Riding in a Minecart

I have Minecraft PC 1.8.7 and when I begin riding in a minecart while facing North, I continue to face North throughout the ride. How do I face the direction of travel?

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Best Answer

I guess you can turn your view with your mouse?

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How do you ride in a minecart?

Minecarts can be ridden by pressing the "use" control on them. Once inside, an external impulse may be needed to make the minecart start moving. The player can slowly move the minecart forward while riding it, by pressing forward. If a mob walks in front of an empty minecart, it is pulled into the cart.

Does sprinting in a minecart work?

Sprinting also increases the speed of flying in Creative mode, and the speed of swimming. Although "sprinting" while mounted on a minecart, boat, horse, pig, or strider increases the field of vision like actual sprinting, it does not increase the entity's speed.

What is the point of a minecart?

A minecart or mine cart (also known as a mine trolley or mine hutch) is a type of rolling stock found on a mine railway, used for moving ore and materials procured in the process of traditional mining.

Is a minecart faster than running?

Each additional level of Speed allows the player to walk at nearly the sprinting speed of the previous level, and sprinting with Speed II is only slightly slower than a minecart at full speed or a boosted pig....Potions.Effect levelWalking speed (m/s)Sprinting speed (m/s)Speed II6.044 m/s7.857 m/s2 more rows

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Answer 2

This is actually a feature to fix a bug that existed in previous (I think 1.6 and earlier) versions of Minecraft. In old versions players WOULD be made to face the direction of travel but it was never fully synchronized and even if your minecart went around a 90 degree turn it might only turn half that or even none at all.
On top of this players traveling by minecart would be more inconvenienced by this turning. Since the angle the player turned was never predictable and often times people would turn with their mouse anyways, the auto-turning bothered many people and was reported a good few times as a bug (or feature request to be removed).
In I believe 1.7 this feature was removed for a much smoother and more free ride. So to summarize, there is no way to do this in vanilla Minecraft without the use of commands and/or command blocks.

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