Minecart with TNT

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A minecart with TNT is a minecart with TNT inside. Unlike normal TNT, it can detonate instantly, and its blast radius and damage is increased by its speed at detonation.

Minecarts with TNT can be retrieved by attacking them, and doing so drops them as an item. Critical hits are not applied to them, although the particles suggest otherwise.

A minecart with TNT detonates after a delay on these conditions:

• It moves over a powered activator rail.
• It is destroyed while in motion (except by a player in Creative mode).
• It is destroyed by fire, lava, or an explosion.
• It is hit by a fire charge projectile.
• Using a flint and steel, fire charge, or any item enchanted with Fire Aspect.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

The delay is 4 seconds (80 game ticks) for an activator rail, like the TNT block. For other causes there is a random delay between 0 and 1.95 seconds.

It detonates instantly on these conditions:

• It hits the ground with a downward velocity of it falling more than three blocks, unless landing on any form of rail.
• It turns on a curved track too fast, with a solid block or entity located beside the track (in the previous movement direction). ‌^{[Java Edition only]}
• It is hit by a flaming projectile.
• It is pressed into a block or entity and has velocity.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Upon detonation it acts as normal TNT, exploding and damaging nearby blocks, players, and entities. Upon detonation after activating on activator rail, it does not destroy its rails and the blocks the rail is on, however other nearby minecarts can.‌^{[Java Edition only]} More than one minecart can be placed on the same rail block, allowing many of them to fit into a single block. In Java Edition they explode when they are touched, turned very fast, and dealing large amounts of damage.

In Bedrock Edition they only explode when they land on the ground and not get touched, or turned very fast.

The explosion has a base power of 4, the same as regular TNT, but the game also adds a random bonus value up to 1.5 times velocity, but no higher than 7.5. This means that with a speed of 5 or higher the power is a random value between 4 and 11.5. When triggered by an activator rail or by damage, the bonus value is calculated using the horizontal velocity of the minecart. When hit by a flaming arrow the velocity of the arrow is used instead. When triggered by fall damage, the fall distance divided by 10 is used.

Minecarts with TNT bounce off of other minecarts and cannot be linked to minecarts with furnaces.

Java Edition:
Minecarts with TNT use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.^{[sound 1]}

Bedrock Edition:^{[sound 1]}

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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

• 👁 The first image of minecarts with TNT, released by Dinnerbone.[5][6] (One can be seen in the lower-left corner.)
  
  The first image of minecarts with TNT, released by Dinnerbone.^[5][6] (One can be seen in the lower-left corner.)
• 👁 A more zoomed in image.
  
  A more zoomed in image.
• 👁 Minecart with TNT and activator rail for detonation.
  
  Minecart with TNT and activator rail for detonation.
• 👁 The 13w02a banner, with a minecart with TNT and a hopper.
  
  The 13w02a banner, with a minecart with TNT and a hopper.
• 👁 Dinnerbone showing how minecarts with TNT have controlled explosions.[7]
  
  Dinnerbone showing how minecarts with TNT have controlled explosions.^[7]
• 👁 Primed minecart with TNT.
  
  Primed minecart with TNT.
• 👁 Explosion from a minecart with TNT. (The "bridge" of rails is left undestroyed by the explosion.)
  
  Explosion from a minecart with TNT. (The "bridge" of rails is left undestroyed by the explosion.)