Great Minecraft Builds: Your Unofficial Guide to Building Cool Minecraft Railroads
MOVING THROUGH YOUR WORLD Minecraft worlds are nearly infinite You can travel for thousands of blocks from your spawn point in any direction and still not reach the end This can take many days both in the game and in the real world While it can be lots of fun to explore you might sometimes want to travel efficiently from one location to another This is when railroads can be very handy in Minecraft The game doesn't have trains but it does have rails minecarts and other items you can use to build a transportation system of your own
Is there a mountain between your base and another site in your Minecraft world Why not build a railway tunnel
IRON IS IMPORTANT While Minecraft railways can be very useful it can take a lot of materials to build them For 16 pieces of plain Minecraft rail you'll need six iron ingots or bricks and a stick And every piece of rail only covers one block You'll also probably want to make other types of rails that need other materials as well To make iron ingots you need iron ore These blocks are usually underground and need to be mined Then you smelt the ore in a furnace to make iron ingots IRON INGOTS
16 MINECART You also need iron to make minecarts to ride in or carry things in Each minecart needs five iron ingots RAIL
