JUNGLE BOAT

This is the boat two very different fishermen carry for two very different reasons. In a jungle village it makes sense on sight: the canopy is thick with the exact tree the boat is cut from, and the rivers underneath it are the reason anyone needed a hull in the first place. In a desert village it makes no sense at all. There is no tree for miles, only the same jungle boat on offer anyway, because the desert coat has no wood of its own and the game had to put something on the shelf.

A crafting grid makes one from 5 × jungle planks. A jungle fisherman is selling you back the local timber. A desert one is selling you a hull that has never touched sand in its life, and either way the trade pays him 30 experience toward the tier above.

Treat the desert version as a curiosity rather than a shortcut. Nobody plans a supply run around a boat trade a sand-coloured villager was assigned almost by accident.

Two coats, one row. The Fisherman buys a jungle boat off you at master for 1 emerald per 1, whether he is standing under jungle canopy or on open sand, and the price does not shift between the two.

Nothing else on any trade table touches this item. A jungle boat only ever moves from player to fisherman, never the other way, and no other profession has boats anywhere in its list.

The best rate any villager offers is an emerald for a single jungle boat, from the Fisherman, and 2 of the other 10 pay out faster. No villager sells jungle boat back, so it is emeralds out and nothing in.

One slot at the Fisherman takes 1 jungle boat a trade, 12 trades, 12 emeralds. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

12 acacia boats against 312 flint for the same 12 emeralds, 26 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 7.5 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted. Jungle Boat itself pays 1 an emerald, so nothing in that table asks less and 62 ask more.

Two biomes lock a fisherman into this exact trade: jungle, where the wood is standing in the trees around him, and desert, where the game falls back to jungle because a desert-specific boat was never made. Both fishermen carry the identical row once they reach master.

The slot itself works like any other: 12 boats before it locks, then a restock refills the same offer rather than handing him a new one. The type is decided the day he claims a barrel and stays fixed after that, in either biome.

Want the desert version specifically, for the novelty of it? Find an unemployed villager standing on sand and give him a barrel there. A cured zombie villager works the same way, if you happen to find one wandering the right biome.

The slot runs 12 boats deep before it locks, and the fisherman needs 2 real minutes at his barrel to refill it, no matter which coat he wears. A Minecraft day is 20 real minutes long and holds two of those refills.

One fisherman parked at his barrel for a full day is worth 24 boats sold and 24 emeralds earned, a pace set entirely by the restock timer rather than by anything you do while waiting.

If you actually need the boat, the jungle fisherman is the one worth the walk: the rivers threading through jungle terrain are dense enough that you will be crafting one anyway, and selling the spare back on the way out costs nothing extra.

If you are chasing the desert version for the joke of it, remember it takes the identical walk to a village and the identical roll once you get there, none of that changes just because the sand looks funnier next to a boat.

Also on the Fisherman's list: acacia boat, dark oak boat, string, bucket of cod, coal, and cooked cod, which any fisherman carries regardless of the coat his village gave him.

Every boat is five planks of one wood, and every boat behaves identically: the jungle one is a colour, not a stat. It carries two, which is the part people forget, and a mob shoved into the second seat travels with you, which is how villagers get moved across water.

Add a chest and it becomes a chest boat, a moving container that also floats. That is the cheapest bulk transport in the game before minecarts, and it survives being left in the water while you go and do something else.

On ice a boat is faster than sprinting and faster than a horse, so the humble boat is also the fastest thing on land if you are willing to build the road out of ice.