Boats lose forward momentum abruptly when falling down

Sounds like minecart gravity/friction is being applied to boats.

I just posted about the same thing on r/Minecraft, if this is a bug, I hope it gets fixed because it literally ruins this ice boat track I’ve been working on for 3 years.

Iirc the same thing happens to minecarts in the air, which really messes with fast minecarts from the minecarts experimental features thingy.

Its just really unsatisfying when you launch a minecart really fast and it just stalls in the air halfway through its trajectory

This ruins all boat tracks and any transport system that are more than 1 block level.

Complete garbage that I don’t think is even possible to work around. Forces everything to be thought of in 2d and has 0 sensible reason to exist

Reddit post about it because I don’t see much of the attention there translating to here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1li43mr/boats_lose_all_momentum_when_you_leave_the_ground/

I’m grateful for that Reddit post sharing this report and bringing more attention to this issue. Thank you for sharing!

This is the first time an update has overall removed fun from the game for me, messing up my ice track and taking away my fun little llama parade.

I can't use Vibrant Visuals on my device and the Happy Ghast slows the game to a crawl, so please let this be an easy fix to get my ice track back up to speed again!

Thank you for making the report, Keith. This is nuts. Ice boat tracks and their jumps have been popular and part of the overall community for a long time. I don’t understand why Mojang/Microsoft would thoughtlessly ruin so many hours of players work like this.

Surely negating the mid air friction when you're in the boat would resolve both issues.