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Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls. TNT... personally, I've never found a use for it.

josephorjoe 5y ago
> Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls. This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.
- grawprog 5y ago
  >This and you can (and should) build roller coasters. Last time I really played minecraft years ago, me an my old roommate would compete to see who could make the most epic ridiculous minecart rollercoaster track. It was pretty fun, we'd turn entire mountains into a giant roller coaster or build floating islands or have it go down to the center of a lava cave or something.
trutannus 5y ago
You can make overly expensive unguided bombs by using TNT minecarts. They can be very effective for saturation bombing of areas. You can effectively eliminate the risk of Pillager outposts with a few of those configured around it. When they respawn you can trigger the system and have an on-demand air-raid. There's not much the mobs can do against an aerial bombardment. You can also create land-mines with pressure plates.
kunagi7 5y ago
With piston bolts [0] travelling long distances got even faster. They push the minecart forward at redstone tick speeds and are server side so they're really efficient. But there was a faster way with a machine called "ender pearl cannon" [1]. I don't know if they still work though. They're quite complex to build but allowed to travel tens of thousands blocks very precisely in less than a minute. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGcGU9ay9io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGcGU9ay9io [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOIVPQYOt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOIVPQYOt8
cout 5y ago
When I used to play I found it more convenient to travel long distances using nether portals.

josephorjoe 5y ago

> Minecarts get to be more useful when you want to travel long distances without having to touch the controls. This and you can (and should) build roller coasters.

grawprog 5y ago
>This and you can (and should) build roller coasters. Last time I really played minecraft years ago, me an my old roommate would compete to see who could make the most epic ridiculous minecart rollercoaster track. It was pretty fun, we'd turn entire mountains into a giant roller coaster or build floating islands or have it go down to the center of a lava cave or something.

trutannus 5y ago

You can make overly expensive unguided bombs by using TNT minecarts. They can be very effective for saturation bombing of areas. You can effectively eliminate the risk of Pillager outposts with a few of those configured around it. When they respawn you can trigger the system and have an on-demand air-raid. There's not much the mobs can do against an aerial bombardment. You can also create land-mines with pressure plates.

kunagi7 5y ago

With piston bolts [0] travelling long distances got even faster. They push the minecart forward at redstone tick speeds and are server side so they're really efficient. But there was a faster way with a machine called "ender pearl cannon" [1]. I don't know if they still work though. They're quite complex to build but allowed to travel tens of thousands blocks very precisely in less than a minute. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGcGU9ay9io https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGcGU9ay9io [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOIVPQYOt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eOIVPQYOt8

cout 5y ago

When I used to play I found it more convenient to travel long distances using nether portals.