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In Minecraft, I have pretty much emptied the places around my home of resources and thus I need to travel a lot to other mines. I would like to know a fast way to do so. I have tried minecarts on rails (take up a lot of iron, and aren't really that fast), boats and more. I guess I should build some sort of construction. What is the fastest mean of transport you can make in Minecraft (something which is still worth the effort to build, of course)? |
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Well, the fastest form of transportation is by minecart, and within The Nether you travel at a 8:1 ratio as in the overworld, so my answer would be traveling via minecart in The Nether. (Even walking in The Nether is faster than any overworld transportation - minecarts top out at 8m/s, and you certainly walk faster than 1m/s.) |
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As Kevin says, use The Nether. The only problem is that it's often dangerous. As for "the fastest way to travel long distances", the objective answer is: Teleboaters. Minecarts come a distant second. As for construction, tracks cost 1 iron per 2.7 squares of travel, not counting boosters. Teleboats cost 1 log per ~3 squares of travel. But boats are hard to carry and look terrible. (Fun fact: the truly fastest mode of transport involves a giant stack of simultaneously-triggered TNT.) |
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A combination of force-field cart jumping and the nether would do the trick.
The distance you can travel equals t*d*m*n = 80*7.5*8 = 4800t which means that you can travel 4800 blocks each second. Update: As noted below in the comment, the force-field jumping bug is fixed for quite some time now. This approach won't work anymore. |
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I suggest Sky bridges if you are traveling across continents/water. Single track with torches to keep mobs from spawning. The answer is nether if you're playing single player. Rails and minecarts if you're resource rich Cobblestone and torches across the sky if your cheap. A little difficult to lay but if you hold the SHIFT key, you cant fall so it makes it easy to lay that way. |
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My favourite is a sky-bridge, either for walking on or via mine carts. It only needs to be one block wide, and bypasses any obstacles. You just make a branch off when you reach your destination, and a mine cart station if you need to. |
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I just read about a great way to go very fast with no risk: 1) Make a line of ice 2x(however long), along the ground. 2) Line cobblestone along the sides like bumpers. 3) Put trapdoors over the ice. (Hint: attach them to the cobblestone.) 4) Put Glass directly two blocks over the ice. Try it out! Open the first trapdoor, and stand in the track (on the ice). Close the trapdoor, then sprint down the track, jumping even though there is glass over your head. This should make you go twice as fast as a minecart. Hope this helps! |
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You can actually change your game mode to creative by using cheats, get lots and lots and lots of TNT and put it down so that it does not exceed 3 blocks high, and make sure it's not too far away from you. Then detonate the TNT at each of the corners FAST. When you're in multiplayer, you can ask your friends to help. I've never tried it so I don't really know what's going to happen. You'll probably go flying at 50 blocks per second. WARNING: NEVER TRY THIS IN OTHER MODES EXCEPT CREATIVE.(Unless you have really strong armor, which is technically impossible without mods. |
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