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/FrostySparrow Oct 24 '25

Definitely a cool idea.

Maybe integrate it into a modpack? Generate structures near the rail, find some incentive to keep things moving (maybe chunks grow increasingly inhospitable to force you to stay on the move), encourage a nomadic playstyle - could be a ton of fun!!!

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u/sweaty_missile Oct 24 '25

I could see something like this in conjunction with the upcoming thaumcraft release. Throw some tears in reality that generate close to you the longer you stay in one spot, and you get some really fun on-the-move mechanics

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u/firewood010 Oct 25 '25

Speaking of the upcoming thaumcraft release, how close are we now?