Bigger Boats
Bigger Boats keeps vanilla boats simple, but makes them better for small groups. Install it on a Fabric server and up to four players can ride in the same boat. No new recipe, no new boat item, no custom entity to teach players about.
The server controls the important behavior, so unmodded clients can still join. Players who install the mod on their client get cleaner visuals: extra riders are spaced out and the boat stretches slightly when a third or fourth passenger is aboard.
Features
- Four players per vanilla boat
- Server-side gameplay support
- Optional client-side visual polish
- Normal one- and two-passenger boats stay visually normal
- Dynamic client-side stretch for three and four passengers
- No extra crafting recipes or replacement boat items
Install Note
For multiplayer, install Bigger Boats on the Fabric server. Clients do not need the mod to connect or ride, but installing it client-side improves how crowded boats look.
Fabric API is required.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 26.3-snapshot-1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as bigger-boats-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 206 KB
- Download link checked 6 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.