Create: Train Track Rail Grinding guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.1.0 to 1.8.0

Same as in the FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 guide

This mod lets you ride the rails of Create Train Tracks like a speedster. The first steps are about getting the right boots and learning three controls. It all takes place on Train Tracks, so you'll need some of those laid down.^[1][2]

Your first steps

1. Get something that lets you grind. Diving Boots work as grind shoes. If you'd rather use other boots, the Rail Rider enchantment lets any boots rail grind.^[1][2]
2. Find some Train Tracks. Right-click them with an empty hand to start grinding, and right-click them again with an empty hand to stop.^[1]
3. Try the automatic option too. Holding the Catch Rail key near Train Tracks makes you latch on to nearby rails by yourself.^[1]
4. Hold the Crouch (Accelerate on Rail) key to speed up. Hold the Jump Off Rail key to leap off the rail. You can rebind all of these in the Rail Grinding category of your controls.^[1][2]

Catching a rail negates fall damage and keeps your momentum. There is even an advancement for saving yourself from a lethal fall by catching onto rails.^[1]

Speed in this pack

Without accelerating, you cruise at the speed set by cruiseGrindSpeed, which is 0.75 here. While you accelerate with crouch, your top speed is set by topGrindSpeed, also 0.75. Both match the mod defaults, and so does crouchAcceleration at 1.^[3]

Your leap off a rail depends on how long you charge your jump (railJumpCharge) and on your speed (railJumpMomentum). Both are set to 0.5. Going down inclines also speeds you up, scaled by downwardMomentumGain, which is 0.5.^[3]

A tasty boost

Eating Chocolate gives you the Sonic Wind effect. It boosts speed, acceleration and jump strength while you rail grind, and there is an advancement for it.^[1]

Unverified How to obtain Diving Boots or the Rail Rider enchantment in this pack is not confirmed by the sources used for this guide, so check in-game (for example in the recipe viewer) before planning around them. This site does hold FTB Skies 2: Aero's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 guide

Rail Grinding has two config files: a server one that controls how grinding feels, and a client one for your own sound and camera settings. Good news: every option in this pack that lists a mod default is set to that default, so the pack doesn't change any of the values below.^[3][4]

Server settings: speed and jumps

• topGrindSpeed is the top speed while you accelerate with crouch. The pack uses 0.75, the mod default, and the allowed range is 0.1 to 1.0.^[3]
• cruiseGrindSpeed is your cruising speed when you aren't accelerating with crouch. It is 0.75 here, the mod default, with a range of 0.1 to 2.0.^[3]
• crouchAcceleration is a multiplier on base acceleration while shift is held. The pack keeps the default of 1, with a range of 0.1 to 2.0.^[3]
• downwardMomentumGain is the acceleration multiplier when you go down inclines. It is 0.5, the mod default, with a range of 0.1 to 2.0.^[3]
• railJumpCharge sets how far you leap based on how long you charge your jump, scaling both the horizontal and vertical charge bonus. The pack uses 0.5, the default, with a range of 0.1 to 1.0.^[3]
• railJumpMomentum sets how far you leap based on your speed, scaling both the horizontal and vertical speed-based launch. It is 0.5, the default, with a range of 0.1 to 1.0.^[3]
• autoDeployElytra is set to true in this pack. When you jump off a Rail Grind with any Elytra equipped, flight engages automatically.^[3]

Client settings: sound and camera

• soundVolume is the volume of all Rail Grinding sounds. It is 0.5, the mod default, and ranges from 0.0 to 1.0, so turn it down or up to taste.^[4]
• cameraRollOnLean controls camera roll while you grind. It is false in this pack, and the config warns it may cause motion sickness if you turn it on.^[4]