this is my first time with redstone and like villager trading in general. i made a villager trading hall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWcumSKwn7c) and i want to add a redstone activated zombification mechaism to it. i noticed that minecarts stop at unpowered powered rails so my initial idea was to have a restone torch activate the rail and a lever would stop it, didnt work and now im just using lever and dust. it works alright but i would like if the zombie would retrun back to its original position. but the minecarts are just stuck there
by Davminds
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If the unpowered rail is sloped, then when you re-power it, the cart will be launched in the direction of the slope.
With a tripwire above the rails (either on hooks or an observer) you can detect when a cart arrives. Then the cart could be held for sufficient time for the zombificafion, and then the rail powered to either return or continue the cart along the track.
The [wiki tutorial:minecarts](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Tutorial:Minecarts#Launcher) has a lot of good information on minecart basics. Might have some on stopping configurations too.