Minecart with TNT

Minecart with TNT

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Size	Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.98 blocks
Drops	If not exploded 1 Minecart with TNT
Health points	6HP

A minecart with TNT is a minecart with TNT inside. Unlike normal TNT, it can detonate instantly, and its blast radius and damage is increased by its speed at detonation.

Obtaining

Similarly to other forms of minecart, minecarts with TNT 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.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
TNT + Minecart

Usage

A minecart with TNT detonates after a delay on these conditions:

• It moves over a powered activator rail.
• It is destroyed while in motion (except by a player in Creative mode).
• It is destroyed by fire, lava, or an explosion.
• It is hit by a fire charge projectile.
• In Bedrock Edition, using a flint and steel, fire charge, or any item enchanted with Fire Aspect.

The delay is 4 seconds (80 game ticks) for an activator rail, like the TNT block. For other causes there is a random delay between 0 and 1.95 seconds.

It detonates instantly on these conditions:

• It hits the ground with a downward velocity of it falling more than three blocks, unless landing on any form of rail.
• It turns on a curved track too fast, with a solid block or entity located beside the track (in the previous movement direction). ‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• It is hit by a flaming projectile.
• It is pressed into a block or entity and has velocity.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Upon detonation it acts as normal TNT, exploding and damaging nearby blocks, players, and entities. Upon detonation after activating on activator rail, it does not destroy its rails and the blocks the rail is on, however other nearby minecarts can.‌^{[Java Edition only]} More than one minecart can be placed on the same rail block, allowing many of them to fit into a single block. In Java Edition they explode when they are touched, turned very fast, and dealing large amounts of damage.

In Bedrock Edition they only explode when they land on the ground and not get touched, or turned very fast.

The explosion has a base power of 4, the same as regular TNT, but the game also adds a random bonus value up to 1.5 times velocity, but no higher than 7.5. This means that with a speed of 5 or higher the power is a random value between 4 and 11.5. When triggered by an activator rail or by damage, the bonus value is calculated using the horizontal velocity of the minecart. When hit by a flaming arrow the velocity of the arrow is used instead. When triggered by fall damage, the fall distance divided by 10 is used.

Minecarts with TNT bounce off of other minecarts and cannot be linked to minecarts with furnaces.

Sounds

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

Bedrock Edition:^{[sound 1]}

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Minecart with TNT	tnt_minecart	Item	item.minecraft.tnt_minecart

Entity	Identifier	Translation key
Minecart with TNT	tnt_minecart	entity.minecraft.tnt_minecart

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Minecart with TNT	tnt_minecart	525	Item	item.tnt_minecart.name

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Family	Translation key
Minecart with TNT	tnt_minecart	97	inanimate minecart	entity.tnt_minecart.name

Entity data

Minecarts with TNT 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			13w02a				Added minecart with TNT.
			13w03a				Minecart with TNT no longer destroys nearby rails and rail supports during explosion.[1]
1.8			14w11a				Minecart with TNT explosions no longer stack.
			14w26a				Minecart with TNT can now be detonated using arrows on fire.
1.12			pre6				No longer instantly explode when hit with fire charges; instead, they explode as if primed by an activator rail.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of minecart with TNT have been updated.
			19w11a				Minecart with TNT explosions now have a 100% drop rate.
1.15			19w38a				Due to a bug, the TNT part now appears dark, similar to suffocating mobs.
			19w39a				The TNT texture is now colored correctly.
			pre1				The model of minecart with TNT has been changed.[2]
			pre3				The model of minecart with TNT has been changed back to the 18w43a model.
1.16			pre6				Fixed the explosion origin, previously causing nearby entities to not take much damage when the minecart with TNT exploded.
1.19			22w13a				The crafting recipe for a minecart with TNT is now shapeless.
							Breaking a minecart with TNT now drops the item instead of the minecart and TNT separately.[3]
1.21.2			24w33a				Added optional field explosion_power.
1.21.5			pre1				Minecarts with TNT no longer explode when game rule tntExplodes is turned off.[4]

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0			build 1				Added minecart with TNT.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The texture of minecart with TNT has been changed.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.31				Breaking a minecart with TNT now drops the item instead of the minecart and TNT separately.

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 TNT.
TU21	CU9	1.14	1.14	1.14			The minecart limit has been increased.
			1.90				The texture of minecart with TNT have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added minecart with TNT.
							Minecart with TNT emits smoke particles when destroyed.

Data history

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Issues

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

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  The first image of minecarts with TNT, released by Dinnerbone^[5][6] (One can be seen in the lower-left corner.)
• 
  A more zoomed in image
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  Minecart with TNT and activator rail for detonation
• 
  The 13w02a banner, with a minecart with TNT and a hopper
• 
  Dinnerbone showing how minecarts with TNT have controlled explosions^[7]
• 
  Primed minecart with TNT
• 
  Explosion from a minecart with TNT (The "bridge" of rails is left undestroyed by the explosion.)

Other

• 
  Hot Wheels creeper riding TNT minecart

References