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.

Crafting

Minecarts with chests can be retrieved by attacking them. By doing so, they drop as an item and any other contents of the chest are dropped as well. Critical hits are not applied to them although the particles suggest otherwise.

Usage

Minecarts with chests can be placed by on any type of rail. Chest minecarts' contents can be accessed by pressing 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 emit redstone signals based on how full the minecarts with chests are. , minecarts with chests cannot enter boats, unlike minecarts.

Entity data

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

: See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Screenshots

Compact Minecart Storage.png|A compact storage using chest minecarts (left) compared to chest storage in the same volume. At the time this screenshot was taken, chests could not be placed next to each other. GlitchedMinecartChest.png|This minecart with chest is trapped inside a block, due to a stronghold and a mineshaft that generated partially overlapping. Minecartportal.png|A minecart with chest generated on top of an end portal frame, because there is a mineshaft behind the wall. Chest Minecart Stack.png|A large stack of chest minecarts.

In other media

File:Minecart Chest Mob Vote Server.png|A minecart with chest as it appeared in the 2022 Mob Vote Event File:Walmart promo.jpeg|Artwork of a chest cart for a Walmart promotion File:Minecart with Chest (inventory) MCE.png|A as it appeared in