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Minecart Track Spiral Builder

The minecart track spiral builder automates the building of a vertical spirals of minecart track including terrain digging and space clearance with options to set the segment heights and build patterns using turbo rails. Track components needed for construction must be available in attached hoppers. If a component is not available, then the builder will stop until the component becomes available. Existing track component directly in the path of the new track will be removed by the builder and stored in an attached hopper.

Two settings exist to set if the spiral is built up or down and clockwise or counterclockwise. The first track piece is always a slope along the forward height. The forward and sideways height settings control number of up or down slopes along the horizontal axes before a corner occurs. If the sideways height is set to zero, then each forward height interval will end with a 180 degree turn and no sideways length.

The turbo option determines if the build pattern will including turbo rail tracks or space for turbo rail to be added later using straight rails now. If a turbo option is selected that includes or accommodates turbo rail in the build, then an additional placement option will be available to set if the turbo rail should occur at the start, middle, or each of each slope.


Research Requirements: Rolling Stock and 1 research point.

Manufacturer Category: Minecarts


Update 2/16/2019:
- Fix incorrect time interval use of key press debounce time which could cause unexpected behavior of repeating keys being too slow or too fast.
- Fix holding down of range and height change keys not repeating correctly.

Update 9/25/2018:
- Refresh build for release P22.
- Add room awareness.

Update 7/24/2018:
- Add option for building with scrap track.
- Track will now be automatically converted between slope, curve, and straight.

Update 6/10/2018:
- Fix key press debounce issues.

Update 5/22/2018:
- Revised recipes to mesh better with new FCE recipe set.
- Reduced research point cost to 1.