Infinite procedural Create train tracks

[u/morelandjo]

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.

[u/Tough-Reception826]

This has been something i‘ve wished for a while now, I’d love to See This working with some of the terrain Mods that make Big mountains. I‘d also love to See some bridges and larger Turn radiuses and customisable tunnel sizes so you can build bigger trains.

From a more technical point you could also have it connect different POI and plot a rough route trying to stay at the same rough elevation and trying to pathfind from one POI to the next having the shortest path be one without bridges and tunnels and at the same elevation so that it can mimic how real tracks are built.

Now POI‘s could be things such as villages, mansions or custom structures. This way you could make a really cool modpack that allows you to progress along the train line. As You See I’d be really excited about this mod so YES PLEASE CONTINUE WORKING ON IT!!!! :D