Minecraft player shows how minecarts have become faster than elytra
Minecraft offers many ways to travel. You can use horses, elytra, and even walk in Mojang's title. However, minecarts are a mode of transport that is often forgotten. Mostly because of their slow motion and the fact that building a railway network is expensive. That said, Mojang Studios recently tweaked the minecart, which has made it much faster, and players are quite content with this much-needed change.
A Minecraft player and Reddit user named MikeOxlong2420 shared an interesting video on the game's subreddit. The video shows the player using elytra and rockets to fly over a moving minecart. While they take the lead at first, soon the minecart leaves them far behind, winning the race. The caption of the video stated that minecarts were a lot faster than elytra.
Redditors reacted to this video with some interesting responses. User u/HL00S said this is how transport should be in Minecraft. According to them, since the railways require a lot of resources to build, they should not become useless when the player gets a horse or elytra.
Another user named u/SparkFrog said that at least making minecarts (and its railway network) is a one-time investment as the player builds it once and can use it whenever they want.
User u/ValleyNun had an interesting take on minecart mechanics. They wrote a lengthy comment explaining how Mojang Studios made the minecarts less useful, discouraging players from using them by creating an infrastructure and connecting various parts of the blocky world.
They also added that running is just as fast as traveling in minecarts, along with the fact that the addition of horses and elytra rendered the minecarts useless. However, the user was glad the developers were improving the minecarts.
User u/BolunZ6 believed that it was okay for the elytra to be this powerful as it was something players got at the end of a playthrough. According to them, the current minecart is just too tedious and expensive. This can be fixed by reducing the crafting price of rails and powered rails.
Minecarts can be tweaked in Minecraft
In the snapshot 24w33a, Mojang Studios added the ability to tweak the speed of minecarts. Players can make the minecarts go as fast as 1,000 blocks per second, making it the fastest way to travel in the game, even beating boats on packed ice. Many players have come up with ideas to make use of these tweaks by building structures like roller coasters.
It is exciting to see Mojang Studios improving features that have been long ignored. Perhaps they should now turn to the End dimension, and add something that will make it more interesting and worth exploring in Minecraft.