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How to Craft Birch Boat with Chest in Minecraft

Birch Boat with Chest in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Water travel with 27-slot storage. Minecraft has used the name Birch Boat with Chest since 1.19.

You need 1 Birch Boat and 1 Chest, plus a Crafting Table to assemble them on. You end up with 1 Birch Boat with Chest each time. As fuel these are worth 1200 ticks apiece: 11 of them clear a stack of 64.

Birch Boat with Chest Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Birch Boat with Chest combines a boat with a chest for 27 slots of mobile storage on water. Birch Boat with Chest uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

Minecraft has used the name Birch Boat with Chest since 1.19, the oldest release whose language file lists it.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with birch boat (craft from birch planks) and chest (craft from planks).

One Stack, Counted

Stack sum: 64 over 1 is 64 crafts, times 1 is 64 birch boat with chests. On top of that: 64 birch boats. Nothing is wasted: craft 64 takes the rest.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Birch BoatBirch BoatBirch Boat1xCraft from birch planks
ChestChestChest1xCraft from planks

Gather Birch Boat (craft from birch planks) and Chest (craft from planks), then take the lot to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

4 crafts deep: Birch Planks, Chest, Birch Boat, then the Birch Boat with Chest. All in: 8 Planks and 2 Birch Log.

  1. 1
    28Birch Planksrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    8ChestChestChest
  3. 3
    5Birch BoatBirch BoatBirch Boat
  4. 4
    Birch Boat with ChestBirch Boat with ChestBirch Boat with Chestthis page

Gather this first

8Planks2Birch Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Birch BoatBirch BoatBirch BoatChestChestChest

  2. 2

    Birch Boat with Chest

Minecraft crafting recipe for Birch Boat with Chest: 1 x Birch Boat, 1 x Chest in a crafting table, making 1 Birch Boat with Chest.

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Birch Boat and Chest anywhere in the grid and Birch Boat with Chest appears.
  • One craft costs 1x Birch Boat and 1x Chest. Start with the Birch Boat: craft from birch planks.

Uses for Birch Boat with Chest

  • Water travel with 27-slot storage
  • Transporting items across water

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Birch Boat with Chest in Minecraft?
The list for a Birch Boat with Chest is short: 1 Birch Boat and 1 Chest, worked at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of them are in the grid, and one craft produces one Birch Boat with Chest.
What do you need to make a Birch Boat with Chest from scratch?
From raw materials only, a Birch Boat with Chest comes down to 8 Planks and 2 Birch Logs. The rest you make yourself, and it takes 4 crafts to get there.
Where do you find the materials for a Birch Boat with Chest?
Here is where each part of a Birch Boat with Chest comes from. Birch Boat: craft from birch planks. Chest: craft from planks.
What should I craft first for a Birch Boat with Chest?
For a Birch Boat with Chest, start with Birch Planks: 2 Birch Logs gives you 8 Birch Planks. After that the order is Chest and Birch Boat, and then the Birch Boat with Chest itself.
How many Birch Boats with Chest do you get from one craft?
The Birch Boat with Chest recipe makes one Birch Boat with Chest per craft.
Can you farm everything you need for a Birch Boat with Chest?
Birch Boat with Chest needs nothing you have to go find: birch boat from birch planks and chest from oak planks. Set those up once and you can keep making birch boat with chest.
What is the item ID for Birch Boat with Chest in Minecraft?
The Birch Boat with Chest item ID is minecraft:birch_chest_boat, and in a command you can drop the namespace and write birch_chest_boat on its own. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Birch Boat with Chest?
The command for Birch Boat with Chest is /give @p birch_chest_boat, with an optional count after it. It only runs with cheats enabled.
What version of Minecraft added the Birch Boat with Chest?
As far back as the language files go, the birch boat with chest appears under this name in Minecraft 1.19 and not before. The Birch Boat with Chest recipe above matches the current release.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
1 Birch Boat and 1 Chest in, 1 Birch Boat with Chest out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same 2 ingredients.
How far back it goes
Minecraft Java 1.19 uses this name and the release before it does not. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
That the ingredients come back
What drops, what villagers trade and what farms regrow in Minecraft Java, followed through the recipes to see what those ingredients can be turned into.
Stack size, burn time
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 1 Birch Boat with Chest per craft against the stack size.

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