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Rails Survival Tweaks
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Type: Mod
Mod category: block
Version: 0.7
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26 Sep, 2019 @ 10:14am
4 Dec, 2020 @ 9:49am
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Rails Survival Tweaks

Description
This is an addon to Equinox's Rails Modpack https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1534495186 containing tweaks relevant for survival and aimed at increased immersion. At present it features:
- Considerable nerfing of the steel rails. They now require specifically steel.
- To compensate for the increased material cost an intermediate level of rails is introduced: bronze ones.
The bronze rails have their own research quest and are minimally worse that the steel ones (with 10% increase of friction). This performence drop should be attributed to the lack of proper rolling machines, not to the quality of bronze alloys, which in fact can compete with steel.

All the models in this addon have been created by Equinox -- they are essentially steel rails models https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1411125476 with just rail textures swapped.
The texture of bronze originates from Mortar Bombard Mod https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1416786887 by Peaceman. These components have been used here with original authors permission.

Special thanks to Equinox for many explanations and sharing the knowledge (on top of the models) making the assembly of this addon possible and to Peaceman for sharing his bronze texture. Also, many thanks to Xaerthus for detailed information regarding real life mechanical properties of bronze alloys.

If you like tinkering with trains, cars, ships, airplanes and other crazy contraptions in ME, consider visiting the "Medieval Industrialists" discord: https://discord.gg/VUMmkQe.
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DPT Wanderer 27 May, 2021 @ 5:21pm 
that being said perhaps making the rails out of iron would have worked ? (real early railways used iron for plate-ways early on and then rails made out of iron exclusively the issue IRL if memory serves is that they were only strong enough for horse and cart or Very very light locomotives and stock then you get into more modern rails)
onca77  [author] 28 Sep, 2019 @ 2:39am 
@Morpheus, you will not see bronze rails in real life simply because the iron is much more abundant than copper and tin and the steel simply much cheaper to make (with copper requiring in particular electrolysis). You will find however for example high durability bearings made of some bronze alloys.
Molten Carnage 28 Sep, 2019 @ 12:08am 
Though I do admit, it does look good.
Molten Carnage 28 Sep, 2019 @ 12:07am 
Well if the metallurgist you spoke to took into consideration the surface contact area and tensile strength, then I stand corrected. But I have yet to see a rail line made of bronze. Anyways it's just a game, I never expected anything in a game to be 100% precise.
onca77  [author] 27 Sep, 2019 @ 3:10pm 
@Morpheus,
It may come at a surprise to you but there is a really wide variety of bronze alloys with varying properties. I actually checked with metallurgists before constructing this mod ...
Molten Carnage 27 Sep, 2019 @ 12:47pm 
Immersive? Bronze has a tensile strength of 79,800 psi and a typical 4 axle steam engine can weigh anywhere from 299,000 lbs to 435,000 lbs. Say there are 12 points of contact, 6 per rail, between the steam engine and the rails. Divide the weight of the engine in 2, each rail supporting half the engine's weight, anywhere from 149,500 lbs to 219,500 lbs. Each point of contact on the rail is about 2 mm square each and there's 645.16 mm square in a square inch. Even if you had 12 points of contact per rail it wouldn't be enough to prevent bending of Bronze rails. This is why rail lines were never made of bronze.
The more you know. :steamhappy:

P.S. Yeah I'm trolling. It's just a game.