How to make Rails in Minecraft

To make rails in Minecraft, you will need:

1. 6 Iron Ingots
2. 1 Stick

Iron ingots:

To craft an iron ingot, you will have to put a piece of iron ore into a furnace. Put the iron ore into the top slot of your furnace and fuel into your bottom like the picture below:

6 Iron ingots are needed so 6 Iron ores will be needed. Iron can only be mined with a stone pickaxe or better; using a wooden or gold pickaxe will not yield any ore. Once it is mined, the user will gain an ore block that they can place, but they will not be able to make any items using the ore.

Sticks:

A stick in Minecraft is an important simple object that is used to build several other items in the game. They are used purely for crafting material since they cannot be placed in the world or utilized on their own. 4 sticks at a time will be produced by the following crafting process:

In a Nutshell:

To make rails, open the crafting area made up of the 3x3 grid. Fill the entirety of the 1st and 3rd column with 6 Iron Ingots, then place a wooden stick in the center of the crafting grid. Now simply click the rails and drag them into your inventory.

Here is the step-by-step pictorial guide you need to follow to make Rails in Minecraft:

Step 1: Open the Crafting table

Open your crafting table to begin crafting the ender chest with the obtained ingredients contained in your inventory. Once you open your crafting table you will have the 3x3 crafting grid similar to the picture below:

Step 2: Place Iron ingots:

In this first row, there should be 1 iron ingot in the first box and 1 iron ingot in the third box the second box should be left empty. In the second row, there should be 1 iron ingot in the first box, and 1 iron ingot in the third box. In the third row, there should be 1 iron ingot in the first box and 1 iron ingot in the third box with the second box should be left empty.

Step 3: Place the Sticks:

When making rails, it is important that the iron ingots and the stick are placed in the exact pattern as the image below. Six iron ingots and one stick produce 16 rails.

Step 4: Place it in your inventory:

Take the rail and drag it to your inventory:

To change the velocity of a minecart, powered rails are used. When powered with Redstone, they increase the speed while acting as a brake when turned off. If one end of the rail is blocked, turning on a powered rail lets a stopped minecart begin moving in the nonblocked direction. Effectively, players can then load and unload carts.

1. Open your crafting table

Open the crafting table in the same way as before.

2. Add Gold ingots

The first item to be introduced in the powered rails is a golden ingot, and you will be needing 6 of them. But this will take longer than iron to mine given its comparatively higher rarity.

3. Add Restone

Redstone is the main item in this recipe, and its placement on the crafting grid is crucial too.

5. Add the stick

Finally, place the stick and complete the recipe.

6. Drag it to your inventory:

Rails can be found naturally placed on the floors of mineshafts and in woodland mansions. They can also appear in generated chests in mineshafts.

While Pickaxes will yield the fastest time in breaking rails, you do not need to use any specific tool to obtain rails upon breaking. A rail can also be broken by breaking the block that it is placed on top of.

You can use a redstone current to change the direction, or curvature, of a rail. If a rail has two potential lanes to direct into, a redstone current will flip between the two possible directions.

Minecarts will also behave in a predictable way if it ever travels through a T-shaped intersection. In some cases, even when the rail depicts a certain path, the minecart will travel in a predetermined direction.

Credits: MCBasic

You did it! You learned how to make a railed, as well as its powered variant. The engineering of rails and Redstone can be difficult to understand. Many players switch to Creative mode, giving them endless inventory items so that they can build and test their ideas. Use Creative mode as a way to practice building your Redstone creations and rails.