Transportation


Info

Methods

NOTE: For speed measurements on any method of Transportation, all speeds are shown in SI Units. 1 m/s equals 3.2 ft/s and 1 km/h equals 0.621 MPH. It is important to remember that 1 block is 1 m3, therefore 1 m/s is equal to 1 block per second.

Method Conditions Running start? Average speed (m/s) Average speed (km/h) Works in Nether Average speed (m/s) Overworld equivalent Average speed (km/h) Overworld equivalent

Walking
Flat terrain No 4.3 15.5 Yes 34.4 124.0

Sprinting Sprinting is a method of transportation that allows the player to move faster while consuming more hunger. Contents 1 Activating 2 Usage 3 Video 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia 7 Gallery 8 See also minecraft
Flat terrain No 5.6 20.2 Yes 44.8 161.6

Sneaking Notch sneaking Sneaking is a gameplay featureSpecial attraction that prevents players from falling off of blocks, helps players hide from enemies, among other useful features. Contents 1 Controls 2 Effects 3 Video 4 History 5 Issues minecraft
Flat terrain No 1.3 4.7 Yes 10.4 37.6

Minecart

Powered Track
Yes, small 8.0 28.8 Yes 64.0 230.4
14 slope track No 7.1 25.6 Yes 56.8 204.8

Boat
14 slope rapids Yes, small 7.3 26.4 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A
14 slope rapids No 7.0 25.2 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A

Flat ice

Flat packed ice
No 40.0 144.0 Yes 320 1152

Flat water
No 8.0 28.8 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A

Saddle
d Saddle Type Tools Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 329 hex: 149 bin: 101001001 Name saddle See normal saddles. For the removed horse saddle, see Removed features#Horse saddle. minecraft

pig
Flat terrain No 4.0 14.4 Yes 32.0 115.2
Flat terrain, using
carrot on a stick
Yes 8.0 28.8 Yes 64.0 230.4

Horse
Flat terrain No 9.675 34.83 Yes 77.4 278.6
Flat terrain, fastest possible horse breed No 14.57 52.45 Yes 116.6 419.6

Donkey


Mule
Flat terrain No 7.525 27.125 Yes 60.2 217.0

Zombie horse


Skeleton horse
Flat terrain No 8.62 31.03 Yes 68.9 248.2

Swimming
Still water, surface No 2.20 7.92 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A
Still water, underwater No 1.97 7.09 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A
Upstream, underwater No 0.39 1.40 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A
Downstream, underwater No 1.81 6.52 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A
Downstream, underwater, standing No 1.37 4.93 No, no water can be placed N/A N/A

Flying Flying See the form of transportation found only in Creative and Spectator modes. For the flight attainable when using the elytra, see Gliding. Flying is the most versatile form of transportation and minecraft (horizontal)

Creative Pixel art and other creations made in Creative mode. "Sandbox" redirects here. For a place to test edits to this wiki, see Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox. Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. minecraft Mode
Yes 10.9 38.9 Yes 86.4 311.2

Ender Pearl
(horizontal)
Thrown 15₺ above horizontal No ~23.0 ~82.8 Yes ~184.0 ~662.4

Elytra
(0₺ Pitch)
No obstacles Yes, small 30.0 108 Yes 240 864
  1. Certain transportation methods are also valid methods of transportation if used in the Nether. Since one block in the Nether is equal to eight blocks in the Overworld, using the Nether for transportation effectively multiplies transportation speeds by eight.
  2. The time taken by a boat to reach maximum speed is 9.4 seconds—the difference in time between a running start and not, is half that, or 4.7 seconds.
  3. Horses vary in speed. They are the fastest method of transportation on open terrain, even faster than flying in creative mode.
  4. The swimming speeds are not affected by Swiftness potions. The surface speed refers to "skimming" across the top of the water by holding the spacebar.
  5. Underwater refers to any part of the body submerged in water and walking on flat terrain. The Player travels the same speed regardless of if the water is 1 block deep or 2 (in observed cases).
  6. Flying speed can be varied.

Videos

Potions

Using potion Potion Type Potions Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data values See Data values Name See Data values See the drinkable potions. For the throwable potions, see Splash minecraft effects (including beacon Beacon Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency PC, CE: Yes PE: No Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 15 Hardness 3 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops minecraft effects), walking and sprinting speeds become competitive with other methods of transportation.

Each additional level of
Speed
allows the player to walk at nearly the sprinting speed of the previous level, and sprinting with Speed II allows the player to keep pace with a minecart on fully powered rail. With adequate food and potion supplies, sprinting may be more cost-effective than building high-speed transportation systems.

Effect level Walking speed (m/s) Sprinting speed (m/s)
none 4.317 5.612

Speed
5.181 6.735

Speed II
6.044 7.857

Commands

Using the /effect command Contents 1 Usage 1.1 Tilde notation 1.2 Target selectors 1.2.1 Target selector variables 1.2.2 Target selector arguments 1.3 Data tags 1.4 Raw JSON text 1.5 Block/item names 2 Summary of commands 3 List of commands , extremely high or low speeds become reachable. At exceedingly high levels (100+), the player moves faster than chunks can load.

Effect level Sneaking speed (m/s) Walking speed (m/s) Sprinting speed (m/s)

Speed 50
14.25 47.49 61.74

Speed 127
34.19 113.97 148.17

Speed 256
67.61 225.36 292.96

Vertical transportation

There are some examples of purely vertical transportation methods:

Method Conditions Average speed (m/s)

Jumping
Climbing slope without stairs, pillar jumping Pillar jumping (also known as pillaring, chimneying, towering, jump stacking, nerd-poleing, or constructing a block elevator) is a method of reaching a higher altitude that can t otherwise easily be reached in a map. The pillars minecraft , etc 2.0

Stairs
Ascending 3.2
Descending 3.6

Ladder
Ascending 2.35
Descending .0

Waterfall
No adjacent blocks 2.0
Ascending, with adjacent blocks 0.6
Descending, with adjacent blocks 3.4

Lavafall
Using a Potion of Fire Resistance 0.8

Flying Flying See the form of transportation found only in Creative and Spectator modes. For the flight attainable when using the elytra, see Gliding. Flying is the most versatile form of transportation and minecraft

Creative Pixel art and other creations made in Creative mode. "Sandbox" redirects here. For a place to test edits to this wiki, see Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox. Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. minecraft
7.5
Falling No blocks below player 86.7
  1. The player can jump up a distance of 114 blocks. With Jump Boost "Healing" redirects here. For health, see health. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Summary of effects 3 List of effects 3.1 Absorption 3.2 Bad Luck 3.3 Blindness 3.4 Fire Resistance 3.5 Glowing 3.6 Haste 3.7 Health Boost minecraft I, that increases to 11516 blocks, and with Jump Boost II, that increases to 212 blocks.

Falling speed is more complex: Every tick (120 second), non-flying players and mobs have their vertical speed decremented (less upward motion, more downward motion) by 0.08 blocks per tick (1.6 m/s), then multiplied by 0.98. This would produce a terminal velocity of 3.92 blocks per tick, or 78.4 m/s. Be that as it may, the sky isn`t quite high enough for that: Falling from layer 256 to bedrock takes about 5.5 seconds, with impact at 3.5 blocks per tick (70 m/s). (In creative mode, you can fly higher, and could potentially reach terminal velocity falling from "above the sky".)

A function to calculate the speed of a (free)falling player is the following: v(t) = (0.98t - 1) ⃗ 3.92. The velocity v is in blocks/tick (or meters/tick), and the time t is in ticks. The usual downward velocity will be negative.

Integrating the previous yields a formula to find the distance fallen by tick: d(t) = 3.92 ⃗ (99 - 49.50⃗(0.98t+1) - t) . Again, distance fallen is negative.

Other modes of transportation

Achievements

Icon Achievement In-game description Actual requirements (if different) Availability Xbox points earned Trophy type (PS)
Xbox PS Pocket Wii U

On A Rail Travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction from where you started. Travel by minecart to a point at least 500⃂m from where you started. Distance is measured in a straight line. Yes Yes Yes Yes 40G Gold

Beam Me Up Teleport over 100 meters from a single throw of an ender pearl Yes Yes Yes Yes 20G Silver

Super Sonic Use elytra to fly through a 1 by 1 gap while moving faster than 40 m/s Alt Alt Yes Alt 30G ⃢₀ₔ
Yes Yes Alt Yes 60G Gold

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History

Infdev
Seecret Friday 1 Added minecarts. Before this update, walking was the only form of transportation.
Seecret Friday 2 Added saddles, which made it possible to use pigs as a (somewhat unreliable) method of transportation.
Alpha
Seecret Friday 5 Added boats.
1.1.1 Added sneaking.
1.2.0 Added the Nether Nether may refer to: The Nether, a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Advancements#Nether, an advancement by entering the Nether dimension. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If , which could be used as a fast travel zone since any distance covered in the Nether is multiplied by 8 in the Overworld.
Beta
1.5 Added powered rails, which removed the need for "booster" minecarts.
1.8 Sprinting Sprinting is a method of transportation that allows the player to move faster while consuming more hunger. Contents 1 Activating 2 Usage 3 Video 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia 7 Gallery 8 See also minecraft and flying were added in the Adventure Update.
Official release
1.0.0 Beta 1.9-pre2 Added ender pearls, which can be thrown, teleporting the player to where it lands.
Beta 1.9-pre3 Speed potions added, allowing for faster travel.
1.3.1 12w23a Boats were made faster.
1.4.2 12w36a Added carrot on a stick, which made it possible to control saddled pigs. They start slow but will end up going up to 5 blocks per second (5m/sec).
Before this update, the player had no control over the pig`s wandering, so this was not a practical form of long-distance transportation. After this update, be that as it may, the pig did not jump when being controlled, so transportation was still limited (to the same height or downhill directions).
12w37a Saddled pigs now jump over blocks when being directed with the carrot on a stick.
12w38a Teleportation by Nether Portal is now instantaneous in creative mode.
1.6.1 13w16a Added horses.
13w16b Made horses slower and reduced the amount of gliding.
1.7.2 13w36a Added ability to "sprint" in minecarts, boats and horses, and while flying in Creative Mode, speeding them up slightly.
1.8 14w05a Added Spectator mode, one of the fastest methods of transportation due to its no-clip ability and adjustable flying speed.
1.9 15w41a Added elytra, which is currently the fastest legitimate method of transportation in the game.

Issues

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Contents

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    Boats

    Boats are small, wooden crafts that are used to cross bodies of water. They are crafted with 5 Wooden Planks.

    Minecarts

    Minecarts are rideable carts that run on Rails. They are crafted with 5 Iron Ingots. There are multiple variants of minecarts, including Minecart with a chest, a Minecart with TNT, a Minecar with a Hopper, a Minecart with a furnace, and a Minecart with a Command Block.

    Horses

    Horses are a tamable⃂₠Mob that when tamed, can be equipped with a saddle and ridden. They are by far the fastest mode of transportation in Minecraft. Horses also have the capability to jump very high. Horses can be found mainly in Plains biomes. Horses also have a chance to spawn as a Donkey. Donkeys can be equipped the same way horses can. However, they can also hold a chest with items in it.

    Nether

    Distance traveled in the Nether is in a ratio of 8:1 to the overworld. This means that walking through the Nether is faster than almost any mode of transport in the overworld. If minecarts, horses, or pigs are used in the Nether, then travel times will be reduced even more.