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Features:
- Block-Based Construction: You can build any water ship, lava craft, or airship using ordinary blocks without complex menus.
- Buoyancy Physics: Blocks have specific density ratings, meaning lighter wooden hulls float high while heavy metal blocks pull ships down.
- Craft a Ship Helm and right-click it to assemble floating, unconnected blocks into a moving craft.
- Add wool sails to a mast to increase forward speed based on the overall length of your ship.
- Place two iron blocks at the front of your bow to cut through frozen ocean ice at half speed.
- Fly through the sky using sealed wool envelopes lifted by campfires and powered by ghast drives.
- Use fireproof materials and nether sails to sail across hot lava lakes.
- Salvage intact ocean shipwrecks by placing a helm and repairing the broken hull.
- Mount cannons on the deck and load them with gunpowder and cannonballs.
- Chests, furnaces, brewing stands, and beds remain functional while underway.
- Tie friendly mobs to fence posts or let them stand directly on deck.
- Move your vessels between the Overworld and the Nether through oversized portals.
Block Density Ratings:
| Density | Block Types |
|---|---|
| 0.1 | Wool, carpets, sails, banners, glass panes, signs, trapdoors, ladders |
| 0.17 | Wooden slabs, wooden doors, fences, fence gates |
| 0.38 | Planks, logs, stairs, glass blocks, chests, iron bars |
| 2.0 | Stone, bricks, obsidian, walls, concrete, sand, dirt, furnaces |
| 8.0 | Iron blocks, copper blocks, netherite, anvils, cannons |
| 20.0 | Gold blocks |
How to Use:
- Place your crafted Ship Helm on a floating hull or an airship gondola that is completely detached from the terrain.
- Right-click the Ship Helm to assemble the structure into a functional craft.
- Use the W, A, S, and D keys to move and steer, and use Page Up or Page Down to zoom the camera view.
- When piloting an airship, press Space to gain altitude and hold Left Control to descend.
- Press the R key to lock your speed with cruise control.
- Press Left Shift (Sneak) to dismount and dock your craft back into solid blocks.
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Sails and Airships Block Based Ships Mod Download Links
Quick facts
- 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: 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.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Downloads as 518318.mcaddon
- Download size: 1019 KB
- Download link checked 30 Sept 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.