Ever wanted to pack up your entire base and just sail away? the Better than Boats mod turns the ocean into your permanent, mobile home. This mod introduces 5 new fully functional boat variants that let you assemble a complete water caravan.

Whether you are exploring distant biomes or transporting massive amounts of resources, you will never need to drop anchor or build a temporary base on land again.

Each boat serves a specific purpose to help you survive and thrive at sea:

• Boat with Crafting Table: Your mobile workshop. Craft tools and items on the go without leaving your vessel.
• Boat with Furnace: Smelt ores and cook your fresh catch while sailing across the oceans.
• Boat with Double Chest: Massive inventory space for long-distance resource transport. (Note: This boat cannot be ridden, but you can easily link it to your main boat using a Lead!)
• Boat with Bed: Skip the night or set your spawn point right on the water during long voyages. (Note: This boat cannot be ridden, but you can link it with a Lead.)
• Boat with Ender Chest: Secure, global access to your Ender inventory from anywhere in the world.

Crafting recipes follow the vanilla logic (Vanilla Boat + Block)

The Better than Boats mod is 100% vanilla friendly and fully Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), published under the GNU GPL 3.0 license. Feel free to look at the code, contribute, or include it in your modpacks!

Better than Boats - Your Mobile Base on the Water

Tired of constantly returning to land during your ocean expeditions? Better than Boats transforms the open water into your permanent, mobile base.

Built for NeoForge, this mod introduces 5 new functional boat variants that allow you to assemble a fully equipped water caravan. Seamlessly transport massive amounts of cargo, craft on the go, smelt ores, and sleep during long-distance journeys, completely eliminating the need to ever drop anchor or build on land.

Features

This mod adds the following functional boat variants to the game:

1. Boat with Crafting Table: Craft items on the go without leaving your vessel.
2. Boat with Furnace: Smelt ores and cook food while sailing across oceans.
3. Boat with Double Chest: Offers massive inventory space for long-distance resource transport. Note: This boat is not ridable, but you can link it to your other boats using a Lead.
4. Boat with Bed: Sleep on the water and set a persistent, mobile spawn point during long voyages. Note: This boat is not ridable during normal travel, but you can link it to other boats using a Lead.
5. Boat with Ender Chest: Access your global Ender inventory securely from anywhere in the world.

Boat with Bed - Spawn Point Mechanics

The Boat with Bed acts as a moving respawn point that follows your water caravan.

• Set Spawn Anytime: Right-click the boat during the day to set your spawn point immediately, even if it is too early to sleep.
• Interruption-Free Sleep: Sleeping at night works as normal, but moving waves or towing the boat on a lead will not kick you out of bed.
• Moving Spawn Point: The boat constantly updates your spawn coordinates as it drifts or gets towed. You will always respawn right where the boat is.
• Smart Respawn: If you die, the mod searches for the boat even if it drifted or its chunk is unloaded. In the worst-case scenario, you respawn at the boat's last known position instead of the world spawn.
• Unlinking: Sleeping in a regular bed on land safely resets your spawn point back to normal.
• Dimension Danger: Traditional rules apply. Right-clicking the boat in the Nether or the End causes an explosion.