Make a Boat in Minecraft
Are you exploring an Ocean-based Biome in Minecraft, or want to travel down a long river without having to worry about navigating the terrain? Crafting a boat on a computer only requires a few basic materials, and can significantly aid and speed up your exploration. See Step 1 below to learn how to create and use boats in Minecraft.
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Crafting a boat
- Gather your materials. You will need five Wood Planks from any wood type, and they don't all have to be from the same type of tree. You can get four Wood Planks from one block of Wood. Blocks of Wood can be obtained from chopping down trees, found in some NPC villages, and occasionally found in mineshafts.
- Arrange the Wood Planks in your Crafting grid. Arrange the Wood Planks as follows:
- Place three Wood Planks across the bottom three slots of the Crafting grid.
- Place one Wood Plank one slot above the bottom-left Plank.
- Place the last Wood Plank one slot above the bottom-right Plank.
- All other slots should remain empty.
- Craft the Boat. You can immediately add the Boat to your inventory by dragging it into one of the lower slots or by holding Shift and clicking on it.
Placing a boat in water
- Place your boat on the water. Find a calm spot on the water, select your Boat from you inventory, and then right-click on the water. Your boat will be placed. If it is placed on a current, it will start to follow the current.
- A boat can also be placed on land by right clicking. It can be controlled on land but its movement will be extremely slow. They also sink into ground so you may need to get out by destroying a block beside it.
- The boat can be placed on lava, but it will break when you try to enter it.
- Get into a boat. Right-click on the boat to enter it. You can do so from any direction, including beneath it after diving. Press the left Shift key to exit the boat.
- Pilot the boat. The boat will go in any direction you are pointing your cursor when you hold the W button. Pressing the Back S key will quickly turn the boat around in the opposite direction.
- Boats are extremely fragile, and can break easily in a crash.To prevent them from crashing, slow down before you get near an island. If a boat does get destroyed in a crash, it will drop three Wood Planks and two Sticks. If the boat is destroyed by an attack, (skeleton shoots it) it will drop a Boat.
- You can Sprint while using the boat to move slightly faster.
Tips
- If you push a boat over snow, the snow will melt.
- Speed effects can make a boat move faster.
- Boats move with the currents or by the control of the player.
- As entities, boats behave like off-track minecarts. However, boats act like solid blocks, which means they can be placed on top of other players, mobs and other boats. Players, mobs, and other entities can stand on top of boats as well.
- You can use doors to block boats from moving along currents. This is essential for creating docks or canals.
- Boats also make fire bigger ; use a Flint and steel to light it on fire and you get a bigger then normal flame.
- Boats are weak so be careful not to crash them.
