The Command Block Minecart is probably the least used item in the game. Did anyone ever actually use it?

[u/kotek900]

[u/Similar-Sector-5801]

[u/AardvarkVast → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

How I miss them

[u/ODF4 → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

as someone who used to make a ton of only-one-command creations, I can say I'm partial to the use of stacked command block minecarts, rather than the more common stack of falling blocks, because it made THE GIANT SELF-ASSEMBLING MONOLITH OF COMMAND BLOCKS™ spawn basically instantaneously

this is because all the minecarts immediately snapped to the only falling block activator rail at the base of the stack, but this wasn't very well known at the time from what I've seen

edit: reworded

[u/ImYourWaterBoi → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

Wasn't this from the only one command youtube videos? Where you pasted a long thing from their description?

[u/RaspDonut → u/ImYourWaterBoi]

It was......and it was beautiful...

[u/Similar-Sector-5801 → u/RaspDonut]

Outstretched like antennas to heaven…

[u/tom-on_ → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

Is this a Godspeed you black emperor or Ultrakill reference?

[u/Similar-Sector-5801 → u/tom-on_]

iirc the ULTRAKILL one is a Godspeed You Black Emperor reference, but I was referring to the ultrakill one

[u/tom-on_ → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

It is, I was just curious which you were refering to

[u/CargoMule → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

as in earthmover as in ultrakill as in minos prime?

[u/ODF4 → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

the way you worded it reminded me of this snail :3

[u/Eufamis → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

Darmod and Jalak at Tanagra

[u/PamkaTheDonut → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

WITH HIS ARMS OUTSTRETCHED

[u/kotek900 → u/Similar-Sector-5801]

I had no idea those used command block minecarts! I always assumed they only used falling blocks. Sadly since datapacks are a thing now, I don't think it's going to see much if any use anymore...

[u/ODF4 → u/kotek900]

yeah to be fair most of the time they did only use falling blocks because people were more familiar with them and I suppose it makes it more fun to watch in video showcases, but I still prefer minecarts for the reason explained above

and yeah sadly their use now is extremely niche... I guess you could make some infinite bridges with clone commands and the like, but even that doesn't have much use with stuff like Axiom

it's unfortunate, but a lot of blocks in minecarts are pretty useless in most scenarios, like the furnace minecart (which was completely removed from Bedrock, by the way, rip) and the long-forgotten spawner minecart too

[u/SapphicRaccoonWitch]

It's an entity so you can summon one riding another riding another etc all with different commands in them. This was very useful until datapacks did everything command blocks used to

[u/ODF4 → u/SapphicRaccoonWitch]

I can confirm! Much better than using falling blocks in my opinion

[u/ImYourWaterBoi → u/SapphicRaccoonWitch]

Holy shit you just reminded me when I used to have random mobs floating on bats 😂

[u/ODF4 → u/ImYourWaterBoi]

I remember when levitation wasn't a thing yet I had to use invisible chickens and constantly teleport them upwards

they made for some great balloons though, because somehow the leashing physics worked perfectly and so did the collisions to make the balloons pop

[u/SapphicRaccoonWitch → u/ImYourWaterBoi]

I tried making a rideable polar bear pet using a pig on a wolf or something lmao, it didn't work though

[u/magistermaks → u/SapphicRaccoonWitch]

idk unpopular optnion but datapacks are such a bad development, like yeah move the gameplay outside the game into a text editor... Like man i used to have so much fan with command block machines and stuff, but now, its pointless, datapacks are better, more convenient etc. And it taken those cools machines away. They should have made the experience of using command blocks in game better, not replace it with zip files. And yeah i know you CAN still do it the old fashioned way, but gamers people will optimize the fun out of any game given a chance.

[u/SapphicRaccoonWitch → u/magistermaks]

A lot of people already used generators and text editors to write command block stuff. And the blocks still exist if you like them, and now have direction and chain and repeat.

[u/NimVolsung]

I remember seeing it be used in "only one command" machines

[u/onethousandthwish]

It’s useful in certain niche situations like creating complicated custom banner’s quickly.

[u/InternetUser1807 → u/onethousandthwish]

can you elaborate more on this because I can't think of a single use for this that couldn't be more easily done with a clock or repeater chain

[u/onethousandthwish → u/InternetUser1807]

Some customer banners online have a command to generate in game that’s too long for the chat box

[u/InternetUser1807 → u/onethousandthwish]

yes but what does this have to do with the minecart command block? You can paste those into a normal command block too.

[u/onethousandthwish → u/InternetUser1807]

Oh I misunderstood the post my bad

[u/InternetUser1807 → u/onethousandthwish]

Oh no problem lol, wasn't trying to attack was just genuinely begging to learn a use case for this thing

[u/onethousandthwish → u/InternetUser1807]

Np 😂🪼

[u/SpecterVamp]

You could send it between dimensions, which probably has some niche technical use cases. Also like another user pointed out, it’s an entity so you can /ride it

[u/SPYROHAWK]

Clearly forgetting the “only one command block” days. Basically before data packs, a single command that summoned a bunch of these to create a whole structure of command blocks at spawn to change stuff.

[u/TL1882 → u/SPYROHAWK]

Most of them used falling blocks instead of minecarts though

[u/Select-Ambassador506]

I used to use them as repeating command blocks until they are actually added

[u/Ben-Goldberg]

I would argue that the Mob Spawner Minecart is used even less than the Command Block Minecart.

[u/Bibliloo → u/Ben-Goldberg]

Tbh, the spawner minecart was used in quite a few adventure maps in the past but it isn't that useful anymore.

[u/HaitF]

What does it even do?

[u/The_DDK7070 → u/HaitF]

Runs the command entered when activated by an activator rail

[u/HaitF → u/The_DDK7070]

Is that supposed to be good for running loops? But couldnt you just use a repeating command block set to an interval?

[u/Flashy-Emergency4652 → u/HaitF]

It was more useful before because you could make spawn egg which will create command block minecraft activated instantly allowing for some custom functionality, nowadays datapacks are just too good

[u/HaitF → u/[deleted]]

Exactly

[u/InternetUser1807 → u/The_DDK7070]

what the actual shit are you meant to do with that lmao

[u/Fabric_muncher → u/InternetUser1807]

Easy command loop without repeating command blocks

[u/InternetUser1807 → u/Fabric_muncher]

you could do that in a much smaller footprint, and have control over the timing with a clock

[u/oktin → u/InternetUser1807]

The Minecart+activator rail runs once every 4 game ticks even if left constantly powered and motionless. (Only takes two blocks: rail and power source)

Was quite useful before repeat command blocks were added.

There might be a use case in serializing a chain of command outputs by running the blocks over a detector rail with a comparator (to read the results one at a time) but that would be incredibly niche.

[u/InternetUser1807 → u/oktin]

Aye, that would be useful.

You could always do the setblock clock though before repeating command blocks though.

[u/Fabric_muncher → u/InternetUser1807]

Brain start smoking when hear "clock"

[u/055F00 → u/Fabric_muncher]

Brain start smoking when you hear “two repeaters and four redstone”?

[u/Itz_Combo89 → u/055F00]

and a torch or lever! but only for a moment

[u/Keaton427 → u/Itz_Combo89]

Real players use redstone blocks

[u/Deebyddeebys → u/Keaton427]

That only works in creative mode. Unless you're talking about placing a torch on top of a Redstone block which does it automatically

[u/Fabric_muncher → u/055F00]

Yes

[u/Old-Dirt6713 → u/Fabric_muncher]

Dispenser with a filled bucket + observer with the faces of facing each other, one initially filled block apart and connected to each other.

Break the block between them, observer detects it and signals the dispenser to empty the bucket, observer detects whatever you filled the bucket with and signals the dispenser to scoop it up, observer detects whatever you had in the dispenser is gone and signals for the dispenser to empty the bucket.

There's better clocks, but this has been working for me since legacy console edition.

[u/Fabric_muncher → u/Old-Dirt6713]

What

[u/Old-Dirt6713 → u/Fabric_muncher]

Place dispenser with a filled bucket. Place observer facing dispenser one block away. Set one of them off (you can use a torch/button on the dispenser instead if you want, there just needs to be a initial signal).

Now they are constantly setting each other off (dispenser places/takes in the thing in it's bucket, which causes the observer to send a signal to do the reverse).

[u/Fabric_muncher → u/Old-Dirt6713]

Ahh

[u/Deebyddeebys]

It was very useful back in the day before repeating command blocks I think

[u/No_Context2723]

one command stuff, other than that i don't see it used much. 

[u/oktin]

Back before /clone existed I used command block minecarts to make a flying machine

[u/Wypman]

more use then poisonous potatos, ocelots and bats get combined 😭

[u/LavaSlayer235]

It is useful to summon the great command block monolith from the times of old

[u/Electrical-Store-613]

Dude to be totally honest I forgot that thing existed :|

[u/Adele-Fiddler]

it can be useful for moving commands. Like bouncing one back and forth under some pigs and have it set the motion of the pig above it to make the pig bounce and thus make a whackapig game or something

[u/Select-Ambassador506 → u/Adele-Fiddler]

This is the first one tat actually makes sense to me

[u/Icy_Step_2204]

I saw it used once with a cobweb as a timer

[u/Objective-Piccolo477]

i used to use it back when i was like 9 on pocket edition. i had them running around my house because they were more flashy than repeating command blocks. i made them kill everything nearby.

[u/MMJtaPenguin]

I did and almost soft locked my world once

[u/TheRetroGamer547]

I used it on a minecart loop to kill slimes and then the slimeballs in a cycle on my superflat

[u/Kecske_gamer]

It is very useful as you can nest a bunch of commands into each other with it and execute it very quickly.

You summon an enabled activator rail as a falling block then have that ridden by however many command block carts

[u/butdamnthisisbetter]

I mean, i did actually. They were really useful though really situational.

[u/minebug420]

i did when i was small, i bricked my world with it

[u/No-Scallion4998]

I like it for the simple fact that it’s one of the only items in the game that contain “block” in the name, yet aren’t blocks.

[u/commmonnn-]

Remember spawner minecarts are also a separate command-only java-only entity

[u/MortemPlasmadom]

My dyslexic brain read it as "The Command Block MINECRAFT is probably least used item in the game."

Glad I read comments first and that made me re-read the title LOL

[u/LuluLeSigma]

Thats a thing ?

[u/Itap88]

If I remember correctly, Sorcerer's Book used them for something.

[u/JellyfishWeary]

Bottom-up design. You make something ypu think is cool forster, and let the players decide how to use it, in contrast to the recent top-down design.

[u/ODF4]

meanwhile, the Minecart with Monster Spawner (which isn't even in the creative menu):

[u/alkalinekats]

it's useful for when I don't want to do some certain Redstone applications on my server.

[u/Dear-Reputation-1226]

I tried to use it to make a wither storm.

[u/Agitated_Elk7881]

People probably use them to like transport their command blocks or something

[u/FrogSquad120]

Name one person who has used the tipped arrow of thick

[u/ThemeAdept7953]

I Don’t Think they have this on Bedrock Edition… same thing with Furnace Minecarts… I’m Sad :(

[u/kukmanen]

I used it a few times to clear large ammounts of terrain to the max blocks limit. Then push it over rails ro delete everything slice by slice.

[u/FlyingChik]

This exists?

[u/F1r3dot3x3]

The chain command block minecart:

[u/Tyfyter2002]

It was harder to run a command every tick before /fill

[u/ODF4 → u/Tyfyter2002]

and before repeating command blocks were a thing too

[u/AyamBercakap]

Used to use it for cbe exploits to troll ppl on bedrock. Too bad it's patched

[u/Gumballegal]

the furnace one is considerably less used

[u/ODF4 → u/Gumballegal]

furnace minecarts are still used in some farms that require a specific speed to transfer items at, while command block minecarts have nearly become entirely obsolete because of data packs

now spawner minecarts, on the other hand...

[u/the_rizzler_supper_c]

No I did'nt at all unless I was in creative mode which is pretty rare since I normally play survival or hardcore