This mod is an extension for Advanced Trains that adds a set of four intercity style passenger wagons as well as a bistro wagon, all of which have liveries that can be customized in-game by their owning players.
Wagons
All of the wagons in this mod are loosely based on passenger coaches used for European inter city railway service during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Game Support
As with AdvTrains, the Classic Coaches mod is compatible with many games when playing in creative mode and fully supports survival mode in Minetest Game and its many variants. However, Classic Coaches also supports survival mode in games that are not based on Minetest Game including the following:
Note that support for survival mode in those games is subject to potential breakage in the future if those games change their materials or crafting system.
Some of the crafting recipes defined by Classic Coaches require items that are defined in AdvTrains. Thus, for full support of survival mode in the games listed above, also consider using the AdvTrains Crafting Compatibility Patch to enable crafting of those items that are defined in AdvTrains.
Recent Changes
[1.1.0] - 2025-03-02
- Add bistro coach
- Optimize PNGs
- Add support for advtrains_attachment_offset_patch
[1.0.0] - 2024-05-24
- Remove dependencies on mods from Minetest Game
- Add support for survival mode in additional games
See CHANGELOG.md for older changes.
Best passenger coaches (carriages) mod for AdvTrains to date
Based on previous work for InterCity/Nightline carriages originally made for LinuxForks Moretrains, Marnack presents us with a whole new world of customisation in this mod which is the first to have support for his AdvTrains Livery Tools mod. Unlike most carriages, which at most offer the ability to change a single colour, this set is customisable in-depth.
Classic Coaches also comes with a great set of features that are better than many AdvTrains mods: Door animations, crafting recipes, livery customisation and internationalisation support.
I recommend Classic Coaches to anyone who wants a quality set of diesel/electric locomotive-hauled passenger carriages that stands well on its own, and enthusiasts who want to customise their rolling stock. Players could create customisations on this solid foundation to add company logos to their rolling stock easily and use them in a variety of colour options.
I can't recommend Classic Coaches in a few niche scenarios. First, drawing these coaches is more computionally expensive than using flat textures due to the number of overlayed and colorised textures present on each wagon, so maybe avoid them if you are playing on a potato, or a tightly constrained server (the server must calculate the texture strings to apply when a carriage pops into viewing range of a player). You can use the mod without AdvTrains Livery Tools if you want.