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HorseInABoat

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HorseInABoat

By D3tox

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HorseInABoat is a lightweight Minecraft plugin and mod that lets horses and other horse-type mobs ride in boats, making travel across rivers, lakes, and oceans much easier.

Mod Loaders
Minecraft
26.3 26.2
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Description

HorseInABoat

HorseInABoat is a lightweight Minecraft quality-of-life mod that lets horses and other horse-type mobs ride in boats.

It makes travelling across rivers, lakes, and oceans easier without changing the core feel of vanilla Minecraft.

Features

HorseInABoat supports:

  • Horses
  • Donkeys
  • Mules
  • Skeleton Horses
  • Zombie Horses

Supported mobs can enter normal boats and ride alongside the player.

HorseInABoat keeps the behaviour simple and close to vanilla:

  • A horse uses one passenger seat
  • A player can use the remaining seat
  • Boats can still be controlled normally
  • Saddles, armour, names, ownership, health, and other horse data are preserved
  • Donkey and mule inventories are preserved
  • Tamed and untamed horses work
  • Horses dismount safely when the boat is broken
  • No custom items or recipes are added
  • No commands are needed for normal use

Shared Boat Interaction

Because of the size of horse entities, Minecraft's targeting behaviour causes problems when a horse and player share the same boat.

To keep behaviour consistent, players cannot break or interact with nearby blocks while sharing a boat with a supported horse-type mob.

Normal boat movement and passenger behaviour still work as expected.

Mod Loaders

HorseInABoat is available for:

  • Fabric
  • NeoForge

Use the correct jar for your chosen mod loader.

Check each release for the exact Minecraft and loader versions supported.

Installation

  1. Install a supported Fabric or NeoForge loader.
  2. Download the matching HorseInABoat jar.
  3. Place the jar in your mods folder.
  4. Install any required dependencies listed on the release page.
  5. Start Minecraft.

For Fabric, Fabric API is required.

Singleplayer and Multiplayer

HorseInABoat works in:

  • Singleplayer
  • Fabric servers
  • NeoForge servers

For multiplayer, use the version that matches the server's mod loader and Minecraft version.

Plugin Version

A separate Bukkit plugin version is available for:

  • CraftBukkit
  • Spigot
  • Paper
  • Purpur

Use the plugin version instead if you want the feature on a Bukkit-based server without requiring a Fabric or NeoForge server. The plugin page can be found here.

Project Goal

HorseInABoat solves one small Minecraft problem: moving horses across water.

It keeps the change focused and close to vanilla without adding new transport systems or changing how horses work outside boats.