Rails (Part)

Rails (Part) contains information about the Railcraft mod.

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Rails are a crafting item used in almost all track recipes. There are three types: Standard, Advanced, and High-Speed (H.S.). Advanced rails are used for Redstone related tracks, H.S. rails for high-speed tracks, and standard for everything else.

Standard Rails

Standard Rails are made of Bronze, Iron or Steel, and are combined with Wooden Railbeds to make Standard Tracks. They serve no special purpose; carts and trains travelling on standard rails move at the same speed as they did in vanilla Minecraft.

All of these recipes are crafted in a rolling machine.

Additionally, a player can use the Crafting Table to recycle minecraft tracks into Railcraft Standard Rails:

Advanced Rails

Advanced Rails (formerly Gold-Plated Rails) are a component in tracks that are either a component in, or else operated by, Redstone circuits. They're made by 'doping' Standard rails in a coating of Redstone dust and gold plating.

Made in a rolling machine:

High-Speed (H.S.) Rails

High-Speed, or H.S. Rails (formerly Laminate Rails) are tempered, high-strength steel rails, hardened to resist the forces of high-speed rail travel. Carts traveling on High-Speed Rails can move up to 2.5 times faster, but the additional speed is risky, and can lead to fatal accidents.

High-Speed Rails can only be made from Steel, and have to be combined with a Stone Railbed to form H.S. Tracks.

Made in a rolling machine:

Automation with Logistic Pipes

Currently (Version 6.0.7), crafting logistic pipes are not able to retrieve items from the rolling machine. As a workaround, the following setup is possible:

a Satellite Logistics Pipe connected to the rolling machine
a row of automated rolling machines

a Wooden Transport Pipe powered by a Redstone Engine pulling the items out of the rolling machine into a chest.
a Crafting Logistics Pipe linked to the Satellite Logistics Pipe connected to the chest. The recipe must be set up in a way that the ingredients are pushed into the rolling machine via the satellite pipe. The wooden pipe extracts the crafted result and puts it into the chest. The logistics pipe fetches it from there.

Notes

Patch: Recipes changed significantly with version 5.0.0. Additionally, Gold-Plated and Laminate Rails were renamed to Advanced and H.S. Rails.