Minecart with Hopper

Type	Vehicles
Durability	N/A
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Internal ID	PC: 46 PE: 96
Network ID	PC: 10
Entity ID	hopper_minecart
Drops	1 Minecart 1 Hopper plus contents
Health points	6 ()
First appearances	See History
Data value	dec: 408 hex: 198 bin: 110011000
Name	hopper_minecart

A minecart with hopper is a hopper inside a minecart.

Obtaining[edit | edit source]

Minecarts with hoppers can be broken by attacking them.

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Hopper + Minecart

Usage[edit | edit source]

These minecarts are placed similarly to other minecarts.

A Minecart with hopper will take in items which are lying nearby (range only slightly larger than the cart itself), or inside a container above the track (approx. 18.5 items per second, dramatically faster than an ordinary hopper). It will also pick up items that are lying on a block directly above the track. It will not push items into containers, but a hopper underneath the track can take items out of it.

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

A minecart with hopper will travel more than 85 blocks without stopping (as opposed to a normal cart going less than 12 blocks) from a dead stop using a 2 powered track starter even with another cart in front of them. However, the distance travelled by a Minecart with Hopper itself is heavily dependent on the hopper's load. Using a 1 powered rail starter track, a minecart with an empty hopper will travel 64 blocks until it stops (as opposed to an empty normal minecart going 8 blocks). The distance travelled diminishes non-linearly with increased hopper load; a minecart with a full hopper will only travel 16 blocks in this setup.

See also: Tutorials/Storage minecarts

Data values[edit | edit source]

Entity data[edit | edit source]

See also: Chunk format

Minecarts with hoppers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is hopper_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 4.
    - Tags common to all items see Template:Nbt inherit/item/template
- TransferCooldown: Time until the next transfer in game ticks, between 1 and 8, or 0 if there is no transfer.
- Enabled: Determines whether or not the minecart hopper will pick up items into its inventory.
- LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the hopper 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]}

↑ ^a ^b Both loot table tags will be removed once the items have been generated.

ID[edit | edit source]

A minecart's ID distinguishes between the different minecart types.

Minecart type	Item Name		Item Dec		Item Hex		Entity Name		Entity Dec		Entity Hex
Minecart type	PC	PE	PC	PE	PC	PE	PC	PE	PC	PE	PC	PE
Minecart	`minecart`		328		148		`minecart`		42	84	2A	40
Minecart with Chest	`chest_minecart`		342		156		`chest_minecart`		43	98	2B	62
Minecart with Furnace	`furnace_minecart`	N/A	343	N/A	157	N/A	`furnace_minecart`	N/A	44	N/A	2C	N/A
Minecart with TNT	`tnt_minecart`		407		197		`tnt_minecart`		45	97	2D	61
Minecart with Hopper	`hopper_minecart`		408		198		`hopper_minecart`		46	96	2E	60
Minecart with Command Block	`command_block_minecart`		422	443	1A6	1BB	`commandblock_minecart`	`command_block_minecart`	40	100	28	64

Video[edit | edit source]

History[edit | edit source]

Official release
1.5			13w03a	Added minecart with hopper.
1.9			15w43a	Loot tables are added; minecart with hopper now can use loot tables.
1.9.1			pre2	The title of the inventory is changed from 'Hopper minecart' to 'Minecart with Hopper'.
1.11			16w32a	The entity ID is changed from `MinecartHopper` to `hopper_minecart`.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.14.0			build 1	Added minecart with hopper.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1	The entity ID is changed from `minecarthopper` to `hopper_minecart`.
Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	Added minecart with hopper.