All new electric powered trains! These locomotives use a new item (Train Powerpacks) which get used up and must be recharged in a Powerpack Charging Station. Sometimes Powerpacks will be destroyed on charging, and these is a refurbishment recipe if you so choose! A more down to earth, standalone adaptation of electric locomotives. This adds a new level of fresh to vanilla feeling train modifications with new logistical problems to solve! See github README for more info!
Entities
Electric Locomotive and Electric Wagon Locomotive
- These locomotives run on Electric Train Powerpacks have a 20% power to weight improvement over their vanilla counterpart, and have a top speed of 518Km/h. This can be configured in mod settings
- They are quite expensive to make, due to this improvement
Electric cargo and fluid wagon
- These have a 20% storage buff over their vanilla counterparts, although this can be configured in mod settings
- Since they run on MAGLEV tech, adding extra cars does not increase frictional forces, only weight!
Powerpack charging stations
- There are two tiers of powerpack chargers, normal and experimental. To use Experimental Train Powerpack Charging Station, you must complete its research which unlocks faster (3X) charging.
- Powerpacks have a chance of being destroyed, 1% and 15% for normal and fast charging respectively. You can turn this off in mod settings.
- You can refurbish destroyed Powerpacks in a chemical plant with some sulphuric acid!
New features! (0.2.X)
- Electric Trains is now compatible with Space Exploration!
- Electric Trains now inherit equipment grids from other mods.
- New types of train powerpacks! What sort of train network do you want to create? Short distance where acceleration is key? Or maybe extra long distance where top speed is valuable? What about saving resources with more efficient fuels?
- Alkaline powerpacks as a low-performance option to bypass the recharging/refurbishment infrastructure.
What can I look forward to?
- Check out the discussion page for content ideas!
Credits
- NullCascade wrote some compatibility code for locomotives and wagons inheriting equipment grids from other mods.
- FragJacker for some of the base entity modelling and some of the initial code! This mod was initially a fork from their Space Trains mod before renaming, balancing, adding research and new buildings and items :)