Perfect for survival servers, building servers, private SMPs, creative worlds, or anyone who thinks vanilla minecarts could use a little more NYOOOOOM.

Version

VehicleSpeed 1.0.0

Initial release featuring minecart, boat, and horse speed control, reset support, configurable limits, permissions, tab completion, and the VehicleSpeed help command.