How frequent do you have to use powered rails uphill?
How frequent do I have to place powered rails to keep climbing at full speed?
Some people say that you only have to use the same amount from powered and non powered, but you can do like 3 powered and 3 unpowered. This is not true, I tried that out. The best way seems to be switching between powered and non-powered (one powered, one non-powered, one powered, ...), which brings a big waste of redstone torches with it. Any other ideas? I didn't test it enough to prove it.
This is NOT the same question as this one here. I ask specifically for full speed and not "minimum of powered rails/maintain reasonable speed".
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How far do powered rails push you uphill?
A powered rail cannot do much on its own. One powered rail going uphill will only push you about four or five blocks uphill. Combining many powered rails together at the bottom only seems to increase your speed additively. To really go uphill you will need to space your powered rails as you are going uphill.How long can you travel with one powered rail?
A single powered rail on the flat ground against a stop block gives an occupied cart enough momentum to travel 80 rail tiles on a flat surface, or 8 tiles for an unoccupied cart (in Beta 1.5, this was 64 blocks and 8 blocks respectively).How far can a powered rail push you uphill?
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