About Better Than Boats
From ModrinthA Minecraft mod that adds five new boats that change the way you can play the game
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:
- Boat with Crafting Table: Craft items on the go without leaving your vessel.
- Boat with Furnace: Smelt ores and cook food while sailing across oceans.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 2 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.2.
Loaders
Runs on NeoForge.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Better Than Boats on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Required on the server
- Server type needed
- NeoForge
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.2, released 2026-07-10
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| NeoForge | 26.1.2 to 26.2 (2 versions) | 26.2 |
From 2 recorded builds of Better Than Boats.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.2 | 2026-07-10 | 26.2 | NeoForge |
| 1.0.1 | 2026-05-25 | 26.1.2 | NeoForge |
Run Better Than Boats on a Minecraft server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Runs on your server
From source side supportModrinth lists Better Than Boats as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- NeoForge
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 26.2 and 1 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-03Open ↗
- ✓AuthorDev1lroot, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseGPL-3.0-onlyFree
