Tutorials/Transportation

Once you have played Minecraft for a while, especially on multiplayer, you start to expand your world, an it can take time and effort to travel from your base to say, your mine. There are 3 main types of transportation, minecarts, boats and normal walking. (Link to info will be here soon, this is just a tutorial of how to build.)

=Walking / Running / Sprinting= This is the first and only type of transport that requires no resources (besides food since the 1.8 Beta update).

=Boats= This is the second type of transport which takes only 5 wooden planks, and is the only type of transport used on water. No tracks are required to be built either, allowing you travel freely on water. To build a dock, make a 4 across by 6 foward rectangle out of wood, apart from the side that will be the exit. Then place two trapdoors 1 block higher at the exit/entrance. You should then fill the 3 x 2 hole with water. Then, if you have been to the Nether, place soul sand at the bottom of the dock to stop the boat from crashing.

=Minecarts= To build a train station, then have a look here (again, link will up soon). This is the fastest of the three, however is the one that requires the most recourses, using 5 iron ingots. You also need to make tracks aswell, which take 6 ingots and a stick to make 16 tracks, booster tracks which take 6 gold ingots and 1 Redstone dust to make 6 tracks and 6 iron ingots and a stone pressure plate to make 6 tracks.

(Sorry, I have to do this in stages, as I'm on my iPod and normally the Internet turns off every ten minutes for some reason)