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Boat Item View
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See your held items when in a moving boat!
Does not follow a specific thematic focus apart from vanilla Minecraft.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Adds client-side tools and features to enhance the user experience.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
Neoforge is a fork of the Minecraft Forge available for versions 1.20.1+ of Minecraft. Many Forge mods are compatible with Neoforge and vice versa.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Boat Item View

About
The Boat Item View Mod is a client-side only Minecraft Mod that allows the player to see the item held in their hand while riding in a boat.
This is functionality is normally not possible in the base game.
Note: Any items being displayed in the hand when the boat is moving still cannot be used. This mod only deals with rendering, it does not change vanilla serverside logic.
Features
- Toggle the ability to render hand items when sitting in a moving boat.
- Define the type of items to be rendered when sitting in a moving boat.
- Compatibility with Cloth Config and ModMenu
Installation
This mod is client-side only. Do not install this on dedicated servers.
Dependencies
- Fabric API (Required)
- Cloth Config API (Required, Preinstalled in this mod)
- Mod Menu API (Optional, install if you like an Ingame Config GUI)
Usage
Enabling this Mod
1. Open the Configuration File. This can be done via minecraft/config/boatiview/client.toml or the Mods -> Boat Item View -> Configure Button if you have Mod Menu Installed.
2. Set the Configuration Option "showHandsInMovingBoat" to True.
Usage with ModMenu Config GUI: https://streamable.com/m8n37z
3. Hold the item in the player's main hand or offhand.
Adding an item to the display list
1. Open the Configuration File. This can be done via minecraft/config/boatiview/client.toml or the Mods -> Boat Item View -> Configure Button if you have Mod Menu Installed.
2. Add a new entry to the "itemsToShowInMovingBoat" option. This entry is the namespaced id of an item. E.g. "minecraft:carrot"
Usage in ModMenu Config GUI: https://streamable.com/n9vwwz
Usage in TOML File: https://streamable.com/9f5z3v
3. Click "Save" in the File Editor program if you have opened the client.toml file. If you are using Mod Menu, click the "Save and Quit" button.
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The Config GUI that is generated when Mod Menu is installed alongside this mod.
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You are free to use this mod for personal use.
You may use it for non-commercial public use as well, as long as you link back to this thread or CurseForge page and use official download links.
If you wish to put this mod in a modpack that is redistributed commercially, please contact the owner about it so we can discuss this further.
Modpacks
You can use this mod in your modpack. You don’t have to ask for permission as long as you credit the author.
It would be greatly appreciated if you included this mod in your modpack's "Dependencies" list. :)
You may not reupload this mod on other platforms.
Licensing
This project is licensed under GNU Lesser v3. More information about this license can be found in the License file within the Github repository.
You may NOT redistribute this mod by itself in a way that allows you to earn money off of it.
These terms can be subject to change.
Issues
Please report any issues to the issue tracker linked at the top of this page.
Credits
- Treblero (Endorser), for the original idea

Boat Item View
About
The Boat Item View Mod is a client-side only Minecraft Mod that allows the player to see the item held in their hand while riding in a boat.
This is functionality is normally not possible in the base game.
Note: Any items being displayed in the hand when the boat is moving still cannot be used. This mod only deals with rendering, it does not change vanilla serverside logic.
Features
- Toggle the ability to render hand items when sitting in a moving boat.
- Define the type of items to be rendered when sitting in a moving boat.
- Compatibility with Cloth Config and ModMenu
Installation
This mod is client-side only. Do not install this on dedicated servers.
Dependencies
- Fabric API (Optional)
- Cloth Config API (Required, Preinstalled in this mod)
- Mod Menu API (Optional, install if you like an Ingame Config GUI)
Usage
Enabling this Mod
- Open the Configuration File. This can be done via minecraft/config/boatiview/client.toml or the Mods -> Boat Item View -> Configure Button if you have Mod Menu Installed.
- Set the Configuration Option "showHandsInMovingBoat" to True.
- Hold the item in the player's main hand or offhand.
- Usage with ModMenu Config GUI: https://streamable.com/m8n37z
Adding an item to the display list
- Open the Configuration File. This can be done via minecraft/config/boatiview/client.toml or the Mods -> Boat Item View -> Configure Button if you have Mod Menu Installed.
- Add a new entry to the "itemsToShowInMovingBoat" option. This entry is the namespaced id of an item. E.g. "minecraft:carrot"
- Click "Save" in the File Editor program if you have opened the client.toml file. If you are using Mod Menu, click the "Save and Quit" button.
- Usage in ModMenu Config GUI: https://streamable.com/n9vwwz
- Usage in TOML File: https://streamable.com/9f5z3v
Screenshots
The Config GUI that is generated when Mod Menu is installed alongside this mod.
Issues
Please report any issues to the issue tracker linked at the top of this page.
Credits
Treblero, for the original idea
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