Chest Minecart - Inside another block!

Well a minecart is an entity, which doesn't suffocate, what do you think should happen instead?

I like this feature. It is good for mapmaking! ☺

Quinn Coral, how does this help?

Tails, minecarts are made from iron... They shouldn't trespass other solid blocks... They should collide with them and stop or be "destroyed" (dropped as item).

Minecarts are entities, not blocks. They don't behave like blocks, so a piston can push a block into a place where there is no block. I think expected behavior would be to have them get pushed out of blocks like the player is. And minecarts do collide with blocks; the blocks are not colliding with them.

I don't like minecarts in blocks, but I do like mobs in blocks - makes it easy to kill them. So I'd prefer minecart specific fix for that. Maybe minecarts should try and escape blocks like items do? **drools over minecart elevators** On the other hand, breaking them is also an option (finnaly an ability to cleanly retreive minecarts without fire), but only if it would be made sure that this doesn't happen in unexpected circumanstances...

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.6.4 / Launcher version 1.2.5 ? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.