BoatOverhaul [Forge]
Modby TachibanaSherry
Add gearable and rudderable boat sailing mechanism to Minecraft!
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
60,714
CurseForge ID
702162
Last Updated
Jul 27, 2026
Description
Fabric? Here.
The mod ports WOWS's boat sailing mechanism to Minecraft.
Features:
4 vanilla keybindings are modified:
Walk Forwards (W): Sail Forwards -> Boat Gear Up;
Walk Backwards (S): Sail Backwards -> Boat Gear Down;
Strafe Left (A): Boat Turn Left -> Boat Rudder Left (Manual);
Strafe Right (D): Boat Turn Right -> Boat Rudder Right (Manual).
2 modded keybindings are added:
NUM4: Boat Rudder Left (Auto);
NUM6: Boat Rudder Right (Auto).
Showcase:

A boat gradually gears up.

A boat rudders left, and gears up and down.
Configurations:
.minecraft/config/boatoverhaul-common.toml (Forge)
#Allows a boat to turn its rudder with a very low extra forward speed when the gear state is at STOP
allowRudderingWhenStopped = false
#If set to true, a boat sailing backward and ruddering right, for example, will sail to the left rearward
reverseRudderWhenSailingAstern = false
Attention:
The mod's sound resources are from the popular naval war game WOWS;
The "mixinless" version of the mod needs MixinBootstrap.
You DEFINITELY CAN add the mod to your modpack;
I encourage any porting request for reasonable versions / modloaders.
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