Boats in the Minecraft world are the fastest way to travel, apart from the railroad, which must be built first. The boat can be made at the very beginning of the game and with its help explore the coastline or river bed.
How to build yourself a boat?
To craft a boat, you only need five planks (and four more to craft a workbench). The boards on the workbench must be placed in the form of a bowl, filling the entire lower horizontal and the outermost cells of the middle horizontal. If possible, it is better to make several boats, since they are easy to accidentally break, for example, by hitting aquatic inhabitants. Losing a boat in the middle of the open sea is not very pleasant.
The simplicity of manufacture allows the boat to be used almost immediately after the start of the game. True, for a trip on water to be successful, you need to get food. Especially if you are not going to explore the river, but the sea. At the initial stage, if you are "lucky" to find spiders or cobwebs near you, from which you can get threads to create a fishing rod, the best way to get food is to catch fish. In addition, it can be practiced directly while sailing on the sea or rivers. In the latest versions of the game, other species have been added to the usual fish. Salmon and clownfish are edible, but the blowfish is poisonous. It is usually used for brewing.
Boats cannot float in lava, they quickly collapse in it.
Be careful when using the boat, if you fly into a solid block at high speed, your vehicle will fall apart on boards and sticks, and you will find yourself in the water. The boat can break if an aquatic creature tries to float underneath.
Why do you need a pier?
To safely "park" the boat, you need to equip a special port or pier. There are two types of blocks in the game that do not crash the boat on impact, even at a decent speed. This is wool and sand of souls. If you lay out the berth with these materials, you can crash into it at any speed without the risk of breaking the boat.
The boat can sail through any door.
The pier can be a small depression in the coastline. If you plan to park only one boat with him, a 2x2 block lined with "safe" blocks will do. If you are going to park an entire fleet, make the bay larger, however, this will require more "safe" materials. You can make a whole mechanism from pistons and red stone circuits, which will close the entrance to such a bay.
Wool can be obtained from sheep. It is best to cut them with scissors, not kill them. This is much more practical as more than one block of wool falls out of the sheep when shearing. In addition, you can raise sheep of different colors, which allows you to use different color combinations in the design of the pier.
Soul Sand can only be found in the Nether. In order to get into it, you need to make an obsidian portal. Soul sand is not the most common material, so you will have to spend time looking for it. The underworld is an aggressive and dangerous environment, it is much easier to find sheep in the ordinary world.
