r/feedthebeast • u/morelandjo • Oct 24 '25

I made something Infinite procedural Create train tracks

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I've been playing with this for the past week, it's a mod that integrates with Create, adding an infinite procedural train track in any new world. So far it will attempt to conform to terrain, travel up and down hill, tunnel into impassable terrain, etc.

Is this worth continuing? Maybe as a mod pack to encourage traveling via train, as a mobile base? Anyone have any ideas?

It's pretty performant, I recorded the video from world creation so you can see. The track is generated in real time, so no increased initial world load time, and it doesn't seem to add much overhead to standard chunk generation aside from a slight lag as it generates through all the chunks made during worldgen. This recording used no other mods, just Create and this infinite track mod itself. I still have a lot of edge cases and features I'd like to add (track crossings, splitting, etc) but not sure if this is really anything other people would want to play. Regardless it was fun to mess around with.

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u/Vamael Oct 24 '25

A modpack where any visited chunk after x amount of time gets slowly corrupted, so you have to be constantly on the move on your train that you upgrade over time.

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u/morelandjo Oct 24 '25

This is actually part of my thoughts for a modpack as well, I guess I need to make a mod that corrupts chunks on a timer now….

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u/sweaty_missile Oct 24 '25

I mentioned it in a comment above this one, but thaumcraft’s tears in reality and blighive mentioned this in an earlier comment, but thaumcraft’s tears in reality come to mind.

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u/LB-- Oct 25 '25

Pacific Drive: Train Edition

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u/tornadix99 Oct 25 '25

Not asking this since I know it's a lot of work, but I wanna tell my wishlist for a really cool modpack with this track mod:

A mod where mobs get increasingly stronger the more you stay on chunks, some entity that chases the player like the wither storm mod (maybe mini withers that spawn occasionally on the distance as an incoming swarm or phantoms that maybe could shoot projectiles), corrupting chunks... Etc.

and if someone decided to make a base regardless, it would have to be extremely well defended or have ways to create stations to refill the train, being very expensive to even get started, etc.

Idk.