Minecart with Chest

Storage Minecarts were added to the game in the Seecret Friday Update 7 on July 30 2010. Their main purpose is to function like a minecart while being able to store and transport goods. They work just like normal minecarts, except that they cannot be ridden in.

To use a Storage Minecart, one must place it on any type of Rail block and right click it. This will bring up an interface the same as a Chest's. Breaking a Storage Minecart will cause everything inside to be dumped out as well as a Minecart and Chest block. Since a Storage Minecart's recipe is only 1x2 spaces, it can easily be recrafted without a Workbench.

Crafting
A Storage Minecart is crafted from a Chest and a Minecart, as shown below:

Trivia

 * Storage and Powered Minecarts were the first items created from two other crafted items.
 * When Minecarts were first implemented, Storage or Powered Minecarts didn't exist. A normal Minecart's purpose was to store things much like the current Storage Minecart.
 * A few updates after Minecarts were added and before Storage and Powered Minecarts were implemented, Minecarts had a strange appearance. They looked exactly like Storage Minecarts that could not store anything, but could still be ridden. When Storage and Powered Minecarts were added, normal Minecart's were given their current appearance.
 * Storage minecarts will collect any loose items that they run into on the track. This property can be useful for farming mob drops by creating an infinite loop with power rails, and using a canal to drop the items in the path of the cart.