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Tutorials/Transportation methods

Transporting items, mobs, and yourself long distances is an important but tiresome task. Thankfully, there are many ways to make the trips easier and faster.

• 1.4 Minecarts
• 1.5 Boats and ice roads
• 2.1 Donkeys, mules, and llamas
• 2.2 Ender chests
• 2.3 Shulker boxes
• 3.1 Water channels
• 3.2 Hoppers
• 4 Villager and mob transport

Player transport [ ]

Walking or running everywhere are viable options, but you may want a faster or smoother option, possibly with added storage benefits. Below are options for transporting player(s) in order of the effort required to construct them.

Horses can be found in plains and savanna biomes, and can be tamed by mounting them until they produce heart particles. A saddle is required in order to control the horse, and it can be equipped with tiered horse armor (Both saddles and horse armor are found in various generated structures). Horses have variable colors and stats, with running speed, jump height, and health all being randomized for each wild horse. A horse that spawns with high stats in all categories makes a useful, tough mount for traversing rough terrain.

Donkeys uncommonly spawn under the same conditions as horses, with the unique ability to be equipped with chests instead of horse armor. This allows for early game, 15-slot mobile storage. However, donkeys spawn with less desirable maximum stats than horses. Fortunately, donkeys and horses can be bred to produce mules, which share the chest ability of donkeys with stats more resembling horses.

Llamas , which spawn in Mountains and Savannahs, are notable for their ability to form a convoy if a llama is being lead by the player. However, since llamas cannot be controlled when mounted by any means, they serve better as item transportation in singleplayer (As they can be equipped with chests, with the amount they can carry being a randomly generated stat). However, if the player is playing with other users, they could ride on the llamas while one player leads.

The Elytra are late-game items found in the End that can be equipped in the chest piece slot. While falling, the player can double-tap the jump button to activate the elytra, allowing the player to gradually glide long distances. This by itself is a powerful transportation method, but the player can enhance their flying with the use of firework rockets to propel themselves in any direction, allowing for extended flight time. However, the player must take note of the elytra's durability, which gradually decreases while flying (The Unbreaking enchantment can be added to slow this effect, and Mending can be added to exchange gathered XP for durability). Phantom membranes can be used to repair elytra in an anvil if necessary. Having a sustainable amount of firework rockets is also fairly expensive if the player does not have a mob farm to easily produce gunpowder. There is also the possibility of the player dying of fall damage if the elytra's durability runs out, or from smacking into a surface at high speeds.

Minecarts [ ]

Minecarts allow the player to be transported along rails with no input from the player, with the downside of having to create rail systems to any desired destinations. It can also be quite expensive to create longer rail lines, especially if powered rails are being used. See tutorials for minecart-related redstone contraptions to automate launching, create minecart dispensers, and more.

Boats and ice roads [ ]

Surprisingly, one of the fastest transportation methods in the game involves a boat on solid ground. When boats are on any variant of ice blocks, they can be controlled as easily as if they were in water, and can travel at immense speeds thanks to the slippery nature of the ice. The speed of the boat can also be adjusted depending on which variant of ice is used; Normal ice is the slowest, with packed ice being in the middle, and blue ice being the fastest option. However, this is possibly the most resource and time demanding method in the game, as the player needs huge amounts of ice, blocks to keep the boat on track, and other materials if the player chooses to decorate the track. Additionally, colliding with mobs can be a considerable hazard, especially hostile ones.

Item transport [ ]

Transporting items is essential for players who have advanced to the point of having more items than they know what to do with, whether it is for moving items around your base autonomously or moving items across vast distances.

• Long range options

These options are better for moving items across long distances, such as from one home to another.

Donkeys, mules, and llamas [ ]

As mentioned above, these mobs work well as player/item transport combos. They usually have small inventory spaces, as they are early game options. With leads, many of these mobs can be moved at once, although it can be frustrating with the fragility of leads and rough terrain.

Ender chests [ ]

An ender chest is a variant of chest obtained with 8 obsidian and an ender eye, with the unique ability to share its inventory with all ender chests across the world (specific to each player). It can be used as a "bank vault" of sorts where all of your most important items are kept, as its contents are completely safe from being stolen. Alternatively, it can be used to deposit items from one location and have those items be immediately accessible from any distance in another ender chest. Furthermore, if a silk touch pick is kept on hand, the ender chest can be picked up freely (otherwise, 8 obsidian minus the ender eye is dropped), allowing for a makeshift extra inventory to carry around.

Shulker boxes [ ]

End game items that can be crafted from 2 shulker shells and a chest, these boxes allow for the most efficient storage in the game. The size of a single chest, each box retains its contents when broken, allowing for a backpack of sorts. While shulker boxes cannot be placed inside other shulker boxes, just a few shulker boxes in a player's inventory can allow for a small storage room's worth of items to be in the player's hands at any given moment. They can additionally be dyed and named to create catalogs of what items they contain.

Note that shulker boxes can be put inside ender chests, meaning by combining the carry-on ender chest's inventory space with the player's inventory (excluding the hotbar) to fill with shulker boxes, the player would have a total of 1458 inventory spaces for carrying items.

Short-range systems [ ]

These methods of item transport are best used in transporting items around small areas, such as transporting item drops from a mob farm into adjacent chests.

Water channels [ ]

By using water source blocks, players can create an item transporting channel that serves as an early game transport system. Combined with soul sand bubble columns, which lift items to higher levels, and magma bubble columns, which pull items down, water channels provide efficient transport. They can additionally be outfitted with ice tracks to make the items move even faster, although this adds to the cost of the system.

Hoppers [ ]

Hoppers are essentially item pipes that move items within them into the container it is pointing to. This can include other hoppers, allowing for hopper chains that can transport items quickly. The hoppers can also lead into chests, barrels, dispensers, and more to funnel items into storage rooms or to fuel redstone contraptions. This is a more pricey, slower, and less versatile system than water channels, with the prime downside being their inability to transport items upward (only to the side or downward). Therefore, hoppers are better used sparingly, only to take items from one container to another or from a water channel into a container.

Villager and mob transport [ ]

The player can transport villagers and other mobs to new locations (for the purpose of starting new villages or baiting mob traps) using a variety of techniques:

• Minecart : The player builds a minecart track from the village to the destination, then pushes a villager into the cart and pushes the cart to the destination.
• Water path : The player creates a tunnel or walled path with no exits along the way, and then with two water buckets , uses water to push villagers down the path a few blocks at a time, using the empty bucket to retrieve the water block furthest back. A soul sand bubble column can be used to move villagers upward. Alternatively, if the tunnel is flat, one may use an open fence gate or sign above an ice block adjacent to each last flowing water block to prevent the other adjacent water (source block) to flow backward, therefore creating a cheap "railway".
• Boat : A simple way to transport a single villager over ground is to push one into a boat and then drive the boat, which can be rowed (albeit slowly) over land. A boat can move upward by using a piston in the ground or creating an upward bubble column. The player can also drive the boat up to the step, place a second boat on the step, break the first boat (without hitting the villager) to cause the villager to move to the second boat. In Bedrock Edition , a boat can be pulled up using a lead .
• Job blocks/beds : To move a single unemployed villager, the player can place down a job site block and have the villager claim it. Continuously break and place the job site block, luring the villager to where you want it to go. At night, you can do this with beds, but it is dangerous because mobs, especially zombies, can spawn. Alternatively, to move a whole village at once, one can break all beds, job site blocks, and the village bell, and continually place them down like above. It is best to avoid dirt paths when traversing in villages, as they have a slightly lower hitbox then regular blocks and may cause your boat to get stuck.
• Nether portal : If portals have not already been constructed in The Nether , then the player can create a portal at the Overworld destination, travel into the nether and back out again immediately, then build another portal in a village less than 128 blocks from the first portal. After pushing villagers into the village portal (manually or by minecart), then pushing them back out again, letting them "cool down" for 30 seconds, and pushing them back in, the villagers should exit from the first portal. [ verify ]
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The Fastest Ways to Get Around in Survival Minecraft

It’s no secret that Minecraft worlds are huge – virtually infinite, in fact – and it can be tedious and frustrating travelling long distances to get to places.

That’s why we’ve come up with a guide to tell you about some of the best methods of transportation in Minecraft which you might not even be aware of. Without further ado, let’s jump straight into it.

Dolphin’s Grace

When it comes to oceans in Minecraft, you may think that the fastest way to travel across them is by using a boat, but it actually isn’t. Though using a boat is faster than normal swimming, if you can find a dolphin to swim alongside you and give you the Dolphin’s Grace status buff, you’ll be able to glide through the water faster than if you were in a boat. You won’t always find dolphins swimming around, so this method is situational, but if you do find one then you’re in luck.

Additionally, if you manage to snag a dolphin to give you Dolphin’s Grace while wearing boots with the Depth Strider enchantment on them, you’ll be able to travel even faster! Depending on the enchantment level of the boots you’re wearing, you may be able to travel twice, thrice, or even four times as fast as normal, which is crazy! The Dolphin’s Grace + Depth Strider III combo is insane to the point where you’ll be going so fast you may even struggle to control your character. It’s awesome.

Nether Travel

If you need to travel across a super long distance in the overworld, it makes sense to consider nether travel, which is a method of using portals to enter and leave the nether to cut down on travel time in the overworld. This works because for every block you travel in the nether, you travel 8 blocks in the overworld, essentially cutting down your travel time to one-eighth of what it would be normally.

In Minecraft, boats travel really fast on water, but even faster on ice, which is a mechanic that the ice road takes advantage of. By building a long road made entirely of ice with barriers on either side to keep you on it, you can get in a boat and travel at speeds of up to around 70 blocks per second, which is incredibly fast. The only downside to this method is that you need to actually build the road first. If there’s a trip you need to make regularly though in your survival world, then it may very well pay off to build an ice road.

It’s also worth noting that the slipperier the ice is, the faster you’ll travel, so for the best results, you'll want to use blue ice. Blue ice is rare though and can be expensive to buy from wandering traders, so there’s no harm in using regular or packed ice if you’re on a budget.

Ultimately, nothing beats the horse when it comes to travelling over terrain that hasn’t had a special road or track built on it. These animals are fast, reliable, and offer plenty of manoeuvrability, so it’s useful to have one if you’re planning on travelling relatively short distances across rough land. They can even jump quite high, which is great for crossing gaps or climbing steeper terrain.

One thing to note about horses though is that every horse is different, meaning some are slow and don’t jump very high, whilst others are incredibly quick and agile. Be sure to have a look around for a good horse in your minecraft survival server world and don’t just stick with the first one you come across in the wild as there will likely be better ones nearby.

Ender Pearls

Whenever you throw an ender pearl somewhere, you teleport to the place where it lands, making it an incredibly useful tool for travelling across long distances. One of the biggest downsides though is that you take 5 points of damage every time you teleport, so you can’t use them too many times in a row otherwise you’ll lose all your hearts and die. Fortunately, though, there’s a way around this.

If you equip armour that’s been enchanted with Protection or Feather Falling, you can negate the damage you take every time you use an ender pearl. This means that you can teleport over and over again as much as you like. Pretty awesome, right?

One last thing about ender pearls is that they can be quite rare to find early on in the game, so getting enough of them to travel efficiently isn't really possible until you reach the End and set up an enderman farm.

Perhaps the most exciting form of transportation on Minecraft 1.17 survival servers is using elytra wings, which let you fly around the world to your heart’s desire so long as you don’t run out of fireworks. That’s right, fireworks can be used to propel yourself forwards while wearing the elytra, and more powerful fireworks have a stronger effect, so be sure to craft the bigger ones if you want to reach top speeds.

Unfortunately, elytra wings aren’t available until the very end of the game after you beat the ender dragon and find an end city with a end ship in it. It’s a shame really because it would be cool to be able to fly around earlier in the game, but nonetheless, it's a great reward bestowed upon only the bravest and most daring Minecraft adventurers – or those that have access to creative mode.

Wrapping up

Well, there you have it, that’s the end of our guide on the best methods for travelling around your survival Minecraft world quickly and efficiently. No single method is perfect for every situation, so we covered a bunch of different ones to give you a range of options to choose from. We hope they help cut some time off those tedious trips we all find ourselves having to make in our survival worlds.

Thanks for reading!

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The 5 fastest ways to travel in Minecraft

Minecraft  is one of those games where you could play for 1,000 hours on the same file and still have so much unseen ground to cover. Open world and sandbox games are great, but sometimes you want to set up camp in two locations that are nowhere near each other.

Walking back and forth, in this case, would take too long, and if you are in vanilla singleplayer Minecraft, there is no way to teleport. That said, there are some faster alternatives to traveling on foot. Here are the 5 fastest ways to travel in Minecraft.

If we are talking straight-up speed, nothing in Minecraft is faster than a boat at full speed. If the distance between your two locations is mostly or entirely water, this method will easily get you there and back in a reasonable amount of time. If only a bit of land stands in your way, you may even want to dig a canal. A boat is the easiest traveling system to acquire because it is built just with 5 wood planks of the same color. The boat will also be that color.

If your journey mostly consists of land and not a regular trip, you plan to retake time and time, the best choice for you would be a Horse. To control a horse, you must both tame it, and own a saddle. Saddles can be found in various chests such as those inside dungeons and mineshafts. If you want your horse to stay in place without a stable, you’ll also want to own a lead (and a fence post). This can be made with a slimeball and string, or take from the Wandering Trader. If you want to bring extra items, the alternative of a donkey is also a good choice.

3. Minecart

This one takes some set-up, so be sure that the journey will be a repeat one, or else it isn’t worth it. First, you are going to need rails : basic rails, charged rails, and redstone torches. You will lay down your track spacing out the charged rails at a 7-block distance, and activate them by placing down redstone torches next to them. (Activator rails are also okay) Place down your minecart and let your automated travel system do the work. Enter the cart, walk away, and come back on the other side.

4. Nether Portal

This one is a little bit tricky, but figuring it out is worth your while. If you are traveling a long distance (think 1,000+ blocks away) in the overworld and have a nether portal back home, build another nether portal at your new location. The two nether portals will be closer to each other in the nether than in the overworld because the nether is smaller. While the nether can be dangerous, if you figure out a clear path, traveling there is much faster. Some even set up their Minecart rail in the nether for this reason.

One of the newest mobs in the game is the  Strider . Like the horse, you will need a saddle to ride a Strider, and like a pig, you will need its favorite treat on a stick to control it. Warped Fungus on a stick is crafted from one warped fungus and one fishing rod. While these friends are slow on land, they are fast on lava. If you want to explore the Nether or safely traverse its lava ocean, Striders are the form of travel for you. And again, be sure to bring a lead and a fence post.