Advanced Trains

Advanced Trains (technical name “advtrains”) is a mod for the Luanti engine. It features realistic trains and various equipment for railways, with a focus on automated train operation. It should work with any game, but Minetest Game is still the best experience.

• A small selection of different trains (passenger and goods trains) (see the Train Catalogue)
• Almost-realistic tracks with actual curves and switches
• Railway signals, controllable by various means
• ATC: simple, command-like automatic train control
• LuaATC: powerful Lua-scripted automatic train operation (requires some programming knowledge)
• An Interlocking system, featuring track sections, routes and automatic stopping before signals

The source code for Advtrains is available on Bananach.space. Latest version is 2.4.7.

The official mirror lives at NotABug, along with an issue tracker, for those not inclined to use the mailing list (see below).

There is also an unofficial mirror at minetest-mirrors on GitHub. This may be more reliable than NotABug, but please do not post issues there.

Old versions prior to August 2018 are available on GitHub. @gpcf also mirrored versions prior to February 2017.

The easiest way to install advtrains is by using the Package Manager inside the Luanti main menu. or here

You can also use Git to install advtrains. Once you installed Git, clone the Advtrains repository with these commands:

cd MINETEST_ROOT/mods
git clone http://git.bananach.space/advtrains.git

Then enable Advtrains in the world settings. You can also enable each mod individually.

The git repository contains a directory called 'assets'. It contains the .blend and .xcf files for some of the assets. This directory is not required to run advtrains.

Official announcements are done on the Luanti Forum topic, located at:

https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=14726

The mailing lists serve as a hub for discussion about ideas, problems and development of advtrains. Please read Sourcehut's mailing list etiquette and useplaintext.email before posting.

• Mailing list for general discussion: ~gpcf/advtrains-discuss@lists.sr.ht
• Mailing list for development discussion and submitting patches: ~gpcf/advtrains-devel@lists.sr.ht
• Announcements: ~gpcf/advtrains-announce@lists.sr.ht

Older entries can be found on ~gpcf/advtrains@lists.sr.ht. However, this mailing list should no longer be used.

• The Advtrains and Basic trains repos are mirrored on NotABug. The bugtracker for Advtrains is also viewed by developers. The serialization library used by Advtrains can also be found there.
• There is also a "supplemental" collection of mods for Advtrains (also on ContentDB). It was previously at NotABug, where some mirrors are still present.

You can contribute to advtrains in various ways:

• Report bugs and problems or discuss with us on the mailing list ~gpcf/advtrains-discuss@lists.sr.ht
• Help with development by fixing a bug or implementing a feature and sending a patch to ~gpcf/advtrains-devel@lists.sr.ht
• Contribute to documentation on this wiki

Please note that the old bug tracker (Hemiptera) is retired due to various issues with it.

This wiki supersede the information at https://advtrains.de/manual and https://advtrains.de/interlocking. Unlike these pages, you are free to improve the wiki contents, as it is open wiki licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Documentation on this wiki has been contributed by many people, including Maxime Launois, Blockhead, and ywang. Thank you for your help!

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