Minecart with Monster Spawner

The minecart with monster spawner is a combination of a minecart and a monster spawner.

Minecart with Monster Spawner

Health points	6HP
Hitbox size	Height: 0.7 blocks Width: 0.98 blocks

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    "invimages": [],
    "images": [
        "Minecart with Spawner.png"
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Obtaining

Minecarts with monster spawner cannot be obtained as an item in the inventory, and can only be produced using the /summon command or by using external tools.

Usage

The monster spawner within behaves the same way as normal monster spawners, but the entity to be spawned cannot be set via using spawn eggs; the monster spawner's data can only be modified using commands or NBT edits. It has the same associated NBT tags as a normal monster spawner.

More precisely, a minecart with monster spawner acts as a monster spawner block at the minecart's position. In other words, if the minecart with monster spawner moved within a block position, the range of spawn would not change, but if it moved 5 blocks east, the range of spawn would now be centered at the minecart with monster spawner's new position.

Minecarts with monster spawner were used in some custom maps as a way to have redstone controlled monster spawners, however after the addition of the /summon and /setblock commands they were mostly rendered obsolete and are very rarely used today.

Drops

When they are broken, minecarts with monster spawners drop 1 minecart. The monster spawner does not drop.

Sounds

Minecarts with monster spawners use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Minecart rolls	Friendly Creatures	While a minecart with monster spawner is moving	entity.minecart.riding	subtitles.entity.minecart.riding​	0.0-0.35	0.0-1.0	16

Data values

ID

Entity	Identifier	[hide]Translation key
Minecart with Monster Spawner	spawner_minecart	entity.minecraft.spawner_minecart

Entity data

Minecarts with monster spawners have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template[show]
  • Tags common to all minecarts see Template:Nbt inherit/vehicle/template[show]
  • Tags common to monster spawner and minecart with monster spawner see Template:Nbt inherit/spawner/template[show]

History

[hide]Java Edition
January 07, 2013							Nathan Adams tweets an image of a monster spawner inside a minecart, spawning pigs throughout a village.
							Later that day, Adams tweets an image of minecarts with spawners riding along a complex railway.
February 06, 2013							Adams tweets another image of minecart pig spawners.
1.5			13w06a				Added minecarts with spawners.
							Placing any type of minecart creates a minecart with a pig spawner.
			13w06a (reupload)				Placing any type of minecart no longer creates a minecart with spawner.
1.7.2			13w36a				Minecart with spawners can now be summoned using the /summon command.
1.14			18w43a				The texture of minecarts with spawners has now been changed.
1.15			19w38a				The spawner now appears dark and sometimes opaque, same as suffocating mobs.
			19w39a				The spawner texture is now colored correctly.
1.19.3			22w44a				"Minecart with Spawner" has been renamed to "Minecart with Monster Spawner".
							Minecart with monster spawners no longer have a pig in them and flame particles by default.
1.20.3			23w45a				The monster spawner now renders the inner faces.
1.20.5			24w13a				Minecart with monster spawners can now specify a loot table to use for equipment of spawned mobs.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.11			16w32a				The entity ID for minecarts with spawners has now been changed from MinecartSpawner to spawner_minecart.
1.13			17w47a				Numeric IDs for entities were presumably deprecated in this version.​

Issues

Issues relating to "Minecart with Monster Spawner", "Minecart with Spawner", or "Spawner Minecart" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• MC-65065 – Content of Minecart with Spawner is not sent to the client
• MC-66894 – Spawner minecarts displayed mob/particle is offset
• MC-94225 – Pick block (middle mouse button) on spawner_minecart gives you minecart
• MC-110427 – Cannot use spawn egg items on a spawner minecart to change it's entity type
• MC-146946 – Spawner blocks spawns monsters on minecart tracks and redstone wire
• MC-163800 – Spawner minecart item does not exist
• MC-225013 – Spawner Minecart doesn't spawn axolotls underwater
• MC-262795 – The name tags of chest, command block, furnace, spawner, and TNT minecarts are partly inside their models

Gallery

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  The first image of minecarts with monster spawners released by Dinnerbone.

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  The second image released by Dinnerbone.

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  Zoomed image of the second release.

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  Another image posted by Dinnerbone.

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  A minecart with monster spawner spawned using /summon.

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  A minecart with monster spawner spawning pigs.