Minecart with TNT

A minecart with TNT is a block of TNT inside a minecart. Unlike normal TNT it can detonate instantly under certain conditions and its damage and blast radius is increased by its speed when it detonates.

Crafting
Minecarts with TNT can be retrieved by attacking them, and by doing so it drops as an item.

Usage


A minecart with TNT detonates after a delay on these conditions:
 * It moves over a powered activator rail.
 * It is destroyed while in motion (except by a player in Creative mode).
 * It is destroyed by fire, lava, or an explosion.
 * $$, it is hit by a fire charge.

The delay is 4 seconds for an activator rail, like the TNT block. For other causes there is a random delay between 0 and 1.9 seconds, but more likely to be close to 1.

It detonates instantly on these conditions:


 * It hits the ground with a downward velocity of it falling more than three blocks, unless landing on any form of rail.
 * It turns on a curved track too fast, with a solid block or entity located beside the track (in the previous movement direction).
 * It is hit by a flaming arrow.
 * It is pressed into a block or entity and has velocity.

Upon detonation it acts as normal TNT, exploding and damaging nearby blocks, players, and entities. Upon detonation after activating on activator rail, it does not destroy its rails and the blocks the rail is on, however other nearby carts can. More than one minecart can be placed on the same rail block, allowing many of them to fit into a single block. They explode when touched, dealing large amounts of damage.

The explosion has a base power of 4, the same as regular TNT, but the game also adds a random bonus value up to 1.5 times velocity, but no higher than 7.5. This means that with a speed of 5 or higher the power will be a random value between 4 and 11.5. When triggered by an activator rail or by damage, the bonus value is calculated using the horizontal velocity of the minecart. When hit by a flaming arrow the velocity of the arrow is used instead. When triggered by fall damage, the fall distance divided by 10 is used.

Minecarts with TNT bounce off of other minecarts and cannot be linked to minecarts with furnaces.

Sounds
Minecarts with TNT use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.



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




 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Trivia

 * A direct hit from three merged minecarts with TNT can reduce a fully diamond armored player to half a heart. However, if the TNT minecarts explode, they do not destroy any rails.