Railroads

Railroads

Vikings had ships. Now they have trains.

You lay stone track with the hammer, put a station sign beside it, give the sign a name and send a locomotive there. Or sit on the bench and drive it yourself, like in Factorio.

You can play it alone, host a game for friends or run it on a dedicated server. Trains keep going when nobody is near, and the server plans the routes, so 2 trains never get the same track.

What you get:

• 24 track pieces: straights from 1 to 32 m, curves, slopes, switches, a crossing, a turning loop, a T and an X junction
• fitted track, 1 piece up to 32 m that bends between 2 free track ends, also when they do not line up or stand at different heights
• station signs with a name board, and train consoles that call a train to their sign
• a whole station in 1 step, a platform with its sign and console, once you can build the train console
• supports for track and stations: press G to pick wood, core wood or iron poles, built down to the ground with the track
• a locomotive that burns coal, with a speed lever, a switch lever and a steam whistle
• trains that feel their load and slopes: a heavy train is slower to start and stop and burns more coal, a steep climb slows it down
• gauges on the boiler that show the load and the speed
• an item stand on the front of the locomotive for a trophy or any other item
• wagons with 18 slots of storage, a bench for 2 and a sign you write yourself
• a wagon restaurant with a stone stove to grill meat on and rest at, and a table that shows the food you put on it
• a portal wagon, a portal that travels with the train
• a flatbed wagon, an empty deck of 4 by 6 m to build on, a portal and a bed too
• a hand cart for 1 or 2 players that you pump with Space, it needs no coal and no workbench
• a drawbridge, 16 m of track that opens for ships
• a feedback post to report problems or send any kind of feedback right in the game, it sends the game logs of the players who agreed to it, see Privacy
• support for VR with VHVR: menus in the headset, levers and couplers by hand, and a hand cart you pump with your hands
• track, stations and trains with their names on the map

Everything is in the Transport tab of the hammer. A train at full speed hits whatever stands on the track, so don't stand on the track.

Your first train

1. Take the hammer and lay track from the Transport tab. Track snaps to track.
2. Put a station sign up to 10 m from straight track and press E on it to give it a name. A sign with no name is not in the menu.
3. Put a locomotive on the track. It needs a workbench near.
4. Press E on a fire door of the locomotive to put coal in. Hold E to put in more.
5. Press E on the locomotive and pick a station.

Controls

• E on the locomotive: the station menu
• Gamepad in the station menu: the stick or the D-pad picks a station, A sends the train, B closes the menu
• E on the bench of the locomotive: sit down and drive
• W and S: the speed lever, forward, stop and backward. One tap, you hold nothing
• A and D: the switch lever, which way the train goes at the next switch
• E while you sit on the bench: the station menu, you stay seated and ride along
• Space: get up, the train brakes
• H on the bench, or E on the whistle lever: the whistle
• a hotbar key on the iron knob at the front of the locomotive: hang that item there, hold E to take it back
• E on the board on the side of the boiler: give the train a name
• Shift + E on a wagon, or E on a coupler: couple or uncouple
• E on the stove: under the table it takes coal, on top it takes raw meat and gives back cooked meat
• G with track on the hammer: the supports placed under it, none, wood, core wood or iron
• Fitted track on the hammer: press on a free track end, then on another. A press on the first end again drops it
• a half turn of a station sign on the hammer: the side of the stop the ghost train shows its wagons on
• E on a train console: call a train to its station sign
• E on a handle of the hand cart: take it, E again lets go
• Space on the hand cart: hold to push the handle down, let go to pull it up. In VR you can also move your hands up and down
• W and S, A and D on the hand cart: the way lever and the switch lever, like on the locomotive
• E on a lever of the drawbridge: raise or lower it
• E on the feedback post: write your feedback

Install it with a mod manager, or copy the folder Railroads into BepInEx/plugins. The server and every player need the same version. With another version you get a message and no rail pieces.