Boat with Chest

A boat with chest is a type of boat that can be used for fast transport of players, mobs, and items over bodies of water.

Crafting
A boat with chest cannot be directly retrieved by attacking them, as it drop as a boat and a chest plus its contents. The player can recraft it so that it can be placed again.

Loot
Breaking a boat with chest drops the boat, a chest, and the chest's contents.

Usage
A boat with chest can be used for the transportation of players, mobs and items, or as fuel when smelting.

Fuel
Any boat with chest used as fuel in a furnace, a boat with chest lasts 60 seconds, smelting up to 6 items.

Entering
A player enters a boat with chest by it, if the boat with chest is not fully occupied (boat with chests can hold two entities). Unlike beds, there is no message above the hotbar for attempting to enter a fully occupied boat with chest.

Exiting
A boat with chest can be exited by or, $$, pressing down the right analog stick on a controller, tapping the "Leave Boat with Chest" button when using touch controls, or. When exiting a boat with chest, 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 with chest. The exiting player is placed on land if that is possible from the dismounting position.

Motion
Boat with chests do not turn with mouse-look.

With a keyboard or gamepad, boat with chests are controlled using the, (turns left),  (turns right), and  keys. Using the 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 with chest forward.

It is not possible to ride a boat with chest upstream. A boat with chest lift, usually made from tripwire, piston, and optionally a slime block, can be used to move a boat with chest up. Players can also use water buckets to move a boat with chest upward, although a player must be steering the boat with chest.

Speed
A boat with chest moves according to the player's control or water currents, with speed affected by the surface traversed. As with normal boats, boats with chests move extremely quickly on ice, allowing for the construction of fast transportation systems in any dimension.

Flotation
A boat with chest floats atop still or flowing water. $$, a boat with chest does not sink when submerged but floats up. This feature lets a player contrive stepped uphill water flows to propel a boat with chest uphill using only flowing water.

When a boat with chest 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 with chest sinks. In Bedrock Edition, a boat with chest 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 with chest in motion, occasionally bumping the boat with chest, causing it to shake briefly.

Destruction
As boats with chests are entities, they have health. A boat with chest effectively has just over (exactly 4 damage is not quite enough to destroy a boat with chest), and regenerates $$ per game tick.

Boats with chests can be destroyed by explosions, fire and lava (but not magma blocks), cactus, and by being punched by mobs such as drowned. A boat with chest that is made invulnerable with commands cannot be broken by any of these, however it still cannot be used to travel on lava because it sinks.

When a boat with chest is destroyed under normal conditions, it drops itself in item form. In certain conditions, such as when falling for exactly 12, 13, 49, 51, 111, 114, 198, 202, 310, or 315 blocks, it drops two sticks and three planks upon being destroyed.

Collision
A boat with chest has a solid collision box, which means players and other entities can't go through it even at high speed. Falling blocks are also blocked by boat with chests, dropping as items when they fall onto a boat with chest that is in water.

Riding a boat with chest over a lily pad causes the lily pad to drop, although the boat with chest speed stutters a bit.

Entity data
Boat with Chests have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity.


 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Trivia

 * A chest is short enough that a boat with chest falls onto it rather than crashes into it.
 * $$, holding the movement stick to the side in a boat with chest on blue ice causes the player to spin quickly. If a passenger is in the boat with chest while this occurs, when the player exits the boat with chest 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 Minecraft: Wii U Edition, although the glitch was originally discovered on the Xbox 360 Edition.