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Boat Racing made easy for the public
Welcome to Ice Boat Racing! This 99%-vanilla-compatible modpack aims to improve the base-game boat racing experience with mods such as BoatCam and Sodium, significantly optimizing the playability and competitiveness of this niche mode within Minecraft. It also supplies a short list of servers which aim to ease newer players into boat racing. The pack runs on most devices flawlessly, eliminating performance bottlenecks and increasing racing performance.
The core mods that enable this experience are:
- BoatCam: A mod focused on aiming your camera in the direction of your momentum, avoiding nausea and making the racing experience easier on the eyes. My personal settings are included and can be adjusted with Mod Menu.
- OpenBoatUtils: A mod that enables racing on surfaces with heavy friction, like Stone or Grass. This enables the use of custom physics!
- Bobby: A chunk-caching mod, aimed to lessen the probability of the server not supplying chunks fast enough to the fast-moving client. Bobby caches these chunks to disk, which eliminates the need to re-render chunks when you pass through a cached section of a track.
- BBBoatHud: A fully customizable recreation of the BoatHud mod that makes sure you can see your speed, lap time, and position in a race without overlapping interfaces!
The modpack also comes with the standard suite of performance-optimizing mods like Sodium, Lithium, and more.
Additionally, the Minecraft Ice Boat Racing Discord server is the main hangout for boat racers and has loads of information and content about racing. It also gives access to closed leagues. I highly recommend joining it; you can find it in the sidebar!
What should I know about the supplied server list?
The servers supplied with the pack are a couple of the most popular multiplayer servers within the Ice Boat Racing community. They are all equipped with the TimingSystem plugin by Makkuusen, which can measure lap times accurately to the millisecond (1ms), mark checkpoints, and makes pitstops possible.
You should familiarize yourself with a couple of commands to get yourself started as soon as possible: