└ Module: tracks|abandoned

The abandoned track type is featured with their ability to stay suspended, make carts derail, and grow grass. This type of tracks are made with normal rails and single wooden ties.

Abandoned tracks require less wood and creosote than iron tracks. In general, you'd better build this type of track when you are short on creosote or time. They may be useful if you desire to build a lot of tracks in a short time.

When you need to build across a canyon, they might become helpful. Mobs and players cannot walk on suspended abandoned tracks.

However, carts can derail if they are too fast on abandoned tracks. When the speed of carts on abandoned tracks exceed 0.35 block per tick (7m/s, 87.5% of the speed limit of normal rails), the train starts to have a chance of derailing. Each tick after exceeding that speed limit, a cart has .2% chance to derail. The chance increases to 4% in one second, and to almost 1/3 in 10 seconds. For a train, when a cart in the train derails, the whole train derails.

An abandoned track will grow grass when it is next to a block of tall grass.

See: Crafting Guide

• The abandoned tracks can grow grass. The grass is purely decorative.
• Its speed limit is the same as that of reinforced track type, 125% of that of iron track type.
• Its maximum suspension distance is 2 blocks on one end, allowing it to cross over a gap of 4 blocks.
• Longer trains are more likely to derail, because the chance for each cart to derail increases.
• When a cart derail, it moves to the direction perpendicular to the track.

• Abandoned track type added
• For the old track, see Abandoned Track