Minecart with Chest

Minecart with Chest

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Rarity tier	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Size	Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.98 blocks
Drops	1 Minecart with Chest plus contents
Health points	4HP

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A minecart with chest is a single chest inside a minecart. Unlike regular minecarts, it can be used to store items.

Obtaining

Natural generation

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

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Chest + Minecart

Similarly to other forms of minecart, minecarts with chests can be destroyed by attacking them, and doing so drops them as an item. Despite the appearance of the relevant particles, critical hits are not applied to them.

Usage

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.

Minecarts with chests also lose momentum based on their load. Fuller minecarts with chests will lose momentum faster than emptier ones. In Java Edition, the formula for the percentage of momentum kept is

0.98 + 0.001 * (15 - container_redstone_signal)

where container_redstone_signal is the signal that would be read by a comparator. If in water, this is further multiplied by 0.95.

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 and droppers. 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. Droppers can place items into a chest minecart if it is facing into the block space of the chest minecart when it is activated, placing the dispensed item directly into the chest minecart's inventory.

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.

In Java Edition, minecarts with chests cannot enter boats, unlike regular minecarts.

Sounds

Java Edition:
Minecarts with chests use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Minecart rolls	Friendly Mobs	While a minecart with chest is moving	entity.minecart.riding	subtitles.entity.minecart.riding​	0.0–0.35	0.0–1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Friendly Mobs	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	Family	Translation key
Minecart with Chest	chest_minecart	98	inanimate minecart	entity.chest_minecart.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all container entities see Template:Nbt inherit/container entity/template
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  • Tags common to all minecarts see Template:Nbt inherit/vehicle/template

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Achievements

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

History

The minecart models in 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

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'.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.
1.16.2			pre1				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.
							Breaking a minecart with chest now drops the item instead of the minecart and chest separately, though the contents of the chest are still dropped.

Bedrock Edition

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.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.31				Breaking a minecart with chest now drops the item instead of the minecart and chest separately, though the contents of the chest are still dropped.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added minecarts with chests.
TU5							The model of the minecart with chest has been changed to match the new chest model.
TU21	CU9	1.14	1.14	1.14			The minecart limit has been increased.
			1.90				The textures of minecarts with chests have been changed.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added minecarts with chests.
							Minecarts with chests emit smoke particles when destroyed.

Data history

Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID has been changed from MinecartChest to chest_minecart.
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, the item's numeral ID was 342 and the entity's was 43.

Issues

Issues relating to "Minecart with Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• Prior to the minecart with chest's addition, the second revision of the regular minecart model had a chest inside it. This lasted from Infdev 20100624 to Alpha v1.0.3.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  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.
• 
  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

In other media

• 
  A minecart with chest as it appeared in the 2022 Mob Vote Event
• 
  Artwork of a chest cart for a Walmart promotion
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  A minecart with chest as it appeared in Minecraft Earth