CartLift

Minecart Lift
CartLift in use on Phoenix Island
About
ID	CartLift
Self-Triggering	Yes
Clickable	No
Input	No
Output	No
Rail	Yes
Block	Orange Wool
Sign Format
Second line	[CartLift]
Third line	all:none
Fourth line	all:none
Craftbook Page

CartLift allows you to lift up or down mine carts on a rail.

Mechanics

• Rails used for CartLift must be placed onto an Orange Wool block -- this includes the cart origin as well as destination(s).
• The sign to activate the lift must be placed 1 or 2 blocks under the origin rail. It may be placed either on top of a block, or on the side of a block, it does not matter.
• The direction of the Sign matters! Especially the sign under the destination wool, even if you think that does not need a sign at all
  • After the Lift the minecart will attempt to face the direction that the sign faced (the direction you face when you make the sign).
  • If the Sign faces either direction of the destination rail, then it will successfully move in that direction, regardless of which direction the minecart was moving on the source rail.
  • If the Sign faces perpendicular, but the source rail was parallel to the destination rail, then "inertia" will keep the cart moving in the same direction that it was already moving.
  • If the source and destination are perpendicular, and the Sign faces opposite the direction of the destination rail, then the cart will come to a halt on the destination rail.
• The cart may be lifted up or down any number of blocks, there is no distance limit. (I think -- I tested this up to 30 blocks)
• The speed at which the cart is moving before it is lifted is the same speed it will be moving after.
• If the cart is moving very slowly, it will not be picked up by the lift. A slow moving cart can cross entirely over the Orange Wool block and still not be lifted.

Sign

• Third line (optional)
  • The sorting option to sort carts to go up.
• Fourth line (optional)
  • The sorting option to sort carts to go down.

Options

• All - Directs all carts
• Unoccupied - Directs carts without entities inside (to include carts with hoppers, chests, furnaces, etc...)
• Empty - Same as Unoccupied
• Storage - Directs just Chest Minecarts
• Powered - Directs just Powered Minecarts
• Hopper - Directs just Hopper Minecarts
• TNT - Directs just TNT Minecarts
  
• Minecart - Directs just plain old minecart with or without riders
• Occupied - Directs minecarts that have an entity rider
• Full - Same as Occupied
• Animal - Directs minecarts with an animal rider
• Mob - Directs minecarts with a mob rider
• Player - Directs minecarts with a player rider
• #stationname - Directions minecarts that are set to stop at stationname with /st stationname
  • If the station name on the sign has a * it can match multiple stations such as #batugus* will match batugus and batuguslabs
• NoStop - function unknown
• CTNS - Directs storage and hopper minecarts which are not empty
• !CTNS - Directs storage and hopper minecarts which are empty

The following options use extra item information to sort carts. That information is id:quantity@damage where quantity and damage are optional.These options may also be inverted using ! after the option name and before the information (ie: Held:!1)

• Held - Directs minecarts who's player is holding a given item, NONE can be used in place of item info
• INV - Directs minecarts who's player have a given item in their inventory
• SCI - Directs storage and hopper minecarts which have a given item in the first slot of their inventory
• SCI+ - Same as SCI but checks entire inventory

The following options use extra information to sort carts. These options may also be inverted using ! at the start of the extra information (ie: Group:!admins)

• Group:<groupname> - Directs carts with players of a specified group
• Ply:<playername> - Directs carts with a player who's name matches (name must be short enough to fit on the same line)
• Plym:<partialname> - Directs carts with a player who's name contains the given string
• Cart:<cartname> - Directs named carts whos name matches
• Cartm:<partialcartname> - Directs named carts whos name contains the given string

Examples

[CartLift]
all

This sign will allow the minecart to go up only.

[CartLift]
Empty
all

This sign will allow Empty minecarts to go up and the rest to go down.

See Also

• CartSort - Like CartLift but sorts minecarts left or right.
• Lift - Regular craftbook lifts.