Omichall's Driving Minecarts

Also check out Omichall's Driving Boats

Drive Minecarts Anywhere

Turn minecarts into fully drivable vehicles that can leave the rails, climb hills, and move freely around the world.

It uses the same driving system as Omichall's Driving Boats, adapted specifically for minecarts, making it useful for cars, trains, race tracks, or custom vehicle resource packs.

Features

• Drive minecarts freely without rails
• Camera-based steering
• Smooth acceleration and coasting
• Climb hills and obstacles up to around 1.5 blocks
• Adjustable top speed up to 100 b/s / 360 km/h / 224 mph
• Optional jumping
• Optional Realistic Driving mode with P / R / N / D gears
• Adjustable realistic acceleration
• Speedometer with multiple units
• Optional compact driving HUD
• Automatic return to vanilla minecart behaviour on rails
• Server-wide enable / disable controls
• Compatible with Minecraft 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3

When a driven minecart stays on rails continuously for about 5 seconds, it is handed back to vanilla minecart physics until it leaves the rails again.

Normal Driving Commands

Set maximum speed in blocks per second

/trigger minecart_speed set <1-100>

Set maximum speed in km/h

/trigger minecart_speed_kmh set <1-360>

Set maximum speed in mph

/trigger minecart_speed_mph set <1-224>

Toggle jumping

Allows the minecart to jump using Space while driving.

Disabled by default.

/trigger minecart_jump

Realistic Driving Commands

Realistic Driving adds a transmission system with:

P → R → N → D

Sprint shifts up through the gears.

By default, double-tapping Sprint within about 300 ms shifts down.

Toggle Realistic Driving

Disabled by default.

/trigger minecart_realistic_driving

Toggle Space as the downshift button

When enabled:

• Sprint shifts up
• Space shifts down
• Minecart jumping is disabled because Space is used for shifting

/trigger minecart_realistic_space_downshift

Adjust realistic acceleration

/trigger minecart_realistic_acceleration set <-75..400>

Values:

• 0 = default acceleration
• -75 = 75% slower than default
• 400 = 400% stronger than default

Change speedometer units

/trigger minecart_realistic_speed_unit set <0|1|2|3>

Units:

• 0 = km/h
• 1 = mph
• 2 = blocks per second
• 3 = ft/s

Default: km/h

Toggle Compact UI

Shows only the gears and rounded current speed instead of the full driving HUD.

/trigger minecart_compact_ui

Utility Commands

Show help

/function minecartmount:help

Show current settings and status

/function minecartmount:status

Recover from a broken or stuck vehicle state

/function minecartmount:recover

Enable the datapack

/function minecartmount:config/enable

Disable the datapack

Returns controlled minecarts to vanilla behaviour.

/function minecartmount:config/disable

Show server-wide configuration status

/function minecartmount:config/status

The enabled / disabled state persists across /reload.

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