Minecart with Hopper

| Rarity tier |
Common |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
Yes |
| Stackable |
No |
| Size |
Height: 0.7 blocks |
| Drops | |
| Health points |
6HP |
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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 drops as an item along with the contents of the hopper. Critical hits are not applied to them although the particles suggest otherwise.
Usage

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 high speed. In Java Edition a hopper minecart pulls items from a container directly above the minecart at a speed of one item every game tick in (20 items per second), eight times as fast as a normal hopper. In Bedrock Edition it pulls an item only every two game ticks (10 items per second), four 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 a curved rail pulls in items in a hopper lying in front of its moving direction and one block above if the hopper's output funnel is pointed downward and no block is below that hopper.[1]
The minecart with 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 two-powered track starter, even with another minecart in front of it. However, the distance traveled by a minecart with hopper depends on the hopper's load. Using a one-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]
| Sounds | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| Minecart rolls | Friendly Mobs [sound 1] | While a minecart with hopper is moving | entity | subtitles | 0.0-0.35 [sound 2] | 0.0-1.0 [sound 3] | 16 | |
| Sounds | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
| Friendly Creatures Friendly Mobs | While a minecart with hopper is moving | minecart | ? | ? | |
Data values
ID
| Item | Identifier | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
hopper_minecart | Item | item |
| Entity | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
hopper_minecart | entity |
| Item | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
hopper_minecart | 526 | Item | item |
| Entity | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
hopper_minecart | 96 | entity |
Entity data
Minecarts with hoppers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.
- [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
- [Boolean] Enabled:
1or0(true/false) - Iftrue, the minecart hopper picks up items into its inventory.
Video
History
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.5 | 13w03a | ||||||
| 1.9 | 15w43a | Loot tables are added; minecarts with hoppers now can use loot tables. | |||||
| 1.9.1 | pre2 | The title of the inventory is changed from 'Hopper minecart' to 'Minecart with Hopper'. | |||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | ||||||
| 1.15 | 19w38a | ||||||
| 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. | |||||
| Breaking a minecart with hopper now drops the item instead of the minecart and hopper separately. The contents of the hopper are still dropped.[2] | |||||||
| 1.19.4 | 23w06a | Minecart with hopper no longer aggravates piglins when opened or destroyed. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
| v0.14.0 | build 1 | ||||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | ||||||
| 1.19.0 | Preview 1.19.0.31 | Breaking a minecart with hopper now drops the item instead of the minecart and hopper separately. The contents of the hopper are still dropped. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU19 | CU7 | 1.12 | 1.12 | 1.12 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU21 | CU9 | 1.14 | 1.14 | 1.14 | The minecart limit has been increased. | ||
| 1.90 | |||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||||
| Minecarts with hoppers now emit smoke particles when destroyed. | |||||||
Data history
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |||||
| 1.19.4 | 23w03a | TransferCooldown data has been removed. | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Minecart with Hopper" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.
Gallery
Screenshots
-
The first image of hopper carts released by Dinnerbone.[3] -
The 13w03a banner showing a minecart with hopper and a dropper.
References
- ↑ MCPE-94293
- ↑ MC-249493 — resolved as "Fixed".
- ↑ "Well you guys got that quick. The letters in the hotbar were for [imgur link]" – @Dinnerbone (Nathan Adams) on X (formerly Twitter), January 15, 2013
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