Minecart with Chest

A minecart with chest is a single chest inside a minecart, and functions as such.

Natural generation[]

Minecarts with chests containing loot naturally generate in mineshafts, each on top of a piece of rail.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Chest + Minecart

Minecarts with chests can be retrieved by attacking them. By doing so it drops as an item and any other contents of the chest are dropped as well.

Usage[]

Minecart with Chest GUI — The GUI of a minecart with chest.

Minecarts with chests can be placed by using its item on any type of rail.

Chest minecarts' contents can be accessed by pressing use item button on them. The interaction makes no sounds and the chest does not show the opening or closing animation, unlike regular chests.

The boost that minecarts with chests gain from powered rails is dependent on their load. For example, from a 1 powered rail starter track, an empty minecart with chest travels 64 blocks, but a full minecart with chest travels only 16 blocks (opposed to 80 blocks for an occupied normal minecart and 8 blocks for an empty normal minecart).

Another physical property of chest minecarts is their ability to be stacked. While three chests can fit in an area three blocks tall, up to four chest minecarts can fit in the same area. Like other minecarts, an unlimited number of minecarts with chests can exist in the same block space.

Minecarts with chests are also able to interact with hoppers. Hoppers can take items out from the minecart chest if they are below the track as the minecart rolls over it or put them in if the minecart rolls under a downward facing hopper. Hoppers can also input items if they are facing into the side of the minecart.

Opening or destroying a minecart with chest angers piglins.

When on top of detector rails, nearby redstone comparators will give out redstone signals based on how full the minecarts with chests are.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Minecarts with chests use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.^{[sound 1]}

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Minecart rolls	Friendly Creatures ^{[sound 1]}	While a minecart with chest is moving	`entity.minecart.riding`	`subtitles.entity.minecart.riding`	0.0-0.35 ^{[sound 2]}	0.0-1.0 ^{[sound 3]}	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-42132
↑ Relates linearly with horizontal velocity (max 0.5)
↑ Will increase by 0.0025 per tick if the minecart's horizontal velocity is more than 0.01

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Friendly Creatures	While a minecart with chest is moving	`minecart.base`	?	?

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	`chest_minecart`	Item	`item.minecraft.chest_minecart`

Entity	Identifier	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	`chest_minecart`	`entity.minecraft.chest_minecart`

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	`chest_minecart`	`389`	Item	`item.chest_minecart.name`

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	`chest_minecart`	`98`	`entity.chest_minecart.name`

Entity data[]

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

Java Edition:

Entity data
- Tags common to all container entities
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all minecarts

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
		Freight Station	Use a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest.	—	15G	Bronze

Video[]

History[]

Minecart with Chest BE3 — The Minecart models in the Bedrock Edition were north or south on the sides. In the latest version, the front and rear sides are north or south. But the absolute orientation of the chest was not changed.

This section is missing information about In bedrock edition 1.16.100 it seems that chests in minecarts face sideways instead of forward - when was this changed?.

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Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.14					Minecarts with chests have been added.
v1.0.14					At this point, they are either called "chest minecarts" or "storage minecarts" because no in-game name was indicated.
Java Edition Beta
1.0					"Minecart with Chest" has been first indicated as its name, via the new item tooltips.
1.8		Pre-release			The model of the minecart with chest has been changed to match the new chest model. However, the chest is incorrectly offset.^[1]
1.8		release			The model of minecarts with chests has been fixed.
Java Edition
1.5		13w02a			Minecarts with chests now generate in mineshafts in place of normal chests.
1.9		15w43a			Loot tables have been added; minecarts with chests now use loot tables, and those in generated in mineshafts now use loot tables.
1.9.1		pre2			The title of the inventory has been changed from 'Chest minecart' to 'Minecart with Chest'.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed from `MinecartChest` to `chest_minecart`.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 342.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
1.16.2		Pre-release 1			Piglins now become angry with players who open or destroy a chest minecart.
1.19		22w13a			The crafting recipe for a minecart with chest is now shapeless.
1.19		22w13a			Breaking a minecart with chest will now drop the item instead of the minecart and chest separately, though the contents of the chest are still dropped.^[2]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added minecarts with chests.
v0.14.0		build 3			Minecarts with chests now drop items when destroyed in Creative mode.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			The entity ID has been changed from `minecartchest` to `chest_minecart`.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.30			Breaking a minecart with chest will now drop the item instead of the minecart and chest separately, though the contents of the chest are still dropped.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added minecarts with chests.
		1.90			The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added minecarts with chests.
0.1.0					Minecarts with chests emit smoke particles when destroyed.

Issues[]

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Gallery[]

A compact storage using chest minecarts (left) compared to chest storage in the same volume. Notice how chests cannot be placed next to each other, which is no longer the case after Java Edition 1.13.
This minecart with chest is trapped inside a block, due to a stronghold and a mineshaft that generated partially overlapping.
A minecart with chest generated on top of an end portal frame, because there is a mineshaft behind the wall.
A large stack of chest minecarts.