

Better Minecarts
This minecraft mod links up minecarts to form a train-like system.
THIS IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT AND KINDA BROKEN IN SOME WAYS!!
How To Use
- Place down two minecarts (any type) one block apart from each other on rail blocks (any type).
- Take a chain in your hand and right click on both minecarts.
- Repeat the process for a longer train by connecting all minecarts to the ones in front of or behind them.
- They will now move together!
- If you wish to unlink a minecart, shift and attack the minecart once, giving you a chain and unlinking it. Alternatively, breaking (no shifting required) a linked minecart will also drop a chain and unlink it.
Features
- Link minecarts with chains
- Unlink minecarts by sneaking/attacking or unloading
- Sync movement between linked minecarts
- Limit links to 2 per cart, 1 block distance
- Disable syncing near corners
To-Do
- Basic linked sync movement
- Fix corner derailing
- Fix unlikability of more than two minecarts
- Fix issue of being able to sit in furnace/chest/etc minecarts
- Fix issue of being unable to use furnace/chest/etc minecarts
- Only decrease chain count from inventory when in survival, not creative
- Fix leader carts going inside blocks on rail
- When a minecart is derailed, it unlinks
- Fix unlinkability of chests to furnaces or other types
- Cap the total train size
- Minecarts remain linked even after leaving and rejoining game
- A rendering of a chain between two linked minecarts
- When a minecart that is linked is broken or shift attacked once, a chain is dropped and unlinked
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.8
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as BetterMinecarts-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 10 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.