Set Up a Railway Defense to Damage Mobs Automatically

Building Your Damage Track

Create a minecart railway in a high-traffic mob area. Use powered rails to accelerate your minecart to speed 6 or higher—at these velocities, minecarts deal damage equal to velocity cubed, dealing massive impact damage to any mob they hit.

Configuration for Defense

Open your mod configuration and ensure:

• enabledDamage is set to true
• selectedDamageMode is set to TieredDamage for scaling damage based on speed
• enabledKnock is true to launch mobs away from your base
• Set selectedApplicaionMode to Collide for direct contact detection

If you want the minecart to damage mobs in a wider area without needing direct hits, switch to Radius mode and adjust intRadius between 3 and 10 blocks depending on your desired detection range.

Protecting Allies

If you have tamed pets or named mobs nearby, toggle excludePet and excludeNamedEntity to true so they won't take damage. Set excludePlayer to true if you want to ride safely in the cart yourself.