Vystorm Rails | Fast Minecarts, Stations, Switches, Ice Slides, Jumps & Lava Boats

Faster tracks, stations, destinations and switches – plus special blocks that make carts slide, jump, bounce, spin, climb and even swim on lava. Everything is built with normal blocks and signs, no resource pack, no client mod.



Speed and safety

• Speed blocks. The block under the rail sets the top speed: copper 58 km/h, gold 86 km/h, diamond 108 km/h, soul sand slows down. All in config.yml.
• Safe at speed. Carts brake before curves, slopes and track ends so they don't derail.
• Speedometer. Speed and destination in the action bar while riding.

Cart blocks – all switchable in config.yml

• Ice keeps carts sliding when they leave the track – steer with A/D, brake with S. Honey catches them.
• Jump: the last rail on a slime block is a ramp – the faster you are, the further you fly.
• Bounce: a slime block behind the track end sends the cart back.
• Shift: a slime block beside the rail moves the cart onto the parallel track.
• Spin: a rail on magma spins the cart once and sends it back.
• Elevator: a scaffolding column at the end of the track lifts the cart to the track at its top (or lowers it).
• Lava boat: carts swim on lava and paddle with W/A/S/D – nobody burns. The fire look can be turned off.
• Signal: a rail on a redstone lamp holds every cart while the lamp is powered or the next 8 rails ahead are occupied – simple block signalling for busy lines. The cart leaves on its own when the way is clear.

Stations, destinations and switches

• [rails] signs below the track: station (stop for a few seconds, depart in a direction), speed (speed limit), dest (set a destination), switch (Farm:e, Mine:n, *:s), collect (empty carts go back to their owner).
• Destinations. /rails dest Farm – every switch on the way sends your cart there.
• Network map. /rails map shows rails, stations and you in a chest menu – zoom, scroll, click a station to travel there.
• Block overview. /rails blocks lists which blocks do what on your server, read from the current config.

Less clutter

• Leaving or breaking your cart puts it straight back into your inventory.
• Mobs are pushed off the track, ridden carts pass through players, empty carts no longer pick up mobs.
• Vanilla stays vanilla: powered rails launch, activator rails eject, hoppers load – Rails does not duplicate them.

Commands and permissions

• /rails dest [NAME|clear] – your destination
• /rails map – network map
• /rails blocks – which blocks do what on this server
• /rails info – speed, top speed, destination and owner of your cart
• /rails reload – reload config.yml (vystormrails.admin, op)
• vystormrails.use – ride with the improvements (everyone)
• vystormrails.sign – create [rails] signs (op)

Requirements

• Paper or Purpur 1.21.8+ including 26.x, Java 25
• Vystorm Core (free) – language system (English and German, per player), in-game config editor /vadmin config, admin dashboard

Free, MIT licensed.

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