Minecart with Chest

Minecart with Chest

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Size	Height: 0.7 Blocks Width: 0.98 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 10
Drops	1 Minecart 1 Chest plus contents
Health points	6

A minecart with chest is a minecart with a chest inside it.

Natural generation

Example of loot in a minecart with chest in a mineshaft.

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

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Chest + Minecart		The recipe is shapeless.‌[upcoming: JE 1.19]

Minecarts with chests cannot be directly retrieved by attacking them, as they drop as a minecart and a chest plus its contents. The player can recraft them so that they can be placed again.‌^{[until JE 1.19 & BE 1.19.0]}

Usage

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.

See also: Tutorials/Storage minecarts

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

Sounds

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Minecart rolls	?	Plays when the minecart is moving	entity.minecart.riding	subtitles.entity.minecart.riding	?	?	16

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:

Main article: Entity format

• 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 platforms
		Freight Station	Use a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest.	—	15G	Bronze

History

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.

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.14					Minecarts with chests have been added.
					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.
		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.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.19		22w13a			The crafting recipe for a minecart with chest is now shapeless.
					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.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added minecarts with chests.
		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.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
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.
					Minecarts with chests emit smoke particles when destroyed.

Issues

Issues relating to "Minecart with Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  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.

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  This chest minecart is trapped inside a mossy stone bricks block, due to a stronghold and an mineshaft that generated partially overlapping.

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  A minecart with chest generated on top of an end portal frame, because there is a mineshaft behind the wall.

References

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