Minecarts and Railways

If you'd like a minecart to stop when it reaches the end of a powered track, you'll want to place a dip at each end, as is shown above. Right-click a rail with minecart in hand to place your minecart. Place it on level ground so that you have a chance to climb in! When you're ready to ride, just right-click the minecart. To create a simple T-intersection that goes two ways, you'll need a lever. Anytime you right-click the lever, the direction of the bend in the track will change.

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While these chests may not always contain rails, they often hold other useful items that make exploring worthwhile. Another location where you may encounter naturally generated rails is within woodland mansions. These large, maze-like structures are home to various rooms and secrets, occasionally featuring rails as part of their design. Just like in the real world, a railway system in Minecraft is a great way to travel great distances in a short time.

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Rails will automatically turn corners if you place another rail adjacent to it (does not work on slopes). Now you have your very own basic railway system that can be used anytime. Rails are placed by right-clicking on the floor where you want them to go.

Minecart with chest

The rest of this page discusses the use of these components in building tracks and rail transport systems. There are a lot of very clever people out there designing complex rail systems. TaviRider and SethBling are just two of them; their YouTube channels are a great place to start looking for ideas when you want to build a really fancy transit network.

To minimize powering requirements, 2 powered followed by 2 unpowered can also be used (analogous to loaded player-carrying carts). A rail that is "off" slows carts passing over it as if by friction. A single inactive rail is enough to completely halt a cart in most cases.

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Carts that are loaded and/or at full speed cannot be stopped by just one block, but two "off" rails can stop it. On a long downslope, a stretch of three inactive rails are required to be sure of halting a speeding, loaded cart. If construction cost is no object one can of course use powered rails all the way to the top to get the best possible performance. Moving minecarts will get a push in the direction they are going. Stationary minecarts will not get a push unless there is only one direction they can move (ie. they are right at the end of a track, up against a block.

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While creating your very own Railway system in Minecraft might take some time, the result is worth the time spent. Creating intersections can be tricky when designing complex railways, but are usually necessary the longer you play. Placing a block of cobblestone or something similar at each end of the track will stop your cart from going off the rails. If your cart does go off the rails, just hit it with a pickaxe to put it back in your inventory.

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In this style of launcher, it is important for an incoming minecart to make it all the way up to the back block so it can easily be launched again. Welcome to the fascinating world of Minecraft minecart transportation! Rails are an essential component in Minecraft, allowing players to create expansive track systems for minecarts to explore their world and travel between dimensions.

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This pile should be placed where the carts can be collected, either close to a station or in a maintenance area. It is important to boost carts to full speed just before they are dropped to ensure they don't become stuck on the end of the track and eventually back up the system. When the cart comes to this point, it stops on the incline, allowing the cart to use gravity to start the boost when the button is pushed. Players can then either stay in the cart and carry on to the next stop, or leave the cart at the station for themselves/other players to use later. If working with empty carts (for instance, a storage cart transport system), 1 powered every 2 blocks is necessary to sustain the movement.

If a track including powered rails is bordered by blocks acting as "buffers", the cart continues back and forth along the track indefinitely. Having carts interact with each other on a short track designed this way can be used to chain multiple carts together as a "train". Once aligned, they all move together at relatively the same speed.

The powered rail, when attached to redstone, moves your minecart along the rail. If the powered rail isn't connected to redstone, it will stop your cart. Six gold ingots, one stick, and one redstone dust produces six powered rails.

If a cart is placed on an inactive powered rail that is sloped the braking effect is strong enough to keep it stationary against "gravity". If the powered rail is then turned on gravity is enough to start the cart rolling downhill, which then causes the rail to affect the cart's momentum. At non-curve track intersections, minecarts always travel downhill if they can. This is known as the downhill rule and overrides the south-east rule.

When you place rails in a T-junction, the central rail will be bent into a right-angle 'elbow' connecting two of the tracks. A redstone signal (such as a redstone torch or a lever) will change the orientation of this elbow, allowing you to choose which way carts will go over the junction. To keep up top speed whilst climbing a hill, you'll need one powered rail every two blocks; ie. If you don't mind slowing down a bit, one powered rail every four blocks will do. If a straight track piece leads to a curve block and isn't attached to the curve, a minecart runs over the gap and continues to go straight over the curve. A minecart passes straight through a 4-way intersection constructed to have no curved rail.

Plain minecarts can be ridden in by you, animals, and enemy mobs. You can control the minecart with whichever keys you use to go forward and backward. A junction that has multiple destinations can be set up by expanding the junctions. In the design to the right, the rider is given much more time to select their destination than a two-way junction.

Approximately 1 out of every 3 rails must be powered to travel uphill due to gravity. Rail can be laid diagonally in a zig-zag pattern; it looks wiggly on the ground but minecarts travel in a nice straight diagonal line. Place powered rails at appropriate intervals (see below).

But before we can get into builds like that, we have to first know how to make and use Rails in Minecraft.