HorseInABoat

HorseInABoat is a lightweight Minecraft quality-of-life plugin that lets horses and other horse-type mobs ride in boats.

It makes travelling across rivers, lakes, and oceans easier without changing the core feel of vanilla Minecraft.

Features

HorseInABoat supports:

• Horses
• Donkeys
• Mules
• Skeleton Horses
• Zombie Horses

Supported mobs can enter normal boats and ride alongside the player.

HorseInABoat keeps the behaviour simple and close to vanilla:

• A horse uses one passenger seat
• A player can use the remaining seat
• Boats can still be controlled normally
• Saddles, armour, names, ownership, health, and other horse data are preserved
• Donkey and mule inventories are preserved
• Tamed and untamed horses work
• Horses dismount safely when the boat is broken
• No custom items or recipes are added
• No commands are needed for normal use

Shared Boat Interaction

Because of the size of horse entities, Minecraft's targeting behaviour causes problems when a horse and player share the same boat.

To keep the behaviour reliable, players cannot break or interact with nearby blocks while sharing a boat with a supported horse-type mob.

Normal boat movement and passenger behaviour still work as expected.

Server Support

The plugin is built against the Spigot API and is intended to support:

• CraftBukkit
• Spigot
• Paper
• Purpur

Vanilla clients do not need to install anything.

Check each release for the exact Minecraft versions supported.

Installation

1. Download the plugin jar for your Minecraft version.
2. Place it in your server's plugins folder.
3. Restart the server.

No client-side mod is required.

Other Versions

HorseInABoat is also available separately for:

• Fabric
• NeoForge

Use the correct project and jar for your platform. The mod page can be found here.

Project Goal

HorseInABoat solves one small Minecraft problem: moving horses across water.

It keeps the change focused and close to vanilla without adding new transport systems or changing how horses work outside boats.