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Build Stage 3: a minecart rolls downhill and trips a detector rail.
The brakes let go. A minecart rockets down the hill, round the bend and smashes into the finish line.
- New skill Releasing a minecart with a powered rail
- Level 6 · Inventor's Lab
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Creative
- Time 30–45 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Build Stage 3: a minecart waits at the top of a hill, held by a brake. When Stage 2 fires, the brake lets go and the cart races down, round bends and through tunnels to trip a detector rail at the finish. Then run the first three stages together.
Finish line: Your minecart waits on the brake, races the track and trips the detector rail to finish Stage 3.
Bonus challenge: Spiral the track around a tower on the way down. Does it still finish 10 out of 10 times? Is it faster or slower?
You’ll need
- Rails
- Powered rails
- Detector rail
- A minecart
- Redstone torches
- Copper bulb
You choose
- My minecart's name
- My track's wildest feature (bend, tunnel or drop)
- My guess for the cart's time: ___ s
Stuck?
- Cart not waiting? An unpowered powered rail is the brake, so keep it unpowered until Stage 2.
- Cart slowing on flat track? Put powered rails there with a torch beside each one.
- Add a block after the detector rail so the cart stops instead of rolling away.
For grown-ups
Get this mission
This mission is in Mission Pack 59. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
Print one mission at a time. You never need to print everything.
Played on Minecraft Bedrock on iPad. Buttons can differ on other devices and versions.