Minecart with Hopper

A minecart with hopper is a minecart with a hopper inside. Unlike a normal hopper, it pulls items from containers much more quickly, cannot push items into containers, can collect item entities through a single layer of solid blocks and is locked and unlocked via activator rails.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Hopper + Minecart

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

Usage[]

Minecart with Hopper GUI — The GUI of a minecart with hopper.

Minecarts with hoppers are placed similarly to other minecarts.

A minecart with hopper pulls in items lying nearby (within a range slightly larger than the cart itself), or inside a container directly above the minecart, at a rate of 1 item every game tick (20 items per second), eight times as fast as a normal hopper. It also picks up items that are lying on a block directly above the track. It does not push items into containers, but a hopper underneath the track can remove items from a minecart with hopper on the track. Ordinary hoppers can also drop items into a minecart with hopper like other containers, at the normal speed of 2.5 items per second. In Bedrock Edition, a minecart with hopper on curved rail pulls in items in a hopper lying in front of its moving direction and 1 block above if hopper's output funnel is pointed downward and no block is below that hopper.^[1]

The hopper can be disabled by passing over a powered activator rail, and can be reenabled by an inactive activator rail.

An empty minecart with hopper can travel more than 85 blocks without stopping (as opposed to a normal cart going less than 12 blocks) from a dead stop using a 2 powered track starter even with another cart in front of them. However, the distance traveled by a minecart with hopper depends on the hopper's load. Using a 1 powered rail starter track, a minecart with an empty hopper travels 64 blocks until it stops (as opposed to an empty normal minecart going 8 blocks). The distance traveled diminishes non-linearly with increased hopper load; a minecart with a full hopper can travel only 16 blocks in this setup.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Minecarts with hoppers 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 hopper 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 hopper is moving	`minecart.base`	?	?

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Item	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	`hopper_minecart`	Item	`item.minecraft.hopper_minecart`

Entity	Identifier	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	`hopper_minecart`	`entity.minecraft.hopper_minecart`

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	`hopper_minecart`	`526`	Item	`item.hopper_minecart.name`

Entity	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Minecart with Hopper	`hopper_minecart`	`96`	`entity.hopper_minecart.name`

Entity data[]

Minecarts with hoppers 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
- Enabled: Determines whether or not the minecart hopper picks up items into its inventory.
- TransferCooldown: Time until the next transfer in game ticks, between 1 and 8, or 0 if there is no transfer.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Video[]

History[]

Java Edition
1.5		13w03a			Added minecart with hopper.
1.9		15w43a			Loot tables are added; minecarts with hopper now can use loot tables.
1.9.1		pre2			The title of the inventory is changed from 'Hopper minecart' to 'Minecart with Hopper'.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID of the minecart with hopper has now been changed from `MinecartHopper` to `hopper_minecart`.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 408.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of the minecart with hopper have now been changed.
1.15		19w38a			The hopper now appears dark, same as suffocating mobs.
1.15		19w39a			The hopper now renders correctly.
1.16.2		Pre-release 1			Opening or destroying a minecart with hopper now angers nearby piglins.
1.19		22w13a			The crafting recipe for a minecart with hopper is now shapeless.
1.19		22w13a			Breaking a minecart with hopper will now drop the item instead of the minecart and hopper separately, though the contents of the hopper are still dropped.^[2]
1.19.4		23w06a			Minecart with hopper now no longer aggravates piglins when opened.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			Added minecart with hopper.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			The entity ID of the minecart with hopper has now been changed from `minecarthopper` to `hopper_minecart`.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of the minecart with hopper have now been changed.
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.30			Breaking a minecart with hopper will now drop the item instead of the minecart and hopper separately, though the contents of the hopper are still dropped.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added minecart with hopper.
		1.90			The textures of the minecart with hopper have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added minecart with hopper.
0.1.0					Minecarts with hopper emit smoke particles when destroyed.