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** Updated 07/04/2015 **

The Small Boats mod for Minecraft -- usable craft that have animated parts, working chests, and can carry multiple passengers. Boats include the Elegant Punt, the Whitehall, and the Hoy.

Major features:

• Working chest(s) to store your stuff
• Sails raise and lower indicating speed
• Boat heels and boom switches sides as you change tack
• Whitehall can carry multiple passengers
• Walking on deck (Hoy)
• Working cannon (Hoy)

More Pics:

Videos:

Download:

• SmallBoats 16.1 for MC 1.7.10
https://www.mediafire.com/?g372pd0owakpilk


• SmallBoats 0.10.6 for MC 1.6.x
http://www.mediafire...oats.0.10.6.jar


• SmallBoats 0.10.1 for MC 1.5.x
http://www.mediafire.../smallboats.jar


• SmallBoats 0.08 for MC 1.4.7
http://www.mediafire.../smallboats.jar

To install:

• Download and install Forge (http://www.minecraft.../topic,5.0.html)
• Drop the JAR file in your ~/.minecraft/mods directory

Version 16.1, updated 07/04/2015

• NOT COMPATIBLE WITH PRIOR VERSIONS -- FLUSH YOUR OLD BOATS!
• Fixed ticket exhaustion bug (force chunk load)
• Added option to disable guns on Hoy
• Added new dynamic motion (pitch)
• Refactored internals

Previous Versions/Changes:

Known issues

** This is BETA code **Backup your world or start a new one before loading (a nice seed to test with is6646844250487835191). If you have problems updating from a prior version, try removing the mod jar(s) from your mods folder, reloading your world, and then putting the mod jar back in.

• If you're in a boat when you exit the game, when you re-enter the game you'll be outside the boat for a couple of seconds before you jump back in
• Water appears inside the boat
• Can't access the Hoy cabin (yet)
• The Hoy doesn't carry passengers (yet)
• Left and Right motion (slew) keys have no affect
• Position sync in MP is broken
• Whitehall collision box is overly large
• No item icon for Hoy (competition in progress!)
• Walking on deck is broken
• Boats sometimes disappear (very annoying)

Controls

• Right-click to jump into the boat,
• Right-click (or N and M keys) to open the chest when you're in the boat
• Left-Shift to jump out

To change seats in the Whitehall, right-click on an empty seat. Note: You can only control the Whitehall from the back seat.

The Hoy has a deeper draft than the Punt and Whitehall, you need 2+ blocks of water (depth) to sail her!

Some items to note:

• Build recipe for the Punt is three standard boats across the bottom, two sticks for the mast, and three wool for the sail (see picture above)
• Build recipe for the Whitehall is three Punts (of the same color)
• Build recipe for the Hoy is three Whitehalls
• In creative mode, all boats appear on the Transportation tab
• Destroying a boat gives you back a boat (plus contents of chest)
• Boats are VERY HARD to damage

This code was originally built for Minecraft Beta 1.6 but was never released. It has been completely redesigned to take advantage of new Minecraft internal structures that make oversized and animated vehicles a more workable proposition. Once the basic mod internals are finalized it should be possible to make much larger boats with additional capabilities (multiple passengers, ovens, beds, cannon, etc).Tested in single-player, LAN, and on dedicated server.Bug reports and constructive criticism appreciated.

Possible future enhancements

• Cannon
• Sinking
• Different rigging types (sloops, schooners, square, lateen, etc.)
• Functional interiors
• Advanced control scheme (setting sails, reefing, autopilot)
• Racing (marker buoys and timing)
• Oars (rowing)
• Ability to carry animals
• Cargo hold

A "Ships" mod for larger boats is expected to come later, after basic functionality is completed. Ships will have a different build system and may introduce additional capabilities.

Acknowledgements

The Elegant Punt is a real sailboat designed by Phil Bolger and featured in Harold "Dynamite" Payson's book, Instant Boats. It's about as simple a sailboat as you can get, and its appearance and dimensions were well-suited for Minecraft.

The Whitehall is modeled after Alaska, designed by D.H. Kurylko.

The Hoy is an historically correct type of small, coastal vessel used to carry cargo and passengers.

Thanks to Drullkus for the Whitehall icon!
Thanks to joetheantipro for the Hoy icon!

License

Permission to include the Small Boats mod in your mod pack is granted, as long you're not selling it or otherwise charging for distribution.

ChazOffTopic did a review video on this mod

Quote from lclc98

Looks cool.

Thank you. It's been a long time coming, and I built this as a prototype to verify some ideas that I had for building large, mult-part constructs. Seems to be working out so far, but I don't know how well the idea will scale.

You might want to make the link media fire or dropbox

Any particular reason? I'm not beholden to FileFactory, it was just convenient. I have no problem using a different service if there's a compelling reason.

fix the placing on lag bug

I've had some concerns about lag, thought I had something workable, but it's difficult for me to test. How were you testing (ie SSP, SMP, LAN) and were you using a newly created map or an existing one?

Quote from anicet74

I don't know why but I can't craft it or find it in creative inventory,but I can see it in mods page of forge

Crafting recipe was broken, fixed as of 12/12/2012.

In creative mode, it should have appeared on the Misc tab (the one with the bucket of lava) but, as of version 0.2, I moved to to the Transport tab (the one with the railroad track) so that it should now be where you would expect it to be.

Quote from TheDon95

I like this mod it is simple and easy to use. I found the punt in creative menu and sailed for some time without problems but i was not able to craft the punt with 3 boats across the bottom. NEI does not show a recipe too.

Sorry for my bad english and I hope you can fix the recipebug

Your English is fine, bug should be fixed. Thanks for trying it out and commenting!

Wow... thank you, Chaz!

(And, in less than 24 hours, too!)

As mentioned several times in the video comments, a "punt" is a flat-bottomed boat with square ends. The Elegant Punt is a particular design from Phil Bolger, a famous (in the world naval architects) designer who had an affinity for very simple, well-mannered boats that were intended to be built and sailed by amateurs. You can see some pictures (and purchase plans) from Dynamite Payson's site (http://www.instantboats.com/epunt.htm).

It is certainly no Herreshoff, but it was never intended to be.

I built the Elegant Punt mod to test out some ideas I had for building large, complicated structures -- but you can't start out with large and complicated, you have to start small. Once the concept is proven and the bugs have been worked out of the basic mod, I'll move on bigger and better things -- namely, larger boats (think 12m) and then more complication (schooner with a working interior).

I don't know if the concept can be extended so far as to build a four-masted man-o-war with multiple decks and two dozen cannon, but I'm willing to try.

Quote from drackiseries

Hey dude, awesome mod! Did a spotlight on it! Put the video in the forum post if you want

Thanks -- and thanks again for the video!

You mentioned in your commentary that exiting the boat with shift-right-click didn't work at some point; when was that?

Quote from kokonus

waait isnt this extremely hard to code?
also good job cant wait untill we have a fleet bumping into the enemy fleet

"Hard" is relative.

I was taking notes while rebuilding the old mod code for Forge... I have 26 pages at the moment. Might turn it into a tutorial (dissertation?) but I'll have to talk to Mojang about that first.

Quote from Jstorey97

Dude you need to change the download link. I recommend drop box or mediafire

By popular request... download site changed to MediaFire because FileFactory sucks (and I'd call that a compelling reason).

Quote from TheDon95

Hello Awger,
thank you for the bugfixes, everything seems to work fine now. I also like the fact that you switched to mediafire, so we don´t have to wait for free slots to download your mod. The only think I would suggest is the ability to use a fishingrod inside the punt. Everytime I use a rod my punt is breaking. I am not a modder so I don´t know how hard it is or if it is even possible.
Like before: Sorry for my bad english

*smacks forehead*

And here I thought that the only reason we went out on sailboats was to drink beer.

Fishing from the Punt is FIXED! There's a bit of a glitch when casting, but it works fine.

Same download link as before, just grab it again.

EDIT: Scratch that, too tired it seems.
Great mod!

Quote from DanNetwalker

Great mod, I can't wait to add it to my personal server!

There's a slight problem, though... I can't find a way for changing the sailboat id, and with my current mod combination the recipe it's giving me a copper ingot (so it's crashing with other mod ids, haven't checked which one for now - I asume either forestry or IC2). Is there no config file to change it to a new one, or I'm being just too derp for finding it?

Thanks!

No, you're not derp... no config file... yet. I just haven't gotten around to adding one. Guess I should get around to it now...

Quote from boronguy

You can get rid of the water in the ship by adding a halftranslucent feature in the boat itself (the same way you cannot see water behind ice, and the stained glass from buildcraft (or some mod) also doesn't let you see water behind it) As there can only be one halftranslucent feature so i recommend adding a technicaly halftranslucent object on the top of the baot or a bit in the ship itself, as high as the water comes

yeah because whe IpodMail was reviewing it the boat was full of water .

Quote from boronguy

You can get rid of the water in the ship by adding a halftranslucent feature in the boat itself (the same way you cannot see water behind ice, and the stained glass from buildcraft (or some mod) also doesn't let you see water behind it) As there can only be one halftranslucent feature so i recommend adding a technicaly halftranslucent object on the top of the baot or a bit in the ship itself, as high as the water comes

Aaaah... I'd been musing about how to do that, hadn't gotten around to actually looking into a solution though. Was saving that problem for the next iteration (larger boat).

I kinda like how the Punt stays wet... much like a real one. Ever been on a small sailboat?

That reminds me... I should have it capsize if you throw it over too hard.

i love this mod plz add to it

Just finished up reviewing your mod great work man i hope to see a variety in boats and more features with them (fishing styles implemented)

NICEEEEEEEEEE =D

Quote from Jimorrison

I used to hate that as a kid ^^ always willing to keep my feet dry. But now I'm fine with it. It makes me feel nostalgic. I hope you will keep it

I just tested the mod, it is really great, and I hope you will add more cool boats to it (you should make a "planned content" section on the main page so that people don't ask the same questions repeatedly)

So what are your priorities for the mod development? Multiplayer, adding boats or just tweaking the code untill it's bugless?

I have a small suggestion, I don't really like the sail texture so, I thought it would be cool if it could be customizable when creating the punt (different colors of wool giving different sail textures) Tell me what you think

Thanks, glad you like it! Good idea on the planned content section, I'll add it next time I post an update.

Current priority is expansion of the internals to simplify construction of new (larger) boats. That's a little easier said than done, and a more long-range goal, so I'll probably tackle some low-hanging fruit like a config file (to set options like entity ID, currently it's causing conflicts with other mods).

Changing color of the sail according to recipe wouldn't be terribly difficult, but would require an additional entity item (the sail) and new recipes... and the different sail skins.

Other suggestions I've received include getting rid of the water in the boat (would be another configurable option, in case you like 'em wet) and having the boat capsize if you throw the rudder down too hard (I expect I'd throw the rider out of the boat, and have it right itself after a few seconds).

Still up in the air is SMP... it should be working right now, but I don't know what kind of lag you'd see with several boats in close proximity... which is something of another goal -- punt racing! Still thinking about how to do it right, would need to make some buoys and figure out how to sync the timing between all the players...

And, last but not least... a big shout-out to The Templars and Piu for posting new videos -- THANKS GUYS!

What'

What' the crafting recipe?

EDIT: Found, forget what i said

I tried this out as the only mod added to vanilla MC and loved it. Unfortunately, I can't use it on my normal setup because I'm having a problem much like DanNetWalker mentioned, that being the conflict with Forestry and another mod named SimpleGuns. The recipe does not show up in NEI or on any tab in creative mode, and a search turns up nothing. When I attempted to craft it anyway, the first time I got a "spring" from the SimpleGuns mod. I changed the IDs in that mod's config and next got a copper ingot when I tried. Both were id# 5259. Looking at the Forge log, I found this error, hopefully it will help:

[SEVERE] [ForgeModLoader] Mismatched items : {5259=(Item 5259, Type simpleguns.SGItemGeneric, owned by SimpleGuns, ordinal 1, name null, claimedModId null, Item 5259, Type forestry.core.items.ItemForestry, owned by Forestry, ordinal 5, name null, claimedModId null)}

+1 vote for sail colors, double +1 vote for a config file so I can get this up and running on the family server.

Great work and can't wait to see what's next.

***edit: Dug this out of the Forge log as well:

[WARNING] [ForgeModLoader] The mod id awger_Punt attempted to register channels without specifying a packet handler

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[INFO] [STDOUT] CONFLICT @ 5003 item slot already occupied by awger.mods.punt.common.ItemPunt@57895c19 while adding forestry.core.items.ItemForestry@7afd9a34
[WARNING] [ForgeModLoader] [ItemTracker] The mod Forestry is attempting to overwrite existing item at 5259 (awger.mods.punt.common.ItemPunt from awger_Punt) with forestry.core.items.ItemForestry

I used this info and what I already had to change the id of the copper ingots in the forestry config file and it works just fine now.

Quote from n3koshi

I tried this out as the only mod added to vanilla MC and loved it. Unfortunately, I can't use it on my normal setup because I'm having a problem much like DanNetWalker mentioned, that being the conflict with Forestry and another mod named SimpleGuns.

Config file added. EntityID defaults to 5003 (same as before) but you should be able to fix the conflict by changing it.

+1 vote for sail colors, double +1 vote for a config file so I can get this up and running on the family server.

Done!

***edit: Dug this out of the Forge log as well:

[WARNING] [ForgeModLoader] The mod id awger_Punt attempted to register channels without specifying a packet handler

I started seeing that error after splitting the packet handler into separate client and server handlers. Not sure why (I expect it's a glitch in Forge), but it seems to work regardless.

Sweet. This mod is probably the biggest reason I'm still on 1.4.5...lol