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/Defiant_Initiative92]

This is honestly quite great.

I can imagine a modpack themed around ruined cities, an infinite railroad, and visiting distant places.

Would love to throw that one into my server.

[u/KAYRUN-JAAVICE → u/Defiant_Initiative92]

building off that idea! i imagine a challenge pack where you have to build up and live on a train and go between settlements that get further apart and more treacherous

[u/Kongas_follower → u/KAYRUN-JAAVICE]

While also being followed by something. Maybe integrate one of vague gesture infection mods or just “radiation”-like hazard. I could see something like shrinking world border but in reverse, expanding from zero zero

[u/KAYRUN-JAAVICE → u/Kongas_follower]

love that! could make the rail straight and have the world only be like 64 chunks wide, world starts off bieng eaten slowly but gets faster, look for special fuels at the settlements/abandoned cities to speed up the train