Boat

Boat

Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Flammable item?	Yes
Size	Height: 0.5625 Blocks Width: 1.375 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 1

A boat is both an item and a vehicle entity.

Obtaining

Boats can be retrieved by repeatedly attacking them until they drop as an item. Tools and Weapons with damage above 4 can instantly destroy a boat in one swipe.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Overworld Planks		‌[Java Edition only]
Matching Overworld Planks + Wooden Shovel		‌[Bedrock and Education editions only]

Usage

Controls

Oak boat shaking animation when atop a bubble column.

Press the use item button on the boat to mount it.

A boat can be exited by pressing the Sneak key, and, in Bedrock Edition, by pressing down the right analog stick, tapping on the "Leave Boat" button, or pressing the jump key. When exiting a boat, the player is placed in the direction the player is facing, or, if facing directly up or down, the player is placed in front of the boat. The exiting player is placed on land if that is possible from the dismounting position.

With a keyboard or gamepad, boats are controlled using the forward, left (turns left), right (turns right), and backward keys. Using the sprint key increases the field of vision, but does not increase speed as if sprinting.

With touchscreen controls, two buttons for steering appear. The right button or key steers to the left, and the left button or key steers to the right. Pressing both buttons moves the boat forward.

Unlike with beds, there is no message above the hotbar for attempting to enter a fully occupied boat.

Behavior

Multiple entities in each boat.

Boats move according to the player's control or water currents. Boats have a speed of 8 meters/sec (28.8 km/h), same as minecart following an axis of travel. If on land, a boat may still be controlled but extremely slowly with a top speed of 2 m/s (7.2 km/h). A boat does not turn with mouse-look.

A player cannot both move (row) and use items at the same time. Note that it is still possible to initialise an item use (e.g. start eating) and row the boat while the item is still in the middle of the use animation. Although the boating animation overrides the item use animation, the item can still be successfully consumed. Does not work with items that are triggered by the release of the use button (e.g. bow, trident).‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Boats can be used to travel safely through water. Collisions do not damage boats.

Boats effectively have just over 4 (exactly 4 damage is not quite enough to destroy it), and regenerate ¹⁄₁₀ per tick. This damage can be depleted by many of the things that affect most mobs, except that boats are immune to fall damage.

When on the ground, they have 0.455 the height of a block.

If a boat is pushed underwater, for instance, if moved under a bubble column or waterfall, it sinks. In Java Edition, a sunken boat must be broken and picked up to use it again.

Boats can support two riders, including mobs. Mobs can't exit a boat and are trapped until the boat gets destroyed, or until the player uses a fishing rod or lead to remove the mob. This can be utilized to safely drown mobs. If the mob is hostile, and in the same boat as its prey, the prey takes damage.

Riding a boat does not deplete hunger, making it an efficient way to travel.

Riding a boat over a lily pad causes the lily pad to drop, although the boat speed will stutter a bit.

Dolphins chase players in boats.

Boats move extremely fast while on ice (40 m/s (144 km/h)), especially blue ice (> 75 m/s (270 km/h)). A mixture of packed ice and blue ice makes for a good fast-travel track for all three dimensions ( "ilmango" ).

• To help with controlling the boat, crossings in the track may be replaced with a combination of boat-breaking cactus and hoppers ( "FlytGaming" ). Spacing between the ice is acceptable due to the boat's size.

Being in a boat limits the player's mouse-look to the forward 210° arc.

Java Edition‌^{[Java Edition only]}

• When moving fast enough, a "water spray" visual effect represents the bow wake.
• A sunken boat is sunk forever, unable to be retrieved until it is broken by the player.
• For mobs to enter a boat, they must be on the side of the boat. A mob cannot control the boat.

Bedrock Edition‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

• A sunken boat resumes floating when it emerges from the current or the waterfall that was keeping it down.
• Boats emit smoke when destroyed.
• Mobs can be 'picked up' by riding a boat near them, and a mob can drive the boat without the aid of the player.

Drops

When destroyed via attacking or other forms of damage such as fire, a boat drops its item form. A boat is not destroyed if it crashes against a block or lily pad, and is immune to fall damage, therefore not dropping anything.

Trading

Master-level fisherman villagers always offer to buy a boat for an emerald. The type of boat depends on the biome outfit type of the villager; plains villagers offer to buy oak boats, taiga and snowy villagers offer to buy spruce boats, savanna villagers offer to buy acacia boats, desert and jungle villagers offer to buy jungle boats, and swamp villagers offer to buy dark oak boats.

Fuel

When used as fuel in a furnace, a boat lasts 60 seconds, smelting up to 6 items.

Fall damage

In Java Edition, boats can completely nullify fall damage for itself and any players/mobs riding it, making it useful for transportation/travel through mountains or through the Nether. This does not work in Bedrock Edition, however: while the boat survives, its occupants still receive fall damage.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Rowing	?	Plays when riding boat on land	entity.boat.paddle_land	subtitles.entity.boat.paddle_land	?	?	16
	Rowing	?	Plays when riding boat on water	entity.boat.paddle_water	subtitles.entity.boat.paddle_water	0.8	?	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Boat	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Oak item	oak_boat	item.minecraft.oak_boat
Spruce item	spruce_boat	item.minecraft.spruce_boat
Birch item	birch_boat	item.minecraft.birch_boat
Jungle item	jungle_boat	item.minecraft.jungle_boat
Acacia item	acacia_boat	item.minecraft.acacia_boat
Dark Oak item	dark_oak_boat	item.minecraft.dark_oak_boat
Entity	boat	entity.minecraft.boat

Bedrock Edition:

Boat	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Item	boat	333	item.boat.oak.name item.boat.spruce.name item.boat.birch.name item.boat.jungle.name item.boat.acacia.name item.boat.big_oak.name
Entity	boat	90	entity.boat.name

Item data

In Bedrock Edition, boats use the following data values:

Boat	Data value
Oak	0
Spruce	1
Birch	2
Jungle	3
Acacia	4
Dark Oak	5

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Boats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
  •  Type: The wood type of the boat. Valid types are oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark_oak.

History

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.6					Added boats.
Java Edition Beta
1.8		Pre-release			It is now possible to score a critical hit against a boat.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w15a			Boats can now be shot out from dispensers.
		1.3			The texture of oak boat item have been changed.
		12w21a			Boats no longer take damage when colliding with lily pads. Instead, the lily pads themselves break.
		12w23a			Boats can now accelerate to faster than previous speeds, and are now easier to control.
		12w27a			Boats now drop their item instead of 3 wood planks and 2 sticks if broken by a player.
1.6.1		?			New boat physics with lower inertia, but left, back and right controls have been removed.
					Boats now take damage and break when colliding with many lily pads in a short time.
1.7.2		13w36a			Players can now /summon mobs riding boats, though mobs cannot control boats.
		13w43a			Boats no longer inflict fall damage when running aground.
					Boats being broken by lily pads has been slightly improved.
					Left, back and right controls added again.
1.8		14w06a			Mobs riding boats can now control them, so that they can chase or flee enemies, move toward food, move about randomly, or whatever they would do on land. The exceptions are the ghast and bat, both of which cannot control boats.
1.8.2		pre2			Boats can now survive crashes at higher speeds.
?					Boats now no longer break snow layers they run into.
1.9		15w41a			Boats have been overhauled to match the boats from Pocket Edition Alpha 0.11.0. They now have oars for paddling and are more durable and now allows passengers to board.
					Mobs can now board boats, though they can no longer control them.
					A new set of controls have been introduced: it includes holding down the right and left keys to move forward, and using the right key to move the right oar, turning the boat to the left (and vice-versa). Mouse movement no longer turns boats, and the forward and back keys no longer have any effect.
					Players can no longer use items or attack from boats unless they were at a complete stop.
					The crafting recipe for boats has been changed to require a wooden shovel as shown below. Recipe Ingredients Crafting recipe Oak Planks + Wooden Shovel
					Added variants of all wood types, though only the oak boat can be crafted.
					The NBT tag Type (string) have now added for the boat entity, taking values oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark_oak.
		15w42a			Birch, spruce, acacia and jungle boats can now be crafted using the same recipe as oak, except with the corresponding planks.
					The new boats are now comparable in speed to the old boats (slightly faster than sprinting), though with less momentum.
					Players can now use items and attack immediately after they stop rowing.
		15w43c			The texture of boats has been remapped, so that they now have a separate texture per oar and per side of the boat.
		15w45a			The dark oak boat can now be crafted.
		15w51a			Boats now drop their corresponding planks when broken.
		16w04a			Boats are now faster and now move forward and backward using the forward and backward keys respectively, and steer left and right using the left and right keys respectively. The rowing mechanism introduced in 15w41a, holding the right and left keys, is removed and no longer moves the boat forward. The controls are now more similar to boats before the overhaul.
					Boats now sink when underwater, or within flowing water of any depth.
					The crafting recipe of boats has been restored to the original recipe, no longer requiring a wooden shovel as it has since 15w41a (though matching wood planks is still required).
					Riding a boat no longer subjects water-sensitive mobs to being damaged by water, and no longer protects sunlight-sensitive mobs from being damaged by sunlight.
					Dismounting in a boat now attempts to place the player on land.
		16w06a			Riding entities such as boats are now run by the client rather than by the server.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed from Boat to boat.
		16w33a			Boats can now be used to fuel furnaces.
1.12		17w17a			A boat paddles sound has been added.
1.13		17w47a			The oak boat ID has been changed from boat to oak_boat.
					Prior to The Flattening, these items' numeral IDs were 333, 444, 445, 446, 447 and 448.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of all boats have been changed.
		18w50a			The textures of all boats have been changed to match the new wooden planks.
1.15		19w37a			Boats as fuel now smelt 6 items in a furnace instead of 1.
Pocket Edition Alpha
September 19, 2014					Tommaso Checchi tweeted a picture of a player riding a boat, stating that the most important thing is to "get the paddling right".
January 26, 2015					Tommaso Checchi tweets a screenshot of multiple riders in a single boat.
February 20, 2015					Tommaso Checchi tweets a screenshot of multiple boats with only mobs in them.
0.11.0		build 1			Added boats. Each wood type has its own respective variant, though they share the same sprite as items.
					Boats can support two riders, including mobs.
					Boats are larger in size than in Java Edition.
					Boats are more resistant to crashing against land than in Java Edition.
		build 12			Projectiles can now be shot from boats.
0.12.1		build 1			Added all boat variants to the creative inventory.
					New inventory icons for boats have been added. The sprite now includes paddles and represents their respective wood color.
0.13.0		build 1			Boats are now slightly faster than sprinting, and no longer deplete hunger.
					Players can now use items and attack immediately after they stop rowing.
		build 3			Boats now stack on top of each other.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.22			Boats now move faster on ice.
1.5.0		beta 1.5.0.0			The steering of boats has been changed when using keyboard and mouse - W now moves the boat forward and S reverses it.
		beta 1.5.0.4			Boats can now sink or float on bubble columns.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of all boats have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Boats can now be bought from fisherman villagers.
1.16.0		beta 1.16.0.57			Trading changed, master-level fisherman villager now offer to buy boat based on villager biome outfit.
					Due to trading changes, birch boat no longer can be sold to fisherman villager.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added boats.
TU12					The maximum number of boats in a world to 40 has been increased.
					Boats now break when they hit land hard.
TU14		1.04			Boats are no longer broken by lily pads anymore, instead they run straight through the lily pad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it.
					When boats crash, they can now sometimes drop themselves as items.
					Boats are now less glitchy and more responsive now.
					The maximum speed of boats has been increased.
					When exiting, players now move from the boat.
					When broken by a player, they drop a boat now.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Boats have been overhauled to match Pocket Edition Alpha 0.11.0 boats.
TU57	CU49	1.56	Patch 27	1.0.7	The crafting recipe of boats has been changed to require a wooden shovel.
		1.90			The textures of all boats have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added boats.

Issues

Issues relating to "Boat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• A chest is short enough that a boat falls onto it rather than crashes into it.
• Sand, red sand, concrete powder, gravel, anvils and dragon eggs drop as items when they fall onto a boat that is in water.
• Boats travel at fast speeds when on ice, packed ice, and frosted ice. They travel even faster on blue ice.
• The crafting recipes for boats are the only recipes that can be unlocked in the recipe book without having any items, by jumping into water.
• If the player is standing on a floating boat and the boat is moved, the player's hunger bar decreases.

Gallery

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  Image of the completed Bedrock Edition boats, tweeted by Tommaso Checchi.

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  All types of boats next to each other.

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  The old boat floating.

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  A horizontally flowing canal for easy boat travel with double door series as water locks on the canal.

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  A bunch of pre-1.9 boats stacked up.

See also

• Transportation

References

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