Ultimate Guide to Trains | Create .5 

Just good lord, the Trains are so in depth that they could be a mod all to themselves. Create has so much content.

If you have long sections without intersections, put train signals every (however long your longest regular train). This will allow trains to stack between intersections, and prevent clogging upstream - a factorio player

The failproof method of placing signals is: allways place a repeater/chain signal (the brass one) BEFORE a junction and a regular one after the junction. Several hundred hours of Factorio will teach you that 😄 Anyway this guide was awesome, makes me wanna waste another few days of my life with Minecraft again...

The most insane thing about Create for me is just how well and how polished everything is. Best animations in the modding scene, best visuals, etc.

So with some factorio experience, a very important thing you need is more 'blocks' on the track, or 'sections' ('blocks' is what they are often called, both in factorio and irl, I think because 'sections' could confuse people about what was meant, a track section or a track 'section'). The reason why you need more of those blocks is that if you have huge blocks for long stretches of tracks, a train waiting to enter a busy station will lock up the whole track section. And now imagine another train wanting to enter an intersection, but it can't because the intersection block's exit is busy, so it will wait before the insection. If you have a lot of traffic, you get get deadlocks very fast. another note that I saw in another comment and that I agree with, treat intersections as their own blocks, always surround them with signals, do not leave an exit unsignaled. train signals is the kind of thing that is easy to mess up if you don't pay attention, and very very hard to debug when something goes wrong. And when something does go wrong, it's usually not a crash, but a deadlock that will have your entire factory on lockdown. It's not too bad in minecraft I think, (haven't experienced it yet, haven't had much time to play around with the update yet) but in factorio, it can mean an hour of working at lower efficiency because something critical didn't get it's supply, sometimes meaning you have to bootstrap your factory by hand.

4:32 trains can't traverse slopes like this. You need to do a bendy connection between a 100% incline and normal track for it to connect.

fun fact: fueled trains actually move at a max speed of 1000 blocks a minute. if we take each block to be a meter cubed, that's 60 km/h

Oh, another thing: the way you used the word platform was quite freeform. Usually a platform means one of platforms at a rail station, so like London central platform 1 and London central platform 2 would be right next to eachother. You can actually name your stations "name 1", "name 2", "name 3" etc. and put "name *" in the schedule, so that the train will look for all stations that have "name", space and then whatever single character, like a number, and then choose the closest one. This way you can make a train that will stop at any platform of a specified station. Using a display link that pulls data from station "name *" will actually pull the incoming trains for all stations just like the schedule does, and it will show which train is going to which platform. The trains going to "name *" seem to change their target platform quite easily, so this display thing works best if you actually do schedule trains to specific platforms of a station.

27:12 if you want the technical term, in railway signalling one of those "sections" is called a "block" or a "signal block".

I recommend to use the dynamic routing of trains. If multiple stations are named the same the train will route to the closest one, not going to busy stations and stations that can't be reached because a signal was turned red by redstone. This allows you to request a certain train on multiple locations on demand. This can be used, for example, if you have a lava supply train that loads up in the nether and multiple locations that use lava and you want a single train to supply all locations on demand. Create a schedule from producer to user and name the user stations the same. Turn the signal at the user-station red to stop a train from routing there. It will instead try to reach another user-station. Be careful though, if no station is reachable it will try to route to the closest and stop in front of the final red signal, make sure that doesn't block any traffic. You can try to create a user station very close to the producer station to make the train wait in front of a switchpoint with a user station behind a red signal that is never reachable. The train will route there if no normal user station is available and wait. If a normal user becomes available the train will update its route from the unreachable user to the reachable one and go there, while waiting at its "parking position" in front of the unreachable user station.

Something about seeing trains working in unison in a train network just makes me smile from ear to ear.

I just watched an hour long video on minecraft trains and didnt even realize it. whoa. good job!

Personnally I've made a sort of docking station. The train arrives, the operator presses some buttons, à section of ground Splits open, conveyors get out, and the train is connected to the factory.

You are my go to youtube channel for explaining anything create. Im excited to see what you do moving forward, minecraft related or otherwise!

Polartt, this is an amazing tutorial! The clear explanation and demonstration of all of the trains is phenomenal! Even if Rockit14 made a video minutes after the update was released, the time and work you put into this surpasses his video 10 fold. Keep up the amazing videos!

this is most likely my favorite videos of yours! it gave me a lot of inspiration and helped me actually understand a lot of the features (specially schedules) that i didn't understand before. thanks a bunch!

Moving around is slightly smoother in survival mod (I dont exactly know why? I belive it has to do with flight) however, on occasion the walls of the car will hit you as if you were standing on the tracks and struck by the train.. so its not ideal, but its a bit smoother to walk around in survival

What I’m curious about is what would happen if you have a rail line connected in the over world say maybe 500 blocks apart, but it’s also connected with a nether portal on a parallel track as a “nether highway” will it take the portal as the shortest path or will it not register it and take the full 500?

A fabulous overview. Thank you! I'm experiencing them in survival and the grind can't go fast enough!

Watching this was surprisingly calming. Id really like to see an elaborate creative world with complex train systems like these

Awesome video Polartt! One thing I think you forgot to touch on was syncing up your display boards to your train network, but that can always be a later video :)

Thank you SO MUCH! I have been waiting for a good train tutorial for so long!

this is such a great video! you always have the most in depth create mod tutorials and guides of any youtuber out there

37:25 I found through experimentation that the conditions are evaluated in sequence i.e. if you have a Station Powered condition then underneath it a wait 5 seconds condition, if you power the station then unpower it within 5 seconds the train will still leave. You might want to just use a station powered condition for more complex logic and set up logic gates with redstone+redstone links. For example, if you want an AND gate setup for 2 redstone links, you would probably be better using them in an AND gate by the station, rather than using the schedule, as if link 1 is powered then unpowered, and then link 2 is powered, then the train may go when you do not want it to. An example when using the schedule may be good is with a players seated condition if there is a chance that the condition is already met. Have a fairly short delay (you decide based on your situation) then the players seated condition so that players don't have to experience the buggy mess that is getting up on a moving train. You could also put a second delay after the players seated condition to allow for more players to board. Bear in mind that not all (afaik) of these conditions can be read out to redstone, so using the schedule conditions may be your only choice.

you need 3 presses for a max-speed rail factory. Use brass tunnels to round-robin the track parts out, and funnel them back to a common belt afterwards with a filtered brass tunnel in the middle. This ensures that there's essentially no backup in rail assembly, you're only limited by how fast you can make everything go.

I love experimenting with trains, I’ve gotten some neat ideas but making them look good is the hard part

Polartt, your designs are always impressive and I'll always be astonished. Even those simple trains look so amazing!

The mad man this guy is ... I remember the first times i played modded Minecraft, it was mesmerizing and i grew dull to the feeling. This sensation of inimaginable discovery comes back to me like a train, no pun intended, just seing the gorgeous look and features this mod has to offer. Even the small details like the track placement system which can build bridges under itself is on of the best coding integrated in a game I've ever seen.

Wow, this is the first mod to truly make me want to play with in creative. Other times I do so out of necessity of understanding mechanics, but these trains by themselves are like a step above playing with train sets. Add the already in depth mechanics of create and you have what is probably the best mod.

i just want to let you know i really enjoy your content and every time you upload it really makes my day alot better!

Wow, this is a really good tutorial. Thanks for going so in-depth on all this information, helped me out a ton when making my material processing plant!

This is how you make a tutorial ! well done mate, thanks for the awesome experience of a perfect Tutorial ! I rarely comment on videos and more rarely give them a thumbs up, you got both Would have loved to see if it's possible to make a working drill machine with a train

This video is so cool I watched the entirety of it without even treating it as a guide/tutorial.

For any parallel tracks that have an additional track crossing, don't forget to put a signal block on the piece of track between the parallel tracks. This will allow two trains to pass each other if neither is trying to cross the other. Same with the roundabout. Make the circle four separate blocks (signal sections). This will allow two trains to enter the roundabout if both want to take the first or second exit. Basically, you want each section of track where this is a crossing to be its own block (signal section). The exception to this is if you have a track section with a lot of crossings all at or near the same point, then just make the whole thing a block (signal section).

Thank you for explaining the train signals in such detail! I was a little confused from the ponder thing

i have just watched this for the third time, idk why but you explaining create stuff is really chill as a background

An idea, you can try to make different trains with different purposes ex a firefighter/rescue/heavy transport/ a train on or under the water if possible

I would def add a coal loader into each station that way the trains call refuel and maintain constant speed ;o Also the Scedule timestamp is missing a H.

Considering how long the video is, it really didn't feel long. You covered everything so well, kept it interesting, and made the time fly by. Well done

I was blown away that the trains consider Right-of-Way at intersections! Thank you for this extensive showcase. I'm gonna be rewatching it a few times for a few ideas.

This is a very high effort tutorial! Great video!

One thing, most steam locomotives need a tender, also called the coal car, as it hold extra water and coal to keep the loco moving

I love this tutorial! Your voice and guides are absolutely perfect.

I clicked on this tutorial thinking its another one of those crappy fast ones. But no. This really IS the ultimate tutorial! Thanks mate, gained a sub!

amazing explanation and production quality!

As a train enthusiast I am very excited for this! I do wonder though what options if any are there for headlights? I haven’t fully explored the create mod yet. Also I can only imagine how this will revolutionize transportation on servers!

Excellent guide and very helpful in setting up my own trains. Great content as always my man!

Thanks for that tutorial, I'll be doing my underground metro connecting to all the other players villages/bases now :)

Я русский, но мне очень понравился ваш контент . Очень информативные гайды. Я на вас подписался ( надеюсь на меня не будет ненависти из за нации)

love the trains, they remind me so much of the factorio train shenanigans. hope that there could be somethimg done with some external expansion mod types so the trains would require some type of fuel or even electricity to move in the first place, and something that actually would require a train logicstic network in order to move that many items and fluids, like how in factorio you pretty much need to invest in trains with the gigant flow of resorces it mean to reasearch the infinite tecnologies, those science pack requirements could get pretty bonkers high.

This was such a well thought out and explained video, thank you so much for this! It is amazing what they have done with this trains add on and now I can't wait to build something crazy with it! p.s you just earned another sub with it as well :)

I very love Minecraft and Create mod AND NOW I SAW YOUR CHANNEL! FINNALY! YESSS! And now im subscribed! Your channel is very advanced and cool!

Great video! I was wondering one thing. I've seen somewhere that blaze burners can be used as conductors. Is this true, and if so, do you still need to place them in a seat, or can you just glue down the block as long as there's a blaze in there?

I know this is a recent comment, but I tried making your engine in survival with a cannon, it all placed properly but my train station is saying "too many bogeys" and I don't know how to fix that

Amazingly detailed video that must have taken a long time to make!! Thanks for making this

I really hope you go back to your Above and Beyond series, or even start a new series with the new Create trains, I just really wanna see you do another series cus it was always a highlight of my day when you uploaded

i can't assemble the Engine train from your schematic, train station says it has 4 bogeys attached to it. can anyone help solving this?

This is..epic

Loved the video @polartt! Can't wait for the next video man! So, I have some decent Questions for you. 1.) Since you can Make Charcoal by Burning Wood in a Furnace or Blast Furnace and that Coal will make the Train move a bit Faster, does Charcoal have the Same Effect as Coal or will you need to stockpile Coal at various spots within the Rail line? 2.) If you were to have Lights for your Trains, Would you use Glowstone Blocks, Sea Lanterns, Jack-o-Lanterns, Shroomlights or Glow Item Frames with Stained glass in front of it? 3.) If you had a Train Running and there was a Village Raid going on, Would the Train Plow right through the Wave or would it just stop and the Conductor just looks around seriously Considering going on Strike? Yes, There is a Way to tame a Pillager in Minecraft. You have to let the Crossbow break after about 240-270 Arrows, which as DanTDM figured out is the Use of 27 Unenchanted Shields. I wonder if you could have them as like an Armed Guard for any "High Profile" Trains that you might have, like maybe a Gold or Emerald Train?

This was a great tutorial, this update is going to eat my summer lol. Thanks man!

Something im really curious about is how these create trains interact with those see through portals

If you hold glue in your offhand while placing blocks they will be glued together automatically.

Awesome video and the train designs! Thanks for the train schematics :3

thanks for the train schematics i can build a train but what i struggle at is making the train actually look good

Bro was in the same class as nikola tesla and albert einstein 💀💀

Hey polar, i have an odd question So with the rails, do you think they are movable? Like using axis and pistons etc? I was wondering if it were possible to create something like a drawbridge with these rails glued to the floor I know that schedules might mess up but i was just wondering thats all

Nice video, would also love to see you continue your create above and beyond video

Dude this is exactly what I'm looking for, thanks! Just earned my sub.

This new train update is quite literally *amazing!* Like the nether stuff? Simply jaw dropping. I cannot wait to get back into the "minecraft groove" Edit: this guide and update were so good i didn't even realise it has been an hour. Wow!

bro it says too many bogeys

Awesome vid, no words to tell how detailed and well it is done. Thaks a lot!

The showcase at the end was so awesome!

By hiding tracks under roads, we can use trains to make cars

Thanks, you were a big help since I had trouble understanding it.

Great vid! Thank you. I can find whatever I need for my builds! Subscribing!

Thank you for making this I was very confused by the trains

You're my favorite Create axed creator. You're great!

I'm just starting the create mod in survival and have made an iron farm, this is so helpful as I can build a train to power my steam engines with lava, thanks!

Create is wild man. A mod of this caliber cannot keep up at this rate, but it's sure tried. Wowee, what a masterpiece

What an awesome tutorial, ya rly got everything in Worth every minute watching

I’m late to the party, but I figured I’d suggest anyway. Anyone who’s interested and maybe not aware, a bunch of mods/add-ons like Create: Deco, Create: Design N Decor, Create: Crystal Clear, Quark and Architect’s Palette are great mods to add some nice design touches to your own train and rolling stock designs. I use them in my custom mod pack along with a lot of others Anyway, awesome video, Polar!

this video was awesome, i finally know alot about trains, very worth the hour.

Nice train schematic, i made a train caboose using the passenger car from your train schematic and i replaced crushing wheels on train engine with black boilers from daves be mod and added a caged light as train lamp

Would really like to see a video on setting up train schedules on the display boards.

that train design at the beginning looks awesome!

Very good tutorial, thanks to this video I believe i understand everything about trains in create now.

As someone who played a ton of railroad tycoon 3 when I was a kid this makes me very happy

man i wish above and beyond got updated to this. cuz the automation goals and stuff you need to do in that pack suit trains so well

This was the fastest 50 minutes of my life, very helpful, thanks!

Can we get your railway example world? Love the detailed video! Great job!

Seeing all the rail road track patterns reminded me instantly of factorio and how much I do with trains there.. There's a lot...

Tysm I've been so confused with V5 and the trains 😓🥳

Bro I expected a simple tutorial not a 50 minute document of how you can use the trains xd i love it i really apreatiate the effort you put into it

I didn't understand the signals but thanks to you now I learned how to use it

if you like trains like these, there is a game called factorio which uses the same train systems, but you can build massive factories.

This was the best train video so far thanks for this

Perfect tutorial from zero to hero at this

Honestly I came here because after seeing a preview of a minecraft train I had stop and watch it! But I don't think I'd be able to remember any of what you taught us. Great format though!

Oooo using crushing wheels to make the front circular is genius!

the train signals are basically the same as factorio, so I recommend Nilaus' masterclass on train signals in factorio to learn how to use em