A boat with chest is a single chest occupying the passenger seat of a boat, and functions as such. As it can still be driven it can be used to transport 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 |
|---|---|
| Chest + Matching Boat |
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[]
Boats with chests can carry only one entity while regular boats can carry up to two.
Behavior[]
All types of boats with chests.
Boats with chests share most behaviors with boats.
Item storage[]
The GUI of a boat with chest.
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 with the boat with chest, interacting with the part of the boat with chest that actually contains the chest while another player or entity is inside the boat, or by opening the player's inventory while inside the boat. This means that the player cannot access armor 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.[1]
Piglin[]
As with other chests, opening or breaking a boat with chest causes nearby piglin(s) to attack the player.
Sounds[]
Java Edition: Boats with chests use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
| Sound | Subtitles | Source | Description | Resource location | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rowing | Friendly Creatures | While a boat with chest is rowed on land | entity | subtitles | 1.0 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 | |
| Rowing | Friendly Creatures | While a boat with chest is rowed in water | entity | subtitles | 0.8 | 0.8-1.2 | 16 |
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | While a boat with chest is rowed in water | random | ? | 0.6-1.4 |
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Identifier | Form | Item tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Boat with Chest | oak_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.oak_chest_boat |
| Spruce Boat with Chest | spruce_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.spruce_chest_boat |
| Birch Boat with Chest | birch_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.birch_chest_boat |
| Jungle Boat with Chest | jungle_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.jungle_chest_boat |
| Acacia Boat with Chest | acacia_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.acacia_chest_boat |
| Dark Oak Boat with Chest | dark_oak_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.dark_oak_chest_boat |
| Mangrove Boat with Chest | mangrove_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.mangrove_chest_boat |
| Cherry Boat with Chest | cherry_chest_boat | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.cherry_chest_boat |
| Bamboo Raft with Chest | bamboo_chest_raft | Item | chest_boats | item.minecraft.bamboo_chest_raft |
| Boat with Chest | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Entity | chest_boat | entity.minecraft.chest_boat |
| Name | Identifier | Alias ID | Numeric ID | Form | Item tags (JE) | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Boat with Chest | oak_chest_boat | chest_boat / 0 | 646 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.oak.name |
| Spruce Boat with Chest | spruce_chest_boat | chest_boat / 1 | 649 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.spruce.name |
| Birch Boat with Chest | birch_chest_boat | chest_boat / 2 | 647 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.birch.name |
| Jungle Boat with Chest | jungle_chest_boat | chest_boat / 3 | 648 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.jungle.name |
| Acacia Boat with Chest | acacia_chest_boat | chest_boat / 4 | 650 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.acacia.name |
| Dark Oak Boat with Chest | dark_oak_chest_boat | chest_boat / 5 | 651 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.big_oak.name |
| Mangrove Boat with Chest | mangrove_chest_boat | chest_boat / 6 | 652 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.mangrove.name |
| Cherry Boat with Chest | cherry_chest_boat | chest_boat / 8 | 658 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.cherry.name |
| Bamboo Raft with Chest | bamboo_chest_raft | chest_boat / 7 | 662 | Item | minecraft:chest_boat | item.chest_boat.bamboo.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.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all boats
- Tags common to all container entities
- Tags common to all entities
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. | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.19 | 22w12a |               Added boats with chests.
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| Knob on chest is placed incorrectly 1 pixel up. | |||||
| 22w13a |        Changed knob on chest position 1 pixel down to match Bedrock Edition.
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| Boats with chests can now be placed by dispensers. | |||||
| 22w14a | Due to the addition of the mangrove tree and mangrove swamp, make mangrove boat with chest obtainable and renewable. | ||||
| 22w15a |        Changed all boat with chest item textures.
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| Now, the inventory can be accessed by using it directly when there is already a passenger inside of it. | |||||
| October 15, 2022 |  Bamboo rafts with chests were announced at Minecraft Live 2022. | ||||
| 1.20 (Experimental) | 22w42a |  Added bamboo rafts with chests behind the Update 1.20 experimental datapack. | |||
| 22w45a |  The item texture of the bamboo raft with chest has been changed. | ||||
| 23w07a |   Added cherry boats with chests behind the Update 1.20 experimental datapack. | ||||
| 1.19.4 Pre-release 2 |  The item texture of cherry boats with chests has now been changed. | ||||
| 1.20 | 23w12a | Bamboo rafts with chests and cherry boats with chests are now available without using the "Update 1.20" experimental datapack. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| Wild Update (Experimental) | beta 1.18.30.28 |  Added boats with chests, missing mangrove type.
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| Added unused translation keys for mangrove boat with chest. | |||||
| 1.19.0 | beta 1.19.0.20 | Boats with chests are now available without enabling experimental gameplay. | |||
| Added mangrove boats with chests. | |||||
| beta 1.19.0.26 | Changed all boat with chest item textures. | ||||
| Next Major Update (Experimental) | beta 1.19.50.21 |  Added bamboo rafts with chests behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle. | |||
| beta 1.19.60.20 | The item texture of the bamboo raft with chest has been changed to match Java Edition. | ||||
| beta 1.19.80.20 | Added cherry boats with chests behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle. | ||||
| 1.20.0 | beta 1.20.0.21 | Bamboo rafts with chests and cherry boats with chests are now available without using the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle. | |||
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 12×12 pixels, rather than the 14×14 pixel texture the block uses. This is not the case with the minecart with chest.
- Despite the minecart with chest using the Christmas texture, the boat with chest still uses the default chest texture during Christmas time.[2]
Gallery[]
Renders[]
Oak Boat with Chest
Spruce Boat with Chest
Birch Boat with Chest
Jungle Boat with Chest
Acacia Boat with Chest
Dark Oak Boat with Chest
Mangrove Boat with Chest
Cherry Boat with Chest
Bamboo Raft with Chest
Oak Boat with Chest (item)
Spruce Boat with Chest (item)
Birch Boat with Chest (item)
Jungle Boat with Chest (item)
Acacia Boat with Chest (item)
Dark Oak Boat with Chest (item)
Mangrove Boat with Chest (item)
Cherry Boat with Chest (item)
Bamboo Raft with Chest (item)
Concept Art[]
Ditto.
