Custom rail type
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 12:26 am
TL;DR
The ability to specify a separate type of rails and then select the type in the train and cars.
Why?
At the moment, the rails are rails, you can change the appearance, and that's it. But why not add the ability to choose which tracks the train can go on?
Specifically, I am interested in this because I want to make a mod where moving on normal rails is unacceptable, but all I can do now is not to let my train be put on normal rails, no one will prevent me from connecting my rails with normal ones.
I think I'm not the only one who want it, we can come up with a lot of interesting mods if we can specify separate types of rails, such as rail tracks for planes, cargo ships https://mods.factorio.com/mod/cargo-ships without workarounds or my idea is a vacuum train that can only travel inside its tube
The ability to specify a separate type of rails and then select the type in the train and cars.
Why?
At the moment, the rails are rails, you can change the appearance, and that's it. But why not add the ability to choose which tracks the train can go on?
Specifically, I am interested in this because I want to make a mod where moving on normal rails is unacceptable, but all I can do now is not to let my train be put on normal rails, no one will prevent me from connecting my rails with normal ones.
I think I'm not the only one who want it, we can come up with a lot of interesting mods if we can specify separate types of rails, such as rail tracks for planes, cargo ships https://mods.factorio.com/mod/cargo-ships without workarounds or my idea is a vacuum train that can only travel inside its tube