Detector Rail

Detector Rail

Type	Non-Solid Block
Stackable	Yes (64)
Damage	{{{damage}}}
Protection	{{{protection}}} x
Durability	{{{durability}}}
First Appearance	Beta 1.5
Filtering	{{{filters}}}
Buoyancy	{{{buoy}}}
Gravity	{{{gravity}}}
Flammable	{{{flammable}}}
Data Value	28

These are two additional detector rails: wood and soulforged steel while the original stone detector rails are changed as follows.

• Wood detects any minecart passing over it.
• Stone detects any minecart occupied by a mob, animal or player, and the Minecart with Chest,
• Soulforged Steel detects only a minecart which has a player inside.

These changes can be extremely useful in routing carts to various locations in an automated rail network.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Detector Rail	Iron Ingot, Pressure Plate, Redstone

Applications

• Automatic cart sorting station
• Minecart clock with different intervals/sequences on one track

Demonstration Video

Better Than Wolves Lab - Detector rails & Obsidian pressure plate

Note: Before version 4.85, the obsidian pressure plate was used instead of the soulforged steel pressure plate for the exact same purpose.