High-Speed Rail
ModForget Ice Boats! Build fast rail systems instead.
Type
Mod
Modrinth Downloads
70,184
Modrinth ID
d7PCSOkD
Last Updated
Jul 26, 2026
Description
High-Speed Rail
- Do you think Ice Boats are ridiculous?
- Do you wish minecarts were a viable form of transportation?
- Do you want to push the new minecart physics to absurd limits?
Then this is the mod for you!

New Features! (as of version 0.12.0+1.21.3)
- Support has been added for the new experimental minecart physics.
- You can break the 1000 block-per-second limit on the minecartMaxSpeed gamerule!
- You can change acceleration and deceleration rates as well.
- Minecart behaviors can be set on a per-block basis.
- Building your tracks on diamond blocks? Go 25k bps!
- Force new minecart physics to be enabled in old worlds.
- Accurate speedometer with physics model at any speed.
Features
- Fast Minecarts. Why settle for 8 blocks-per-second? Go 40, 50, 60 bps or more!
- or enable the new Minecart physics and go thousands of blocks-per-second
- Fully customizable. Configure different speed boosts for different blocks.
- No derailing. Minecarts automatically reduce to normal speed on curves.
- Serverside-only. Clients do not need to install the mod.
- Vanilla-friendly. Does not add new blocks to your world.
- Optional minecart speedometer
- Optional nerf for ice boats (boats on ice move the same as on land)
Notes
- The speedometer and ice boat nerf can be turned off in the config file.
- I will not be doing a Forge port of High-Speed Rail.
Notes (for old minecart physics only)
- The speed-up does not work on any curved tracks, including 'diagonal' sections.
- Top speed is increased but not acceleration. Use more powered rails to go faster.
- Speed is capped at 78 blocks-per-minute.
Credits
- High-Speed Rail was inspired by this Reddit post
- And also Gravel Carts which is great mod that implements the same idea a bit differently
- Idea for disabling ice boats borrowed from Ice Boat Nerf
- Idea for speedometer borrowed from Speedometer
Legal
This mod is published under the MIT License.
You're free to include this mod in your modpack provided you attribute it to pcal.net.
Questions?
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