Dunac's Copper Rails
A mod that revitalizes rail travel: copper powered rails are cheaper and more plentiful, while gold powered rails are much faster.
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This mod adds a new item, the Copper Powered Rail. This item functions in exactly the same way as a normal gold powered rail, but accelerates carts more slowly.
As this mod is intended to make rail travel more viable than vanilla, I have compensated for this lower acceleration by significantly increasing the gold powered rail acceleration value. This means your logistics networks can swap copper for gold 1:1 and you should notice only increased efficiency.
I have also increased the minecart max speed to around 200 blocks per second. This is possible by forcing minecarts to use the Minecart Improvements movement logic. NOTE: The player DOES NOT need to enable Experimental Minecart Improvements for this to work. There is the risk that this mod will break minecart-timing-based redstone contraptions.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as copperrail-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 22 KB
- Download link checked 22 Aug 2026 — working
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