Building a track structure like the one in the video below and placing a boat in it will make the boat no longer travel at high speed as in Video “Screenrecorder-2025-06-20-12-48-41-942.mp4”. For other game saves that use this method for transportation and decoration, this is a major disaster!
Fix: Revert or modify the feature where "when a boat is leashed, it is affected by friction in the air like other entities, and no longer rotates around the player or behaves too elastically" to achieve the above effect.
Actually, there was a more convenient way for this mechanism before version 1.16, which Chinese players called "Light Speed Boat". At that time, the boat's top speed had no upper limit, which was indeed too overpowered, so Mojang Studios fixed it after version 1.16. However, players invented new methods like what's shown in the video, with a speed cap of 255 blocks per second, and the speed can be stabilized at a consistent value. But due to the block loading speed not keeping up, the actual maximum speed is less than 100 blocks per second.
This is truly a clever transportation mechanism. In my hardcore survival world, I built a 2,000-block-long track for it, and even placed note blocks alongside to create musical rhythms, making it highly ornamental. I sincerely suggest Mojang retain this mechanism in the game!
VID_20250620_124937.mp4------The mechanism by which boats can move at high speed as demonstrated in version 1.21.81ID
Screenrecorder-2025-06-20-12-48-41-942.mp4------The mechanism by which boats can move at high speed as demonstrated in version 1.21.90.
I hope Mojang Studios can restore this mechanism so that we can have a better gameplay experience in Survival Mode and make Minecraft a better game. Thank you very much!
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Never seen this mechanism here, but based on the video it is nowhere near the fastest transportation. Even a normal ice road is faster than what is shown in the video. Packed Ice and Blue Ice are even faster. Also not sure what “technical difficulty” you’re referring to - it’s just a bunch of soul sand and ladders / fence gates. Also there is nothing “automated” here at all.
So while this mechanic is interesting, I expect the problem here relates to the ladders and how the boat now interacts with small variations in terrain heights.
Actually, there was a more convenient way for this mechanism before version 1.16, which Chinese players called "Light Speed Boat". At that time, the boat's top speed had no upper limit, which was indeed too overpowered, so Mojang Studios fixed it after version 1.16. However, players invented new methods like what's shown in the video, with a speed cap of 255 blocks per second, and the speed can be stabilized at a consistent value. But due to the block loading speed not keeping up, the actual maximum speed is less than 100 blocks per second.
This is truly a clever transportation mechanism. In my hardcore survival world, I built a 2,000-block-long track for it, and even placed note blocks alongside to create musical rhythms, making it highly ornamental. I sincerely suggest Mojang retain this mechanism in the game!
@eSonOfAnder Since you have not seen the mechanism before, I will show you 3 videos. The first one shows a transportation system built by some server players, using this mechanism. It works automatically because players can control the ship's path and stopping by placing specific items as road signs into the boat with chest, just like high-speed trains in real life. The second one shows more difficult rails, including ramp ways and belts. With these videos, you could understand why I said it has technical difficulties. Every water flow needs to be accurately placed, and bends, diagonal lines, and ramp ways require precise speed and direction control. Many players have developed complex empirical formulas to assist in construction(the third video). Although it is very difficult work, many players have already created more complex facilities, such as turnouts, main and side tracks, marshalling station, and so on. With these facilities help, players can build a “high-speed train system” in the vanilla game.
Addition: If the attachment cannot be played, you can watch it through the Bilibili link below. But the video content is all in Chinese. Please forgive me for not being able to provide translation and my unskilled English.
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Since this is a fairly complicated build, could you please provide a test world we can use to reproduce the bug? Or this this already fixed with (MCPE-222298)?
Yes, this has already been fixed with MCPE-222298. Therefore, we can use this transportation system as we used to do. Thank you for your concern.
This mechanism is very important to Bedrock Edition players because it is the fastest transportation in the Survival Mode and the vanilla game. However, its technical difficulty is very high so that players need a lot of time and resources to build the transportation system in the game. If this mechanism cannot be restored, all the fruits of players' labor will lose their value. What’s worse, the Bedrock Edition will permanently lose a fast and automated mode of transportation. Please restore this mechanism to save the fruits of players' labor since many players need it to build a transportation system. Thank you very much!