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Boat Placement for Quick Float Align

TTtricks-and-tipsTT003Updated Dec 28, 2025Archived Dec 28, 2025

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Placement of a boat to quickly float align other entities by colliding with the boat. This is a simpler alternative to TT001 How to float align items

What is "Float Align"?

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The minecart hitbox is 0.98 blocks. When a piston retracts with an entity inside, it push it by 0.020000009536746 block to the opposite direction, if there is no blocks in front. So one side [of the mincart] is slightly on the next block.

Easiest way to float a minecart is 0 tickDefinition: Typically referring to piston movements or redstone dust, when it turns on and off in the same gametick, this makes redstone dust not power, and sticky pistons to spit out their blocksing a piston with the minecart in front.

This cause the minecart to be detectable by block, but the entity doesn't collide with the blocks.

A few examples of blocks that can detect the minecart: moving blocks can push the minecart, slimeblock can accelerate it hopper can interact with minecarts inventories tripwire detect it when tickDefinition: Minecraft iteratively runs its processing code in a loop. One cycle of this loop is called a Tick or Gametick (gt). Gameticks are also used as the default measurement of time while working with re...ed, but the minecart doesn't tick it(you can put an entity colliding with the block where the tripwire is to tick it continuously)

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