So horses, donkeys, mules, skeleton horses and zombie horses can't go to boats.
What I expected to happen was...:
The horse would "sit" on the boat
What actually happened was...:
it was standing there, looking at me like "What is supposed to happen?" and continued walking around.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. place a boat
2. try to get a horse in it
3. the horse will act like the boat was a block or a slab and won't get in the boat
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We're tracking this issue in MC-96212, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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That was an issue of an older version of Minecraft, reported in 2016. The issue came back to 1.16
Duplicate ofย MC-96212, which was later resolved as "Works As Intended".