Activator Rail


Obtaining

Activator rails can be crafted and previously-placed activator rails can be broken with bare hands or any tool, dropping themselves as items.

Info

An activator rail is a type of rail that can "activate" certain minecarts Minecart Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 42 PE: 84 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID minecart Drops Minecart (1) Health points 6 () First appearances See History Data value minecraft .

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Breaking

An activator rail can be broken with any tool, dropping itself as an item, but a pickaxe is fastest. To break an activator rail, mine it:

Block
Rails
Hardness 0.7
Tool
Breaking "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by minecraft time
Hand 1.05
Wooden 0.55
Stone 0.3
Iron 0.2
Diamond 0.15
Golden 0.1
  1. ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

An activator rail will also be removed and drop itself as an item:

If lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still minecraft flows into an activator rail`s space, the activator rail will be destroyed without dropping itself as an item.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid minecraft recipe
Iron Ingot+
Stick+
Redstone Torch











6

Natural generation

Activator rails can be found in 27.1% of chest minecarts Minecart with Chest Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 43 PE: 98 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID chest_minecart Drops 1 Minecart 1 Chest plus contents Health points 6 () minecraft in abandoned mineshafts Abandoned mineshaft Biome Any Consists of Wooden Planks Fence Rail Torch Cobweb Dirt Monster Spawner Minecart with Chest Can generate post-generation No First appearances See history "Mine" redirects here. For information about mining, see Mining. minecraft in stacks of 1⃢₀ₓ4.

Usage

An activator rail can be used as a rail and as a redstone component.

To place an activator rail, use an activator rail item while pointing at a surface facing the space the activator rail should occupy. An activator rail can be placed on:

An activator rail cannot be attached to the side or bottom of any block, but attempting to make such an attachment may cause the activator rail to attach to the top of a block under the destination space. For instance, if a fence is on the ground, attempting to attach an activator rail to the side of the fence will cause the activator rail to be attached to the top of the ground next to the fence instead.

When placed, an activator rail will configure itself to line up with any adjacent rails Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 66 hex: 42 bin: 1000010 Name rail See the standard rail. For other uses, minecraft (including detector rails Detector Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 28 hex: 1C bin: 11100 Name detector_rail A detector rail is a block that can transport minecraft , powered rails Powered Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 27 hex: 1B bin: 11011 Name golden_rail A powered rail is a type of rail that minecraft , and other activator rails Activator Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name activator_rail An activator rail is a type of rail that minecraft ), as well as adjacent rails one block up. If there are two adjacent rails on non-opposite sides, or three or more adjacent rails, an activator rail will line up in the east-west direction. If there are no adjacent rails, an activator rail will line up in the north-south direction (but if a rail is later placed to the east or west, the activator rail will re-orient itself in the east-west direction even if it is already connected to another rail to the north or south). If a rail it would line up with is one block up, an activator rail will slant upwards towards it (with multiple options to slant upwards to, an activator rail "prefers", in order: west, east, south, and north). Other configurations can be created by placing and removing various rails.

Rail

Activator rails (and other rails) can be used as "roads" for minecarts Minecart Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 42 PE: 84 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID minecart Drops Minecart (1) Health points 6 () First appearances See History Data value minecraft . A minecart that enters an activator rail`s space from either end of the activator rail will continue to move, losing only a little velocity (which can then be increased again with powered rails Powered Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 27 hex: 1B bin: 11011 Name golden_rail A powered rail is a type of rail that minecraft ). A minecart that enters an activator rail`s space from the side will turn east or south (depending on the activator rail`s orientation), or in the downward direction for a slanted activator rail.

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit See redstone circuits. For other redstone-related articles, see Redstone (disambiguation). Contents 1 Redstone basics 1.1 Redstone components 1.2 Power 1.3 Power level 1.4 Redstone update 1.5 Redstone tick 1.6 Signals and pulses minecraft

Activator rails can be used to affect minecarts that travel over them.

Activation
An activator rail is a redstone mechanism and can be activated by:
An activated activator rail will also activate any adjacent activator rails it is connected to, up to eight away from the original activation source. Thus a single activation source can activate up to 17 rails (one original in the middle and eight on either side). An activated activator rail will not activate adjacent rails which it is not connected to.
Behavior
An activator rail will affect minecarts above it with varying effects. The effects occur as soon as any part of the minecart is on the activator rail.
An active activator rail will:
  • eject mobs (including players) from minecarts as if a player had used the sneak control to exit the minecart (by default, one block to the right of the direction the minecart is moving and up to two blocks up, unless blocked)
  • repeatedly activate command block minecarts — a command block minecart will execute its command every three game ticks until the command block minecart is no longer on the activator rail
  • disable hopper minecarts — a disabled hopper minecart will not pick up items it travels through until it is enabled by an inactive activator rail (or until it is broken and re-placed)
  • prime TNT minecarts — primed TNT minecarts will explode after one second with an explosive power proportional to their speed over the activator rail.
An inactive activator rail will:
  • enable hopper minecarts — an enabled hopper minecart will pick up items it travels through until it is disabled by an active activator rail.

Data values

An activator rail has a numeric ID of 157 in the PC edition, and 126 in the Pocket Edition.

An activator rail has the ID name minecraft:activator_rail and is further defined by its block data. An activator rail also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

Block data

See also: Data values

An activator rail`s block data stores its orientation and activation status:

Bits Values
0x1
0x2
0x4

A three-bit field storing a value from 0 to 5:

  • 0: flat track going north-south
  • 1: flat track going west-east
  • 2: sloped track ascending to the east
  • 3: sloped track ascending to the west
  • 4: sloped track ascending to the north
  • 5: sloped track ascending to the south
0x8 Set if rail is active.

Block state

See also: Block states
Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition minecraft Value Description

⃂powered
true
false
True if rail is activated.

⃂shape
north_south
east_west
Specifies the rail`s orientation.
ascending_north
ascending_south
ascending_east
ascending_west
A rail that ascends towards the direction noted.
For instance, an ascending_west rail is a straight rail that goes upwards from the east towards the west.

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History

Official release
1.5 13w02a Added activator rail.
13w02b Changed crafting recipe to include sticks and redstone torch Redstone Torch Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 7 (when on) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article minecraft . Previously, It only requires 6 iron ingots vertically at the end.
13w03a Activated activator rails disable minecarts with hoppers.
1.7.2 13w39a Activated activator rails activate minecarts with command blocks.
1.8 14w05a Activated activator rails eject players and mobs from minecarts Minecart Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 42 PE: 84 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID minecart Drops Minecart (1) Health points 6 () First appearances See History Data value minecraft .
1.9 15w39a Dismounting location is now predictable. Entities will dismount from vehicle (boats, minecarts, horses) by the right side relative to the motion of the vehicle. If the right side is unavailable, the other potential locations will be tested in this order⃂: Right, Left, Back Right, Back Left, Front Right, Front Left, Back, Front.
15w44a Activator rails can now be found in abandoned mineshaft chest minecarts Minecart with Chest Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 43 PE: 98 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID chest_minecart Drops 1 Minecart 1 Chest plus contents Health points 6 () minecraft .
1.11 16w32b All rail types` hitbox heights are decreased from a full block to a half block.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.13.0 build 1 Added activator rails.
Console Edition
TU19 CU7 1.10 Patch 1 Added activator rails.
TU31 CU19 1.22 Patch 3 Activated activator rails eject players and mobs from minecarts Minecart Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 42 PE: 84 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID minecart Drops Minecart (1) Health points 6 () First appearances See History Data value minecraft .

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