I made primitive aeronautics for Minecraft: put a chicken in a boat and it can fly

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I made a small Fabric mod for Minecraft 1.21.11 called Magic Boat. The idea is extremely simple: if you put a chicken inside a vanilla boat, the boat becomes magical and can fly. It does not work like an airplane, an elytra, or a creative-mode vehicle. It is more like a poor little sky raft. You hold jump to slowly gain altitude, and when you stop pressing jump, the chicken makes the boat gently drift downward instead of falling like a rock. So the full mechanic is basically: boat without chicken = normal vanilla boat boat with chicken = slow floating boat hold jump = slowly go up release jump = slowly drift down I made it because I was thinking about floating island worlds, where players need a very early, low-tech way to cross the void before getting elytras or building huge bridges everywhere. I like the idea that Minecraft’s first form of aeronautics would not be engines, wings, balloons, or magic fuel. It would just be: boat + chicken = trust the sky It is dumb, but it feels weirdly vanilla to me. submitted by /u/Life-Refrigerator299 [link] [comments]

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