Mission 552
Lab Central Station: Trains That Never Crash
Badge: Station Master
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Build a station where trains brake, wait, chime and leave at a button.
Trains keep smashing into the platform. The Lab needs a real station: brakes, a Depart button and a chime.
- New skill Minecart stops, launches and detector rails
- Level 6 · Inventor's Lab
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Creative
- Time 40–60 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Build a proper Lab station at the top of a gentle slope, where trains brake and wait at the platform. A Depart button sends them rolling, and a detector rail rings a chime as each one arrives. Then run a launch test and fix anything that stalls.
Finish line: Your station brakes every train, chimes on arrival and sends it off at the press of Depart.
Bonus challenge: Auto-dispatch: send the detector rail's signal through a chain of repeaters to the launch rails, so trains wait, then leave alone. 10/10?
You’ll need
- Rails
- Powered rails
- Detector rail
- A button
- Note block
- Minecarts
You choose
- My station's name
- My arrival chime sound
- My bet for clean launches out of 10
Stuck?
- Train won't leave? Stopped carts start best on a slope, so tilt the track down away from the platform.
- No chime? The detector rail's dust must actually reach the note block, with air above it.
- Train overshoots? Add another unpowered powered rail as an extra brake.
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This mission is in Mission Pack 55. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
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Played on Minecraft Bedrock on iPad. Buttons can differ on other devices and versions.