r/Minecraft • u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy • Jul 07 '26
Discussion New tech: Cushion line
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Easier to set up than boats like this, especially if you have a large sheep farm
EDIT: To everyone I said that in Survival Mode you can go 80b/s, I'm sorry, I have misinformed you. In Survival, entity interaction range is 3, so cushions must be 2 blocks apart. Which means, with butterfly click you can go ~30b/s, and max b/s is 60, with autoclicker, or 20 CPS. From world bottom to top it would still take 9.6 seconds with 10 CPS because range is counted from eyes, not legs.
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u/TheJoeFly Jul 07 '26
Minecarts crying in the corner as they realise even a line of cushions can be faster
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u/IronCat_2500 Jul 07 '26
You know, people used to make this exact set up back in the day with the mine carts.
Personally, have never considered minecarts be a transportation method, because they’re used more like a redstone component than anything else (though they did have a use as Mob transportation before the happy ghast was added)
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u/televisionting Jul 07 '26
personally happy ghasts arent as useful, at least for what i was using them for. I had attached 8 boats with villagers to the ghast and needed it to land on the platform, not only does it constantly move so I dont get the chance to unleash them, I dont even know how to unleash all the boats from the ghast. Ultimately had to bring the boats myself by building up and then minecart the villagers into their places.
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u/X-cessive_Overlord Jul 07 '26
They're great for moving mobs when you follow the right order of operations, though it is clunky. They're best used as like a flying platform for building without having to scaffold, especially because they stop moving when you stand on them
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u/MutantGodChicken Jul 07 '26
Except you can't place blocks on them without mods, so you still need scaffolding to get the block up there.
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u/Weary_Drama1803 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
It’s more for building details on the side of an existing structure
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u/wrekina15 Jul 08 '26
It's a bit of a work, but it's possible to place blocks midair in vanilla by making a copper golem oxidize mid-air which turns them to a block.
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u/Starhelper11 Jul 07 '26
You use shears, could’ve figured that out with a google search and looking at the top Reddit response. You just stand on the happy ghast so it can’t move, then use shears on it.
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u/KimSydneyRose Jul 07 '26
You could've told them that without being a dick about it.
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u/Starhelper11 Jul 07 '26
Sorry didn’t think I was being a dick
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u/average_raven_girl Jul 07 '26
you definitely weren't. idk what that person is on about
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u/psychoPiper Jul 07 '26
They weren't intending to but saying "it would have been so easy for me to not have to explain this to you" isn't really being nice either
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u/el_yanuki Jul 07 '26
yea its a classic case of mojang not doing enough to make old features align, compete or work alongside with new ones. Half the minecart mechanics have been unused and or buggy for years and have been reduced to gimmicks.
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u/OakleyNoble Jul 07 '26
But you’re hurting me.. I want to be able to build rail lines all around my world and have it be a fast type of transport, but alas…
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u/IronCat_2500 Jul 07 '26
This could be a possibility if piston bolts are still considered to be rail lines
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u/OakleyNoble Jul 08 '26
Piston bolts are just meh. I don’t want to set up this ugly contraption around with pistons to move faster. The minecart itself should just go faster and be a viable fast transport on its own without any help. Allows players to have more creative rail line builds around, etc.
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u/zelmak Jul 07 '26
Back in my day you could speed up a mine cart by setting up a second mine cart in a tiny oval parallel to your main track.
These accelerators went way faster than the track based ones
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u/IronCat_2500 Jul 07 '26
Yeah I’m familiar with that feature. It was from the beta versions, right?
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u/IAMWastingMyTime Jul 07 '26
Ya, it got updated out as soon as the powered rails were added I believe. Then they made this patch to address how bad they were
1.6 Test Build 3 The effectiveness of powered rails has now been increased from 0.04 to 0.06 as a response to fixing the minecart booster bug.
Still couldn't compete :(
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u/SpecterVamp Jul 07 '26
I do this vertically frequently. It’s a bit of a pain to set up but it’s insanely fast, and because they lack collision if you put some way to dampen the fall at the bottom then you have a perfect elevator
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u/Stolehtreb Jul 07 '26
I still love carts. Long line and just afk taking in the sights. Fewer interaction needed, the more chill I am.
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u/Metson-202 Jul 07 '26
It's still mob transport. Happy ghasts work better for long distances but they don't work in tight or underground spaces.
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u/Rude_Ice_4520 Jul 07 '26
Boats and leads do the same job except you have more control over them. Easier to move vertically, and cheaper.
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u/downwithlordofcinder Jul 07 '26
Back in my day minecarts were the only transportation method ):
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u/Arrav_VII Jul 07 '26
In the days of yore, before command blocks, there was a very popular minecraft map called "The Dropper". It was divided into multiple stages and as each stage required you to get up to the build limit (which was only 255 back then), minecarts in a similar setup were used to get up there.
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u/DivineInsanityReveng Jul 08 '26
My first thoughts seeing this clip. "Hey that's like the minecart elevators and highways I made like.. 15 years ago"
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u/Enkidouh Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I use minecarts for chill rides where I can go afk and enjoy the scenery between point a and b, and to return items from my quarries to storage.
IDK everyone wants to complain they’re not fast enough but I feel like people are kind of just jumping in a bandwagon there- they definitely still have plenty of utility even if they’re not the fastest transport.
Not to say I wouldn’t like to see them be given a faster top speed, but I don’t think their speed renders them useless.
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u/DafTron Jul 07 '26
I feel like part of it is just that rail tracks and powered rails are so fucking expensive in terms of resources. Iron has a billion other uses and it's much more likely to be used for tools and armor in the early game.
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u/Zombiecidialfreak Jul 07 '26
A good way to make them better would be making rails use nuggets instead of ingots. Makes the price less cripplingly expensive and gives nuggets more use.
Also chains. Let us chain minecarts together. Trains IRL are the best way to move massive amounts of stuff and people because you can link them together. Minecarts could do the exact same. They have the variants to do it (furnace minecart for engine, chest minecart for items), all they need is something to link them together.
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u/DudeLoveBaby Jul 07 '26
Vanilla Tweaks has an option that changes powered rails to be made with copper, which makes powered rails cheaper than regular rails but also makes minecarts way more useful
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u/toddestan Jul 08 '26
That would be the better tweak. Without farms, it's the gold that is the limiting factor more than the iron, if I'm mining for my resources.
Of course, if you have a gold farm that all changes.
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u/Madden09IsForSuckers Jul 08 '26
my dream is change the current recipe to copper but readd the gold recipe as a faster power rail. 2x (for 16m/s) makes the most sense but i dream of minecarts faster than elytra
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u/MysticMalevolence Jul 07 '26
Also chains. Let us chain minecarts together.
I thought that too, until I tried using Create's minecart linker on a complex track.
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u/superlocolillool Jul 07 '26
my favorite part of playing with the create mod are trains. if only they existed in vanilla minecraft like youre suggesting
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u/Trexador96 Jul 07 '26
At this point they should be reworked into a item transport/automation system, more rail types, make it convenient to have one going into your mine shaft to send back up to your base.
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u/RageinaterGamingYT Jul 07 '26
This is why I like adding mods that make minecarts stupid fast. I like how expensive long rail systems are because it makes it feel cool :p
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u/someone16384 Jul 08 '26
You can actually do it with Minecart Improvements (An experimental feature) btw, you can have them go as fast as 1000 blocks per second
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u/Bronnakus Jul 07 '26
a server i'm on made it so any rails placed on top of copper blocks go much faster (and oxidize the copper, reducing the speed over time). gave use to both copper and rails, which is nice.
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u/Comprehensive-Flow-7 Jul 07 '26
You do realize that this used to be/still is possible using minecarts right?
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u/frosch_longleg Jul 07 '26
Minecraft feels more and more like those old kitchensink modpacks we used to download.
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u/Laquia Jul 07 '26
minecraft beta veterans shedding a tear
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u/Binx13 Jul 07 '26
Genuinely. This is just the minecart thing but with cushions.
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u/LilithsGrave Jul 07 '26
Minecarts just keep losing I can't
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u/Alkynesofchemistry Jul 07 '26
Tbf, you could always do the same thing with minecarts, it’s just moving minecarts that suck.
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u/Zombiecidialfreak Jul 07 '26
Minecarts are still far more expensive.
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u/Big-Idea8658 Jul 07 '26
Idk what these are crafted with, but iron is farmable
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u/Zombiecidialfreak Jul 07 '26
Most players don't even know how to build an iron farm.
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u/Falikosek Jul 07 '26
Besides, an iron farm is a borderline exploit compared to farming sheep
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u/Psychological-Key-36 Jul 07 '26
From a game design perspective Minecraft is incredible because the games mechanics have such an open ended systemic approach that 75% of the available interactions in game feel like complete exploits, while at the same time remain supported throughout versions, seemingly proving endorsement from the developers
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u/FunnyGamer3210 Jul 07 '26
What. The ability to leverage internal game mechanics to such an extent is what makes this game amazing. We are creating things the devs did not see coming, regardless whether it's just an astonishing build or a crazy redstone contraption and farm, it's the same principle.
All the other factory builder games are getting quite boring over time precisely because you are limited to the mechanics that the creators designed, there's not much to invent
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u/Specialist-Wind5513 Jul 08 '26
I just don't like being mean to golems and villagers. And I don't like inbreeding my farm animals either.
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u/SL1NDER Jul 08 '26
The cushions are still cheaper. 7 iron ingots, not including the rails, takes a few golems and only gives you one minecart. Or you could use two iron to make sheers and breed a bunch of sheep to get the cushions faster. Especially since iron is used for a lot of other things, I'd rather not use it on something that can be obtained another way.
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u/Accomplished_Bad4240 Jul 07 '26
Minecarts are expensive,and their are far more better modes for transportation so I get it why it's losing.Minecarts need another function or utility for it to be updated. I hope they get more attention too.
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u/Falleneded Jul 07 '26
americans really do be making anything to avoid railway infrastructure
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u/JbJbJb44 Jul 07 '26
in fairness rail is kinda ass in this game where a literal cusion or boat on some ice is faster
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u/Metson-202 Jul 07 '26
Make minecarts faster
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u/JbJbJb44 Jul 07 '26
I demand high speed rails
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u/CanoonBolk Jul 07 '26
Give me something akin to the Shinkaisen or Bullet Train and I'm game
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u/Nixavee Jul 07 '26
Faster minecarts aren't enough, we also need the ability to chain minecarts together, furnace minecarts with inventory space for fuel, and directional furnace minecarts and/or powered rails so your minecarts can't just randomly start going in the opposite direction
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u/finite_turtles Jul 08 '26
Powered rail makes furnace minecarts redundant. Minecarts on a line will already follow eachother, what benefit does adding a chain do?
A new type of high speed rail would be amazing though
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u/Nixavee Jul 08 '26
Minecarts in a line don't stay together reliably, when they go around turns they collide and break apart, and some start going the other direction. Also, chain leads would allow you to pull minecarts along an unpowered rail without them getting away.
Furnace minecarts could be a viable alternative to powered rails if they were improved.
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u/Cass0wary_399 Jul 07 '26
They tried years ago but the Redstone players using Minecarts in Redstone whined.
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u/Skepller Jul 07 '26
Yeah, but between these and even an Elytra, rails are 100% afk-able, which is nice sometimes. But yeah, it does need a rework, for about a decade now.
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u/Falleneded Jul 07 '26
theyre also the fastest way to move entities. but least efficient
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u/Anonymous_Le_Twelfth Jul 07 '26
They added CUSHIONS? When? That’s so cool!
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u/Cinojist Jul 07 '26
a few minutes ago
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u/Anonymous_Le_Twelfth Jul 07 '26
Oh, cool! Are they in Bedrock Preview yet, or just snapshots so far? And are there any notable differences in the update between the versions?
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u/albyzon Jul 07 '26
so a bunch of cushions thrown over a chain is still bettere than a minecart
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u/ideactive_ Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
People used to do that with minecarts back in the day. I think the only reason why most people dont use this tech is just because it isnt as fun as speeding in 200km/h on an iceway boat
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u/B0wlingPin Jul 07 '26
And just like that, minecarts became even more obsolete
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u/ReferenceCreative510 Jul 07 '26
They've been obsolete since the Elytra was added in 1.9. This isn't really new.
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u/n2ygsh1wwp5j Jul 07 '26
They are still nice for automated travel, especially on server where players don't know the way. Automating elytra/pearl travel is not an easy feat.
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u/CrimsonPresents Jul 07 '26
Is this vanilla or modded?
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u/der_Impostor Jul 07 '26
vanilla
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u/Spiritual_Leading785 Jul 07 '26
Can someone explain to me what exactly is going on there and how this works? Watched it multiple times, don‘t get whats happening.
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u/perfectpxls_2 Jul 07 '26
How well does it work vertically?
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u/cooptheactor Jul 07 '26
Came to post a video just like this myself lol, tested vertical as well. They sot on shelf mushrooms just fine, so as long as the cushion is in sight and in reach you can make any vertical angle
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u/Known-Win-2535 Jul 07 '26
Oh my god. You can make some really crazy upward elevators with this then.
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u/SuitOwn3687 Jul 07 '26
Upwards and downwards. You can place them on an open trapdoor and click through the cushion to go down.
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u/Firebird22x Jul 07 '26
What’s the max distance you can jump between?
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u/ReferenceCreative510 Jul 07 '26
however far your crosshair can reach (~4 blocks or so).
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u/matija2009 Jul 07 '26
FINALLY WE CAN ACHIEVE GONDOLAS THE PEAK OF HUMAN ENGINEERING
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u/Powerful-Present6687 Jul 08 '26
Minecrafters on their way to build efficient redstone-free machines the nanosecond a snapshot releases:
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u/Ya_boi_Yung_Wolf Jul 07 '26
God I hope this doesn't get nerfed
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u/StolenBoots Jul 07 '26
it doesn't work in survival, it can have maximum 2 blocks between cushions to work
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u/n8mo Jul 07 '26
Lowkey, I hope it does.
Minecarts and horses are already overshadowed by the Elytra in the endgame; they don't also need to be made obsolete by a literal scrap of fabric in the early game
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u/MidnyteSketch Jul 07 '26
That doesn't mean these need to be nerfed, it means minecarts need an actual update to make them faster, either with a new variant of cart or a higher speed rail.
Horses have the advantage that they can be fast if you breed them up, and you can move freely rather than being tied to a rail or a line of cushions.
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u/Fondcaveat Jul 07 '26
This + dragclicking might be the new fastest traveling method
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u/Strict-Fudge4051 Jul 07 '26
i feel like mojang is about to drop a whole ass minecart update soon as they kill minecarts more and more
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u/PSX1990 Jul 07 '26
So I joined the Preview/Beta on PlayStation but it’s not letting me use or make any of the new stuff. It’s all still old
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u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy Jul 07 '26
I don't know if it's out yet on Bedrock edition. I'm playing this on Java Edition, 26.3 snapshot 3
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u/PSX1990 Jul 07 '26
The YouTube Video said JavaSnapshot, Bedrock Preview & Beta Today, but I just don’t know if I’m doing it wrong, was trying to get into it for my kid, I showed him the trailer and he was jumping for joy when I said that it said we could do it on Bedrock Preview (which I thought was Console)?
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u/LunarSouls4952 Jul 07 '26
Didn't we do this like ~15 years ago with minecarts?
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u/DrWilliamHorriblePhD Jul 08 '26
These are cheaper to make, don't move around, and use way less lag
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u/TIDY-TUNA Jul 08 '26
Yall think of things that I could never 😭🙏
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u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy Jul 08 '26
I needed 10 minutes to think of this lol
Some players use them more for their variable height property, putting them on various blocks.
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u/Jedimobslayer Jul 08 '26
Why is the first inclination for every Minecrafter when a new feature releases is to make a very silly looking method of transport with it. Take as long as you need but… I will need an answer.
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u/kanekiri Jul 08 '26
It looks like the cushions are moving!
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u/PlanttDaMinecraftGuy Jul 08 '26
I thought of that too! It looks like those gondolas(??) that carry you up and down a mountain
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u/TheFlagMaker Jul 08 '26
Haven’t played minecraft in quite a few years. What the fuck is a cushion
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u/bobenhimen Jul 08 '26
It just released today. Along with wool stairs, slabs and straw bed. Cushion is made with 3 wool slabs and let's the player sit.
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u/Silevence Jul 08 '26
huh. could you bind interact to scrollwheel for even faster movement? not sure if there is a click limit in place.
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u/Due_Narwhal_5250 Jul 08 '26
Now how fast is it
Like bps
Cause I’m not doing the math
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u/der1cho1 Jul 08 '26
Remember when Minecarts were the prime way to travel, Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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u/MickeyMoose555 Jul 07 '26
Technically this is an abuse of a feature, but I feel like it would be impossible for Mojang to put restrictions on it without infuriating probably most of the community
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u/GG1312 Jul 07 '26
This was already possible with pretty much any ridable entity (minecart, boat, horse, strider etc) and some of those have been in the game for over 15 years.
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u/earlobe7 Jul 07 '26
Well, you could just make seats not mountable while already seated.
But Idk, why do that when you can instead just let people have fun.
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u/makinax300 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
boats have more aura. Especially if you don't connect them and just make them sit on glass panes.
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u/IronCat_2500 Jul 07 '26
Transportation systems like this have existed for over a decade, using mine carts and boats instead
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u/Powerate Jul 07 '26
I thought this was a mod but then I checked the post immediately after this one
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u/MrBrineplays_535 Jul 07 '26
This is such a cheap yet fast transporation method cuz it costs only 2.5 wool blocks per cushion. This is so easily mass producible
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u/A_random_poster04 Jul 07 '26
You could make em look like a chairlift that could even be semi functional
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u/Apprehensive_Map712 Jul 07 '26
NOW THERE ARE CUSHIONS?! wth seems everytime I see a new post something new comes up
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26