High Speed Rail

The high speed rail is an upgraded counterpart of the vanilla Minecraft rails. With it costing six steel plates and one iron plate to make 16 at once, it can be somewhat costly to produce in bulk, but in exchange, it offers speeds comparable to a steep drop with vanilla rails. It also has the questionable advantage of having a sleeker appearance with darker colors being used for the rails themselves.

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Alongside this, there is also the High Speed Booster Rail. This functions the same as a powered rail from vanilla Minecraft, and allows one to maintain the aforementioned high speeds along even a flat rail. Its speed boost also functions for longer (mainly due to momentum) though it is mildly more expensive in exchange for this (with it only producing six booster rails per craft). Despite this, you'll most likely only need to craft it a few times even for long distance rails.

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