About Ships
From ModrinthAdds a new ship dungeon and lets illagers use boats.
Ships is a structure datapack that adds illager ships into the game as a new type of dungeon, and allows illagers use boats.
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Structures
Ships
The ships are designed to look like shipwrecks, and the ships contain pillagers, vindicators, and loot similar to shipwreck loot. Ships can spawn made out of different types of wood, and maps from the ships lead you to pillager outposts. 
Fleets
Fleets are structures consisting of multiple ships. Each ship has an evoker. illagers will continuously spawn on these until you kill all the evokers. Maps from fleets lead you to woodland mansions. 
Illager Boats
This datapack also allows illagers use boats. If an illager is in the water, it will get into a boat and patrol nearby ocean. If it sees an enemy, it will stop patrolling and chase it. Ships spawn with a few patrols around to make getting on board more challenging. Fleets spawn with even more patrols around them.
The Illager boat mechanic is experimental, can be somewhat performance intensive, and might break if you have mods, plugins, or other datapacks installed! If you need to disable or limit Ai boats, you can do so by changing gamerules with "/function ships:gamerules" If you are interested in helping optimize the datapack, you can contribute here.
To use this datapack/mod in a modpack outside of Modrinth, you must comment on its Planet Minecraft page that you are using this datapack/mod in a modpack and include either a link to the modpack in the comment, or both its name and a link to the website it's hosted on in the comment.
Credit to Bobydon for the showcase video.
Highlights
From source dataGame versions
Supports 20 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.4.
Loaders
Runs on Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Ships 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
- Data pack, Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt
- 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
- 3.0.4+mod, released 2025-01-31
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Data pack | 1.20 to 1.21.4 (12 versions) | 1.21.4 |
| Fabric | 1.20 to 1.21.4 (12 versions) | 1.21.4 |
| Forge | 1.20 to 1.21.4 (12 versions) | 1.21.4 |
| Quilt | 1.20 to 1.21.4 (12 versions) | 1.21.4 |
| NeoForge | 1.21.2 to 1.21.4 (3 versions) | 1.21.4 |
From 5 recorded builds of Ships.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0.4+mod | 2025-01-31 | 1.21.2 to 1.21.4 (3 versions) | Fabric, Forge, NeoForge, Quilt |
| 3.0.4 | 2025-01-31 | 1.21.2 to 1.21.4 (3 versions) | Data pack |
| 3.0.3+mod | 2024-07-15 | 1.20 to 1.21.1 (9 versions) | Fabric, Forge, Quilt |
| 3.0.3 | 2024-07-15 | 1.20 to 1.21.1 (9 versions) | Data pack |
| 3.0.2+mod | 2024-07-15 | 1.20 to 1.20.1 (2 versions) | Fabric, Forge, Quilt |
Run Ships 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 Ships as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.
Compatibility
- Game
- Minecraft
- Loaders
- Data packFabricForgeNeoForgeQuilt
- Runs on
- Serverrequired on the server
- Game versions
- 1.21.4 and 19 earlier
Verified at the source
- ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorEMD123, as published on Modrinth
- ✓LicenseApache-2.0Free












