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Here's a guide to Vincent's rails. Be sure to use the Dynmap as a reference.

Earlier today, we experienced what appears to be a network outage which caused temporary disruptions to Alice, Vincent, and SKCraft.com. As of 1:30 PM EDT the network has returned to normal, and service has been restored. We apologize for the inconvenience!

Here's a new round of updates to Vincent!

• It will now take a little longer for you to deplete your hunger bar.
• Upon dying, your death coordinates will be printed to your own chat.
• Yellow wool booster blocks now boost more gradually.

Stations

Stations from Vincent of yesteryear are back, but now you place green wool underneath the tracks to mark a station.


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The purpose of stations is that they put your Minecart into a constant reduced speed (after several ticks, at least), which makes it easier to get off. When disembarking from a station, your Minecart will also be removed from the world. Should you stay in your cart through the station, you will start gradually speeding up after you leave the station.

Station Dispensers

It may be conceivable that you may want to be able to get back onto the track and continue down one of the directions. Fortunately, you can also place a dispenser below the track and activate it as you have before (at the terminus of a track).


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The dispenser will dispense unlimited carts onto the rail with a velocity in the direction of the dispenser's forward face.

For those who are not very well versed in Redstone, the pressure plate activates the Redstone wire two blocks below it. Because we can't simply run a wire from the plate to the dispenser (the wire wouldn't point "into" the dispenser), a Redstone repeater is used.

Here are some updates regarding Vincent.

Portal Support

Now you can send Minecarts through Nether portals with passengers! (Minecraft normally does not let you do this). You don't have to worry about which side of the destination portal the rail is on either: the code I've written will detect an adjacent rail to the portal (so only put one) and send the cart away from the portal.

Stations

Remember that dispensers with Minecarts will dispense unlimited carts. In addition, if you are standing on a pressure plate adjacent to the rail when an (empty) cart passes by, you will be put into that cart.

One way to build a station is seen below.



Remember that you can use yellow wool underneath the tracks as boost blocks.

Railway Guidelines

If you're building a railway, try to follow these guidelines:

• Avoid many elevation changes in a short distance.
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• Group together several elevation changes.


• Avoid just putting a railway high up.


• Inset the railway into the ground for long distances whenever you can.

Basically, you want rails to be as straight as possible for as long as possible, and then perform turns or elevation changes all at once.

Here are some examples:

• To maintain elevation, a bridge is used:
• Elevation changes are grouped together here:
• A path was chosen so that it could be as straight for as long as possible:

First, for those who are newer to Alice, Vincent is our Minecraft vanilla-ish server. It recently came back after being unavailable for over a year.

• Unlike Alice, Vincent's spawn is built by players.
• A lot more sharing goes on in Vincent than in Alice.

You can view a map of Vincent's world online at http://maps.skcraft.com/vincent/

What's New

CraftBook was re-added. As some may know, it is probably Minecraft's oldest surviving mod and it was the first mod to bring logic gates, elevators, draw bridges, computers, multiblock structures, and so on to Minecraft. (We ran the first industrial Minecraft server.) It was created by me back in 2010 for Vincent, but I gave the project over to someone else to take over back in 2011. The current features are enabled:

• Logic gates
• Integrated Circuits
• Piping
• Better Pistons (crushers, etc.)
• Better Plants
• Bookcase
• Bridges
• Cauldron
• Cooking Pot
• Dispenser Recipes
• Doors
• Elevator (Lift)
• Gates
• Player Head Drops
• Hidden Switch
• Marquee
• Painting Switcher

In addition, you will find enabled the following Minecart modifier blocks:

• Ejector
• Elevator
• Notifier
• Reverser
• Max Speed

Note that we are using colored wool blocks rather than expensive ore blocks (iron, etc.).

Additionally:

• Boats should no longer break.
• Boats should drop boats when destroyed.
• Minecarts will now plow through entities and kill them.

Free Minecarts

Vincent has always specialized in large Minecart networks. One of the biggest changes to make that more feasible affects how Minecarts are spawned and removed.

• Dispensers will now dispense unlimited Minecarts.
• When a Minecart hits a dispenser, it will be removed.
• Players standing next to a wooden or stone pressure plate adjacent to a rail will be picked up by passing empty Minecarts.

You can find a demo of this at spawn.

Cheaper Rails

Replace the wooden stick in the recipe for Minecart rails and you will get 64x rails rather than 16.

Vincent is our (mostly) vanilla Minecraft server and it's back!



You still need to be whitelisted to SKCraft, and the same rules still apply. Note that there is no pre-built spawn and it's a lot more barebones. Chunk claims are supported in the same manner as they are on Alice. Chat is currently not linked between the servers like they were in the past.

Use the "Vincent 1.7" option in the launcher and connect to either vincent.sk89q.com or atlanta.vincent.sk89q.com (only if you are in the US).