Tutorials/Transportation

Transportation Types
Once you have played Minecraft for a while, especially on Multiplayer, you start to expand your world, and 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 just plain old normal walking. To find out about speeds and other information, then check out the Transportation page, as this is just how to build different types of transportation.

Walking / Running / Sprinting
This is the first and only type of transport that requires no resources (besides food since the 1.8 Beta Update, which is also when sprinting was introduced (unless you play on peaceful)). To sprint, double tap the W button on your keyboard (presuming you didn't change the button for walking forward). On the other hand, you may become hungry much faster. You can move faster using potions of swiftness.

Boats
This second type of transport takes only 5 Wood 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 forward rectangle out of Wood Planks, apart from the side that will be the exit. Then place 2 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. (Note that Soul Sand no longer slow boats down,so avoid doing this as your Boat will crash and fall apart.)

Minecarts
To build a train station, have a look at the Tutorials/Train Station article. This is the fastest of the three, however is the one that requires the most resources, using 5 Iron Ingots. You also need to make tracks as well, which take 6 Iron Ingots and a Stick to make 16 Rails, 6 Gold Ingots,1 Stick and 1 Redstone for 6 Powered Rails, and 6 Iron Ingots, a Stone Pressure Plate and 1 Redstone to make 6 Detector Rails. You can also transport items by making a Storage Minecart, which is a Chest that can be moved on a track, and a Powered Minecart which can power other Minecarts once Coal/Charcoal has been put inside. Note: Minecarts will NOT go through unloaded chunks.

Pigs
If you have a Saddle and a Carrot on a Stick then you can ride a pig as transport. They can jump up 1 block high platforms and you must have the Carrot on a stick selected in your hotbar(If you don't use a Carrot on a stick the pig will just wander and you will have no control of it.This can be devastating if it 1) falls of a cliff, 2) falls into a ravine, or 3) falls into lava). It is also a good idea to bring plenty of spare carrots as the pig will eat them as you travel. This is not advised as the pig might just wander off or you might run out of Carrot on a stick during the ride.