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Minecart with Chest
| Type |
Vehicles |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
No |
| Internal ID | |
| Network ID |
JE: 10 |
| Entity ID |
chest_minecart |
| Drops | |
| Health points |
6 ( |
| First appearances |
See History |
| Data value |
dec: 342 hex: 156 bin: 101010110 |
| Name |
chest_minecart |
A minecart with chest is a minecart with a chest inside.
Contents
Obtaining[edit]
Crafting[edit]
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Chest + Minecart |
Minecarts with chests cannot be retrieved by attacking them, as they will just drop a minecart and a chest plus its contents. Still, they are renewable since the player just has to go through the trouble of recrafting them.
Natural generation[edit]
Minecarts with chests naturally generate in abandoned mineshafts.
Usage[edit]
Minecarts with chests can be placed by using its item on a rail.
Chest minecart's 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.
The boost that minecarts with chests gain from powered rails is dependent on their load. For example, from a 1 powered rail starter track, an empty minecart with chest will go 64 blocks, but a full minecart with chest will go only 16 blocks (opposed to 8 blocks for an empty normal minecart and 80 blocks for an occupied normal minecart).
Another physical property of chest minecarts is their ability to be stacked. Whereas only 3 chests can fit in an area 3 blocks tall, up to 4 chest minecarts can fit in the same area.
- See also: Tutorials/Storage minecarts
Data values[edit]
Entity data[edit]
- See also: Chunk format
Minecarts with chests have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is chest_minecart.
Entity data- Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all minecarts see Template:Nbt inherit/vehicle/template
Items: List of items.
An item, including the Slot tag. Slots are numbered 0 to 26.- Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the chest when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with.[note 1]
LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted will use a random seed.[note 1]
Achievements[edit]
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Availability | Xbox points earned | Trophy type (PS) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox | PS | Bedrock | Nintendo | ||||||
| Freight Station | Use a hopper to move an item from a chest minecart to a chest. | No | No | Yes | New 3DS | 15G | — | ||
Video[edit]
History[edit]
| Alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ? | Normal minecarts no longer render with chests inside. | ||||
| v1.0.14 |  Minecarts with chests were added. |
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| At this point they were called "chest minecarts" or "storage minecarts" because no in-game name was indicated. | |||||
| Beta | |||||
| 1.0 | "Minecart with Chest" was first indicated as its name, via the new item tooltips. | ||||
| 1.8 | ? | The model was changed. |
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| Official release | |||||
| 1.5 | 13w02a | Minecarts with chests can now generate in abandoned mineshafts. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Loot tables are added; minecarts with chests now can use loot tables, and those in generated in mineshafts now use loot tables. | |||
| 1.9.1 | pre2 | The title of the inventory is changed from 'Chest minecart' to 'Minecart with Chest'. | |||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | The entity ID is changed from MinecartChest to chest_minecart. |
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| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 342. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Added minecarts with chests. | |||
| build 3 | Now drop items when destroyed in Creative mode. | ||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | The entity ID is changed from minecartchest to chest_minecart. |
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| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added minecarts with chests. | |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Minecart with Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Gallery[edit]
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A compact storage using chest minecarts (left) compared to chest storage in the same volume.
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This chest minecart is trapped inside a mossy stone block, due to a stronghold and an abandoned mineshaft generating very close to each other and partially overlapping.
