Boat with Chest

Boat with Chest

Rarity color	Common
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Flammable item?	Yes
Size	In Java Edition: Height: 0.5625 Blocks Width: 1.375 Blocks In Bedrock Edition: Height: 0.455 Blocks Width: 1.4 Blocks
Network ID	JE: 1

For other kinds of boats, see Boat (disambiguation).

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.

Obtaining

A boat with chest can be directly retrieved by attacking it, as it drops itself in item form, along with its contents.

Tools and weapons with damage above 4 can instantly destroy a boat with chest in one hit.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Chest + Oak Boat or Spruce Boat or Birch Boat or Jungle Boat or Acacia Boat or Dark Oak Boat or Mangrove Boat		‌[upcoming: JE 1.19 & BE 1.19.0]

Usage

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

Fuel

A boat with chest can be used as fuel in a furnace, it lasts 60 seconds, smelting up to 6 items.

Transportation

Main article: Boat § Transportation

The difference with regular boats and boats with chests is that boats with chests can only carry one entity compared to boats being able to carry two entities.

Behavior

Main article: Boat § Behavior

Boats with chests share most behaviors with boats.

Item storage

The inventory of the boat with chest has the same amount of slots as a single chest. Its inventory can be accessed by sneaking and interacting on the boat with chest, interacting on the boat with chest while a player or entity is inside the boat^[verify], or by opening the player's inventory whilst inside the boat. This means that the player cannot access armor or offhand slots without exiting the boat.

When a boat with chest moves above, underneath, or beside a hopper, its inventory is filled or drained accordingly. Due to the size of its hitbox, a boat with chest can be placed above up to 9 hoppers, allowing it to evenly split its items nine ways.

Naming

In Java Edition, unlike most other storage devices, a boat with chest renamed in an anvil does not display the custom name in its GUI.

Piglin

As with other chests, opening or breaking a boat with chest causes nearby piglin to attack the player.

Sounds

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Rowing	Friendly Creatures	Plays when riding boat with chest on land	entity.boat.paddle_land	subtitles.entity.boat.paddle_land	1.0	0.8 - 1.2 [check the code]	16
	Rowing	Friendly Creatures	Plays when riding boat with chest on water	entity.boat.paddle_water	subtitles.entity.boat.paddle_water	0.8	0.8 - 1.2 [check the code]	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Boat with Chest	Identifier	Form	Item tags	Translation key
Oak item	oak_chest_boat	Item	chest_boats	item.minecraft.oak_chest_boat
Spruce item	spruce_chest_boat	Item	chest_boats	item.minecraft.spruce_chest_boat
Birch item	birch_chest_boat	Item	chest_boats	item.minecraft.birch_chest_boat
Jungle item	jungle_chest_boat	Item	chest_boats	item.minecraft.jungle_chest_boat
Acacia item	acacia_chest_boat	Item	chest_boats	item.minecraft.acacia_chest_boat
Dark Oak item	dark_oak_chest_boat	Item	chest_boats	item.minecraft.dark_oak_chest_boat

Boat with Chest	Identifier	Translation key
Entity	chest_boat	entity.minecraft.chest_boat

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Alias ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Oak Boat with Chest	oak_chest_boat	chest_boat / 0	?	Item	item.chest_boat.oak.name
Spruce Boat with Chest	spruce_chest_boat	chest_boat / 1	?	Item	item.chest_boat.spruce.name
Birch Boat with Chest	birch_chest_boat	chest_boat / 2	?	Item	item.chest_boat.birch.name
Jungle Boat with Chest	jungle_chest_boat	chest_boat / 3	?	Item	item.chest_boat.jungle.name
Acacia Boat with Chest	acacia_chest_boat	chest_boat / 4	?	Item	item.chest_boat.acacia.name
Dark Oak Boat with Chest	dark_oak_chest_boat	chest_boat / 5	?	Item	item.chest_boat.big_oak.name

Form	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Entity	chest_boat	218	entity.chest_boat.name

Entity data

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

Java Edition:

Main article: Entity format

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all boats
  • Tags common to all container entities
  • Tags common to all entities

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

History

September 23, 2019					The swamp was announced as a contender for the Biome Vote at MINECON Live 2019. Frogs, boats with chests, and mangrove trees were announced.
September 28, 2019					The swamp comes in second place in the Biome Vote, setting the release date of new swamp content further than new mountain content.
October 16, 2021					Boats with chests were announced at Minecraft Live 2021. Only jungle and dark oak variants were shown.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.19		22w12a			Added boats with chests.
					Knob on chest is placed incorrectly 1 pixel up.
		22w13a			Changed knob on chest position 1 pixel down to match Bedrock Edition.
		22w15a			Changed all boat with chest item textures.
					Now, the inventory can be accessed by using it directly when there is already a passenger inside of it.
Bedrock Edition
Wild Update (Experimental)		beta 1.18.30.28			Added boats with chests, missing mangrove type.
					Added unused translation keys for mangrove boat with chest.
Upcoming Bedrock Edition
1.19.0		beta 1.19.0.20			Boats with chests are now available without enabling experimental gameplay.
					Added mangrove boat with chest.

Issues

Issues relating to "Boat with Chest" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• A chest is short enough that a boat with chest falls onto it rather than crashes into it.
• The chest texture is 12x12 pixels, rather than the 14x14 pixels texture the block uses. This is not the case with the minecart with chest.

Items

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Entities

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