
EmAlter's Trains
Design, build, and automate your dream railway network centered around Minecraft Transit Railway.
About this Modpack
The Modpack
All Aboard! This modpack is designed for players who love logistics and architecture. At its core lies the Minecraft Transit Railway mod, offering realistic automated trains and scheduling systems.
We have paired MTR with a curated selection of decoration mods to help you build immersive stations, bustling terminals, and detailed cityscapes around your railway network. Whether you are a fan of engineering or interior design, this pack provides the tools to create a living, breathing transit system.
Better in Creative Mode!
This modpack is best enjoyed in creative multiplayer with friends, for this reason we have included powerful building tools like Axiom and WorldEdit (with WorldEdit CUI) to help you construct the perfect stations and cities with ease!
Contents
Railway & Transit Systems
The core of the experience: build, manage, and automate.
- Minecraft Transit Railway - The heart of the pack: create fully functional automated railways, stations, and depots.
- Joban Client Mod - Enhances the experience with essential station utilities and visual improvements.
- MTR London Underground Addon - Specialized tools and blocks for constructing authentic underground networks.
- Station Decoration - Adds more blocks to bring your platforms to life.
- Tianjin Metro - Enhances the experience with essential station utilities and visual improvements.
Architecture & Aesthetics
Everything you need to design immersive cities and stations.
- Banner Flags - Allows for horizontal banner placement for better signage.
- Beautify: Refabricated - Vanilla-styled decorations to add warmth to interiors.
- Display Case - Showcase items inside glass cases.
- Enchanted Vertical Slabs - Adds vertical slabs for finer building control.
- Fantasy Armor (Medieval Series) - Adds new cosmetic armor sets.
- Fantasy Weapons (Medieval Series) - Adds a variety of new cosmetic weapons.
- Handcrafted - A massive collection of furniture and interior items.
- New Slab Variants - Expands the slab options to include nearly every block material.
- Paladin's Furniture Mod - High-quality furniture for modern interiors.
- Signed Paintings - Display custom images in-game using URLs.
- Terraqueous - Adds lush vegetation, fruits, and flowers to landscaping.
- TrafficCraft - Essential road signs and asphalt decorations for city streets.
- Weaponworks - Expands the arsenal with vanilla-friendly weapon designs.
- Yuushya Townscape - Comprehensive urban building blocks and decorations.
Optimization & Performance
Keeping your trains running smoothly with high FPS.
- Enhanced Block Entities - Increase performance of block entity rendering
- Entity Culling - Skips rendering hidden entities to boost frame rates.
- Ferrite Core - Significantly reduces memory usage.
- Immediately Fast - Optimizes immediate mode rendering for better efficiency.
- Lithium - General-purpose game logic optimization.
- Memory Leak Fix - Patches known memory leaks to prevent crashes over time.
- ModernFix - An all-in-one performance booster and bug fixer.
- Skip Transitions - Remove intrusive or distracting transition effects
- Sodium - Powerful rendering engine replacement for high FPS.
- Sodium Extra - Unlocks additional video settings for Sodium.
- Starlight (Fabric) - Rewrites the lighting engine for instant updates.
- ThreadTweak - Improves CPU thread scheduling.
Quality of Life & Utilities
Enhancements for gameplay, interface, and mechanics.
- 3D Skin Layers - Displays the player's skin layer in 3D
- Chat Heads - Displays the player's head next to their chat messages (Client).
- Continuity - Enables connected textures for glass and other blocks.
- Creative Fly - Provides better control and speed while flying in creative mode.
- Diagonal Fences - Connects fences diagonally.
- Diagonal Walls - Connects walls diagonally.
- Diagonal Windows - Connects glass panes diagonally.
- Easy NPC - Easily create and customize NPCs for your world.
- Emojiful - Adds emoji support to the in-game chat.
- Energized Power - Adds basic energy mechanics and tech items.
- Mod Menu - Visual interface to view and configure installed mods.
- Server Chat Heads - Displays player heads in chat (Server).
- VinURL - Play custom music from the web via music discs.
- Xaero's Minimap - Detailed minimap with waypoint support.
- Xaero's World Map - Full-screen world map integration.
- Zoomify - Adds a configurable zoom key.
Core Libraries & APIs
Essential frameworks required for the mods above to function.
- Architectury API
- Cloth Config API
- Fabric API
- Fabric Language Kotlin
- Filters API
- Forge Config API Port
- Geckolib
- ItemFig
- MonoLib
- owo (owo-lib)
- Puzzles Lib
- Resourceful Lib
- ShetiPhianCore
- Text Placeholder API
- YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)
Resource Packs
Don't forget to enable the resourcepacks in the settings
Available Versions
How to Set Up a EmAlter's Trains Server
Order Server
Choose at least 6 GB RAM (8 GB recommended for EmAlter's Trains). Based on player count: per 5 players.
Install Modpack in Dashboard
Open the modpack browser in the dashboard, search for "EmAlter's Trains" and click "Install". The fabric loader and Minecraft 1.20.4 are configured automatically.
Start Server & Play
Start the server – all mods are loaded automatically. Share the server IP with friends and play together!
Frequently Asked Questions
EmAlter's Trains server crashes or won't start – what to do?
Most common causes: insufficient RAM or wrong fabric loader. Check latest.log for "OutOfMemoryError" → increase RAM to at least 8 GB. For "Mixin" or "ClassNotFoundException" errors: modpack version and loader don't match. With Mado Hosting, loader and Minecraft version are auto-configured on modpack install – preventing most startup issues.
How much RAM does a EmAlter's Trains server really need?
Minimum 6 GB, recommended 8 GB for stable performance. per 5 players. Important: Minecraft modpacks need more RAM than vanilla – plan extra per additional player. With Mado Hosting, you can scale RAM up live at any time without data loss (from €12/month).
Can I add custom mods to EmAlter's Trains without conflicts?
Yes, but check compatibility: only use mods for the same loader (fabric) and same Minecraft version (1.20.4). Common issues: ID conflicts with recipe mods and incompatible coremod versions. The Mado dashboard mod browser only shows compatible mods and warns about known conflicts.
EmAlter's Trains server lagging – performance tips
1) Increase RAM to 8 GB+. 2) Reduce server view-distance to 8 (server.properties). 3) Pre-generate chunks with the "Chunky" plugin. 4) Use /spark profiler to check which mods consume the most tick time. With Mado Hosting, all servers run on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores – eliminating hardware as a bottleneck.
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