Skip to main content

How to Craft Spruce Boat in Minecraft

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

You need 5 Spruce Planks, plus a Crafting Table to assemble them on. From the top down: two Spruce Planks in the left and right columns; then three Spruce Planks. A single craft gives you 1 Spruce Boat. Short on coal? 1200 ticks each means 11 Spruce Boats smelt 64 items.

Spruce Boat Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

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

Minecraft has used the name Spruce 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 spruce planks (craft from spruce logs).

The Yield Per Stack

5 spruce planks for 1 spruce boat scales to 12 out of a 64 stack. That leaves 4 spruce planks with no partner.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Spruce Planks5xCraft from spruce logs

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

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    28Spruce Planksrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    Spruce BoatSpruce BoatSpruce Boatthis page

Gather this first

2Spruce Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    5x Spruce Planks

  2. 2

    Spruce Boat

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

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 5x Spruce Planks. Start with the Spruce Planks: craft from spruce logs.

Uses for Spruce Boat

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

What Spruce Boat Goes Into

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

Spruce Boat with ChestSpruce Boat with ChestSpruce Boat with ChestCrafting Table

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Spruce Boat in Minecraft?
a Spruce Boat asks for 5 Spruce Planks, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. The pattern above is exact, so match it square by square, and one craft produces one Spruce Boat.
Can you craft a Spruce Boat without a crafting table?
Not this one: a Spruce Boat will not fit the inventory grid. It is laid out as five Spruce Planks, and that takes 3 columns, more than the 2x2 grid in your inventory can hold.
Where do you find the materials for a Spruce Boat?
The parts of a Spruce Boat do not all come from one place. Spruce Planks: craft from spruce logs.
How many Spruce Boats do you get from one craft?
The Spruce Boat recipe makes one Spruce Boat per craft.
What is the item ID for Spruce Boat in Minecraft?
Spruce Boat is registered as minecraft:spruce_boat. Commands accept the short form spruce_boat as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.
What is the give command for Spruce Boat?
Use /give @p spruce_boat to put a Spruce 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 Spruce Boat recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
Yes, the Spruce Boat recipe is the same in both editions. Java and Bedrock both build a Spruce Boat from 5 Spruce Planks at a Crafting Table, in the same layout, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Spruce Boat?
Minecraft 1.9 is the oldest release that calls the spruce boat by that name. The recipe file cannot narrow that down, because recipes only became separate files in 1.12. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
5 Spruce Planks in, 1 Spruce 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 Spruce Boat per craft against the stack size.

Related Recipes