TerraFirmaCraft has a container tick handler, which must be called in order for its food to decay and heated items to cool down. I was wondering if it might be possible to have RC's cart inventories call this method if TFC is installed?

EDIT: Apparently, this is more difficult then I anticipated it would be, due to incompatibilities on TFC's side. Probably not going to happen, but I can DREAM!

TFC can probably do this from their end by using capabilities, attaching one on each TE with an inventory and using that for the food decay (atleast for TE's where the items are accessable)

@Forecaster yes but forge allows you to attach capabilities onto TE's that are not your own

And this works on entities such as minecarts?

it should http://mcforge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/datastorage/capabilities/#attaching-capabilities

@AEnterprise They already do this with their own containers. The issue is that decay doesn't happen in railcraft minecarts.

What about vanilla hopper minecarts, does it work with those when Railcraft is not installed?

if they use this method it should as all carts are entities

Well caps doesn't matter because those don't exist in 1.7

for 1.7 but there is barely development for 1.7.10 atm so as doubt we will see new version of RC or TFC on 1.7.10 but TFC can implement this on 1.8+

At this point the ball has left our court entirely it seems. Should probably close this issue and interested parties can bring it up at TFC instead.

I should also point out that you can hook into the MinecartUpdate event as well.

yeah, it can be done from RC's end but it would be much, much better if TFC does it from it's end as that would be cleaner, less likely to cause issues and compatible with other mods that add carts