[Tutorial] The Smart Minecart Loader

A new design for a minecart loader that won't jam!
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Intro music: Machinimasound - Afterlife City
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[@MegaSunnyLand]

Thank you for actually explaining what each part of the design does rather than just telling us where everything goes. It really helps me learn.

[@j_hillingsworth_v895]

Still works in 1.20.4. I have been trying to build a version of this(and failing) for the last 5 years. I finally found this video. Thank you so much!

[@samjones3044]

Can't wait to try this new one out - wish I'd seen it before building 4 of your previous designs under my pigman farm in survival mode! One suggestion - quickly mention the total resources required to build at the start. Thanks for a great tutorial once again. I have to say, it's so refreshing for a tutorial-giver to actually explain what each part does. Really helps to grow my (limited) redstone knowledge.

[@HGGundamPlays]

Still Works in 1.15.2 and a great design .. been looking for a loader that held the minecart till it was full, Thanks a lot :)

[@AlexPrevost]

I just put this together along side impulseSV's item sorter and a couple tripwire rail switches, and now I can finally get my branch mine functioning. Thanks for the final design piece!

[@Klimaxxxx]

I really like how you explain what the circuits do! I wish more redstoners would do the same, not just show you where to place each block. Super useful for newer redstoners to learn! The fact that you do that alone has made me subscribe to your channel. Thanks!

[@samjones3044]

same reason I just subbed

[@FromTheMountain]

It's so simple that is't a shame nobody thought about it yet. Nice design!

[@2CubedTech]

Wow, nice! Amazing job, Rex!

[@TheRedstoneScientist]

Wow! Awesome design! I've always had trouble making use of CUDs

[@kaifireborn7594]

I like your videos, because they are so easy to take screenshots and create a photo manual for yourself.

[@Unarybit]

Very cool... nice design Rex :)

[@nanorex_gaming]

Unarybit Thanks!

[@JapaneseModernist]

Ah, thank you! I built your other designs but I was having problems with jamming.

[@BaumMiner]

that's really smart idea! and great video :D

[@bettyg7710]

I love it. Pure genius!

[@nerohd7613]

Good job bro! Really great!

[@twiztidfreeksideshow]

That's hella sick bro

[@damoncline7747]

great build

[@TheDaedalusHelios]

hey thank you for finding me and linking this to solve my problem! you get a like and a subscribe!

[@mr.jayrocraptastic1062]

loader works perfectly! ty SO much for sharing this build :-D. U got a new Sub, Bub ;-)

[@katherinebrown9116]

nifty, I this saved me quite some time unjamming stuff :)

[@rellikpd]

I just got done trying this (and your previous design) in 1.12.2 and both work perfectly, HOWEVER, this version is MUCH slower and noisy as hell (i use hopper carts instead of chest carts and they load up VERY quickly (granted, can only carry 5 [stacks of] items at a time, but with short, of continuous traffic, loading up fast is important to me) So i prefer the previous design, BUT This is amazing man! Thanks!

[@lindsayg7359]

I tried this in 1.12 for the Xbox one and it wouldn't fire the piston Bubba420gump

[@boonjabby]

This is really clean and intuitive. Thanks for describing it properly too

[@mopar3502001]

Just a FYI this design still works in 1.19.1 =) Great video too ands thank you!

[@MultiMineCube]

Great job!

[@elvenkind6072]

Like nr.666! Brilliant described, I'll make this my main variant of transport during branch-mining at diamond-level, ending in a storage room with hoppers that put it all in the right chests. :)

[@Tom_M_Riddle]

Great Video, THANKS!

[@MaxPicAxe]

Such good intro :)

[@theV990]

great tutorial

[@puppy4645]

Thank You For Make In This it Helps Me Alot

[@hikton7293]

Thanks so much. Just hope this machine works in 1.13.2

[@woody918]

Phenomenal!

[@thebluechocolate1655]

The perfect minecart loader. The noise isn't a big problem. And I think that if you suppress the noise, the loader would be bigger

[@DanRasmussen72]

I use this all the time :)

[@cameronnichols9905]

Nice job taking care of all the problems :) I am having trouble with a mechanism that shoots items vertically up (using droppers; like the opposite of a hopper). When one of my droppers becomes full, then it doesn't shoot. If it is one block less than full, then it works just fine.

[@samjones3044]

lol your profile pic just got me. nicely done sir... nicely done.

[@inf1rit]

Лучший загрузчик, который я видел! Он просто лишен недостатков!

[@bamarebel976]

the design isn't wanting to unload the stack of items, it immediately goes back to the loading station and drops of one or some of the stack at the unloading station

[@mr.jayrocraptastic1062]

had the same problem. this little addition to the unloader from Rogue Fox seems to do the trick : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp3cfJ2natyGqKM

[@tobiasbauer5396]

Still works great. Top

[@smeghead0]

ingenious!

[@joeiker2435]

hi, i use it on 1.12.2 and it works great. but i have one thing i miss: when the mine cart is full it wont drive away.... so if to much items arrive and the hoppers are also full the whole thing jammed :-(, some idea to solve that?

[@matthewreed2000]

I've always wanted to know how a comparator update detector worked

[@zbeekerm]

Could you just use the tile entity update detector next to the minecart chest? So as soon as items stop going into the minecart (rather than the hopper above) the minecart launches?

[@Gurkudrengur]

Nice stuff! currently playing around with it in my base design. But! can it be simplified with an observer block?

[@janfransdevries8032]

Would like to know this too

[@SpartanIII1337]

Does this configuration work for Hopper Minecarts too?

[@Chris0612]

thank you so much. it is veery usefull for my super smelter. My only problem is now, that the cart stops at the loading station after his round, i would like it to go for another round if not empty after the first. how can i do this? Keep on the good work mate

[@malataur]

What purpose are the pistons serving? The blocks they are push/pulling don't seem to be connected to any of the circuitry. I think I have missed something there. Thank you.

[@meemeeweewee]

So my repeater coming from the last piston isnt getting any signal to send the cart off. Losing my mind here. 1.11 change or am I overlooking something?

[@RainbowPigeon15]

how does the top piston works??? I don't see any connection that requires it yet it wont work without it.

[@Moekeyloek]

Not sure if am updated created issues but my minecart doesn't take off and when it does come back it flys through the walls at the loader dock.

[@ogspeace]

albeit it's noisier, this circuit solves the jam that happens if 1. the minecart inventory's full, and, 2. the hopper above the minecart is also full.

[@pkretsch]

Have you gotten this to work in Windows 10 Edition? I built just the first part, and nothing happens when I drop something into the upper chest.

[@pkretsch]

Ah, figured it out - covering a chest with a block doesn't prevent a comparator from detecting its fullness in PE/10. Any designs that'll work in those versions?

[@TheRedstoneScientist]

Is there a way to make it silent at the cost of size.

[@raggerbaron737]

So much jiggery pokery to get this working in Bedrock, a few changes and delay circuit and I've almost got it 100%

[@andrew4042]

Hey anything on ShadowStrike?

[@santiagovasquezvanturnhout550]

Why dont you make more videos

[@kidfusion3000]

does this design still work in 1.14 bedrock? I can't get the piston to fire like yours does. its the first part of the circuit, I have an item in the second chest, the layout is the same as shown here. but at the test phase the piston doesn't fire. it just sits there and stuff moves through the hoppers.

[@BrettStrydom]

Somehow, the comparator is working differently here. I have no idea myself! Also experiencing this issue but after researching exactly how comparators work, then this video makes no sense as to how it is working because testing this in my flat world, my hopper isnt affecting the comparator at all when laid out like in the video. I would love to understand this but the only thing I can think of is that the comparator works differently in Java.

[@DreamPhreak]

Any way to have an empty minecart get sent off if the hoppers are empty too? That way I can build a continuous system where the minecart goes to multiple different stations to fill up on everyone's deposits and then take them all back to a central storage room.

[@foamm8808]

Akio Crimson i

[@richardlam6959]

i built this on the server, the pistons caused an anoying amount of lag, is there a pistonless version of this?

[@fl4shbangz]

if one piston causes lag on your server, you should get a better server...

[@farazahmed2396]

his logo is the first fidget spinner ever on the internet

[@bigagold5763]

DO YOU HAVE ONE THAT WORKS FOR 1.14 ?

[@kaifireborn7594]

If it will work(previous one didn’t), I will like

[@johnchristopher9573]

On Wii U, the loader will not launch so I just connected the Redstone bypassing the secondary piston.

[@iceloves9436]

This doesn't work for me on Android. The detector won't work when items going from chest to minecart chest.

[@jozejerse6777]

4:45 this doesnt work on windows 10 edition of minecraft. i built 3 separate redstone contraptions and none of them activated the piston when items were loaded into chest. they just fell into the bottom hopper

[@blackshadowdarkange]

it's because this design use a block update detector (or commonly known as BUD) that is not in the windows version. The BUD is in fact a bug that the java users asked to the developper to keep because its very usefull for the communauty.

[@ChaoticKnightmare]

Does this happen to be broken in 1.9.4? I ask because as soon as i attach the first redstone torch to the side where the first piston is placed the piston extends and retracts continuously with or without items in the top chest.

[@nanorex_gaming]

It still works for me in 1.9.4. You're sure you built everything correctly?

[@ChaoticKnightmare]

+NanoRex I thought I did, went step by step and built it just like it is in the video, but I will go back and try a few more times, if its still working for you in 1.9.4 then I missed something. Thanks for getting back to me.

[@ChaoticKnightmare]

just a quick update to this, for some reason Forge was causing the problem, and after uninstalling everything worked fine.

[@nanorex_gaming]

ChaoticKnightmare Weird...glad you got it working though

[@2ndxydez898]

Why do you never upload. you are one of my favorite youtubers.

[@Ist_Geheim]

Still works in Java 1.16.1

[@theIfrit552]

I tryed it and it doesn'T seem to work for me on 1.12.1. The Piston is not moving, it gets loaded in the minecart directly but that way there is no signal to make the minecart leave.

[@henkvananvers7990]

It work in 1.12.1

[@Sarkubocael]

Loader works amazing, unloader is giving me cancer slowly. i tryed my own, a few website designs, 1/3 or 4 times it doesnt unload for i got no idea what reason when im outside the chunk, and then comes back full and messes up the whole system...

[@georgebullingham4301]

Super design, however ultimately flawed on the PS4, it appears that the horizontal sticky piston is not so sticky after all in survival mode

[@harizon8862]

george bullingham Don't used glazed terracotta. They can't be pulled by sticky pistons.

[@georgebullingham4301]

Harizon - If you have been using glazed terracotta no wonder you came unstuck. Good luck with that one. The Nanorex setup is quite inventive, although on the PS4 it is unstable. The redstone/piston relationship brakes down in high volume senarios (example - gold farms collector) Block becomes detached from piston in a random and unexpected result

[@Vass881234]

Still nothing simpler in 1.13.2, unless you want constant running cart but does stop to fill if something winging to go.

[@kolath]

Having an issue with the design where as the cart is sent off it is removing two items from the stack in the minecart chest. the two items are put back in the hopper and the minecart goes to unload. when it comes back it loads up the two items head back to unload but as it leaves the two items are put back in the hopper and nothing is unloaded at the unload point. Any ideas as to why?

[@nanorex_gaming]

Ethan Leidy That sounds really bizzare. It seems to me like maybe there is a problem with your game or server. If you're not using vanilla, that might be what the problem is. Other than that, I don't think I can help you much :(

[@kolath]

NanoRex Just using a Texture pack, but thanks was wondering if you had seen it before and knew something. Thanks for getting back to me about it.

[@roberto4898]

2023 and here we are

[@fdagpigj]

But what if you have 5 stacks of one item that can't enter the minecart about to flow into the hopper, surely it'd wait all the way until the hopper's full before sending off the minecart? If it was truly smart it'd detect the hopper filling up (or minecart not filling up) and send off the cart, right? Okay, yeah, that might be too rare to make it worthwhile to build around and as long as it doesn't actually get stuck I guess it's fine.

[@thebluechocolate1655]

The loader detect when the Hopper is loading the minecart. Even if the hopper is full, the loader will detect when the loader is loading the minecart.

[@pietermantel9498]

there is another case where it should shoot. when there are no more items in the chest.

[@pietermantel9498]

+Pieter Mantel but it will still work

[@DouglasWalrath]

On PS3 the minecart isn't stopping at the end there for me

[@bamarebel976]

the loader track ain't wanting to send the cart off, and the unloader track ain't wanting to send it back. but cool design though.

[@mariscotesgerald174]

Seems familiar

[@TJ-qt8li]

Does not work anymore in 1.14

[@coderjoe15]

I've been using this with mixed results on Xbox One. It seems the horizontal sticky piston occasionally gets unstuck to the block and this breaks the loader. has anyone else seen this glitch? Is it just on Xbox One?

[@sethsoutdoorkitchen4123]

Happens to me on ps4 As well.

[@mryourfuckingmom3308]

I'm using this system on Xbox one and the loader works wonderfully, but the unloader doesn't seem to work, only unloads a few blocks before it shoots off again, and solutions to this problem?

[@nanorex_gaming]

+MrYourfuckingmom Hm...you could try adding a second powered rail behind the first one. That might help.

[@mryourfuckingmom3308]

+NanoRex actually I added a detector rail in a few blocks away and ran a line with a 3 tic repeater into the block that holds the Redstone torch, it shuts the powered rail off before the cart hits it so it stays and works as intended from there, it seems that in the xbox one version the rail doesn't shut off quick enough so it send the cart back right away. anyways thx for the vid, I have too unloaders unloading into a loader and it works like a charm couldn't have done it w.o you lol

[@nanorex_gaming]

MrYourfuckingmom Cool! Glad to see you got it working!

[@jjanvier1443]

doesn't work in MCPE 0.15 iOs

[@ashtongeorgaras8901]

it doesn't seem to work for me, it goes to the unload station and unloads nothing

[@Kevdama1]

The unloading station is the easiest part

[@NiallHosking]

Unfortunately by 1.18 this isn't appearing to work as the hopper passing items isn't activating the first piston. I can get it to work up to there only.

[@squirreltreedome4363]

My one failed!

[@jeffbasch791]

I think its broken my minecart will load but then when the detector goes off it wont power the repeater to shoot it off

[@eimey]

going through the obvious, is the last repeater set to 4 tics ?

[@mikesmith6838]

I think something in 1.11 or 1.12 broke the timing. So, my fix is as follows: there are two pieces of redstone dust running into the upwards facing sticky piston. Change out the one closest to the piston with a repeater on two ticks. That gives a longer signal.

[@MotorCityBarbecue]

I've followed every step and triple checked everything and still the minecart will only drop 1 item and the powered rail becomes activated and sends the full cart back to the loading station. HELP

[@nanorex_gaming]

+Motor City Barbecue This is because your likely have a hopper underneath the first hopper. Try swapping it out for a chest, then another hopper, or have the first hopper point to the side.

[@MotorCityBarbecue]

+NanoRex ps3. i have it set up identical to your design. the problem is that the minecart hits the block and instead of stopping and dropping the items into the hopper beneath it , it just hits the block and returns to the loading station. its as if the comparator cant shut off the signal to the powered rail in time. ive check my repeater and comparator and they are set up the same as yours.

[@nanorex_gaming]

Motor City Barbecue I can't help you much if you're not on PC Minecraft, sorry. You'll have to find a design elsewhere that works on console.

[@kendethar]

I 100% fixed that in my redstone world :)

[@BBond-pf2tu]

+Kendethar Zendeth Well let us know bro!

[@elric_l9852]

Has anyone figured out how to make this work in Windows 10?

[@mousermind]

Nothing works for long in Windows 10.

[@ash7324]

Working in Java 1.16.3

[@keithkulacz5730]

How did you get the piston shooting up to launch minecart? It doesnt for me.

[@enzobredalee1903]

does not work in PE

[@chaosdragongaming4949]

Enzo Breda Lee make your own

[@kaifireborn7594]

Doesn’t work for mcpe 1.4

[@blackshadowdarkange]

it's because this design use a block update detector (or commonly known as BUD) that is not in the windows version or pocket edition. The BUD is in fact a bug that the java users asked to the developper to keep because its very usefull for the communauty.

[@burntbrushes8356]

This seems to work in Java 1.15.2

[@Villle89]

Thx

[@kraeckelium]

It works or it doesn't, what do you mean by seems? I have it on 1.15.2 and before but it stopped working after 1.15 for some reason.

[@burntbrushes8356]

@@kraeckelium It seems to work, as in it works for me when doing a small test with it but I have not actually implemented it into my base in any faction making long term use of it. Also your second sentence makes no fucking sense so don't question my use of "seems".

[@kraeckelium]

@@burntbrushes8356 At first you explain your use of 'seems' very politely and you clarify why you used it but after that you react like an offended child for some reason, IT SEEMS you're either bipolar or 12. And what's wrong with my second sentence? I really have it on fucking 1.15.2 and before but IT SEEMS to have stopped fucking working after fucking 1.15 for some fucking reason, may be you get it now or should I use more fucks in my sentences? But non the less thanks for the answer.

[@samitechcookie9758]

2024 here

[@vex1756]

this doesn't work on xbox one, the minecart keeps bouncing back

[@georgebullingham4301]

I had this problem also on PS4 but was solved by making sure the minecart did not arrive too fast

[@taistingtheair1368]

Sorry but you did not explain how it works. You can not explain something by saying that it works. How does this detect a full mine cart and send it on its way when there is something in the hopper?

[@germangamix4593]

Erster

[@DerPlayer2109]

Immer diese Deutschen :)