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Unseaworthy

by murphy-slaw · for Minecraft

A mod that makes boats unsuitable for ocean voyages.

30KDownloads
16 mo agoLast updated
MITLicense
Fabric · Forge +1Loaders

About Unseaworthy

From Modrinth

A mod that makes boats unsuitable for ocean voyages.

Unseaworthy

This mod makes vanilla minecraft boats unseaworthy. They operate normally on rivers and near shorelines, but as soon as they enter an ocean biome, they begin to be tossed by the sea and eventually break apart.

Features

  • Boats deployed on water begin shaking and bouncing upon entering ocean biomes (any biome in the c:is_ocean biome tag).
  • You can optionally set a minimum water depth for boats to sink in tagged biomes.
  • A configurable number of ticks later, the boat is wrecked.
  • The % chance of being wrecked each interval is configurable.
  • Wrecked boats can be configured to:
  • SINK: boat is pulled underwater and ejects passengers
  • BREAK: boat is broken and drops its item entity
  • DESTROY: boat is destroyed and drops a random number of planks and sticks
  • Optionally set a miniumum weather condition to sink boats. Defaults to CLEAR (i.e. always sink boats) but can be set to RAINING or THUNDERING.

Datapack Stuff

You can change which types of boat entities sink with the entity tag

unseaworthy/tags/entity_types/sinkable.json

On 1.21.1 it's

unseaworthy/tags/entity_type/sinkable.json

You can change which biomes cause boats to sink with the biome tag

unseaworthy/tags/worldgen/biome/sinks_boats.json

Why would you want that?

I needed a way to encourage players to build actual ships in a mod pack that is all about ocean voyages. Boats are too good, so I made them worse.

Acknowledgements

Graphics

Icon: "Bailout" by Luis Prado from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 3 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.1.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Vehicles & ships

Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Unseaworthy as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.21.1 and 2 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓Authormurphy-slaw, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseMITFree

Unseaworthy, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Unseaworthy?

Modrinth lists Unseaworthy as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. Unseaworthy is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is MIT.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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