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On A Rail

On A Rail

Travel by minecart to a point at least 500m in a single direction from where you started.

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How to unlock the On A Rail achievement in Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition - Definitive Guide

This achievement may seem a little more daunting then it really is. The best way I've found is to build a cobblestone track starting at sea level (make sure you have enough room both length and height wise as the world is shrunk down a bit from PC) and build 10-12 blocks, then go up a step, 10-12 blocks then up a step and rinse and repeat until you've reached 500m (500 blocks as each block = 1 meter) and then ride it down. You can also join a friends world and do it through there. If you would like to use mine, send me a message on my Gamertag: Jocavs. I'll try to get to as many as possible. There is also a video below showing my run, and a little more detail on how to do it.

Edit #1 - I helped people for about 1-2 hours straight last night. If I haven't gotten to you yet, I'm going to hop back on every night for a few days. Thanks for being patient :)
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12 May 2012 17:21

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Thank you for being the only solution on the site intelligent enough to tell us how many blocks it actually takes to do this mess.
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By misfit119 on 15 May 2012 14:14
Hey man, I just sent you a friend request and message. I can normally only get on around this time due to work but I saw you online playing trials. If you'd be willing to let me bum your tack is be greatly appreciative :)
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By OdinHawke on 25 May 2012 06:37
Wow...smartphone fail. *Bum your track, I'd be greatly appreciative
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By OdinHawke on 25 May 2012 06:38
hey can
i use your rail please?
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By Gonthorian II on 12 Jun 2012 13:30
I sent his guy a message and a friend request he does not bother to respond although he is online. You's are best off finding somebody else that has the track. If anybody has the track please send me a message and I will respond.
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By PoppaSmurf110 on 13 Jun 2012 10:27
I'll help people if I'm online msg me. I have a track that is probably closer to 1000 m, it literally goes from one end of the map to other. But in addition to that I have a huge rollercoaster that is really cool, happy to share it.
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By Evil Brett Deez on 16 Jun 2012 07:05
Thx man, great guide.
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By on 19 Jun 2012 01:05
Can someone still help me with this achievement?
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By Fuzzy Large on 21 Jul 2012 23:01
So for this solution are you saying no track is needed? Just slide down the cobble stone stairs that you build? Thanks.
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By troyoy on 17 Aug 2013 14:21
Could someone help me gain this?
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By Ice Twisters on 13 Nov 2013 02:38
Only this one left. Me and my fiancee spent this whole damn day trying to get enough iron ore to get this xD Great solution. Built about half of it, but falls off all the time :P Any chance anyone with a finished track could help out? Just message me on XBL if so :D Got mic too ;) GT: IzaacJ
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By IzaacB on 15 Dec 2013 01:53
Need help to get this cheevo. I will return the favour.
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By SennixNZ on 06 Jan 2014 06:43
i need this one and when pigs fly. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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By dritzz2769 on 13 Jan 2014 23:34
How do I make my minecart move? I built a monster track and... yeah.
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By The Eyeless on 27 Feb 2014 22:43
Dont suppose anyone is still around to help with this achievement? :)
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By Mattricus on 20 Jul 2014 22:04
For People on here I also have a survival world with a track ready... just shoot me request and a Message GT: xMasterMarwinx
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By xMasterMarwinX on 07 Aug 2014 08:01
Anyone able to help me out please?
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By Bully of Smeg on 08 Sep 2014 00:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tihfx6DunZs

ACHIEVEMENT - ON A RAIL - unlocked at 23 ' 52 "
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By mongrominet on 25 Sep 2014 22:46
Well finaly. Thanks for the tips. If anyone wants this achievement cheap, I'm gonna keep this rollercoaster in my world.
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By LorMenMs on 03 Apr 2015 15:44
Does it still count if you change the direction of the track?
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By Rossticus on 10 May 2015 07:17
Can you get this in the new tutorial world??
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By WOODY2211 on 06 Apr 2017 10:28
The track in the Tutorial isn't long enough, unfortunately.
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By Winston J Troy on 17 May 2020 22:13
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This video shows both the QUICKEST, and EASIEST possible way to grab yourself this Achievement.

Full instructions are given in the video, along with hints and tips.
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18 May 2012 04:16

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Great guide, it helped A LOT! :-)
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By asmilonGR on 20 May 2012 14:11
Great video guide - clear instructions and the tips about grouping the rails at 38 were very helpful. Toughest part of this for me was finding enough Iron Ore. I had plenty of everything else I needed. I built at sea level and mined a level path through the mountains.
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By GorillaBuddha on 21 May 2012 00:29
Glad I could help guys.
Unfortunately, it would be impossible to help with finding Iron and Gold Ore due to the randomness of it's placement, and the fact that it is so time consuming to find is one of the reasons that lead to this being the first Orange difficulty video I published.
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By Official PSWH on 21 May 2012 14:14
Thanks for this vid, I got my numbers wrong somehow even tho I followed this to the letter! so it didnt unlock straight away, I added another 3 sets of 38 in the end then it unlocked. :os

I ended up walking back along the track about 6 times! before I figured out to put another button at the end of the track so I could ride it back to the start!.
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By PaddyBaptiste on 28 May 2012 20:20
VERY helpful guide! Thanks for telling us the exact amount and such. And seriously, who were the jerks who thumbed down.
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By Zafro817 on 04 Jun 2012 04:22
@paddy was the first thing I thought of when I had to push the cart back the first time. So I added 3 more rails at the end along with a button. It took all weekend to find the gold and iron. My question is would this work with a powered cart? Would eliminate the need for gold. Furnace plus minecart equals powered cart.
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By Homunculus Fury on 02 Mar 2014 23:15
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500 meters = 500 blocks so 500 rails
6 iron ingots + 1 stick = 16 rails so you need ~32 sticks and ~190 iron ingots.
You need some powered rails and detector rails to maintain your speed.
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02 Jun 2012 22:23

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I would love to upvote this solution to the top but unfortunately I can't. This is the first solution I found to ACTUALLY tell me what I needed +1
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By Chris1984uk on 03 May 2013 18:55
You can find the necessary resources for this achievement if you play the tutorial level. Once you reach the first village, go to the shore and you should see a landmass over the water. There is a massive cave system located there. I found an absolute ton of iron ore, as well as gold, redstone, some lapis, and six diamond. There are also some pretty decent lava pools down there if you want to harvest lava for the 'Into the Nether' achievement. Either way, on the tutorial level there are also some rails, powered rails, and redstone torches already on the map (linking the first village with the castle) which you could harvest if you are lacking a few components. I hope this helps.
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11 May 2012 03:45

A note for some about resources.

Firstly, plant saplings near you home in order to make sure you don't need to travel far for trees/wood/sticks.

Secondly all ore, (including iron, gold and redstone) are best found at the 12th layer above the very bottom of the map.

In order to find the 12th layer, dig down until you hit bedrock (the unbreakable block) and dig around a bit to make sure you know which is the layer is the highest to have bedrock.

The highest layer you will find bedrock is 5, so go up 7 blocks and start mining from there ONLY horizontally if you can help it, do not go up or down and if you need to go up or down for whatever reason, try to get back to that level.

Good luck resource hunting.

If I'm available I will try and help people get this achievement, Message me over XBL if I'm online or on here to arrange a time... however I may not be able to help if I'm busy with other things. I've got my world with the rail still.
After half a dozen or so people I've done my good deed, I'm sure others are willing to help :)
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10 May 2012 06:47

XBL: Astonyy

Add me and ask for invite, and I will invite when I can so you can get this achievement. Be patient, I might not be on all the time, I'm English, so consider time difference.
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19 May 2012 23:46

Just so everyone knows, I did this achievement legitimately, and it was a b****. It is really easy now that I know of a little cheat/glitch.
You can choose which strategy to approach the achievement, whether it is flat with the powered rails or inclined w/ the normal (I did it with the incline) rails.
1. Get a dispenser
2. Make sure you have a friend with you that has a picaxe (w/ out the friend w/ picaxe you cannot do glitch.)You can do this offline with a second controller.
3. Put whatever ONE thing in the center of dispenser (can be anything) and do NOT leave the screen.
4. Have your friend mine the dispenser while you are still on the dispenser screen. You should get an unlimited amount of whatever you put in it.
5. This allows you to get unlimited anything -- from diamonds to saplings -- making it very easy and much less tedious to get this achievement.
NOTE: This achievement has been patched, but you can still use it if you go to the system memory and clear the cache, then play offline with a second controller.
For those of you who wish to accomplish achievements legitly, I recommend placing ten normal rails, then going up or down a block. It's tedious but simple.
Good Luck!
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10 Jun 2012 19:50

If you want to build your own, it will take a couple of hours to mine and an hour to build the rails. I used the TUTORIAL level on peceful mode.

1. Follow DarkDan88's guide on the iron locations. You should get well over 200 iron ores and 500+ stone/dirt.

TIP: Craft 100+ torches to mark the places you've mined in the massive cave system. I also put chests/crafting table/furnace at the entrance of the cave to do store/smelt/craft efficiently. Just use stone tools, but craft 1 iron axe to collect gold/restone if you like.


2. Then follow Jocavs guide on building a "downhill" rail.

TIP: The key to placing the blocks fast without falling off is to use the SNEAK mode (press the RS to activate/deactive). SNEAK mode allows you to walk to the edge of a block without falling. You can place blocks super quick! I started at one edge of the map at sea/ground level and placed 12 stones/dirt and then go up by 1 level. I do this until I'm half-way where I place the cart/button/power-rail and ride it back down.

Good luck.
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06 Jun 2012 22:33

The video I'm showing is more of a quick overview. The seed we put to get 192 iron ingots was Iron Seed. I made this video, so I hope it helps.
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28 May 2012 05:27

Here's a formula for those of you wishing to make a 500M track still:

for every 8 normal track pieces on a flat track, you need a powered track. That means for a straight track traveling 500 blocks (500 M) you need about 380 blocks of gold and 3496 Iron. As others have said, the best way to find these resources are to dig deep, or to use the tutorial level.

I used the "Bambi" seed, which creates epic cliffs and caves. From the spawn point I traveled to the south-middle of the map, and dug till we found this massive cave complex. From there we made a house on top of the underground waterfall and started mining northeast to the spawn point. I used the natural caves to help with the mine cart, which made for a rollercoaster like track ;)

Just keep at it and you'll get there.
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21 May 2012 14:44

Easy way to get achievement.
I am willing to help anyone who is in need of it.
Messege me SES WAFFLENATOR, and we can knock it out in seconds.
Good Luck.
And no spams please.
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here is a link to a youtube video to show you how to get On A Rail Achievement in Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition If you liked the video please remember to leave a rating, helps me out a lot :D
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28 Jan 2013 22:24

I used a friend to do this, his username is Fazedshooter if you're still looking for the achievement now.*

If you want do do this by yourself, please, watch this video below showing you the fastest way to get this and the best possible solution to do this.**

*Thankyou Fazedshooter for helping me!
**All credits go to BHLxGaming for using his video.
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12 Mar 2013 12:54

Lots of these solutions are GOOD solutions! Many of them are freakin' brill.

I'm very simple-minded, though, and I kept banging my head against a wall when it came to completing this cheevo: i.e., "how do you GET the mine cart ROLLING? in the first place???"

Finally, I figured it out on YouTube, but it took a lot more looking and searching than it should have.

If you're simple-minded like me, write this down. This is what you'll need:

2 fences
2 blocks of wood (any kind)
1 button (need wooden slats to make)
2 powered rails (gold and redstone dust to make)

Make the first two sections of your track powered rails. Put one of the blocks of wood behind the beginning of the track as a stopper. Facing that block of wood while standing on the track, put a fence post to your left, then another fence post a meter back and to the left. Finally, put the other block of wood on top of the second fence post (the one farthest away from the stopper), then put the button in that block facing the track.

Put your mine cart on the first powered rail, sit, hit the button and you're off! I also built my rail starting off on a hill about 80 meters high or so (whatever the sky cap is), and it only took about four more powered rails with redstone torches near the end to keep the cart going for a flat rail.

Here's the video where I got this if you want to watch it instead. Cheers!

YouTube it at "Minecraft: How to make a simple minecart start off station (Improved version)"
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21 Mar 2014 21:37

You can get this on your own in about 30 mins in the Tutorial World smile

You will need:
• 496 Iron Rails
• 18 Powered Rails
• 1 Mine Cart
• 1 Lever
• 18 Redstone Torches

Load up the tutorial world and head into the little village under the Minecraft sign. Grab a Pick Axe and Hatchet from the Chest in the Enchanting hut then mine 25 Iron blocks from the Beacon (Next to the Blacksmiths) and 20 Wood Blocks from any of the huts. Then Head underground to the Redstone Tutorial area and grab from the chest in the centre 1 Level, 1 stack (64) Redstone Powder and 18 Redstone Torches. Go back outside and look for the building with the Mine Carts on it and grab a Mine Cart from the chest inside. Quickly make an iron pick axe before proceeding.

Go to the South West corner of the map and you should find a large building with a ship docked outside. Go up the ladders to the first floor and enter the double doors. Take the first left into the Library and use the level beside the fire place to put out the fire. Head through the fire place to the secret room and mine 2 Gold Blocks.

Use all the materials to make the items I listed in the beginning and you should be good to start building your track.

Look at your map and place a Powered Rail (take note of the numbers on the Z or X axis). Next to the Powered Rail put the Lever (this will be your starting point). Now walk and place track in on direction until the number on the Z axis is 500 blocks away from the starting number (1 Block = 1 meter). Use the map to place Powered Rails, with a redstone torch next to them, ever 30 blocks.

Head back to the starting point (make sure your Powered Rails are turned off) and place you Mine Cart on the Powered Rails. Jump in the Mine Cart and flip the Lever. Soon as you reach the end of the track the achievement will pop clap
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17 Jun 2015 13:33

Send me a message and you can hop on my world and get the achievement.
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11 Jul 2016 00:19

I also have a world where you can get this achievement very easily :) feel free to add me on XBL if you want help.
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24 Jul 2017 06:04

I currently have a world set up where you can easily get On A Rail, Trampoline, and Music to my Ears. If you need help, just send me a friend request or message and I'll open up the world.
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05 May 2021 17:11

Takes 2 hours.


Load up the tutorial world and grab a pickaxe (not optional). Once you've got the pickaxe there should be a place for minecarts, head there and using your pickaxe gather all the rails, and once you've got 500 in total you will need also to get 500 blocks in total. (Fastest way.) Using an axe gather as many trees as you can get, then go to where you started at the tutorial world, and place down all the rails until you've run out of em. Then go all the way back, use your minecart and the achievement should unlock. (If it didn't, then gather a bit more rails and then it should work!)
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25 Feb 2023 05:26

This is one of the most time-consuming achievements in the game. It requires about an hour of mining. If you have friends with this game, this achievement would be worth doing together, because once the track is made, anyone can ride it for the achievement.

So in total, you will need 3 redstone, 34 sticks, 18 gold bars and 186 iron bars. Use these to make a total of 18 powered rails and 496 normal rails via the "Minecart" tab in your inventory. Minecarts can also be made in this tab with 5 iron bars.

Once you have all this, simply build the track in one straight direction with 1 powered rail to every 31 normal rails. Keep in mind you will also have to alter the terrain by moving trees, flattening hills, etc. Continue this until your track is 500 blocks long (because one block is equal to one meter).

Note: You will have to place a redstone torch next to each of your powered rails to power it. These are made from one redstone dust and one stick in the redstone tab of the inventory.

Note: An easy lanuching method: So your minecart doesn't run off before you jump in it, place a powered rail at the end of your track. When unpowered, these rails act as stopping pads. Place your minecart down, then power the powered rail. Also don't forget to block the end of your track off with a block, so your minecarts don't go flying off at the end!

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