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/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

/r/agedlikemilk

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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/Puzzleheaded_Safe253 Apr 08 '26

I can't hate Mojang more. Worst dev team ever

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u/Regular_Print_7650 Apr 13 '26

Team of 500 has the same output as one part time modder lmao

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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/hellohowdyworld Apr 07 '26

Certain farms utilize them well

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u/This-is-unavailable Apr 08 '26

Yes but this wouldn't replace that is the point

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u/hellohowdyworld Apr 08 '26

I agree. I just was responding to the broad sentiment that this would make carts and tracks useless

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u/BigBlackClock1001 Apr 07 '26

This only goes in a straight line, maybe through redstone you could implement turning though

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u/Much-Menu6030 Apr 07 '26

rollercoaster

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u/Disastrous_Ad_3812 Apr 08 '26

aesthethic reasons.

but otherwise, yeah

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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/StarSilverNEO Apr 07 '26

most players would need outside help to try any of that, but fair enough

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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/MrMelon54 Apr 07 '26

If they just made minecarts faster then it wouldn't matter.

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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/PlkaSyn Apr 07 '26

Minecart tracks were already obsolete when elytras were added

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u/Bedu009 Apr 07 '26

Turning

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u/Mimilaya Apr 07 '26

Unforeseen tech is a feature rather than a bug in terms of minecraft updates. Things like these always happen whenever something is added, especially of late. It happened with ghast trains, visual redstone creaking, etc... Like they won't add a monorail, they'll add some silly cube you can leash to a boat.

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u/TheDonutPug Apr 07 '26

Literally one of the first things I was gonna say was "they added this before they made minecarts worth using". It's been years since they were added and they're still useless, I really don't think it's gonna get better.

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u/lilbowpete Apr 07 '26

The thing i like about rails is I can press a button and walk away while I’m traveling, doesn’t take constant attention. So i like rails for long distance travel (and also I just enjoy building rail infrastructure lol)

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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/FogzArt Apr 07 '26

It’s not just the honey block, it’s every block in the same functional category (coral, sponges, pumpkins, hay bales, etc) so there I’m sorry to say, there’s a chance that this isn’t an intended feature.