Lava-Proofing My Boat

I think we can all agree that traveling in the nether sucks so i’m gonna find a way to lava-proof boats in vanilla minecraft last time we figured out how to build in the void in vanilla minecraft and these videos have been blowing up so why not subscribe and keep

It going so if we just go somewhere in the world and set up a repeating command block that is always active we’re going to set it to execute as all players at their locations and if the block they are in is lava and if there is an entity

Of type boat within a distance of one block of the player we’re going to run the command to give that player that player a fire resistance for five seconds with a power of zero and we’re going to hide the particles then we can go to lava

Level find a spot to stand right here we’re going to summon a boat at our coordinates and we’re going to give it the properties no gravity just like this and i can see if we push it out there get in the boat we are now in a lava boat and we have

Full control over everything we do this is actually so much better wow but as you can see the issue is that if i place a boat normally and try to drive in uh it just disintegrates and then you slowly die so what i want to do is have

The boats work in survival without you having to type any commands and i want them to have the no gravity tag only if they’re about to fall onto lava and before we even do that we need to figure out how to get rid of the fire particles

On our bodies whenever we ride the boats because i mean i know i’m hot you don’t have to remind me constantly now sadly the reason we need that fire resistance command block is because as you can see my hurt box is sticking out way below the boat it’s still the normal size

Player hurt box even though i’m sitting down but that’s just minecraft for you and seeing as there is literally no way to extinguish a player with commands in minecraft outside of plugins uh i think the only option we’re gonna have is if i get a repeating command block right here

And we execute as all players at their location if there is an entity of type equals boat and a distance of one to run set block our head water and then of course we copy this we make it a chain it’s always active and we replace the water over here with air

And hopefully i mean this should be fine let me just make this toggleable i mean it’s technically taking us off fire for a second at a time it’s a start i guess maybe if we add a little bit of an extension between them maybe that’ll do something let’s make

Our boat oh no wait where where where are you going what’s up doing okay so before i even try to figure out command block stuff we should probably uh make sure that the water can even extinguish us so let me float in here and uh no

Is that this actually i guess those are still in the lava so this literally just can’t work okay let’s make sure it’s not only the head if we do the body too all right that’ll just mess with the oh goodbye let’s just stick with fire resistance i think

That’s fine but now it’s time for the hard part which is making boats freeze whenever they’re about to hit lava and if you’re wondering why this is hard i literally break the game trying to figure this out and so i made this little testing area to start working on things and

What’s been going the best so far is this one command over here which all it does is anytime it finds a boat that’s above lava it will just change the tanks so that it doesn’t have gravity it has the tag of a lava boat just to save on

Lag and it makes it invulnerable in case it somehow touches the lava as you can see if i go over here and go for a test i’ll place a boat i’ll drop in and i can go over the lava uh except there’s one small flaw where if i leave i still uh

Going a little journey over here and the reason i went from the side is because if you go straight into the lava uh it works but only at the bottom of the lava pool i guess you can have a little lava submarine down here it’s pretty neat so

Let’s add our command block right here and drop into the depths of the nether with our new submarine see how far we go just basically whenever we hit the first block and now we just uh now maybe this isn’t so great but there are only two options to get the boat to

Not go under the lava one is to let it go under the lava and rise it back up and the other is just to completely stop it the second it hits it and i think the easier one as far as i can tell might be

Rising it back up so what i did was anytime we find a lava boat over here with lava underneath it it just adds vertical motion upwards and then anytime there’s not lava underneath it as you can see over here it removes the vertical motion upwards

So if i get my boat out and ride it into the lava just like this you can see we still sink it’s great but then you get out of the boat and it slowly rises back up and i mean i guess that kind of works as long as you

Just get out and get back in it’s just that minecraft boats are super super glitchy if players are in them and you can’t move them while players are in them like i can’t even like walk on this but i want to try editing the position of the boat

Directly instead of just adding a speed to it so let’s execute as all entities of type boat then distance of three blocks i suppose we’re going to run the command to data entity or data merge entity same entity and what we are going to change is the position like this and let’s do

0d 0d 0d sure that’s just a good test right there so we place our button we get our boat and that should teleport it but then if we get in the boat it doesn’t it doesn’t work and now i have eight glow ink sacks wait what what why is it what

Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait what’s that what’s happening what what’s happening oh whoa no what what place a boat press it i have 10 glow ink sex what they’re gone they’re over here i can’t pick them up i can pick them up wait what what did i discover okay we’re

Going to uh rejoin the world and by the way all these command block worlds take a very long time to save it’s kind of funny we’re going to rejoin the world and we’re in the void what they’re above me but how am i negative 60 and not taking oh

Okay let’s not mess with the position of the boats okay i lied so i retyped it and i put the exact coordinates of right above the command block because maybe it was just i had really weird coordinates and so if i press this the boat just

Kind of jumps up on there and then if i get in it uh nothing nothing happens why does why does nothing happen why is this so complicated just jump on the thing oh lord he coming why is this so satisfying i don’t get it

Oh wait did i just make a circle yo it does accidentally make a circle in minecraft okay one more time for fun this is fun i like this imagine if that did work though you just press the button and see like 30 of your friends and boats flying over the horizon over

To your command block what’s really annoying is all we really need to do is just set the motion to zero so that it stops moving whenever we turn it into a lava boat but as you can see like if i get out of it that works i mean it’s a little high

But whatever but if i’m in it then it just doesn’t work like why did why are players such such a big hassle so how about instead of trying to move boats up we just try to stop them before they even go into lava with some obsidian or

Whatever and so let’s just try this out and that just doesn’t work let’s turn on the command block and try it out and that just doesn’t work let’s try it a third time and it just doesn’t work although it is fun to watch the boats rise up out of

The lava it’s pretty always fun you know what they say fourth time’s the charm and this actually is working okay so let’s just copy this block change it to a repeating command block instead of obsidian change it back to lava immediately and hopefully this is fast enough that it doesn’t really matter

Nope it’s just staying obsidian okay so let’s leave on the thing that turns the boats into lava boats except replace obsidian with end portal frames because it’s a weird block that won’t be used like accidentally and break things and then also it is a little bit smaller so

It should line up better and i forgot to turn on the command blocks there we go let’s try again and no so it did make the end portal frame it just didn’t make it in the right spot i guess as we were moving forwards but if we managed to fall straight down

Then yeah we should be fine and we have a proper lava boat like this it’s even like in the lava level there so i bumped with these little lips right here so if we have the boat touch lava that lava turns into an important frame and if the

Boat is in the same block as an in-portal frame it turns into a lava boat and removes the end portal frame and i think that makes sense so let’s try it and that really got my hopes up for a second it kind of worked why did it stop

It’s a whole new theory altogether this time we’re gonna add an objective for a boat timer so that whenever we set the block underneath it to an important frame we can wait a little bit before turning it back to lava instead of turning it immediately

So we’re gonna have it run up the timer we’re going to set the timer to five and then once that timer’s zero we’re going to replace and we also just want to take down that timer one every tick so now you see if we get our boat we get in we drop in

And it works okay now the moment of truth is it good from taller heights uh no all right so this time instead of just setting the block below it to an important frame we are filling all the blocks around it within portal frames and i lowered the timer to one because i

Think five which is way too much so let’s go and this should work from normal height okay and let’s try from the taller height oh i think that worked okay and now let’s try from an even taller height i i think we got it sorry if my voice

Sounds weird it’s uh very early in the morning now comes the fun part where i can break all the the old useless things that didn’t work the way we want uh i’ll keep this one yay so now everything to make lava boats is right here all you

Gotta do is turn it on and then once again one more test just because it’s fun oh look at that look at that so let’s kill ourselves right here and now let’s paste all of these in our spawn chunk right here and now that we’re in the

Nether we should be able to still get our command blocks to work so let’s drop our boat in and wait what happened it appears that this command block is just not running properly maybe i just needed is it a world that it glitch maybe i don’t really know what else it

Could be it’s just something with dimensions and this is the world that it oh oh okay okay it works there we go now another fortresses are like launch pads like the flight strips for planes oh this is cool i like this a lot this is fun