Boat

**Boats** are waterborne transports that use the vanilla minecraft:boat as its asset base. The server has modified the use and utility of minecraft:boats, changing their health, speed, accessibility, personnel capacity and even their movement within specific weather, blocks and biome conditions to better suit the tactical gameplay vision of the game. Boats in the server can hold up to four players maximum.

Construction of boats are limited to locations that are known as "shipyards". Storing the boat "item" within a player slows them down considerably until they place the boat. This boat item in your inventory cannot simply be "dropped", it must be placed every time by the player that picks it up. Dropped boat items also cannot be placed within the on board chest of another boat.

As boats themselves do not take damage from arrow or crossbow bolt projectiles, it is better to aim for the passengers. The boats however can be completely destroyed with melee weapons or hazardous environments such as fire or lava. Punching a boat with or without any item on the hand simply converts it into a droppable item.

Ramming a boat at a block at full speed has a chance to destroy the boat completely.

## Capacity

Boats can carry a maximum of four(4) players: a pilot, a rear passenger, a third passenger and a fourth passenger. The third & fourth passenger do not visibly appear on the vessel nor can they affect anything with their actions except look around. Alternatively, if a boat has a chest on it, it can only carry up to two(2) players, with the second player taken up the role of the invisible passenger.

As a rule, **the pilot is the only person able to take items in and out of the chests**. Attempting to take out items while not being the pilot result in the message "Pilot the boat to access its contents."

## Maneuverability & Handling Penalties

Boat speed and maneuverability is highly dependent on the amount of weight the boat is carrying such as passengers or if the boat has an onboard chest. In addition, stormy weather and biomes also affect the boat's handling - deliberately steering the boat randomly in different directions. The amount of contents in the chest do not affect the boat at all, just if there was a chest on it. As a general rule, lighter boats are more maneuverable but are more susceptible to stormy weather penalties.

### Weight & Capacity

Boats that only have one(1) person onboard sail at normal vanilla Minecraft speed. Additional personnel apart from the pilot decrease the speed and its maneuverability by 5%, making a fully-manned(4) vessel slower by 15% of the boat's speed and turn rate. A chest automatically counts as two persons, making a boat with chests automatically 10% slower than a single-manned ship and an additional passenger will reduce the speed to 15% less of the minecraft vanilla boat speed.

### Weather & Biomes

The weather and biome have an effect on the maneuver and handling of a boat to simulate the difference between rough and calm seas. If there is a rain or storm, a boat will randomly steer in different directions for a random duration, this is amplified by the temperature and humidity of the biome. A general rule is that the colder a climate is, the more powerful the penalty in a storm. In addition, the lighter boats will be more affected by the penalty while the heavier boats may better retain degrees of control.

The most powerful penalties are in ocean biomes, while beach or shore biomes retain middling penalties. In addition, river biomes have the least amount of penalties.

In river biomes, boats are able to climb one block at a time without sinking, though naturally they are slowed down in the attempts.