Rail ramp

Rail ramp

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Recipe
0.5 + 8 + 100 + 10 → 1
Total raw
3.5 + 2 + 100 + 14 + 4
Map color
Health	2000 2600 3200 3800 5000
Resistances	Acid: 0/80% Explosion: 10/30% Fire: 0/100% Impact: 45/60% Laser: 0/70% Physical: 3/20%
Stack size	10
Rocket capacity	1 (0.1 stacks)
Mining time	0.2
Prototype type	rail-ramp
Internal name	rail-ramp
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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

A rail ramp is a rail that inclines upward, which allows trains to travel over obstacles. Rails that continue off the higher part of the ramp must have rail supports to keep them elevated. Train stops, rail signals and rail chain signals cannot be placed on rail ramps, unlike straight rails. Locomotives that are stopped on rail ramps will stay still and not slide back down to the ground level. Ramps do not affect train acceleration.

While players are required to own Space Age to access this feature, elevated rails are a separate mod, and can be activated independent of most Space Age content.

Placement

Much like rail supports, rail ramps can be placed on top of water on Nauvis, oil oceans on Fulgora, marshes on Gleba and ammoniacal oceans on Aquilo without the need for landfill or foundation. After researching rail support foundations, they can also be placed on Fulgora's deep oil oceans.

For a rail ramp to be useful, it must connect to a non-elevated rail. (Two rail ramps can connect directly at their non-elevated ends, but there is little point in doing so, since other elevated rails can't pass over a rail ramp.) Therefore, even though players are allowed to build rail ramps in the middle of an ocean, rail ramps will almost always be built either on solid ground or right next to it. However, being able to build the rail ramp on the edge of solid ground can be very useful when space is limited, such as on the smaller islands of Fulgora.

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Elevated rails