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How to Craft Spruce Boat with Chest in Minecraft

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

The bill for a Spruce Boat with Chest is 1 Spruce Boat and 1 Chest, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. The grid returns 1 Spruce Boat with Chest. As fuel these are worth 1200 ticks apiece: 11 of them clear a stack of 64.

Spruce Boat with Chest Item ID and Give Command

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

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

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

Overview

Spruce Boat with Chest combines a boat with a chest for 27 slots of mobile storage on water. Spruce 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 Spruce 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 spruce boat (craft from spruce planks) and chest (craft from planks).

The Full Stack Sum

Counted per stack: 64 chests, 64 crafts, 64 spruce boat with chests. Bring 64 spruce boats along for the ride. Craft 64 empties the box exactly.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Spruce BoatSpruce BoatSpruce Boat1xCraft from spruce planks
ChestChestChest1xCraft from planks

Spruce Boat with Chest needs Spruce Boat (craft from spruce planks) and Chest (craft from planks), worked together at a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

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

  1. 1
    28Spruce Planksrepeat 2x
  2. 2
    8ChestChestChest
  3. 3
    5Spruce BoatSpruce BoatSpruce Boat
  4. 4
    Spruce Boat with ChestSpruce Boat with ChestSpruce Boat with Chestthis page

Gather this first

8Planks2Spruce Log

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Spruce BoatSpruce BoatSpruce BoatChestChestChest

  2. 2

    Spruce Boat with Chest

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

Tips & Notes

  • Cell positions do not matter here: drop Spruce Boat and Chest anywhere in the grid and Spruce Boat with Chest appears.
  • Shopping list: 1x Spruce Boat and 1x Chest. Plan the Spruce Boat first: craft from spruce planks.

Uses for Spruce Boat with Chest

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

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft a Spruce Boat with Chest in Minecraft?
Bring 1 Spruce Boat and 1 Chest to a Crafting Table and you can make a Spruce Boat with Chest. Any arrangement works as long as all of them are in the grid, and one craft produces one Spruce Boat with Chest.
What do you need to make a Spruce Boat with Chest from scratch?
Counting all the way down, a Spruce Boat with Chest comes to 8 Planks and 2 Spruce Logs, spread over 4 crafts.
Where do you find the materials for a Spruce Boat with Chest?
Each ingredient in a Spruce Boat with Chest has its own source. Spruce Boat: craft from spruce planks. Chest: craft from planks.
What should I craft first for a Spruce Boat with Chest?
For a Spruce Boat with Chest, start with Spruce Planks: 2 Spruce Logs gives you 8 Spruce Planks. After that the order is Chest and Spruce Boat, and then the Spruce Boat with Chest itself.
How many Spruce Boats with Chest do you get from one craft?
The Spruce Boat with Chest recipe makes one Spruce Boat with Chest per craft.
What is the item ID for Spruce Boat with Chest in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Spruce Boat with Chest goes by minecraft:spruce_chest_boat; spruce_chest_boat without the namespace does the same job in a command.
Can you farm everything you need for a Spruce Boat with Chest?
Spruce Boat with Chest needs nothing you have to go find: spruce boat from spruce planks and chest from oak planks. Set those up once and you can keep making spruce boat with chest.
What is the give command for Spruce Boat with Chest?
The command for Spruce Boat with Chest is /give @p spruce_chest_boat, with an optional count after it. It only runs with cheats enabled.
Is the Spruce Boat with Chest recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?
It is the same recipe on both: 1 Spruce Boat and 1 Chest at a Crafting Table gives you a Spruce Boat with Chest, in the layout shown above, one at a time.
What version of Minecraft added the Spruce Boat with Chest?
The name Spruce Boat with Chest goes back to Minecraft 1.19, and no older release we can read uses it. That pattern above is still the one the game uses.

Sources

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

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