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i've been really into building railways in my minecraft world lately. it's such a good form of transport that i haven't used terribly much, and absolutely perfect for the short-ish distances that i'm making rail connections for so far. a few hundred blocks is easy enough to do on foot, on horseback or by boat if there's coast, but after a while it just gets tedious if you have to do the same run over and over. with rails in place, i can just hop in a cart and get up to make a cup of tea and don't have to actively do anything!
so far i haven't run into resource bottlenecks, although i'm resource-constrained on iron. i collect rails from abandoned mineshafts from time to time and occasionally craft some rails myself, and so far that's been enough.
the first section of rail is fully underground, from the cellar of my starter house to the village that i keep just slightly apart from Spawn. most of the subsequently built lines have been aboveground on elevated bridges, though the stations are underground, under the built-up areas. i'm getting to the point now that i need to start thinking about a better-organised central station at Spawn, before the underground gets too crowded.
i'd actually really like to build even more railways, but i don't have that many different places in the world yet that need to be connected. although induced demand is definitely a thing, even in singleplayer minecraft: when i build a rail line to a previously-empty place, i start spending time there and building up the area near the station. it's a good time.
so far i haven't run into resource bottlenecks, although i'm resource-constrained on iron. i collect rails from abandoned mineshafts from time to time and occasionally craft some rails myself, and so far that's been enough.
the first section of rail is fully underground, from the cellar of my starter house to the village that i keep just slightly apart from Spawn. most of the subsequently built lines have been aboveground on elevated bridges, though the stations are underground, under the built-up areas. i'm getting to the point now that i need to start thinking about a better-organised central station at Spawn, before the underground gets too crowded.
i'd actually really like to build even more railways, but i don't have that many different places in the world yet that need to be connected. although induced demand is definitely a thing, even in singleplayer minecraft: when i build a rail line to a previously-empty place, i start spending time there and building up the area near the station. it's a good time.
