Coupling and uncoupling for Unified Train Logistics: trains leave wagons at stations, shunting locomotives fetch, bring and park them.
Mods introducing new content into the game.
Version: 0.0.1
Date: 2026-10-27
Features:
- New UTL station roles: wagon yard, shunting depot, turnaround.
- Wagon yard: trains leave all wagons behind their locomotives and pick up the wagons waiting ahead of them, then carry on with their schedule. Mode per station: leave and pick up, only leave, only pick up.
- Every coupling is announced to UTL, so deliveries and schedules survive it.
- Shunting depot checks that shunting locomotives drive both ways.
- Shunting: a wagon yard can name a target wagon yard (right away, when empty or when full). A free shunting locomotive fetches the wagons left there and brings them to the target, using a turnaround if needed.
- Shunting picks a free target track among wagon yards with the same name and pushes the wagons in (via a turnaround if needed).
- Relay: signal "Relay" with value N at a requester or provider routes its deliveries via the wagon yard with relay number N. The delivery stays with the wagons; the next train picking them up delivers it.
- Wagon yard: a train that pushes its wagons in leaves them there and backs off (needs a locomotive facing backwards). Handover on a single track with two stops facing each other.
- Wagon yard: "Control train limit" – the stop sets its train limit to 0 while wagons block it (leave) or none wait ahead (pick up).
- Map setting "Wagon yard: move up to waiting wagons" (default off): without it, trains couple only when they stop right at the wagons.
- Wagons already standing at a wagon yard are registered when the mod starts (remote function "scan").
- Scenario "UTL Coupling Yard – large network": own network of 4 × 3 roundabouts with UTL traffic; an ore mine and a factory with transfer and shunting yards, a mainline train travels between them.
- Shunting locomotives use the nearest turning stop, only work within 400 tiles, and approach wagons from the end the train pathfinder can reach (not through the wagons' own signal block).
- Remote function "crawl": switches the map setting "move up to waiting wagons" (for scenarios).
- Scenario "UTL Coupling Yard – shunting yard": large shunting yard with real loading and unloading, demo tracks.
Info:
- Pre-beta: first test version, things may still change.
- No timers while nothing is being shunted.
- Licensed under MIT.