Ships

Ships

Adds a new ship dungeon and lets illagers use boats.

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About this Mod

Ships is a structure datapack that adds illager ships into the game as a new type of dungeon, and allows illagers use boats.

Structures

Ships

The ships are designed to look like shipwrecks, and the ships contain pillagers, vindicators, and loot similar to shipwreck loot. Ships can spawn made out of different types of wood, and maps from the ships lead you to pillager outposts.
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Fleets

Fleets are structures consisting of multiple ships. Each ship has an evoker. illagers will continuously spawn on these until you kill all the evokers. Maps from fleets lead you to woodland mansions.
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Illager Boats

This datapack also allows illagers use boats. If an illager is in the water, it will get into a boat and patrol nearby ocean. If it sees an enemy, it will stop patrolling and chase it. Ships spawn with a few patrols around to make getting on board more challenging. Fleets spawn with even more patrols around them.

The Illager boat mechanic is experimental, can be somewhat performance intensive, and might break if you have mods, plugins, or other datapacks installed!
If you need to disable or limit Ai boats, you can do so by changing gamerules with "/function ships:gamerules"
If you are interested in helping optimize the datapack, you can contribute here.

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To use this datapack/mod in a modpack outside of Modrinth, you must comment on its Planet Minecraft page that you are using this datapack/mod in a modpack and include either a link to the modpack in the comment, or both its name and a link to the website it's hosted on in the comment.

Credit to Bobydon for the showcase video.

Available Versions

3.0.4release
MC 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt
January 31, 2025
3.0.4release
MC 1.21.2, 1.21.3, 1.21.4datapack
January 31, 2025
3.0.3 [Mod]release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1fabric, forge, quilt
July 15, 2024
3.0.3release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6, 1.21, 1.21.1datapack
July 15, 2024
3.0.2 [Mod]release
MC 1.20, 1.20.1fabric, forge, quilt
July 15, 2024

How to Install Ships on Your Server

1

Order Server

Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended).

2

Set datapack Loader

In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.4).

3

Install Mod

Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Ships". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

datapackfabricforgeneoforgequilt

Minecraft Versions

1.21.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.2 (+17 more)

Server-side

Required

Recommended RAM

6 GB(min. 4 GB)

Frequently Asked Questions

Ships server crashes on startup – what to do?

Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 4 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.4). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.

Is Ships compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?

Ships officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.4, 1.21.3, 1.21.2. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.

Server lagging with Ships – how to optimize performance?

Recommended RAM: 6 GB (per 5 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Ships consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.

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Details

License
Apache License 2.0
Server-side
Required

Supported Versions

1.21.41.21.31.21.21.21.11.211.20.61.20.51.20.41.20.31.20.2+10 more