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Minecart with Chest

Minecart with Chest

A minecart with chest is a single chest inside a minecart. Unlike regular minecarts, it can be used to store items.

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Contents (22)
  1. Obtaining
  2. Natural generation
  3. Crafting
  4. Usage
  5. Sounds
  6. Data values
  7. ID
  8. Entity data
  9. Achievements
  10. Videos
  11. History
  12. Java Edition
  13. Bedrock Edition
  14. Legacy Console Edition
  15. New Nintendo 3DS Edition
  16. Data history
  17. Issues
  18. Trivia
  19. Gallery
  20. Screenshots
  21. In other media
  22. References
Minecart with Chest
Invicon Minecart with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Minecart with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Minecart with Chest
Rarity tier
  Common
Renewable Yes
Stackable No
Size Height: 0.7 blocks
Width: 0.98 blocks
Drops 1 Minecart with Chest
plus contents
Health points 6HP❤️❤️❤️

A minecart with chest is a single chest inside a minecart. Unlike regular minecarts, it can be used to store items.

Obtaining

Natural generation

Minecarts with chests containing loot naturally generate in mineshafts, each on top of a rail.

Crafting

Ingredients Crafting recipe
Chest +
Minecart
Invicon Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Chest with description: ChestInvicon Minecart.png: Inventory sprite for Minecart in Minecraft as shown in-game linking to Minecart with description: Minecart
Invicon Minecart with Chest.png: Inventory sprite for Minecart with Chest in Minecraft as shown in-game with description: Minecart with Chest

Similarly to other forms of minecart, minecarts with chests can be destroyed by attacking them, and doing so drops them as an item. Despite the appearance of the relevant particles, critical hits are not applied to them.

Usage

The GUI of a minecart with chest

Minecarts with chests can be placed by using its item on any type of rail.

Chest minecarts' contents can be accessed by pressing use item button on them. The interaction makes no sounds and the chest does not show the opening or closing animation, unlike regular chests.

Minecarts with chests also lose momentum based on their load. Fuller minecarts with chests will lose momentum faster than emptier ones. In Java Edition, the formula for the percentage of momentum kept is 

0.98 + 0.001 * (15 - container_redstone_signal)

where container_redstone_signal is the signal that would be read by a comparator. If in water, this is further multiplied by 0.95.

Another physical property of chest minecarts is their ability to be stacked. While three chests can fit in an area three blocks tall, up to four chest minecarts can fit in the same area. Like other minecarts, an unlimited number of minecarts with chests can exist in the same block space.

Minecarts with chests are also able to interact with hoppers. Hoppers can take items out from the minecart chest if they are below the track as the minecart rolls over it or put them in if the minecart rolls under a downward facing hopper. Hoppers can also input items if they are facing into the side of the minecart.

Opening or destroying a minecart with chest angers piglins.

When on top of detector rails, nearby redstone comparators emit redstone signals based on how full the minecarts with chests are.

In Java Edition, minecarts with chests cannot enter boats, unlike minecarts.

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Sounds

Java Edition:
Minecarts with chests use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.[sound 1]

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitchAttenuation
distance
​Minecart rollsFriendly Mobs [sound 1]While a minecart with chest is movingentity.minecart.ridingsubtitles.entity.minecart.riding​0.0–0.35 [sound 2]0.0–1.0 [sound 3]16
  1. ↑ a b MC-42132
  2. ↑ Relates linearly with horizontal velocity (max 0.5)
  3. ↑ Increases by 0.0025 per tick if the minecart's horizontal velocity is more than 0.01

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
SoundClosed captionsSourceDescriptionIdentifierTranslation keyVolumePitch
​ ?Friendly MobsWhile a minecart with chest is movingminecart.base​ ???

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

ItemIdentifierForm Translation key
ItemSprite minecart-with-chest.png: Sprite image for minecart-with-chest in Minecraft Minecart with Chestchest_minecartItem item.minecraft.chest_minecart
EntityIdentifier Translation key
EntitySprite minecart-with-chest.png: Sprite image for minecart-with-chest in Minecraft Minecart with Chestchest_minecart entity.minecraft.chest_minecart

Bedrock Edition:

ItemIdentifierNumeric ID Form Translation key
ItemSprite minecart-with-chest.png: Sprite image for minecart-with-chest in Minecraft Minecart with Chestchest_minecart389Item item.chest_minecart.name
EntityIdentifierNumeric ID FamilyTranslation key
EntitySprite minecart-with-chest.png: Sprite image for minecart-with-chest in Minecraft Minecart with Chestchest_minecart98 inanimate
minecart		entity.chest_minecart.name

Entity data

Minecarts with chests have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format
  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
    • Tags common to all container entities see Template:Nbt inherit/container entity/template
    • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
    • Tags common to all minecarts see Template:Nbt inherit/vehicle/template

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

IconAchievementIn-game descriptionActual requirements (if different)Gamerscore earnedTrophy type (PS)
PS4Other
Freight StationUse a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest.Use a Hopper to move an item from a Minecart with Chest or a Boat with Chest to a Chest.15Bronze
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Videos

History

The minecart models in Bedrock Edition were north or south on the sides. In the latest version, the front and rear sides are north or south. But the absolute orientation of the chest was not changed.

Java Edition

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.14 Minecarts with chests have been added.
At this point, they are either called "chest minecarts" or "storage minecarts" because no in-game name was indicated.
Java Edition Beta
1.0 "Minecart with Chest" has been first indicated as its name, via the new item tooltips.
1.8Pre-release The model of the minecart with chest has been changed to match the new chest model. However, the chest is incorrectly offset.[1]
release The model of minecarts with chests has been fixed.
Java Edition
1.513w02a Minecarts with chests now generate in mineshafts in place of normal chests.
1.915w43a Loot tables have been added; minecarts with chests now use loot tables, and those in generated in mineshafts now use loot tables.
1.9.1pre2 The title of the inventory has been changed from 'Chest minecart' to 'Minecart with Chest'.
1.1418w43a The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
1.16.2pre1 Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a chest minecart.
1.1922w13a The crafting recipe for a minecart with chest is now shapeless.
Breaking a minecart with chest now drops the item instead of the minecart and chest separately, though the contents of the chest are still dropped.[2]

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0build 1 Added minecarts with chests.
build 3 Minecarts with chests now drop items when destroyed in Creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0 The entity ID has been changed from minecartchest to chest_minecart.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3 The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
1.19.0Preview 1.19.0.31 Breaking a minecart with chest now drops the item instead of the minecart and chest separately, though the contents of the chest are still dropped.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360Xbox OnePS3PS4PS VitaWii USwitch
TU1CU11.001.001.00Patch 11.0.1 Added minecarts with chests.
TU5 The model of the minecart with chest has been changed to match the new chest model.
TU21CU91.141.141.14 The minecart limit has been increased.
1.90 The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0 Added minecarts with chests.
Minecarts with chests emit smoke particles when destroyed.

Data history

Java Edition
1.1116w32a The entity ID has been changed from MinecartChest to chest_minecart.
1.1317w47a Prior to The Flattening, the item's numeral ID was 342 and the entity's was 43.
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Issues

Issues relating to "Minecart with Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

Screenshots

  • A compact storage using chest minecarts (left) compared to chest storage in the same volume. At the time this screenshot was taken, chests could not be placed next to each other.
    A compact storage using chest minecarts (left) compared to chest storage in the same volume. At the time this screenshot was taken, chests could not be placed next to each other.
  • This minecart with chest is trapped inside a block, due to a stronghold and a mineshaft that generated partially overlapping.
    This minecart with chest is trapped inside a block, due to a stronghold and a mineshaft that generated partially overlapping.
  • A minecart with chest generated on top of an end portal frame, because there is a mineshaft behind the wall.
    A minecart with chest generated on top of an end portal frame, because there is a mineshaft behind the wall.
  • A large stack of chest minecarts
    A large stack of chest minecarts

In other media

References

  1. ↑ mcw:Issues/Beta 1.8pre2#Graphical
  2. ↑ MC-249493 – resolved as "Fixed".

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