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Rail Vehicle Standards [ edit page ]
Stormworks Rail Vehicle Standards
If you want to build a rail vehicle that is compatible with loads of other trains on the workshop you should try to follow these standards to the best of your ability.
Select which of the standards you want to include in your vehicle:
- MANDATORY: Coupling to other Rail Vehicles
- Loading Gauge
- Display Units
- Headlight Setup
- Container Transport
Coupling to other Rail Vehicles (MANDATORY)
The coupler, which shall consist of an Electric Connector, shall be on 4th block above the railhead and shall be centrally located across the width of the rail vehicle.
Variations with different connectors around this Electric Connector are allowed, but the Electric Connector must stay central and at the correct height.
Loading Gauge
AKA: Vehicle Size
The workbench editor is wider than the garage allows trains to be due to two red pillars marking the workbench area. Max width 13 blocks (however above a height of 5 blocks the vehicle may be 15 blocks wide. Reason: red pillars mentioned above).
Rail Vehicles must be no greater than the dimensions set forth by the standard workbench dimensions.
Double Stacking; the act of stacking containers atop one another; may be done, so long as they clear tunnels. Double Stacks are not permitted in sheds.
Units
- Any Rail Vehicle that has some form of traction control shall display any units of measure in the Metric System. Rail Vehicles may display other units of measure, so long as Metric Units can be provided.
- Any Rail Vehicle that holds bulk liquids shall display all units in Liters.
- Faithful recreations of a given Rail Vehicle may use the units of measure native to the rail vehicle. However, it is highly recommended that you include metric units of measure.
Headlight Setup
For fictional trains:
- Locomotives that bear a country's flag should adopt the headlight setup of that country, but is not mandatory. If you chose not to, please conform with the following:
- Lights used for forwards motion of a train shall either be Yellow or White. The rear of a train shall always be a Red Light.
- No less than 3 lights will be displayed on the front of any Locomotive, with at least 1 light in center most position and 2 lights (ditch lights), equidistant from the center and lower than the center light. Height of the center light is recommended 1 meter (4 blocks) higher than ditch lights
- 2 Red, Steady Burn, Lights shall be displayed at the rear of any Passenger train at all times.
- No less than 1 Red Light shall be displayed on the back of a freight train. The lights can be steady burn or flashing with an "On" time of 1/2 seconds and an "Off" time of 1 and 1/2 seconds (0.5 on/1.5 off).
- Trains in reverse should display both white and red light in both directions. This could either be dedicated lights or the normal running lights. Trains in Push/Pull service may choose to display these lights, but are not required to do so, so long as normal running lights are displayed.
Faithful Recreations:
- May use the lighting setup of that used by what is being recreated.
Container Transport
The transportation of Containers is now a vital part of the Stormworks economy now, as such there are some things to know about the safe transportation of containers and some recommended practices:
- Containers have grown to be of the following dimensions: 11 blocks Tall and Wide; 29 blocks in Length
- Container Pins (Electric Connectors) have also been adjusted: The four (4) lower pins are place horizontally towards the shortest edge closest them and are placed 1 block back, so the stub does not protrude out the side of the container. The four upper pins are placed vertically directly on the corners, complementing these pins are 4 rope anchor points which are located on the length of the container, next to the pins.
- When building a rail vehicle to accept multiple containers, care should be heeded as to not have the containers no closer than 2 blocks, otherwise the kraken will mess with your containers.
- Double Stacking; the act of placing containers one atop another; should be done with care. As mentioned in the Loading Gauge section, Double Stacks are not permitted in sheds.
Community Proposal
I, Katrine(@admiralmeep) have a proposal that I'd like input on. I am curious as to whether or not the rail community should standardize the controls of trains, so that anyone is able to hop into an engine, cabcar, whatever, and not worry about getting confused. I know that many people have different set ups, but I'm primarily looking at controls; Acceleration, Braking, Reversing. The primary thing I'd like to know is how many levers do you use for primary throttle, braking systems; alongside any buttons used for a reverser. You can message me in discord on the Stormworks Discord in #vehicle-discussion; optionally, you can send a picture(s) of your control stands so I can collate them.
The thing I'm proposing is that we use only three (3) levers for Acceleration, and two (2) modes of Braking; Train Brake and Independent; and one (1) button for a Reverser.
Hopefully we are able to standardize control stands so any player can hop in and start using any train, and so that builders can spend more time focusing on how the train looks and functions.