Transportation
The traditional rail and minecart has been the main method of shipping materials and goods, even as Players bemoan the dangers of 'snail mail'. Alternative methods such as utilizing horses or even physically running shipments from village to village were deemed too impractical. Horses are legendarily incapable of stepping foot in the Nether, while Players would oftentimes disappear with the packages and resell them for a higher profit. Thus, the highly expensive and inefficient Mass Railway Portal system was collaboratively built. Hundreds and thousands of minecarts rattle along these dusty tracks, carrying food and building blocks and whatever villagers and Players may want to trade. Though the plans for the MRP system are readily available in every public library, no living soul fully understands the depth and organizational beauty of the system. Even the research group which formulated the MRP are only capable of comprehending a small portion of it.
Unfortunately, disaster looms on the horizon. Already several malfunctions and breakdowns in the MRP system has occurred. With nobody capable of fully fixing the issue, the Villages choose to simply bide their time and wait for somebody to save them. Yet due to their own cowardice, the truth evades them all. The MRP itself was flawed from conception. It was never meant to truly fix their problems, rather function as a stopgap while a better solution was researched. Unfortunately, this has ground to a halt. With a missing head researcher and funds rapidly disappearing, the future of the MRP system is uncertain. How this dilemma will be solved, is unknown.
