Important Notes

This page collects important guidelines and requirements for using Railways Untold correctly. Please read through these before reporting issues — many common problems come from one of the items below.

Data Pack Auto-Loader Required

Railways Untold ships its custom stations, events, biome settings, and the starter train configuration as data pack content. Minecraft has a long-standing quirk where data packs placed alongside a world do not reliably load on the first tick of world creation — which is exactly when the starter train, starting station, and initial track need to be spawned.

If data packs are not loaded at that moment, the starter will never initialize and the world will generate without a starting train or station.

You must install a mod that force-loads data packs globally, such as:

• Paxi — drops data packs into a global folder so they are applied to every world on creation.
• Global Packs — equivalent alternative with similar behavior.

Either is fine. Without one of these, any data pack content — including the defaults bundled with Railways Untold and any custom stations, events, or biome overrides you add — is not guaranteed to be active during world initialization, and the custom starter will silently fail to spawn.

How to verify

1. Create a new world.
2. Check that a starter train and station have been placed near spawn.
3. If nothing appears, confirm that Paxi (or equivalent) is installed and that your data packs are in its global packs folder.