Oliver Merrill

Hubertus, it's not that we can't figure out the meager controls now available. It's that boats worked great until horses were added. Suddenly boats were behaving exactly like horses (I wonder why). They fixed them so that boats no longer toss their riders, but now instead of bothering to fix the controls, Mojang is calling it a feature.

If you think the new boat controls are ANYTHING like real boats, you've probably never set foot in one.

That is unfortunate. So boats are now just horse-skis. Looks like 1.5.2 is where I'll get off.

Sorry Marcus, but even driving doesn't work that way. Try taking your hands off the wheel and see how your "look" method works out. Cars have steering wheels, boats have rudders (or oars). There MUST be a way to maneuver the boats.

Aside from that bit of common sense, there was nothing in the change log about boat control, which means this is likely a bug that occurred when horse mechanics were implemented. see this issue that was fixed in an earlier snapshot: MC-16413 Where boat riders would get tossed as though they were riding a horse.

To call this issue resolved is premature to say the least. It will just get opened up again and again until it is actually addressed.

Works as intended?? Please tell me we're adding SOME way to control boats... craftable oars??

Boats are virtually unusable now 😞

Vincent... Perhaps you mean it is what Mojang intended, but it is not how boats "should" work. Right now there is no way to slow down or make sharper turns. This is not how a rowboat (which is what we have in Minecraft) actually works. If I'm going at speed and put both oars in the water, I slow down.. If I dip the right oar, I turn right, left oar, turn left...