The bug
This is a weird bug and kind of hard to explain. The summary is that I placed down two powered rails with a one block gap between them. Then I dug a one block hole in the gap and placed a powered rail there.
The powered rail or normal rail placed there will always connect to only one of the other two powered rails.
What actually happened was that the powered rail or normal rail placed in the hole in between will always connect to only one of the other two powered rails depending on the orientation so for example - I place down the two rails with one block gap between them - the one is facing to the east and one to the west I dig the hole in the middle and place the other rail - the LAST rail placed will ALWAYS connect to the one facing west.
How to reproduce
Place two rails or powered rails with a one block gap between them
On the gap dig a one block hole
Put another rail in the hole - it will always connect to one of the rails mentioned in step 1 NEVER the other no matter what you try to do to connect it to the other.
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yes but once i place the rail facing west back the rail in the middle switches back to it even if it is connected to the one facing east so 2 out of the 4 orientations can not be used in this way
Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases. If this has been done, we can reopen the issue.
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West is defined as the main side, so remove the rail on the other side if want the slope to face a certain direction.