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Oak Boat with Chest
TransportationCraftable

Oak Boat with Chest

Oak Boat with Chest is a rideable boat with a built-in single chest for storage, crafted from a oak boat and a chest. It is used to transport items across water.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Transportation

Version Added

1.19

Item ID

oak_boat_with_chest

Oak Boat with Chest at a glance

Oak Boat with Chest comes from crafting, and Transportation is where it sits as a transportation item. It does not stack, so every one you carry costs a full inventory slot, and nine of them fill a hotbar row. As fuel Oak Boat with Chest is worth 6 smelts, so a stack of 1 smelts 6 items.

Oak Boat with Chest is transport: it exists to move you across the world faster than walking does. It sits between Oak Boat and Powered Rail in Transportation, number 19 of 25 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
ChestChest
Oak BoatOak Boat
Oak Boat with ChestOak Boat with Chest

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Oak Boat with Chest burns for 60 seconds (1200 ticks), which is 6 items per Oak Boat with Chest

Notes

Crafts from one boat and one chest; carries 27 storage slots.

Frequently asked questions about Oak Boat with Chest

  1. Chest, Oak Boat going into Oak Boat with Chest, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Oak Boat with Chest in Minecraft?

    Oak Boat with Chest is crafted from Chest and Oak Boat at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. Oak Boat with Chest on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Oak Boat with Chest used for?

    Oak Boat with Chest is a rideable boat with a built-in single chest for storage, crafted from a oak boat and a chest. It is used to transport items across water.

  3. One Oak Boat with Chest, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Oak Boat with Chest can you stack?

    One Oak Boat with Chest per slot, since Oak Boat with Chest does not stack, and every one then costs 1 Chest and 1 Oak Boat.

  4. Oak Boat with Chest beside a furnace, which is where its 60 seconds of burning go

    Can Oak Boat with Chest be used as fuel?

    Fuel, and a usable amount of it: Oak Boat with Chest burns 60 seconds apiece, or 6 items out of a single one. Since one craft turns Chest and Oak Boat into Oak Boat with Chest, a furnace fed that way runs on Chest and Oak Boat. One Chest on its own gives 15 seconds, next to the 60 of Oak Boat with Chest.

Building with it

An Oak Boat with Chest is the standard boat plus a chest on top, and that chest turns a crossing into a moving trip: twenty-seven slots that travel with you and stay put when you step out. Oak keeps the cost low, which is why this is the version most players use for hauling a base across water.

In practice

The oak chest boat is usually the first one a player builds, since oak planks and a chest are both on hand from the first day. Loaded with tools and food it turns an exploratory swim into a proper expedition without a second trip.