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I have been trying to make a boat ride in one of my maps where the boat goes around to a drop off where it goes down a waterfall. I have had it work like twice, but most times when it touches anything it breaks like when it hits a piece of dirt before going down it breaks. Sometimes when I drop it in the water it breaks. It breaks all of the time.

2 Questions: Is there just a certain material that should be used around boats IE sand or should they be okay around stone and dirt? Do they make boats stronger in any updates or possibly add something like an Iron Boat or Diamond Boat? Man a Diamond Boat would be really cool, lol!

Thanks!

I use soul sand at my docks to avoid breakage.

Supposedly wool works as well. In my experience boats won't break on wool, however they will glitch half way into a wool block sometimes, making it a pain to get out.

I know this has nothing to do with the OP's problem...

...but for those of you who are just looking for a boat laucher/lander that should guarantee that the boat will not break at the docks... then try building this. No soul sand needed.



I haven't built it yet in my world but only because I'm not sure where I want my harbor to be yet. Should work perfectly on xbox.

P.S. For the OP... breaking of boats won't be remedied until we get to the equivalent of PC's 1.3 version which just came out this week. So we have to wait a while. They made boats work more like minecarts - when you break one, you get a boat instead of sticks and planks. I think I also read that boats will still break if you run them into the shoreline but not as frequently.

I'm just getting ready to start a giant "river" project, and was wondering about how to get a boat safely down it. Is there a minimum depth of the water before the boat breaks, and should I line the whole river with soul sand? Or just sand/wool on the bends in the river?