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Spruce Boat
TransportationCraftable

Spruce Boat

Spruce Boat is a rideable vehicle crafted from spruce planks, used for fast travel across water. It can hold up to two passengers.

Stack Size

1

Durability

N/A

Category

Transportation

Version Added

1.9

Item ID

spruce_boat

Spruce Boat at a glance

Transportation holds Spruce Boat: a transportation item out of crafting. No stacking for Spruce Boat: a slot goes the moment a second one comes in, and a chest row of nine holds nine. It is worth 6 smelts in a furnace, 6 once a full stack burns.

Spruce Boat is transport: it exists to move you across the world faster than walking does. It sits between Saddle and Spruce Boat with Chest in Transportation, number 23 of 25 there.

Crafting recipe

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How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Spruce Boat burns for 60 seconds (1200 ticks), which is 6 items per Spruce Boat

Notes

Crafts 1 boat from 5 planks; can be placed in water or on land.

Frequently asked questions about Spruce Boat

  1. Spruce Planks going into Spruce Boat, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Spruce Boat in Minecraft?

    Spruce Boat is crafted from Spruce Planks at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. Spruce Boat beside a furnace, which is where its 60 seconds of burning go

    Can Spruce Boat be used as fuel?

    Spruce Boat in the bottom slot gives you 60 seconds of heat, which is 6 items apiece. Since one craft turns Spruce Planks into Spruce Boat, a furnace fed that way runs on Spruce Planks. One Spruce Planks on its own gives 15 seconds, next to the 60 of Spruce Boat.

  3. One Spruce Boat, the whole of what a single inventory slot holds

    How many Spruce Boat can you stack?

    One Spruce Boat per slot, since Spruce Boat does not stack, and every one then costs 5 Spruce Planks. A shulker box tops out at 27 of them, one per slot.

  4. Spruce Boat on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Spruce Boat used for?

    Spruce Boat is a rideable vehicle crafted from spruce planks, used for fast travel across water. It can hold up to two passengers.

Building with it

A Spruce Boat costs five spruce planks, the wood you cut in taiga and snowy biomes, which is often the first forest a cold-start world gives you. Boats do not freeze in powder snow biomes, so a spruce boat is the standard way to cross the frozen lakes those biomes are full of.

In practice

Spruce boats suit cold oceans, where the dark hull stands out against ice floes. A boat on packed or blue ice is the fastest travel in the game short of an elytra, so a spruce boat and an ice track are a genuine transport system rather than a novelty.

Related Astroworld Resources

Villager trades for Spruce Boat

What villagers ask for Spruce Boat on Astroworld Trades

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