Boat

Boat

Type	Vehicles
Rarity	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Flammable	No, but drops except when in lava
Internal ID	JE: 41 BE: 90
Network ID	JE: 1
Entity ID	boat
Drops	See § Drops
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

	“	Boats were added to Minecraft alongside cacti in Alpha version 1.0.6, way back in 2010. They’re made with five planks arranged around the bottom of a crafting grid, plus a spade if you’re playing on Bedrock edition. Once you’re holding your finished boat, all you need to do to deploy it is to hit the use item button when facing some water. Splash! Once it’s bobbing about, ready to go, a second tap of the use button will sit you inside. You can then use the normal movement controls to pootle around to your heart’s content - much faster than walking. When you reach your destination you can get out again by hitting “sneak”, and retrieve the boat by attacking it until it drops. Take THAT you lousy boat! That’ll teach you to be a convenient and wistful form of oceanic transport!	„
		— Duncan Geere

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 Planks		‌[Java Edition only]
Matching Planks + Wooden Shovel		‌[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only] Shovel represents an oar.

Controls

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

A boat can be exited by pressing the Sneak key,‌^{[Java and Bedrock editions only]} pressing down the right analog stick,‌^{[Legacy Console and Bedrock editions only]} tapping on the "Leave Boat" button,‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} or pressing the jump key‌^{[Bedrock 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. 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 backwards 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.

Behavior

Multiple entities in each boat.

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 travel safely through water. Collisions do not damage boats, although the boat breaks when colliding with a lily pad.

As of update 1.13.2, a player sustains damage when falling from heights while 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 underwater, for instance, if moved under a waterfall, or if moved up or down into a current, 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.

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

Java / Legacy Console Editions

• Boats move extremely fast while on ice, especially blue ice. When moving fast enough, a "water spray" visual effect represents the bow wake. Being in a boat limits the player's mouse-look to the forward 180 degree arc. A boat breaks snow layers that it runs into.
• 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 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, unlike in versions before Java Edition 1.9, but if it is killed from fall damage, it drops 3 corresponding planks of the boat's type.

Trading

Expert-level fisherman villagers have a ¹⁄₇ chance to buy one of the six boat types for an emerald.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Master-level fisherman villagers always offer to buy an oak boat for an emerald.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Fuel

A boat can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 2 items in the Java and Legacy Console Editions, and 6 items in the Bedrock Edition per boat.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Min. volume
	No subtitle	entity.boat.paddle_land	(Plays when riding boat on land)	?	?	?	?
	No subtitle	entity.boat.paddle_water	(Plays when riding boat on water)	?	?	?	?

Data values

Main article: Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Boat	Namespaced ID
Oak item	oak_boat
Spruce item	spruce_boat
Birch item	birch_boat
Jungle item	jungle_boat
Acacia item	acacia_boat
Dark Oak item	dark_oak_boat
Entity	boat

Bedrock Edition:

Boat	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Item	boat	333
Entity		70

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
1.6.6					Crashing into soul sand on a boat kills the player, but keeps the boat intact.
1.8		Pre-release			It is possible to score a critical hit against a boat.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w15a			Boats can be shot out from dispensers.
		12w21a			Boats no longer take damage when colliding with lily pads. Instead, the lily pads themselves break.
		12w23a			Boats can accelerate to faster than previous speeds, and are now easier to control.
		12w27a			Boats 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 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		pre2			Boats can survive crashes at higher speeds.
1.9		15w41a			Boats are now 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 passenger's to board
					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 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 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.
					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.
1.12		17w17a			Add boat paddles sound.
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			Changed the textures of all boats.
		18w50a			Changed texture to new wooden planks.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.15		19w37a			Boats as fuel now smelt 6 items in a furnace instead of 1.
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 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			Changed the steering of boats when using keyboard and mouse - W now moves the boat forwards 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			Changed the textures of all boats.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Boats can now be bought from fisherman villagers.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added boats.
TU12					Increased maximum number of boats in a world to 40.
					Boats 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 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 Pocket Edition 0.11 boats.
TU57	CU49	1.56	Patch 27		Crafting recipe was changed to require a wooden shovel.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added boats.

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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.

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.
• If the player is standing on a floating boat and the boat is moved, the player's hunger bar decreases.
• Boats can only turn in 10 degree increments. After releasing the turning controls, the boat will stop turning on the nearest degree multiple of 10, meaning they are effectively limited to 36 different directions of motion.

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.

See also

• Transportation

References

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