Basically they tried to make some improvements to carts in general, fucked that up, then "reverted" that change and since then powered carts don't work. There's even a fix posted a year ago on the damn ticket itself - but apparently they are too busy adding attention-grabbing bullshit to even do a simple copy / paste job in order to fix major flaws in the game.
You'd think, in a game called "Minecraft", that minecarts would get more attention. Alas...
However, now that I've looked at this again, it appears they are finally planning to do something about this problem, where "something" is just removing powered carts altogether: https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/699241247391772672
And don't get me started on boats - though they did eventually fix that after a few years.
Right... Thanks for that. That's very disappointing. Still, there might be a remote chance that Minecraft is eventually open sourced. This is New Microsoft after all.
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-51053
Basically they tried to make some improvements to carts in general, fucked that up, then "reverted" that change and since then powered carts don't work. There's even a fix posted a year ago on the damn ticket itself - but apparently they are too busy adding attention-grabbing bullshit to even do a simple copy / paste job in order to fix major flaws in the game.
You'd think, in a game called "Minecraft", that minecarts would get more attention. Alas...
However, now that I've looked at this again, it appears they are finally planning to do something about this problem, where "something" is just removing powered carts altogether: https://twitter.com/jeb_/status/699241247391772672
And don't get me started on boats - though they did eventually fix that after a few years.