BBF stays true to the vanilla boat's behaviour, which "works as intended" according to Mojang. This is only a hotfix to prevent accidental deaths.
Boat Break Fix is a simple mod that fixes the annoying bug where if you fall from a distance equivalent to 12, 13, 49, 51, 111, 114, 198, 202, 310, or 315 blocks with a boat, it'll break on landing, and you will recieve the equivalent fall damage.
Not to be confused with the Boat Fall mod, which does the opposite of BBF. (Enables fall damage using boats)
This mod just fixes that, while also increasing boat performance as less code is running on each tick, and yes, the mod does work with unlimited world heights.
In case you want to know which specific heights are affected in vanilla, you can use f(n) = (25n^2 ± n)/2 where n is an integer.
A video example of this bug can be seen in this reddit post (Which inspired me to make this mod altogether)
Why did I die?? Boat shoud absorb impact of block (reddit.com)
Hopefully Mojang fixes this in future updates. Meanwhile, this mod was tested working on all 3 main platforms from 1.17 to 1.19.2.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.17, 1.17.1, 1.18
- 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 BoatBreakFix-Universal-1.0.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 7 KB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.