
Wanna fly that giant sky island you made the other day? Want to actually use that pirate ship you built? Then Archimede’s Ships Plus Mod 1.10.2, 1.7.10 is what you need. Place a helm, add some balloons and off you go.

Ship Characteristics:
As you may or may not know, ships can have different characteristics based on how you build them.
Ship Density
Based on the blocks you use to create your ship, it will sink lower, or sink less! For example, a ship made of iron blocks will sink more than a block made of wood. This is based on the block’s material (Iron = Metal, Wooden Planks = Wood), you can of course configure this to make things more or less dense to your desire.
Balloon Count
If you make a ship and want it to fly you need balloons, by default 40% of your ship needs to be balloons. As per usual you can change this in the config and just make all ships fly with no balloons at all.
Flood Fill Survivability
Did you make a submarine but it would submerge, odd are you didn’t quite do it right.
Crafting Recipes:
Blocks Helm

The helm is required for any type of ship, simply place a helm on a standalone structure, right click assemble and mount! Once this is done you can control the ship, when you’re done you can press the ship gui Key (Default K) and disassemble.
Blocks Floater

Blocks Seat
If you add a seat to your ship, other players can right click the ship to be assigned and mounted to a seat.

Blocks Anchor
Used if you need to anchor to a point consistently. Place one of these on the ground and activate it, then place one on your ship shift right click it and activate it to tether the anchors together. Now if you align within range of the anchor the ship will snap to the position of the ground anchor!

Blocks Crate

Blocks Engine
Engines are used to increase the speed of your ship, each time you add an engine to a ship the speed will increase. They require a fuel source like coal or wood to function.

Blocks Buffer
A buffer acts as a buffer between the world and your ship, it’s useful for a dock to prevent your ship assembling the dock.

Blocks StickyBuffer
A sticky buffer acts the same as a buffer but it adds itself to the ship on assembly.

MovingWorld:
Allows people to create mods that have flying structures, an example of the mod in use is archimedes ships plus. It also contains code for making your block function while in an entity state.
Download Links for Archimede’s Ships Plus Mod 1.10.2, 1.7.10
For Minecraft 1.7.10
For Minecraft 1.8.0
For Minecraft 1.8.9
For Minecraft 1.10.2
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- 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: In MC Java Mods, or directly above on this page.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Downloads as 211713.mcaddon
- Download size: 4.2 MB
- Download link checked 30 Jul 2026 — working
- Mirrored on our own servers — the download does not depend on the original host
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.