Boat

Boat

Type	Vehicles
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Flammable	No, but drops except in lava
Internal ID	JE: 41 BE: 90
Network ID	JE: 1
Entity ID	boat
Drops	See Drops
First appearances	See History
Data values	See Data values
Name	See Data values

A boat is both an item and a vehicle entity.

Obtaining

Boats can be retrieved by repetitively attacking them.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Matching Wood Planks		[Java Edition only]
Matching Wood Planks + Wooden Shovel		Shovel represents an oar. [Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only]

Controls

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

A boat can be exited by pressing the sneak key,^{[Java Edition only]} pressing down the right analog stick,^{[Legacy Console Edition only]} tapping on the "Leave Boat" button,^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or pressing the jump key.^{[Windows 10 Edition only]} 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. If possible from the dismounting position, the exiting player will be placed on land.

In the Java Edition, boats are controlled using the forward, left (turns left), right (turns right), and backwards keys. Using the sprint key will increase the field of vision, but will not increase speed as if sprinting.

In Bedrock Edition, two buttons for steering appear, and in Windows 10, the left and right keys are used. The right button or key steers to the left, and the left button or key steers to the right. Pressing both buttons move the boat forward.

Behavior

Boats in the Bedrock edition.

Boats move according to the player's control or water currents. Boats have the same speed as minecarts. If on land, a boat may still be controlled but extremely slowly. A boat does not turn with mouse-look. A player cannot both move (row) and use items at the same time.

Boats can be used to safely travel through water, and will not be damaged from collisions or from falling. If a boat runs into a lily pad, the block will be broken.

A player will not sustain damage when falling from heights whilst riding a boat.

Boats effectively have just over 4 () (exactly 4 damage isn't quite enough to destroy it), and regenerate ¹⁄₁₀ per tick. When on the ground, they have 0.455 the height of a block.

If a boat is pushed under water, for instance if moved under a waterfall, or if moved up or down into a current, it will sink.

Boats can support two riders, including mobs. Only the player/mob that boarded first can control the boat. Mobs can't exit a boat and are trapped till the boat gets destroyed.

Riding a boat will not deplete hunger.

Java / Console Editions

Boats move extremely fast while on ice. When moving fast enough, there will be "water spray" visual effect representing the bow wake. Being in a boat limits the player's mouse-look to the forward 180 degree arc. A boat will break snow layers that it runs into. Players receive no fall damage if falling in a boat.

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 walk directly on top of it. A mob cannot control the boat.

Bedrock Edition

A sunken boat will float again when it emerges from the current or the waterfall that is 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 attacked, a boat drops its item form.

When crashed, however, it drops 3 wood planks corresponding to the wood type of the boat, and 2 sticks.

Fuel

A boat can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 2^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]} or 6^{[Bedrock Edition only]} items per boat.

Data values

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

Boats have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is boat.

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

ID

Main article: Data values

Type	PC ID Name	PC Numeric ID	PE ID Name	PE Numeric ID
Oak Boat	boat	333	boat	3330
Spruce Boat	spruce_boat	444	boat	3331
Birch Boat	birch_boat	445	boat	3332
Jungle Boat	jungle_boat	446	boat	3333
Acacia Boat	acacia_boat	447	boat	3334
Dark Oak Boat	dark_oak_boat	448	boat	3335

History

Alpha
1.0.6					Added boats.
Beta
1.6.6					Crashing into soul sand on a boat will kill the player, but keep the boat intact.
1.8					It is possible to score a critical hit against a boat.
Official release
1.3.1			12w15a		Boats can be shot out from dispensers.
			12w21a		Boats will no longer take damage when colliding with lily pads. Instead, the lily pads themselves will break.
			12w23a		Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds, and are now easier to control.
			12w27a		Boats will now drop their item instead of wood planks and sticks if broken by a player.
1.6.1			?		New boat physics with lower inertia, but left, back and right controls were removed.
					Boats will now take damage and break when colliding with many lily pads in a short time.
1.7.2			13w36a		Can /summon mobs riding boats, though at this point mobs cannot control boats.
			13w43a		No longer inflict fall damage when running aground.
					Slightly improved boats being broken by lily pads.
					Left, back and right controls added again.
1.8			14w06a		Mobs riding boats can 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, which cannot control boats.
1.8.2			1.8.2-pre2		Boats can survive crashes at higher speeds.
1.9			15w41a		Boats overhauled. They are now larger, feature models of wooden oars on both sides, and can hold two passengers. They also are not destroyed by collisions while in the water, and do not suffer as much from client-server desync.
					Mobs can now board boats, though they can no longer control them.
					A new set of controls was introduced: it included 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 turned boats, and the forward and back keys no longer had any effect. All this was changed in 16w04a.
					Players could no longer use items or attack from boats unless they were at a complete stop. This was changed in 15w42a.
					Crafting recipe was changed to require a wooden shovel as shown below. This was later reverted in 16w04a. Recipe Ingredients Crafting recipe Oak Wood Planks + Wooden Shovel
					Added variants of all wood types, though only the oak boat can be crafted.
					NBT tag Type (string) is 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		Boat texture is 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 faster and will now move forward and backward using the forward and backward keys respectively, and will 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.
					Crafting is restored to the original recipe, no longer requiring a wooden shovel as it had 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 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		Changed entity ID from Boat to boat.
			16w33a		Boats can now be used to fuel furnaces.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0			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.
			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.
					Are more resistant to crashing against land.
			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. The sprite now includes paddles and represents their respective wood color.
0.13.0			build 1		Boats are now slightly faster than sprinting, and will no longer deplete hunger.
					Players can now use items and attack immediately after they stop rowing.
			build 3		Boats will now stack on top of each other.
Bedrock Edition
1.2			build 7		Boats now move faster on ice.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added boats.
TU12					Increased maximum number of boats in a world to 40.
					Boats will now break when it hits land hard.
TU14		1.04			Are not broken by lily pads anymore, instead they run straight through the lily pad now, breaking and sometimes dropping it.
					When they crash they can sometimes drop themselves.
					Are less glitchy and more responsive now.
					Increased maximum speed.
					When exiting, players will be moved from the boat.
					When broken by a player, they drop a boat now.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Boats overhauled to match Java Editions 1.9 boats.
TU57	CU49	1.56	Patch 27		Crafting recipe was changed to require a wooden shovel.

Issues

Issues relating to “Boat” are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• A chest is short enough that a boat will fall onto it rather than crashing into it.
• Sand, 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. If this is used in the nether, the boat can be used for fast travelling

Gallery

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  Multiple entities in each boat.

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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 canal.

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  A bunch of pre-1.9 boats stacked up.

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  All types of boats next to each other.

See also

• Transportation

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