Useful Carts

About

UsefulCarts adds a whole family of carts — hauled by you on foot or drawn by a horse, donkey, or mule — for getting around, moving your goods, and working your fields.

⚠️ This is an unofficial port. UsefulCarts is a version port of NiftyCarts (by jmb05, itself a Fabric port of AstikorCarts by MennoMax) to Minecraft 26.2 and 26.1.2. I did not create the mod — all of the original code and art belong to their authors; I’ve only updated it to run on the newest Minecraft. If you play on a version the original supports, please use it instead: NiftyCarts on Modrinth · GitHub. Licensed MIT.

The carts

• Supply Cart — a rolling double-chest you can pull on foot; it also seats a passenger and shows some of its cargo stacked on top.
• Hand Cart — a lighter, player-pulled cart with 27 slots of storage.
• Wagon — a large horse-drawn hauler with expandable storage (feed it chests), an optional wool-carpet roof, and banner decoration.
• Animal Cart — a two-seat cart for ferrying players or livestock; small animals that wander into it climb aboard on their own.
• Plow — load it with a hoe, shovel, or axe, then drive it across the ground to till farmland, carve dirt paths, or strip logs.
• Seed Drill — holds 9 stacks of seeds and plants them automatically as you pull it over farmland.
• Reaper — sit on it while a horse pulls it to mow a wide swath of crops and clear ground growth.

How to use

Every cart hitches the same way: get within a couple of blocks of it and press the Attach/Detach Cart key (R by default). On foot you pull it yourself; from the saddle of a horse/donkey/mule your mount pulls it. Press the key again to unhitch. There’s also a Toggle Slow key (Z) for careful maneuvering. Place a cart by right-clicking the ground with the cart item, and right-click storage carts to open them.

Requirements

• Fabric Loader + Fabric API
• Forge Config API Port (by Fuzs)
• Sodium is supported but optional.

Recipes

Credits & license

The original mod, NiftyCarts, was made by jmb05 as a Fabric port of AstikorCarts (by MennoMax / issork). UsefulCarts only ports that mod to Minecraft 26.x — full credit for the mod goes to them. Distributed under the MIT License; the original copyright notice and license are included with the download.