Bullets Boats

Bullets Boats

Vanilla gives you a two-seat rowboat. This one you keep building.

Bullets Boats turns the boat into something you assemble. Put a boat in a crafting table, surround it with planks, and it comes out bigger. Do it again and it comes out bigger still. Every hull segment you add is two more seats, and nothing in the mod stops you, so how far this goes is a question about your plank supply rather than a question about the mod.

Two purpose-built boats come along with it: one that fishes while you sail, and one that sails on lava.

The Large Boat

Start with any vanilla boat and a handful of planks. Three patterns, all in a normal crafting table:

Ring it with 8 planks          A U of 5 planks          A C of 5 planks
  P  P  P                        P  B  P                   P  P
  P  B  P                        P  P  P                   P  B
  P  P  P                                                  P  P

bigger both ways               one segment longer       one segment wider

Seats scale with the hull. A boat that is X segments wide and Y segments long carries X × Y × 2 riders, the same two-per-boat-body rate vanilla uses. Three by three is eighteen people. There is no built-in ceiling.

| Hull | Seats |
|—|—|
| Vanilla boat | 2 |
| 2 long, or 2 wide | 4 |
| 2 × 2 | 8 |
| 3 × 3 | 18 |
| 4 × 5 | 40 |

Grow it lengthwise and it reads as a train of boat bodies, one behind the next. Grow it sideways instead and the segments merge into a single broad deck. Most crews end up building some of both.

About the wood. All the planks in one craft have to match, but they do not have to match the boat. Feed an oak boat a ring of spruce and you get a spruce boat, so a hull can be re-skinned at any point in its life. Available in oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, mangrove and cherry.

Seats, and who is steering

Boarding does what you would expect it to. Right-click an empty boat anywhere along the hull and you take the helm, whichever segment you happened to click. If somebody is already driving, you get the free seat nearest to where you are aiming. Sneak-right-click to board as a passenger even when the helm is open.

Once aboard:

| Key | Does |
|—|—|
| R | Next seat along, wrapping around the boat |
| J | One seat toward the bow |
| K | One seat toward the stern |

J and K stop at the ends instead of looping. Stepping into a seat somebody is already in swaps the two of you, which is how a passenger takes the helm and how a driver hands it over. A boat with nobody at the helm is a perfectly legal state, and it will happily drift.

Animals board into the nearest free seat that is not the helm, and they hold that seat across a world reload, so a livestock barge reloads with everyone where you left them.

Fish Boat

Craft: a fishing rod directly above any boat.

Sail it and it works for you. While you are at the helm, in water, and actually moving, fish appear in your inventory: mostly cod, a good share of salmon, the occasional tropical fish, and now and then a pufferfish. No rod to hold and no bobber to watch. Roughly one fish per five seconds of sailing. If your inventory is full the catch drops at your feet rather than disappearing.

Lava Boat

Craft: a boat with five obsidian around it.

  O  B  O
  O  O  O

It sails on lava. Not survives lava, sails on it, with the same handling and the same paddling as any other boat on any other liquid. It rides right on the surface with smoke curling off the hull and the occasional lava pop, and the item itself is fireproof, so dropping it in the Nether is not a disaster.

FAQ

How big can it actually get?
There is no cap in the code. The limit is how many planks you feel like crafting.

Can I mix woods?
Not within a single craft, no. Across crafts, yes: the newest planks decide what the whole boat looks like.

Do the Fish Boat and Lava Boat come in different woods?
Not yet. Those two are their own craft. The wood variants are a Large Boat thing.

Does the Lava Boat still float on water?
Yes.

Do I have to hold a rod in the Fish Boat?
No. Steering it through water is the whole mechanic.

What happens if the driver gets off?
The boat drifts. Anyone aboard can press J to walk up to the helm and take over.

Availability

Bullets Boats 0.0.12, across 29 builds:

• Forge on 1.19.2, 1.20.1, 1.20.4, 1.20.6, 1.21.1, 1.21.4, 1.21.8, 1.21.11, 26.1 and 26.2
• NeoForge on the same list minus 1.19.2, which predates the loader
• Fabric on all ten