Minecart with Hopper

Minecart with Hopper

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Size	Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.98 blocks
Drops	1 Minecart with Hopper plus contents
Health points	6HP

A minecart with hopper is a minecart with a hopper inside. Unlike a normal hopper, it pulls items from containers much more quickly, cannot push items into containers, can collect item entities through a single layer of solid blocks, and is locked and unlocked via activator rails.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Hopper + Minecart

Similarly to other forms of minecart, minecarts with hoppers 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

Minecarts with hoppers are placed similarly to other minecarts.

A minecart with hopper pulls in items lying nearby (within a range slightly larger than the cart itself), or inside a container directly above the minecart, at a high speed. In Java Edition a hopper minecart pulls items from a container with its bottom face 0.5 (exclusive) to 1.5 (inclusive) blocks directly above the bottom center of the minecart at a speed of one item every game tick in (20 items per second), eight times as fast as a normal hopper. In Bedrock Edition it pulls an item only every two game ticks (10 items per second), four times as fast as a normal hopper. It also picks up items that are lying on a block directly above the track. It does not push items into containers, but a hopper underneath the track can remove items from a minecart with hopper on the track. Ordinary hoppers can also drop items into a minecart with hopper like other containers, at the normal speed of 2.5 items per second. In Bedrock Edition a minecart with hopper on a curved rail pulls in items in a hopper lying in front of its moving direction and one block above if the hopper's output funnel is pointed downward and no block is below that hopper.^[1]

The minecart with hopper can be disabled by passing over a powered activator rail, and can be reenabled by an inactive activator rail.

An empty minecart with hopper can travel more than 85 blocks without stopping (as opposed to a normal cart going less than 12 blocks) from a dead stop using a two-powered track starter, even with another minecart in front of it. However, the distance traveled by a minecart with hopper depends on the hopper's load. Using a one-powered rail starter track, a minecart with an empty hopper travels 64 blocks until it stops (as opposed to an empty normal minecart going 8 blocks). The distance traveled diminishes non-linearly with increased hopper load; a minecart with a full hopper can travel only 16 blocks in this setup.

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	hopper_minecart	Item	item.minecraft.hopper_minecart

Entity	Identifier	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	hopper_minecart	entity.minecraft.hopper_minecart

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	hopper_minecart	526	Item	item.hopper_minecart.name

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	hopper_minecart	96	inanimate minecart	entity.hopper_minecart.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Videos

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.5			13w03a				Added minecart with hopper.
1.9			15w43a				Loot tables are added; minecarts with hoppers now can use loot tables.
1.9.1			pre2				The title of the inventory is changed from 'Hopper minecart' to 'Minecart with Hopper'.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of the minecart with hopper have now been changed.
1.15			19w38a				The hopper now appears dark, same as suffocating mobs.
			19w39a				The hopper now renders correctly.
1.16.2			pre1				Opening or destroying a minecart with hopper now angers nearby piglins.
1.19			22w13a				The crafting recipe for a minecart with hopper is now shapeless.
							Breaking a minecart with hopper now drops the item instead of the minecart and hopper separately. The contents of the hopper are still dropped.[2]
1.19.4			23w06a				Minecart with hopper no longer aggravates piglins when opened or destroyed.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0			build 1				Added minecart with hopper.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of the minecart with hopper have now been changed.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.31				Breaking a minecart with hopper now drops the item instead of the minecart and hopper separately. The contents of the hopper are still dropped.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added minecart with hopper.
TU21	CU9	1.14	1.14	1.14			The minecart limit has been increased.
			1.90				The textures of the minecart with hopper have now been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added minecart with hopper.
							Minecarts with hoppers now emit smoke particles when destroyed.

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The first image of hopper carts released by Dinnerbone^[3]
• 
  The 13w03a banner showing a minecart with hopper and a dropper

References