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How to Craft Acacia Boat in Minecraft

Acacia Boat in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Water travel. Minecraft has used the name Acacia Boat since 1.9.

Feed a Crafting Table 5 Acacia Planks and an Acacia Boat comes back. From the top down: two Acacia Planks down either side; then three Acacia Planks. A single craft gives you 1 Acacia Boat. Short on coal? 1200 ticks each means 11 Acacia Boats smelt 64 items.

Acacia Boat Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Acacia Boat is minecraft:acacia_boat. In commands the namespace may be left off, so acacia_boat works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p acacia_boat
Give several at once
/give @p acacia_boat 5
Give it to a named player
/give Steve acacia_boat 1

Cheats have to be on for Acacia Boat to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Acacia Boats travel across water and ice. They move extremely fast on blue ice, making them ideal for highways. Acacia Boat uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

Minecraft has used the name Acacia Boat since 1.9, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with acacia planks (craft from acacia logs).

The Yield Per Stack

Bring 64 acacia planks, leave with 12 acacia boats, after 12 rounds of 5 for 1. That leaves 4 acacia planks with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Acacia Planks5xCraft from acacia logs

A Crafting Table and 5x Acacia Planks (craft from acacia logs): that is everything Acacia Boat asks for.

The Full Chain

2 Acacia Log makes 8 Acacia Planks, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 2 Acacia Log.

  1. 1
    28Acacia Planksrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    Acacia BoatAcacia BoatAcacia Boatthis page

Gather this first

2Acacia Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    5x Acacia Planks

  2. 2

    Acacia Boat

Minecraft crafting recipe for Acacia Boat: 5 x Acacia Planks in a crafting table, making 1 Acacia Boat.

Tips & Notes

  • Line up 5x Acacia Planks before you open the Crafting Table. Acacia Planks: craft from acacia logs.

Uses for Acacia Boat

  • Water travel
  • Ice highway travel (very fast on blue ice)
  • Mob transportation

What Acacia Boat Goes Into

One other recipe on this site lists Acacia Boat as an ingredient.

Acacia Boat with ChestAcacia Boat with ChestAcacia Boat with ChestCrafting Table

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Acacia Boat on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft an Acacia Boat in Minecraft?
To craft an Acacia Boat you need 5 Acacia Planks at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Acacia Boat.
What do you need to make an Acacia Boat from scratch?
Starting with nothing, an Acacia Boat costs 2 Acacia Logs. Everything else in the recipe is something you craft on the way there, over 2 crafts in total.
Can you craft an Acacia Boat without a crafting table?
Not this one: an Acacia Boat will not fit the inventory grid. It is laid out as five Acacia Planks, and that takes 3 columns, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for an Acacia Boat?
The materials for an Acacia Boat each come from somewhere different. Acacia Planks: craft from acacia logs.
How many Acacia Boats do you get from one craft?
The Acacia Boat recipe makes one Acacia Boat per craft.
What is the item ID for Acacia Boat in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Acacia Boat goes by minecraft:acacia_boat; acacia_boat without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Acacia Boat?
Use /give @p acacia_boat to put an Acacia Boat in your own inventory. Add a number on the end for more than one, and note that cheats have to be on.
Is the Acacia Boat recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Java and Bedrock agree on an Acacia Boat: both want 5 Acacia Planks at a Crafting Table in the layout above, and both give one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Acacia Boat?
Minecraft 1.9 is the oldest release that calls the acacia boat by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. The current release still makes an Acacia Boat exactly that way.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
5 Acacia Planks in, 1 Acacia Boat out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.9 and in nothing older. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Acacia Boat per craft against the stack size.

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