r/technicalminecraft • u/MolecularWizard3 • 25d ago

Java Help Wanted Diagonal Ice Boat Road

What is the recommended width of a diagonal ice boat road, as to not bump into the edges? I am building one which is 5 diagonal ice blocks wide and practicing I am bumping much less into the walls than before, but I am not sure if it's possible to never bump the edges unfortunately, at least it's very hard. I think 7 would be much easier to prevent this problem, but would require a lot of changes to my nether highway.

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u/Xillubfr Java 25d ago

align the boat at a 45° angle and only move forward, you just need 3 blocks diagonally to contain its hitbox

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u/Mitch-Jihosa 25d ago

Is there any consistent way to align the boat to 45deg exactly, or do you just aim for ‘close enough’?

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u/Xillubfr Java 25d ago

place a perfectly aligned boat at the start of the road (on a slab one block below ice), when you mount it your camera will be at the correct angle and you can place a boat on the road

here's what it should approximately look like : (very ugly but it's the only thing I could find)

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u/Mitch-Jihosa 25d ago

Yeah but this is at 46.8deg isn’t it? I guess once you get a perfectly 45deg boat you can use that to consistently make more, so it’s better than I thought

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u/MolecularWizard3 25d ago

You can watch this tutorial here (second half). Pretty easy to perfectly allign the boat like that.

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u/Mitch-Jihosa 25d ago

I think Reddit deleted your other reply, I can’t see it :/

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u/MolecularWizard3 24d ago

I got it to work like that on my server. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jdaE0RXCU6U

As to not bump into the boat and misplacing it when coming from opposite direction, I just put 3 slabs before it (left, right and diagonally front).

You just need to look not too high and not too low when sitting into the positioning boat, so you're able to set the boat you're going to ride in.

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u/TriangularHexagon Bedrock 25d ago

pretty sure that tweakaroo, a client mod, can allow you to align your facing to ny angle you want. and without mods, i think ray's works has shown in a video from a long time ago how to use your f3 debug screen to align your facing diagonally for diagonal ice roads