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[Naptune]

Hello! I'm looking for someone who knows how minecarts work

I'm trying to create a magma mist generator. I have a little circuit that uses impulse ramps and rollers to accelerate the carts, but as soon as they go over the magma, they fall in. I'm really not sure what's causing it. Are my impulse ramps wrong and not generating enough speed? Is the magma level too low? Is the flowing of the magma around the cistern causing the carts to stop? Something else?

Here is a picture of the situation:
https://imgur.com/a/jTZtolQ

Any advice is welcome

[A_Curious_Cat]

Hello! I'm looking for someone who knows how minecarts work

I'm trying to create a magma mist generator. I have a little circuit that uses impulse ramps and rollers to accelerate the carts, but as soon as they go over the magma, they fall in. I'm really not sure what's causing it. Are my impulse ramps wrong and not generating enough speed? Is the magma level too low? Is the flowing of the magma around the cistern causing the carts to stop? Something else?

Here is a picture of the situation:
https://imgur.com/a/jTZtolQ

Any advice is welcome

Per the wiki, you need at least 6/7 magma and the minecart can’t be going faster than 10000.

[Bumber]

Per the wiki, you need at least 6/7 magma and the minecart can’t be going faster than 10000.

I think they're talking about skipping, not loading fluids. Lower magma level is better for less friction, though I'm not sure how that affects mist generation.

The basic magma mist generator design is here. It doesn't call for rollers. It uses a floor-air-floor combination (floor = no track) before the magma to induce a jump. It mentions using the different ramp directions to avoid the checkpoint effect, but I don't think that's an issue for the first lap. I can't tell which way your track ramps (if there even are ramps) or rollers are facing from your picture.

From what I can tell, the possible issues are the tracks going straight into magma, ramps facing the wrong way, minecarts not accelerating fast enough before reaching magma, and rollers slowing down minecarts.