This is a follow-up to my previous post here. TL;DR: I was wondering if there was a way to send a minecart through the End portal and have it land on a track.

A minecart dropped through the top of the portal seems to have too much vertical velocity to be able to clear the End platform.

However, by knocking out another one of the End portal frames and sending the minecart through the side of the portal, the minecart is able to clear the End platform and land on a track just beside it:

This means that a continuous minecart track loop to shuttle materials From the End and the Overworld is possible!

Now I just have to build a track from the Overworld spawn to the End Portal. I'll probably route it through the Nether so as to reduce the necessary number of chunks to be loaded.

One mystery remains: Entities seem to exhibit a 90 degree rotation of their velocity vector when traversing the portal. The minecart is travelling westward when it enters the portal, but the track that it lands on is north of the End platform. The sand is pushed northwards, but lands on the east side of the platform. Anyone know why this is?

Thanks to @goldteeth@lemmy.dbzer0.com for suggesting that "if you shoot the cart through the portal fast enough you may be able to just wing it directly onto a rail just off the spawn platform".

You were correct :)

This is the hard hitting science we need right now!

Excellent work 🙌

Haven't played Minecraft in a decent while but is it feasible to remove an end portal block in a non-creative world? I know there are(used to be?) ways to destroy bedrock, but wasn't familiar with similar things for end portal frames.

I know giant mushrooms can overwrite end portal frame blocks when grown

Ha, fantastic. My daughter and I like to build huge long rollercoasters that go on for minutes. We've looped them through the nether and back, but haven't gone through the end, going to need to do that. Hadn't even considered it.

Very cool!

I suspect that the minecart issue could also be solved by launching the cart upwards through the portal with a slime block. Then on the end side, use a rail on top of scaffolding 3 blocks above the obsidian platform to catch it.

Scaffold has no bottom collision, so the cart can fly upwards through it and land on the rail.

is it feasible to remove an end portal block in a non-creative world

Yep! I used the TNT + piston technique to remove one End Portal frame, and I think @PlusBurdles@lemmy.zip used the red mushroom technique to remove the three for our sand duper.

I know there are(used to be?) ways to destroy bedrock

We've also used similar TNT + piston techniques to remove bedrock to access the Nether roof.