Minecart with Chest

Minecart with Chest

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Size	Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.98 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 10
Drops	1 Minecart 1 Chest plus contents
Health points	6

A minecart with chest is a minecart with a chest inside it.

Natural generation

Example of loot in a minecart with chest in a mineshaft.

Minecarts with chests naturally generate in mineshafts.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Chest + Minecart

Minecarts with chests cannot be retrieved by attacking them, as they just drop a minecart and a chest plus its contents. Still, they are renewable; the player can simply recraft them.

Usage

Minecarts with chests can be placed by using its item on a 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.

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 travels 64 blocks, but a full minecart with chest travels only 16 blocks (opposed to 80 blocks for an occupied normal minecart and 8 blocks for an empty normal minecart).

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.

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 cart rolls over it or put them in if the cart rolls under a downward facing hopper.

Opening or dismantling a minecart with chest angers piglins.

See also: Tutorials/Storage minecarts

When on top of Detector Rails, nearby Redstone Comparators will give redstone signals that will get stronger as the minecart with chest gets more full

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Minecart rolls	Friendly Creatures	Plays when the minecart is moving	entity.minecart.riding	subtitles.entity.minecart.riding	?	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	chest_minecart	item.minecraft.chest_minecart

Entity	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	chest_minecart	entity.minecraft.chest_minecart

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	chest_minecart	328	item.chest_minecart.name

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	chest_minecart	98	entity.chest_minecart.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

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

• 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.
  •  LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. If 0 or omitted, a random seed is used.

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
		Freight Station	Use a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest.	—	15G	Bronze

History

The Minecart models in the 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 Alpha
v1.0.14					Minecarts with chests have been added.
					At this point, they are currently called "chest minecarts" or "storage minecarts" because no in-game name was indicated.
?					Normal minecarts no longer render with chests inside.
Java Edition Beta
1.0					"Minecart with Chest" has been first indicated as its name, via the new item tooltips.
1.8		Pre-release			The model of the minecart with chest has been changed. However, the chest is incorrectly offset.
		release			The model of minecarts with chests has been fixed.
Java Edition
1.5		13w02a			Minecarts with chests can now generate in mineshafts.
1.9		15w43a			Loot tables have been added; minecarts with chests now use loot tables, and those in generated in mineshafts now use loot tables.
1.9.1		pre2			The title of the inventory has been changed from 'Chest minecart' to 'Minecart with Chest'.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed from MinecartChest to chest_minecart.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 342.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
1.16.2		Pre-release 1			Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a chest minecart.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added minecarts with chests.
		build 3			Minecarts with chests now drop items when destroyed in creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			The entity ID has been changed from minecartchest to chest_minecart.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added minecarts with chests.
		1.90			The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added minecarts with chests.
					Version exclusive: Minecarts with chests emit smoke particles when destroyed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Minecart with Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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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 mineshaft that generated partially overlapping.

References

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