HikariVehicle

Features

• Ground Driving — Drive minecarts on any solid surface, not just rails.
• Fuel System — Configurable fuel consumption; fuel is only burned while accelerating.
• Durability — Vehicles wear down over distance and are scrapped when worn out (cargo is still returned).
• Speed-Scaled Collision — Running into entities deals damage that scales with speed up to a configurable cap, with knockback.
• Accurate Death Messages — A custom "run over" message is shown only when the vehicle was the actual killing blow.
• Hazard Handling — Water ejects the driver; lava destroys the vehicle.
• Light Exhaust Trail — Subtle exhaust particles while driving.
• Rail Hand-off — Driving onto a rail hands the cart back to vanilla / rail-transit plugins with the rider still aboard.
• Multi-language — Simplified Chinese (zh_cn) and English (en_us).
• Bedrock Compatible — Works with Geyser/Floodgate for Bedrock players.

Installation

1. Download the latest HikariVehicle-x.x.x.jar from Releases.
2. Place it in your server's plugins folder.
3. Start the server.
4. Adjust plugins/HikariVehicle/config.yml, then run /hv reload.

Requirements

• Paper (or a fork) 1.21.4 or later
• Java 21 or later

Usage

Placing a vehicle

Right-click any solid block with a minecart to place it on the ground (not just on rails).

Driving

1. Right-click the minecart to enter.
2. W — Accelerate forward
3. S / Sneak — Brake
4. A / D — Turn assist
5. Mouse — Steering direction
6. Sneak while stopped — Exit the vehicle

Bedrock players (via Geyser) auto-accelerate while not sneaking and brake by sneaking, since precise key input isn't reliably available.

Fuel

Vehicles consume fuel items from your inventory only while accelerating. Defaults:

Commands

Permissions

Configuration

# Language: zh_cn (简体中文) or en_us (English)
language: zh_cn

# Movement settings
movement:
  max-speed: 10.0          # Maximum speed (blocks/second)
  acceleration: 2.0        # Acceleration (blocks/second²)
  coast-friction: 0.92     # Friction when coasting
  brake-friction: 0.80     # Friction when braking
  min-speed: 0.1           # Minimum speed threshold

# Steering settings
steering:
  max-turn-rate: 15.0      # Max turn rate (degrees/tick)
  turn-damping: 0.3        # Speed-dependent turn damping
  key-turn-rate: 5.0       # A/D key turning boost

# Terrain settings
terrain:
  step-height: 0.5         # Max climbable height (0.5 = slabs)

# Fuel system (only burns while accelerating)
fuel:
  enabled: true
  items:
    COAL: 120
    CHARCOAL: 120
    COAL_BLOCK: 1200
    BLAZE_ROD: 180
    LAVA_BUCKET: 600
  default-burn-time: 60

# Durability system
durability:
  enabled: true
  max-durability: 1000
  distance-per-durability: 10.0

# Collision settings (damage scales with speed)
collision:
  enabled: true
  damage: 1.0              # Base damage at min-speed (HP; 2 HP = 1 heart)
  max-damage: 4.0          # Cap reached at movement.max-speed (HP)
  min-speed: 3.0           # Minimum speed (m/s) to deal damage
  knockback: 0.5
  damage-cooldown: 20      # Ticks between damage to the same entity (20 = 1s)
  death-track-window: 100  # Death attribution window (ticks)

# Hazard settings
hazards:
  water:
    eject-delay: 20        # Ticks before water ejection
  lava:
    instant-destroy: true

# Visual effects
effects:
  exhaust:
    enabled: true
    type: SMOKE            # Light trail; CAMPFIRE_SIGNAL_SMOKE is the heavy column
    count: 1
    only-when-accelerating: true

Rail Compatibility

HikariVehicle is designed to coexist with rail-transit plugins:

• Minecarts on rails use vanilla / rail-plugin behavior.
• Minecarts on the ground use HikariVehicle driving.
• Driving onto a rail hands the cart back to rail behavior with the rider still aboard (you are no longer ejected). Re-mount on the ground to resume driving.

Building

git clone https://github.com/HyacinthHaru/HikariVehicle.git
cd HikariVehicle
mvn clean package

The compiled JAR will be in target/HikariVehicle-x.x.x.jar.

License

Licensed under the MIT License — see LICENSE.

Credits

Developed for the HikariCraft server.