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When trains are at high speeds, they should be able to run over aliens. Currently they just stop the train and allow the aliens to break the cargo cars.

Definitely. That could actually make them useful.
Building full-powered defence along the entire track would be extremely expensive and kill advantage of trains instead of belts.

Building a turret array on the train stops would be fine.

BTW: Items from destroyed cargo wagons should probably spill on the ground instead of vanishing (unless the creepers are omnivorous like goats from Mo's Creatures mc mod MUHEHEHHEHE)

MF- wrote:Definitely. That could actually make them useful.
Building full-powered defence along the entire track would be extremely expensive and kill advantage of trains instead of belts.

Yea, you don't see creepers going after the (much more expensive) belts, or the actual tracks.

MF- wrote:Building a turret array on the train stops would be fine.

Unless you have creepers disabled this is pretty much a requirement

MF- wrote:BTW: Items from destroyed cargo wagons should probably spill on the ground instead of vanishing

Lost a bunch of copper because of this.

I agree, this is very good idea

I'm glad that this suggestion was implemented!
It looks very cool on the game trailer!