Omichall's Driving Boats

Drive Boats on Land

Turn boats into fully drivable land vehicles with smooth movement, hill climbing, adjustable speed, and optional realistic driving controls.

It's especially useful for turning boats into cars with a resource pack, building race tracks, or just driving around your world without needing mods or plugins.

Features

• Drive boats freely on land
• Camera-based steering
• Smooth acceleration and coasting (WITH REALISTIC DRIVING*)
• Climb hills and obstacles up to around 1.5 blocks
• Adjustable top speed up to 100 b/s / 360 km/h / 224 mph
• Optional jumping
• Boats return to normal vanilla behaviour in water
• Optional Realistic Driving mode with P / R / N / D gears
• Adjustable realistic acceleration
• Speedometer with multiple units
• Optional compact driving HUD
• Server-wide enable / disable controls
• Compatible with Minecraft 26.1, 26.2 and 26.3

Normal Driving Commands

Set maximum speed in blocks per second

/trigger boat_speed set <1-100>

Set maximum speed in km/h

/trigger boat_speed_kmh set <1-360>

Set maximum speed in mph

/trigger boat_speed_mph set <1-224>

Toggle jumping

Allows the boat to jump using Space while driving.

Disabled by default.

/trigger boat_jump

Realistic Driving Commands

Realistic Driving adds a transmission system with:

P → R → N → D

Sprint shifts up through the gears.

By default, double-tapping Sprint within about 300 ms shifts down.

Toggle Realistic Driving

Disabled by default.

/trigger realistic_driving

Toggle Space as the downshift button

When enabled:

• Sprint shifts up
• Space shifts down
• Boat jumping is disabled because Space is used for shifting

/trigger realistic_space_downshift

Adjust realistic acceleration

/trigger realistic_acceleration set <-75..400>

Values:

• 0 = default acceleration
• -75 = 75% slower than default
• 400 = 400% stronger than default

Change speedometer units

/trigger realistic_speed_unit set <0|1|2|3>

Units:

• 0 = km/h
• 1 = mph
• 2 = blocks per second
• 3 = ft/s

Default: km/h

Toggle Compact UI

Shows only the gears and rounded current speed instead of the full driving HUD.

/trigger compact_ui

Utility Commands

Show help

/function boatmount:help

Show current settings and status

/function boatmount:status

Recover from a broken or stuck vehicle state

/function boatmount:recover

Enable the datapack

/function boatmount:config/enable

Disable the datapack

Returns controlled boats to vanilla behaviour.

/function boatmount:config/disable

Show server-wide configuration status

/function boatmount:config/status

The enabled / disabled state persists across /reload.

Showcase Video (of simple driving mode)

Made by omichall