Alright so I was just wondering if anybody has done the math of how many rail pieces are required to travel 1km. If anyone can tell me Im just going to double that and make a booster track
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So, you want to know how many 1 meter tracks it will take to have a 1000 meter combined length...
1 block = 1 meter
1 track = 1 block
1000 tracks = 1000 meters
1000 meters = 1 kilometer
I hope this isnt a troll question.
Unfortunately, the achievement doesn't seem to count each individual rail (unless they are in a straight line?). As such, you likely will end up needing more rail than you should (ex: I currently have a track that registers over 1km on the stats screen when traveled end to end yet doesn't award the achievement).
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Alright so I was just wondering if anybody has done the math of how many rail pieces are required to travel 1km. If anyone can tell me Im just going to double that and make a booster track
My awnser is: ZERO
Why?
Well first lets look at the question;
"How many railpieces" Ok so your asking too know the number of 1m pieces of track needed to do something.
"required to travel 1km" k, well to walk 1 metre it takes 0, multiply that by 1000 and we have ZERO track pieces.
Though if you really mean "how many track pieces too travel 1km by rail"
It's 1000.
If you want to 'look' clever by playing on semantics, then you should probably learn the language first.
Unfortunately, the achievement doesn't seem to count each individual rail (unless they are in a straight line?). As such, you likely will end up needing more rail than you should (ex: I currently have a track that registers over 1km on the stats screen when traveled end to end yet doesn't award the achievement).
Really? That sucks.
I'm up to 500m so far with my railway. It's just a straight line, one wide, three blocks high. It takes forever not only to dig that out (and fix up all the wonderful caves I find along the way) and get all the rails.
My counting method has basically been to make 9 tiles of regular track, and every 10th is a powered track (with a redstone torch in a notch in the wall next to it).
Every 10 powered tracks, I put up a sign saying how many hundred meters it is so far.
The biggest problem has been keeping the track animal free in those places where it's not in a cave/hill/mountain. I've been building it at sea level.
"On a Rail" requires your map coordinates to change by 1000 in any cardinal direction, since the time you got in the cart. If your rail moves diagonally (NE, NW, SE, SW), has curlicues or excess turns, you have to build more to get there. If you just build a little loop, you won't get the achievement.
That's 6000/16 iron ores for the minimum rail, perfectly straight, but you need to make propulsion. With a not-so-straight track and a powered rail every ~32 meters, I used about 375 iron, 60 gold, and mountains of cobblestone. You could use the momentum tricks instead of powered rails, but that costs even MORE iron.
So the track must be perfectly straight. Shucks. Sheep or caves don't get in the way if you build the track 30 blocks above sea level.
The track can be all kinds of crooked, but you'll need more track to do it.
Let's say that you measure your east/west coordinate with X, and your north/south coordinate with Z. All that matters is that you get on at coordinates X,Z and you ride without getting out of the cart until you pass (X-1000,Z), or (X+1000,Z), or (X,Z-1000), or (X,Z+1000).
This track ride is about 1700 meters long, but barely crosses the 1000 mark near the end because it takes a huge diversion and several smaller ones.
I really wish they would make this achievement count the number of rails traveled across, and not the number of blocks. Laying 1,000+ rails is in itself an achievement!
I just built an overcomplicated minecart railway system only to find that I'll probably need another 1000 track pieces to finish it if I want it to get 1,000 tiles away.
Unfortunately Minecraft glitched on two separate occasions with a black window error which cost me about 128 rails and 1 bed. Well, at least I replaced the rails easily enough with MCEdit.
I'm currently flipping on whether to go mine the next 1,000 track pieces worth or just MCEdit the frigging thing in and hope Minecraft doesn't crash trying to traverse it. *sighs*
So, you want to know how many 1 meter tracks it will take to have a 1000 meter combined length...
1 track = 1 block
1000 tracks = 1000 meters
1000 meters = 1 kilometer
I hope this isnt a troll question.
Unfortunately, the achievement doesn't seem to count each individual rail (unless they are in a straight line?). As such, you likely will end up needing more rail than you should (ex: I currently have a track that registers over 1km on the stats screen when traveled end to end yet doesn't award the achievement).
If you want to 'look' clever by playing on semantics, then you should probably learn the language first.
Really? That sucks.
I'm up to 500m so far with my railway. It's just a straight line, one wide, three blocks high. It takes forever not only to dig that out (and fix up all the wonderful caves I find along the way) and get all the rails.
My counting method has basically been to make 9 tiles of regular track, and every 10th is a powered track (with a redstone torch in a notch in the wall next to it).
Every 10 powered tracks, I put up a sign saying how many hundred meters it is so far.
The biggest problem has been keeping the track animal free in those places where it's not in a cave/hill/mountain. I've been building it at sea level.
This man has created a car. Wow... Just wow...
That's 6000/16 iron ores for the minimum rail, perfectly straight, but you need to make propulsion. With a not-so-straight track and a powered rail every ~32 meters, I used about 375 iron, 60 gold, and mountains of cobblestone. You could use the momentum tricks instead of powered rails, but that costs even MORE iron.
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The track can be all kinds of crooked, but you'll need more track to do it.
Let's say that you measure your east/west coordinate with X, and your north/south coordinate with Z. All that matters is that you get on at coordinates X,Z and you ride without getting out of the cart until you pass (X-1000,Z), or (X+1000,Z), or (X,Z-1000), or (X,Z+1000).
This track ride is about 1700 meters long, but barely crosses the 1000 mark near the end because it takes a huge diversion and several smaller ones.
I really wish they would make this achievement count the number of rails traveled across, and not the number of blocks. Laying 1,000+ rails is in itself an achievement!
I just built an overcomplicated minecart railway system only to find that I'll probably need another 1000 track pieces to finish it if I want it to get 1,000 tiles away.
Unfortunately Minecraft glitched on two separate occasions with a black window error which cost me about 128 rails and 1 bed. Well, at least I replaced the rails easily enough with MCEdit.
I'm currently flipping on whether to go mine the next 1,000 track pieces worth or just MCEdit the frigging thing in and hope Minecraft doesn't crash trying to traverse it. *sighs*
Cheers ...
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