How to Craft Oak Boat with Chest in Minecraft

The recipe wants 1 Oak Boat and 1 Chest, and a Crafting Table to run it on. Each attempt hands back 1 Oak Boat with Chest. Short on coal? 1200 ticks each means 11 Oak Boats with Chest smelt 64 items.
Oak Boat with Chest Item ID and Give Command
The item ID for Oak Boat with Chest is minecraft:oak_chest_boat. In commands the namespace may be left off, so oak_chest_boat works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.
- Give yourself one
/give @p oak_chest_boat- Give several at once
/give @p oak_chest_boat 5- Give it to a named player
/give Steve oak_chest_boat 1
Cheats have to be on for Oak Boat with Chest to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.
Overview
Oak Boat with Chest combines a boat with a chest for 27 slots of mobile storage on water. Oak 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 Oak 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 oak boat (craft from oak planks) and chest (craft from planks).
What A Stack Yields
64 crafts drain a stack: 64 chests become 64 oak boat with chests. You supply 64 oak boats to go with it. Down to the last chest, nothing spare.
Materials Needed
Collect Oak Boat (craft from oak planks) and Chest (craft from planks) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.
The Full Chain
4 crafts deep: Oak Planks, Chest, Oak Boat, then the Oak Boat with Chest. All in: 8 Planks and 2 Oak Log.
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Gather this first
Step-by-Step Instructions
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Oak Boat
Chest - 2
Oak Boat with Chest

Tips & Notes
- Because this one is shapeless, Oak Boat and Chest can go in any cells you like. The grid only checks that they are all present.
- Shopping list: 1x Oak Boat and 1x Chest. Plan the Oak Boat first: craft from oak planks.
Uses for Oak Boat with Chest
- Water travel with 27-slot storage
- Transporting items across water
View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Oak Boat with Chest on the Astroworld Items Database.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Can you farm everything you need for an Oak Boat with Chest?
What version of Minecraft added the Oak Boat with Chest?
Sources
- Grid, ingredients and yield
- 1 Oak Boat and 1 Chest in, 1 Oak 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
- The name appears in Minecraft Java 1.19 and in nothing older. 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 Oak Boat with Chest per craft against the stack size.