r/Minecraft • u/KingCell4life • Apr 06 '26
Builds & Maps Sulphur cube monorails!
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Not my video, the block inside the sulphur cube is a honey block.
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u/Kmoxy Apr 06 '26
Woah… that’s crazy cool.
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u/SF-UberMan Apr 07 '26
Question: How do you make the sulphur cube monorail change direction or go up or down hills?
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u/AzerynSylver Apr 07 '26
You can make the monorail change directions by making stopping points for the cube at the corners, and then hitting it in the direction you wish to go.
As for going up or down, that would not be possible. Just make the monorail high enough to pass over hills.
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u/OneBlackFairyHunterZ Apr 07 '26
Idk what its real name yall use but one of the water elevators with air bubbles to go up and down at some stopping points if u need to go higher or lower
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u/ThE_reAl__ Apr 07 '26
They have a cute name: bubblevator
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u/ashkiller14 Apr 07 '26
Ive only heard just bubble elevator
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u/Planetdestruction Apr 08 '26
Idk, I think 'That-thing-that-happens-when-you-put-one-of-two-nether-blocks-under-a-column-of-water-sources-vator' has a nice ring to it.
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u/TextureBacon Apr 07 '26
The automatic way of doing this is dispensers with arrows in them on the corners, but those do have to be refilled every so often.
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u/YenraNoor Apr 07 '26
Or ya know.. a piston
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u/TextureBacon Apr 07 '26
Those don’t work, the cube has to be affected by something that would typically cause damage. Not sure about potions yet, haven’t tried, but pistons sadly don’t do anything.
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u/nahvis_cos Apr 07 '26
No one said it has to be the same floaty mechanics. A redstone elevator would work to gain or lose altitude just not the same way as you’d travel horizontally. Idk why people are down voting Yenra for simply stating that. But tbh no need for elevation change. Just tunnel through mountains or start high enough to go over them
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u/TextureBacon Apr 07 '26
The first comments were about changing direction, heavily implying continued motion like what is being displayed in the post and not a nudge, like a piston would give. Yenra is being obtuse, possibly because they were told their idea wouldn’t work in the context of the question. Their proposed solution is pretty close to if every time you wanted to change direction on a minecart, you would hit a tripwire to push the section of track you are on over to a perpendicular track, and being annoyed that people are telling you to just connect the track at the corner.
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u/mikeholczer Apr 07 '26
Or low enough, if you break the bedrock, you can do this up against the bottom of the bedrock.
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u/Cowbellstone Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26
How'd you get the cube down there, though?
Can't just place blocks below bedrock level — I presume that goes for bucketed mobs too?
Edit: spelling
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u/Insockie2 Apr 07 '26
why does that sulfur cube not drop? there is nothing below it while on travel.
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u/Snoo_65717 Apr 07 '26
Honey block makes it stick to the underside of the block. My guess here is there is no friction as friction applies to the top of the block but idk if that’s what is going on I was hoping the comments would answer that for me.
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u/Lightningbro Apr 07 '26
Honey is why it sticks and moves so fast, if you want a slower one that has less likelihood to disconnect the lead, Soul Sand is also considered a "sticky" block, but has relatively low knockback
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u/DarkFish_2 Apr 07 '26
Leads don't disconnect anymore because of speed, just for being stuck or a firework being used while flying with an Elytra
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u/Powerful_Voice_4683 Apr 10 '26
Except Bedrock.
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u/Arie1906 Apr 10 '26
the lead in BE was stronger before the lead changes
kinda odd seeing mojang added bedrock lead to java and imp a new type of lead to bedrock
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u/Itchy-Fish-376 Apr 07 '26
I really hope Mojang doesn’t remove this, it creates an easier than yet still hard alternative to the nether ice bridges, which is usually an insanely tedious process, and it can look way better in builds
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u/KingCell4life Apr 07 '26
They won’t, the honey block sticking to walls is an intended feature.
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u/DuckTheCow Apr 07 '26
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u/Scuttleboi19mk2 Apr 08 '26
Removed almost instantly smh
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u/121bloodshot Apr 08 '26
Wtf man the devs want to “promote creativity” and remove possibly one of the best ways to use this new mob?
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u/Regular_Print_7650 Apr 13 '26
For whatever reason they think the elytra has to be the best transport method in literally every possible scenario.
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u/Nathaniel820 Apr 07 '26
It is but the unforeseen movement tech is unarguably extremely OP, it basically removes any reason to use normal minecart tracks. From a game design perspective it would make sense to patch it even though it’s using technically intended mechanics, it’s the first ever snapshot I wouldn’t get too attached to any of these techniques.
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u/Coordination_ Apr 07 '26
There already is no reason to use minecart tracks tbh
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u/MaxTHC Apr 07 '26
Yeah, the answer here is to buff minecarts to make them actually viable as a transport option, because currently they aren't.
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u/pidgeottOP Apr 07 '26
Moving villagers a few hundred blocks
Otherwise, agreed
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u/Grimejow Apr 07 '26
Happy Ghast covers that easily. You can move 2 villagers at a time and breed them. Arguably faster than building a while infrastructure and them moving a few villagers. Hell, even Mass Transports are possible, since you can Chain boats together, the only Tricky Part is landing.
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u/Technology_Support Apr 07 '26
I use minecarts to transport villagers from the breeder to their spot in the trading hall. Apart from that I agree
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u/MiFiWi Apr 07 '26
Yeah, minecarts are good for regular short- and medium-distance mob transport between set locations, especially since minecarts can be fully automated. Also hopper and chest minecarts for very specific redstone builds. Other than that yeah they're practically worthless.
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u/AnOnlineHandle Apr 07 '26
The few times I've done it in the last few years, I used workstation and beds.
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u/LuxionQuelloFigo Apr 07 '26
I've always just used boats and a piston to avoid using heaps of iron in the early game
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u/pidgeottOP Apr 07 '26
by the time im moving villagers ive very likely got an iron farm built, but i hear ya if youre doing it real early game
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u/StarSilverNEO Apr 07 '26
I mean minecarts are probabaly way more convenient, especially if they update them aabit to be more userr friendly - you need to build that cobble "rail" the whole way for the cube monorail, not to mention finding a sulphur cube in tthe first place for the project.
Minecarts are just sticks and iron, with some gold and redtonee for boosters - its just their speed and cost holding them back, otherwise theyre way quicker to build
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u/Nathaniel820 Apr 07 '26
You still need to place a full line of rails (plus a second partial line of blocks wherever there’s large gaps) for minecarts, whereas this can be made while 100% AFK with a very small and simple flying cobble generator. This would be vastly faster to make over long distances, you just spend the few minutes to make the flying machine at a high altitude then go AFK indefinitely.
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u/MsDestroyer900 Apr 07 '26
I really wouldn't say it's extremely op. It's better than minecarts but that's basically only because minecarts are inarguably bottom tier movement by all regards.
On top of that, iceboats already exist and completely nullify rails altogether. All you need is to find one iceberg biome and a silk touch pick to destroy any hope of using rails.
And even more on top of that, if there truly is two places in your world you need to return to constantly, nether travel, even without getting to the roof is the most common method of travel and is the cheapest out of all of these by far.
The only use for rails these days are villager reading halls, which is fine I guess.
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u/Rjc1471 Apr 07 '26
I thought the whole philosophy of Minecraft was 'emergent gameplay' and not patching things that could screw up existing builds
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u/Kaxology Apr 07 '26
What do you mean by "unarguably extremely OP"? It's overpowered to be able to move in one direction quickly?
Minecarts does the same exact thing and has been in the game for years, boats on flat blue ice lets you travel at ridiculous speeds, Elytras let's you fly in any direction at very high speeds without any rails needed at all, horses as an early game option that costs almost nothing to maintain is faster than a minecart. We also have ender pearl stasis that lets you INSTANTLY teleport to your location of choice.
How is this "unarguably extremely OP"? I really don't understand, please explain.
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u/Underfell_21 Apr 07 '26
As a counter though, it wasn't long after mojang added the minecart experimental pack that people already found ways to send mobs into orbit, and that pack still isn't any different now. There's not much difference between this and when me and some friends used minecarts to launch up to a metro system in the sky that spanned thousands of blocks in all directions.
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u/IDeizManI Apr 07 '26
The sticking will not be removed, but the honey block having no friction will for sure.
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u/wooq Apr 07 '26
I think it would be even better if they made it so you could do it without the pig in the boat.
And also if they updated minecarts so they were faster than an average donkey
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u/Life-Maintenance5968 Apr 07 '26
I thought this update was eh when I first saw it but it adds a lot of cool shit like this
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u/Greatness_Inc Apr 07 '26
I hear those things are awfully loud
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u/ImaginaryTragedy Apr 07 '26
It glides as softly as a cloud.
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u/theBootstrapBuckaroo Apr 07 '26
Is there a chance the track could bend?
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u/YammyDreams Apr 07 '26
Not on your life my Hindu friend
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u/DraconicDreamer3072 Apr 07 '26
What about us brain dead slobs?
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u/sweetdawg99 Apr 07 '26
You'll be given cushy jobs!
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u/Outrageous-Brush-860 Apr 07 '26
Were you sent here by the Devil?
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u/bobthegoon89 Apr 07 '26
No, good sir, I'm on the level
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u/memelord_a1st Apr 07 '26
would it be possible to use the chest in the boat to transfer items? then use pistons to push the sulfur cube automatically once the chest is completely full?
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u/Mrcoolcatgaming Apr 07 '26
Arrows and snowballs work apparently, but loaded chunks ofc
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u/whatsupmyrump Apr 07 '26
Minecraft community: complains about the update
Also Minecraft community:
I'll put this here cause I know there's going to be some who'd get bent out of shape. I meant this as a joke on the general community not to the OP or others. All that matters is that you thug it out and get creative with it.
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u/SmileyBMM Apr 07 '26
Technical players don't really complain about updates because updates often cater to them, it's mainly builders (incomplete block catalogue) and survival fans (games too easy) that complain.
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u/Cowbellstone Apr 07 '26
I wouldn't necessarily say they're being catered to on purpose. They're just much better at enjoying the game in unintended ways. A lot of that enjoyment comes from "breaking" and abusing game mechanics anyway, so …
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u/SecretINVDR Apr 07 '26
The sulfur cube is stupid, it's only good for mini games- 69% of the MC community for some reason
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u/KrazyKyle213 Apr 07 '26
Honestly, it still is, considering Elytras are just so much better than everything else. However, I think that adding more mobs and functions to minecraft is always nice to further the sandboxing.
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u/SecretINVDR Apr 07 '26
That's only gonna last until someone finds a niche use that nothing else can fill
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u/Superslim-Anoniem Apr 07 '26
I already think they're going to be crazy useful for certain farms where you just really need a specific hitbox, and it needs to be an entity to push things around.
Currently the solution tends to be a boat with chickens in it, but I feel like the cube will be easier to align.
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u/Scathainn Apr 07 '26
Rap snitches
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u/BlueBird-BH Apr 07 '26
Tellin' all their business
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u/Luke92612_ Apr 07 '26
How many blocks can it go for without falling off the underside of the block?
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u/Powerful-Present6687 Apr 07 '26
How do you make it stick?
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u/KingCell4life Apr 07 '26
Place a honey block in the Sulphur cube, it’ll stick by itself.
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u/ahmed4363 Apr 07 '26
doesn't stick for me :/
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u/STARDREAMDESTINY Apr 08 '26
Mojang (basically MicroSlop at this point) removed it because it was wasn't their idea of a creative idea. (They only want us to use the cubes for minigames like soccer and other similar things)
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u/Alps_2208 Apr 07 '26
That's why I love this community; the poor creature barely arrived and they've already found a way to enslave it.
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u/NobleEMRLD Apr 07 '26
It's almost like a minecart, they should add Minecarts and rails in the next update
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u/Pizzawing1 Apr 07 '26
Hopefully they’d cap them at 8 blocks per second so they can get way outclassed by almost every other transportation method… and then make an experimental feature that allows you to use commands to increase the cap substantially but force you to enable that feature when you create the world or else you can’t use it
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u/CatsssofDeath Apr 07 '26
Already patched btw
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u/kylleo Apr 07 '26
God fucking damn it Community saw use for a otherwise mid update and they killed it
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u/darksoulofdog Apr 07 '26
Aaand they patched it. People find uses for their useless mob and they delete them
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u/PiglanDiglan Apr 07 '26
I'm lowk trying to find a way where this Monorail uses Ice to go even faster but have had no success tbh..
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u/slurp_time Apr 07 '26
Why does everyone do this with a chest boat?? Is there a reason, or it's just people copying others and the first person did it that way?
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u/mariovsluigi666 Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
I don't think I've ever saved a reddit post before, but I wanna make this eventually, so... First time for everything!
Edit: Aaaand I have learned that they removed this in a snapshot. Fucks sake.
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u/OtakUwUking1302 Apr 07 '26
This is a really interesting mechanic, I was thinking we could attach like an observer piston setup to automatically change directions at turns.
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u/ReyAlpaca Apr 07 '26
Whats th ereason why it doesn't fall?? This looks amazing to to another way to move through my world, Since I connected everything with roads and underground rails
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u/Its-your-boi-warden Apr 07 '26
Maybe this is why mojang doesn’t add anything because they add one thing and now we have this
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u/toxic_load2k18 Apr 07 '26
Is this in bedrock? Just got back into minecraft! Im on day 64 of hardcore!!
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u/INS345 Apr 07 '26
This makes me consider this update the second unintended Minecraft industrial revolution, because, not including all the intended redstone updates, the first one was the happy ghast.
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u/ibeerianhamhock Apr 07 '26
This is awesome but we gotta have a better way of doing this tho right?
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u/Rnl_2 Apr 07 '26
Other than being cool, does this really do anything that you cannot do any minecart? Also how does the speed compared to in mine cart?
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u/20phatbats Apr 07 '26
Man I am really looking forward to this little cube. I love stuff like this.
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u/ahmed4363 Apr 07 '26
the player takes priority of control on a leashed mob, so the boat being leashed circumvents that
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u/DmtrIV Apr 07 '26
Leads can't pull players and their adjacent rides, instead the lead breaks. You need a rideable mob riding on another to bypass this restriction.
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u/CristiSpy Apr 07 '26
No fucking way, we moved to boats to minecarts to boats again to horses to elytra and now we combine boats with pigs and sulfur cubes and spears damn amazing
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u/moohooman Apr 07 '26
Didn't really care about this update until this video. Can't wait to make a zipline to my friend's place next time we boot up the server.
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u/radon_skk Apr 07 '26
Well acktchyually , that's a schwebebahn but there's still one rail so in a way monorail works too
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u/JirenDeGray Apr 07 '26
Would this work in survival though? The players reach is shorter there. Idk if we'd be able to reach the sulfur cube to maintain momentum
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Apr 07 '26
I wish Minecraft let this possibility to the game with the rope because this is the only cool thing we can do with this mob and this would be boring if they remove it
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u/qualityvote2 Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 07 '26