
Minecraft Train Help!
Hi guys, quick question: I'm putting together a 1.21.1 Fabric Vanilla+ pack for a playthrough with a friend where the main idea is to take a normal Minecraft village and gradually develop it into a larger city/state. We're trying to make things like infrastructure, farming, trade, transportation, etc. actually matter.
I was inspired by this video series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5XxNzLTZI (goated series defo worth a watch!)
One thing I'd really like is to have better transportation between portions of the state, however maintaining the vanilla-esque feel. For example, I'll be using simple ships in the harbors, and I have some horse-drawn carts and carriages mod for overland transit. However, I would love to have a railway as well!
The problem is that most train mods I've found seem to fall into one of two categories:
Create and its "constituents"
- I don't really want a massive tech overhaul; I fear it would become the focal point of the experience, and I want trains to be a supplement
Basic Minecart Overhauls
- This is basically 99% what im looking for, linking minecarts together on traditional mc rails, using furnace minecarts to power trains etc, however I think it would be interesting if the carts looked somewhat like trains, locomotives, and types of carts, say for example the furnace cart looked like a locomotive, normal ones looked like passenger cars, and chests and or hoppers looked like some sort of storage cart.
I've looked at Modern Minecarts, MTR, and some older mods like Xannosz's Better Minecarts. Xannosz's is actually pretty close to what I have in mind, but unfortunately it's not available for my version/loader.
I would also be 100% down to use a combination of something like modern minecarts for functionality and a texture or resource pack that changes the look of minecarts, while the functionality stays the same.
I've done some digging and unfortunately haven't found much. So I figured, as a last check I'd ask here! Any help is appreciated!