
Boat Standing Fix
Fixes the vanilla bug where standing on a boat in water causes stuttering, rubber-banding, and getting stuck (MC-156980).
⬇ Download on ModrinthBoat Standing Fix
Fixes the vanilla bug (MC-156980) where standing on a boat floating in water makes your movement stutter and rubber-band, or gets you pushed around and stuck.
Root cause
Player movement is client-authoritative: the client simulates its own position and reports it to the server, which recomputes the same movement and rejects (snaps back) the client's position if the two disagree too much. Two checks in the server's movement handling do this, and both misfire when a boat is drifting under the player:
- A tolerance check that a bobbing boat blows through most ticks purely from its own motion, nothing to do with the player.
- A collision check that treats the boat's own shifting hitbox as a new collision every time it moves under the player.
Both checks are loosened, but only when the moving entity is near a boat, so ordinary anti-cheat validation is untouched everywhere else.
Details
- Runs on the server. In singleplayer the integrated server handles it.
- Clients do not need the mod; a vanilla client gets the fix for free once the server runs it.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.11
- 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 boat-standing-fix-1.0.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 57 KB
- Download link checked 10 Sept 2026 — working
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