Talk:Minecart with TNT

railcraft
this feature was originally from the mod railcraft, this information should be in the history. i'd do it myself but i don't know how. 98.248.118.106 22:59, 11 January 2013 (UTC)


 * There are a lot of features in the game that used to only exist in mods. We do not document mods nor do we keep track of which one supposedly had a feature first before it was added to vanilla. There are also other issues that make documenting this info wrong, such as our "documenting the community" policy and creating a target for a revert war between competing mod authors. If a Mojangster reveals where they got ideas from, and a link can be provided to proof, such as a tweet, then it may be good for a neat trivia entry, but other than that, no.  23:10, 11 January 2013 (UTC)


 * For example, with pistons, Jeb explicitly gave credit to two mod authors for providing ideas and code; this is documented. Ender chests were originally suggested on reddit, which Jeb has acknowledged. They were first made as a mod, but the vanilla version was not based on the mod implementation. Redstone blocks have been suggested numerous times, and implemented as mods at least twice, though neither mod that I'm familiar with made them permanent power sources. Without a statement from Mojang, we can't make assumptions as to what inspired them. If you think a mod (such as Railcraft) deserves credit for a feature, try to get a comment from Mojang about it. Without that, it's just speculation, which we try to avoid on the wiki. -- Orthotope 11:17, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Impact
TNT carts seem to explode when hitting each other hard enough, or when compressed into a small space so that the game percieves them as hitting each other hard. Both of these seem to take the rails with it, for whatever reason. Is this a bug, and should this be mentioned on the page? If so, where, and how? 24.98.148.16 19:33, 16 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The video also shows that when a cart turns a corner next to blocks and explodes it destroys the blocks and rails too. --24.164.3.244 10:54, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Human Cannons
Minecarts with TNT in them can be fused using the same bug that allows Minecarts to fuse and "fly" off the tracks. This can be used together with water to produce a human cannon. However, it seems to mainly only work vertically. I think this would make a nice trivia entry as it can blast players up to heights of 1000 blocks in a split second, and after 1200 blocks it decreases to a rate of 300 blocks per second for infinite heights. It slowly decreases in speed as it nears the upper limit of the blast, and you then proceed to fall at terminal velocity. I've made several in the same world for testing and have not installed any mods yet. I'm also running 1.5 (1.5.0). I'm working on making a world file for proof as well. --98.94.89.107 01:31, 18 March 2013 (UTC)