a portion of this video was sponsored by bespoke post this is a real minecraft minecart which i designed and built specifically for the giant miniature train tracks at the little america amusement park the tracks here are incredibly close in size to the actual tracks in minecraft and there are miles of them passing through beautiful and wild scenery which is why i had to design a near game perfect minecart that just might be capable of reaching actual minecart top speed on actual iron wheels but maybe you've never heard of minecraft i mean you probably you probably have but for the sake of those few who haven't let's all take a moment to try and convey the magic the moment the loading screen finished on my first world i finally got why it was so popular the endless landscapes adventurous caverns architectural sandbox overarching heroic adventure and all suspended in an ether of haunting melodic melancholy it was beautiful and difficult all at the same time i was lost in a sea of possibility and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it until i built my first mine cart track maybe it's because i've always loved trains well not exactly the trains but the idea of riding down a track you see when you're on rails no matter what you encounter along the way all you have to do is hold on and enjoy the ride my first minecart tracks made me feel like i was finally getting a handle on the crazy wilderness of minecraft and there were times when i never wanted to leave that little iron box and that's why i had to try and bring that magic to life figuring out the mechanical portion of the minecart was a combination of repurposing materials careful measurement and a lot of trial and error if you want to know more about that part of the build process i made a separate video detailing the crazy journey and you should definitely check it out once i had the mechanical part tested and solidified the last little details to ensure the wheels wouldn't fall off again it was finally time to make it look just like a real mindset the structure of the minecart is a plywood box but in case you hadn't noticed the walls of a minecart are quite uh thick building this entirely out of iron would make it incredibly expensive and heavy and even using only wood would still be less than ideal but thankfully i have a ton of NUMBER_TOKEN inch thick foamular boards this foam was already painted to look like metal because i used leftover pieces from the underground bunker movie set i built for the film infinitus so it was sort of like i was mining iron i had my cnc machine score the outline of the pixels onto the foam so that each pixel would be perfectly square after cutting them i cleaned them up and then gave them to my wife to hand paint each pixel to match the picture from the game the foam gets sandwiched around the wood frame creating the perfect thickness with the minecart painted it was finally time to take it to little america for our day of testing but to get it there i'd need the help of my friend damian all right you ready to see what we're doing today so you know the game minecraft oh yeah oh those are like legit twitter moves uh they're actually brake drums what how fast does it go the max speed in the game is like NUMBER_TOKEN. i'm gonna try and get
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