In Minecraft, I have pretty much emptied the places around my home of resources and thus I need to travel a lot to other mines. I would like to know a fast way to do so. I have tried minecarts on rails (take up a lot of iron, and aren't really that fast), boats and more. I guess I should build some sort of construction.

What is the fastest mean of transport you can make in Minecraft (something which is still worth the effort to build, of course)?

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Well, the fastest form of transportation is by minecart, and within The Nether you travel at a 8:1 ratio as in the overworld, so my answer would be traveling via minecart in The Nether.

(Even walking in The Nether is faster than any overworld transportation - minecarts top out at 8m/s, and you certainly walk faster than 1m/s.)

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As Kevin says, use The Nether. The only problem is that it's often dangerous.

As for "the fastest way to travel long distances", the objective answer is: Teleboaters. Minecarts come a distant second. As for construction, tracks cost 1 iron per 2.7 squares of travel, not counting boosters. Teleboats cost 1 log per ~3 squares of travel. But boats are hard to carry and look terrible.

(Fun fact: the truly fastest mode of transport involves a giant stack of simultaneously-triggered TNT.)

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With the introduction to horses, riding a horse through the Nether is currently the fastest method of travel. It is also more versatile, can traverse raw terrain easier, and is not limited to tracks.

If you want to explore a completely new area, bring along 10 obsidian + flint & steel, travel by horse for a few minutes in the Nether, plop down an exit portal and you have a fresh, brand new area.

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I just read about a great way to go very fast with no risk:

1) Make a line of ice 2x(however long), along the ground.

2) Line cobblestone along the sides like bumpers.

3) Put trapdoors over the ice. (Hint: attach them to the cobblestone.)

4) Put Glass directly two blocks over the ice.

Try it out! Open the first trapdoor, and stand in the track (on the ice). Close the trapdoor, then sprint down the track, jumping even though there is glass over your head. This should make you go twice as fast as a minecart.

Hope this helps!

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A combination of force-field cart jumping and the nether would do the trick.

• t = traveling time in seconds
• d = view distance. What is it? Let's assume it is around 80 blocks so you can easily aim the cart.
• m = clicks per second. I can do around 7.5
• n = nether distance factor. It is 8

The distance you can travel equals

tdm*n = 80*7.5*8 = 4800t

which means that you can travel 4800 blocks each second.

Update: As noted below in the comment, the force-field jumping bug is fixed for quite some time now. This approach won't work anymore.

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I suggest Sky bridges if you are traveling across continents/water. Single track with torches to keep mobs from spawning.

The answer is nether if you're playing single player. Rails and minecarts if you're resource rich Cobblestone and torches across the sky if your cheap. A little difficult to lay but if you hold the SHIFT key, you cant fall so it makes it easy to lay that way.

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For some reason, there is still no proper table about max speed, so I made one myself. Please add any more information you have, either in the comments or via .

Maybe someone can migrate this to the english minecraft wiki.

Survival mode travelling, ordered by speed

Method
100 blocks
blocks/sec
Both
ways?Expense
Ref

Respawning / End portal Instant Instant No Inventory
Ender pearl TNT** (demo)∞ ∞ No TNT
Horizontal TNT bump ? ? No Immense
Collision bump (demo) ? (0-2) ? (50-x) No Cows
Elytra, 52° downwards 1.48 sec 67.50 Yes Elytra wiki
Boat on ice 3.48 s*** 28.78*** Yes Silk T.YT
Ender pearl, 1 per sec ~4.3 sec ~23 Yes Pearls YT
Boat row, 20 clicks/sec 4.76 sec 21.03 No Wood YT
2 block high, ice & trap
doors (demo) 4.97 sec
20.12
Yes
Silk T.
& wood YT
Horse*, sprint, speed II5.02 sec 19.92 Yes PotionsYT
Boat row (demo) 6.64 sec 15.06 No Wood YT
Horse*, sprinting 7.06 sec 14.17 Yes YT
Minecart 12.50 sec 8.00 Yes Iron YT
Boat on water 12.50 sec 8.00 Yes Boat wiki
Pig & carrot on a stick 12.50 sec 8.00 Yes Carrotswiki
Running, sprint, speedII12.80 sec 7.81 Yes PotionsYT
Running, sprint, jumping14.17 sec 7.06 Yes YT

Remarks:

• Times were measured @ Vers. 1.10 (2016 July)
• Accuracy: ~0.03 sec
• As noted - if travelling in the nether, the overworld speed can be multiplied by 8
• Measured ender pearl travel speed equals the wiki entry. Throwing them up 45° in the air will give the longest teleportation distance, however the fastest way is using them one after another, in a way once the cooldown has finished (1 pearl / sec)
• Sprinting or drinking speed potions does not affect boat travelling speed

• * The horse was summoned with attribute movementSpeed: Base:0.3375 which is the maximum horse speed available, afaik.

• ** Bumping a thrown ender pearl with TNT can get you thousands of blocks in just a few seconds. However, if the chunks on its route are not loaded, it is rather useless. Only interesting on an intensely populated server.

• *** Boat on ice: Wiki says 40 b/s which does not match the reference video in this table

  (edit: maybe it needs some time to accelerate and actually is 40 b/s)

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My favourite is a sky-bridge, either for walking on or via mine carts. It only needs to be one block wide, and bypasses any obstacles. You just make a branch off when you reach your destination, and a mine cart station if you need to.

Use Boat, on blue ice, in the nether ceiling. You can travel up to 160 blocks/second, and in the nether, 160*8=1280 blocks/second. Only one problem- your boat will probably break at the end.

Put boat on nettherack in nether close to a lava lake and jump in.

Throw fire resist splash potion over yourself and the boat. Boats are affected by potions.

Now sail over the lava.

PS: Be carefull of underlava hills stopping and breaking your boat...

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Use

/effect @p 1 255 255.

It gives you the speed buff for 255 seconds. Try it in the nether.

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My method is the following

1. Place rail so it faces sideways in front of you.
2. Count the rail as one space. Add 4 spaces in front of rail.
3. Place rail on the 4th space & repeat steps 1-2 until the rail reaches your destination.
4. Place minecarts on rails.
5. Now go to first minecart and hop on it.
6. Look at the bottom of next minecart in front.

now hold right click in this position until you reach your destination.

You should travel at about 25 blocks per second.

I've played with it and I'm pretty certain I found the faster way to travel in minecraft. You need to wait for rain and have a trident of riptide. You are also going to need and elytra equipped. You can use riptide while you are flying and go at incredible speeds only while it is raining. It's a pretty expensive way to get around but boy does it work.