Boat

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Boats (including bamboo rafts) are drivable vehicle entities that can be ridden through water or at high speeds across all types of ice. Most mobs will ride nearby boats, which they cannot control or exit on their own.

Boats can be crafted with any Overworld planks; crimson and warped planks cannot be used to make boats.^[1]

Boats can be retrieved by repeatedly hitting them until they drop as an item. In Java Edition, tools and weapons that deal more than 4HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
damage can destroy a boat in one hit.

Boats can be used for the transportation of players and mobs, sold for emeralds, or used as fuel.

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

A player enters a boat by using it, if the boat is not fully occupied (boats can hold two entities). Unlike beds, there is no message above the hotbar for attempting to enter a fully occupied boat.^[2]

A boat can be exited by sneaking or in Bedrock Edition, pressing down the right analog stick on a controller, tapping the "Leave Boat" button when using touch controls, or jumping. 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 possible from the dismounting position.

Boats do not turn with mouse-look.

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 or keys moves the boat forward.

In Java Edition, boats can be ridden against a current, but cannot be ridden upstream to a higher elevation. A boat lift, usually made from tripwire, pistons, and optionally a slime block, can be used to move a boat up. Bubble columns created with soul sand can also be used to push boats upward. These mechanisms can also be used in Bedrock Edition but are usually unnecessary because boats can be ridden upward in descending water, as well as follow upward stair-step currents.

Boats move according to the player's control or water currents, with speed affected by the surface traversed.

When the forward or backward command is issued, a constant thrust is applied relative to the boat's facing direction, exponentially approaching the top speed at which thrust balances drag. The backward thrust is one-eighth of the forward thrust’s strength.

When strafe commands are issued, a constant torque is applied to increase the boat's rotation speed, with the same drag mechanism limiting the maximum rate of rotation.

In Bedrock Edition, boats do not have air resistance, meaning that if a boat is launched off a cliff at a certain speed, it will continue flying at that speed until it touches the ground.

Regardless of controls, the boat applies a friction that is proportional to the current horizontal velocity v by multiplying it with a coefficient c at the beginning of every tick: in water, air, or under flowing water, this value is 0.9; underwater, this value is 0.45; on land, this value is the average c (slipperiness) of all solid blocks underneath the boat (e.g. 0.6 for most blocks, 0.98 for ice and 0.989 for blue ice). The same is applied to rotational (angular) velocity. This is equivalent to applying a deceleration , where v is the current horizontal velocity and is a friction coefficient. As a result, when controls are not pressed, the boat slows to a stop quadratically.

Slime blocks, honey blocks, and soul sand each apply their special entity-slowing logic to boats on top of this.

In Java Edition, When the forward key is pressed, the boat accelerate at 0.04 m/tick², for a real-time acceleration of 16 ms^-2 forward assuming no lag. The reverse acceleration is 0.005 m/tick² for a real-time acceleration of 2 ms^-2. When strafe keys are pressed, the boat is given a rotation acceleration of 1°/tick² (400°/s²), which is so high that no gradual change of turning rate is usually felt.

The above gives us a way to calculate the maximum speed of a boat on a surface because maximum speed is reached when the player's acceleration cancels out with the friction , .

The torque and thrust values differ between Java and Bedrock edition, as do the linear drag coefficients of various surfaces, which are proportionally scaled to produce the same top speed/max yaw rate between two editions.

A boat floats atop still or flowing water. In Java Edition, a boat sinks if it enters water flowing downward.^[4] In Bedrock Edition, a boat does not sink when submerged but floats up. This feature lets a player contrive stepped uphill water flows to propel a boat uphill using only flowing water.

When a boat moves over a bubble column, it begins to shake. If the bubbles are caused by a magma block, all passengers are expelled and the boat sinks.

In Java Edition, a sunken boat cannot be re-floated until a bubble column pushes it up or it is broken by the player. In Bedrock Edition, a boat resumes floating when it emerges from the currents keeping it down, or when the bubble column is blocked or removed.

Dolphins chase players riding a boat in motion, occasionally bumping the boat, causing it to shake briefly.

In Java Edition, as boats are not mobs, they do not have health. Instead, they have a damage system. For every 1HP👁 💔
of damage that would be dealt, instead 10 damage is added. Then, whenever the damage is greater than 1, it gets reduced by 1 each game tick. When the damage is greater than 40, the boat is destroyed and dropped as an item, meaning that weapons dealing more than 4HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
damage break a boat in one attack. Players in Creative mode can always destroy a boat in one attack, but the boat does not drop as an item.

Boats in Bedrock Edition have 40HP👁 ❤️
× 20 health.^[5] ‌In Bedrock Edition 26.40​^[upcoming], boats instead implement Java Edition's damage system using the typical health value, where boats have 4HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
and regenerate 0.1HP👁 ❤️
× 0.05 every game tick.

Boats can be destroyed by explosions, fire and lava (but not magma blocks), cactus, and by being punched/shot by mobs, such as drowned. Boats made invulnerable with commands cannot be broken by any of these, but they still cannot be used to travel on lava because they sink.

When a boat is destroyed, it drops itself in item form.

Boats can support two riders, including mobs. A mob cannot exit a boat and is trapped until the boat gets destroyed, or until the player uses a fishing rod or lead to remove the mob. This can be used to transport mobs, although hostile mobs still attack while in boats. Mobs riding a boat don't despawn‌^{[Java Edition only]} and don't count toward the mob cap.^[6]

In Java Edition, a player cannot both move (row) and use items at the same time. It is still possible to initialize item use (e.g. start eating) and row the boat while the item is still in the middle of the use animation. Although the rowing animation overrides the item use animation, the item can still be successfully consumed.

Being in a boat limits the player's mouse-look to the forward 210° arc in Java Edition and 180° in Bedrock Edition.

Underwater boats cannot be ridden. When the boat is underwater, all passengers in it are expelled.

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

Boats can completely nullify fall damage for themselves and any players/mobs inside, making them useful for travel through mountains or through the Nether^[7][8].

A boat has a solid collision box, which means players and other entities can't go through it even at high speeds. Falling blocks are also blocked by boats.

In Java Edition, a boat falling on top of an entity stops on top of the entity. In Bedrock Edition, a falling boat can go through other entities.

Riding a boat over a lily pad causes the lily pad to drop, and causes the boat's speed to stutter a bit.

Most mobs can ride boats. Mobs cannot exit the boat unless the boat is destroyed, sinks, or moves over a bubble column.

Mobs can be picked up into the boat when they collide with the side of the boat. A mob cannot control the boat. In Java Edition, a boat being ridden by a player cannot pick up a mob, but in Bedrock Edition, they can. In Minecraft Education, even tripod cameras can ride boats.

A mob can ride a boat if it is narrower than a boat, and is neither an aquatic^{[note 1]} nor ambient animal. The following mobs are unable to ride in a boat:

The baby counterparts of these mobs can ride in boats, but not the adult versions. If a baby grows up, the adult form is dismounted. Additionally, the adult versions of these mobs can still ride boats manually using the /ride command:

Additionally, few types of mobs can have various Size values, which can prevent them from riding boats:

Leads can be attached to boats and can break when stretched too far due to boats moving much more slowly on land.

The lead has no effect if a player is riding the boat, however boats with other passengers can be pulled by leads, allowing for transportation of otherwise unleashable mobs such as villagers.

Java Edition:
Boats use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Despite being a solid surface, walking on boats is completely silent and does not produce footstep sounds.^[10]

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

• 👁 The old boat floating.
  
  The old boat floating.
• 👁 A bunch of pre-1.9 boats stacked up.
  
  A bunch of pre-1.9 boats stacked up.
• 👁 First image of boats in BE development.
  
  First image of boats in BE development.
• 👁 Second image of boats in BE development.
  
  Second image of boats in BE development.
• 👁 Image of the completed Bedrock Edition boats.
  
  Image of the completed Bedrock Edition boats.
• 👁 A trail of boats after a game crash while riding a boat.
  
  A trail of boats after a game crash while riding a boat.
• 👁 A third-person perspective of a boat in Java Edition Alpha v1.0.6.
  
  A third-person perspective of a boat in Java Edition Alpha v1.0.6.

Issues relating to "Boat" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• In Bedrock Edition, Sand, red sand, concrete powder, gravel, anvils, and dragon eggs drop as items when they fall onto a boat that is in water.
• A chest is short enough that a boat falls onto it rather than crashes into it.
• In Legacy Console Edition, holding the movement stick to the side in a boat on blue ice causes the player to spin quickly. If a passenger is in the boat while this occurs, when the player exits the boat after it reaches maximum velocity (attained after about three seconds), for most mobs, the mob's head may spin uncontrollably. For some mobs, however, nothing happens (such as slimes and ghasts). The mob may also get its head stuck at an angle. Thorough testing was done on Wii U Edition, although the glitch was originally discovered on the Xbox 360 Edition.

• 👁 All types of boats next to each other.
  
  All types of boats next to each other.
• 👁 A dock with many boats.
  
  A dock with many boats.
• 👁 A camera in a boat.
  
  A camera in a boat.

• 👁 A boat on ice in the Nether.
  
  A boat on ice in the Nether.
• 👁 Steve leashing boats to a pier.[18]
  
  Steve leashing boats to a pier.^[18]
• 👁 Boats blocking a river.
  
  Boats blocking a river.

• 👁 Jappa texturing a boat.
  
  Jappa texturing a boat.
• 👁 Nekofresa making the bamboo raft in Blockbench.
  
  Nekofresa making the bamboo raft in Blockbench.
• 👁 Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.10.27.
  
  Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition beta 1.18.10.27.
• 👁 Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition 1.18.10.
  
  Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition 1.18.10.
• 👁 Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition beta 1.19.0.21.
  
  Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition beta 1.19.0.21.
• 👁 Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition beta 1.19.0.27.
  
  Boat item textures from Bedrock Edition beta 1.19.0.27.
• 👁 Boats attached to leads.
  
  Boats attached to leads.
• 👁 "Sunny and Noor are next to a fully rebuilt Ruined Portal. The brave Sunny throws an Ender Pearl toward the lit Nether Portal. Noor is to the side holding a Leash tied to a Boat with a Sheep in it."
  
  "Sunny and Noor are next to a fully rebuilt Ruined Portal. The brave Sunny throws an Ender Pearl toward the lit Nether Portal. Noor is to the side holding a Leash tied to a Boat with a Sheep in it."
• 👁 Image
  
  Boat model without texture.
• 👁 A boat emitting lots of particles.
  
  A boat emitting lots of particles.
• 👁 A boat with llamas in it and a lead attached.
  
  A boat with llamas in it and a lead attached.

• 👁 Bamboo raft concept art.
  
  Bamboo raft concept art.
• 👁 Ditto.
  
  Ditto.

• 👁 Official artwork of Sunny riding a mangrove boat.
  
  Official artwork of Sunny riding a mangrove boat.
• 👁 Sticker of Zuri on a bamboo raft with a camel calf.
  
  Sticker of Zuri on a bamboo raft with a camel calf.
• 👁 Official artwork of Alex in a boat at sea with an allay.
  
  Official artwork of Alex in a boat at sea with an allay.
• 👁 Zuri on a bamboo raft.
  
  Zuri on a bamboo raft.
• 👁 Pixel art of Zuri on a bamboo raft with a baby panda.
  
  Pixel art of Zuri on a bamboo raft with a baby panda.
• 👁 Cutout of Zuri and Efe on bamboo rafts, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
  
  Cutout of Zuri and Efe on bamboo rafts, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
• 👁 Alex in a boat with a goat.[19]
  
  Alex in a boat with a goat.^[19]
• 👁 A social media post about a bamboo raft and cherry boat.
  
  A social media post about a bamboo raft and cherry boat.
• 👁 Noor in an oak boat in an advertisement for Crocs.[20]
  
  Noor in an oak boat in an advertisement for Crocs.^[20]
• 👁 CommuniKate on a boat
  
  CommuniKate on a boat
• 👁 Ice Cube in a boat
  
  Ice Cube in a boat
• 👁 Poppy Playtime in a boat
  
  Poppy Playtime in a boat
• 👁 A cat in a boat
  
  A cat in a boat

• 👁 Texture of oak boats as entities
  
  Texture of oak boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of spruce boats as entities
  
  Texture of spruce boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of birch boats as entities
  
  Texture of birch boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of jungle boats as entities
  
  Texture of jungle boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of acacia boats as entities
  
  Texture of acacia boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of dark oak boats as entities
  
  Texture of dark oak boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of bamboo rafts as entities
  
  Texture of bamboo rafts as entities
• 👁 Texture of cherry boats as entities
  
  Texture of cherry boats as entities
• 👁 Texture of pale oak boats as entities
  
  Texture of pale oak boats as entities

• 👁 Image
  Minecart
• 👁 Image
  Strider
• Transportation

• "Taking Inventory: Boat" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, October 4, 2019.