Boat

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This article is about the Boat in Don't Starve Together. For the boats seen in Shipwrecked and Hamlet, see Boats.

Boat (Kit)
"Let the seas be your domain."
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Inventory/Crafting
Crafting
Recipe	×4
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Properties
Durability	200
Stacks up to	Does not stack items
Perk
Can be build as a kit and placed as a Structure on the Ocean. Can hold multiple players. Can hold structures.
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"boat_item" "boat"

“It would be nice to do some experiments on the water.”

–Wilson

“That's the boat part of the boat.”

–Willow

“Is for making very nice boat.”

–Wolfgang

“It's for making a boat.”

–Wendy

“FOR BUILDING A HORRIBLE BOAT”

–WX-78

“It will allow us to go on the water.”

–Wickerbottom

“It contains the mast and the base of the boat.”

–Woodie

“I've been reduced to a common shipyard laborer.”

–Maxwell

“Ship building is in my bönes!”

–Wigfrid

“That's for building a boat.”

–Webber

“Allons-y out to sea!”

–Warly

“Needs water”

–Wormwood

“Time to roll up my sleeves!”

–Winona

“Let's craft a raft!”

–Wortox

“For travel on the big pond!”

–Wurt

“Let's get building, Woby!”

–Walter

“Ohhh I hate the ocean, the time stream gets so wobbly around it.”

–Wanda

The Boat Kit is a craftable Item in the Seafaring Filter exclusive to Don't Starve Together, introduced in Return of Them. It can be crafted with 4 Boards and needs a Think Tank to prototype. When placed on the Ocean, it will create a Boat.

Players can move a Boat by using an Oar, a Driftwood Oar, Battle Paddle, or a Malbatross Bill. Masts can be built on a Boat to obtain a constant thrust. The Steering Wheel Kit is used to direct the thrust of all equipped masts. An Anchor Kit can be built on a Boat to slow down or stop.

A Boat starts with 200 health, represented by the icon . It takes damage by colliding with certain objects in the water such as Sea Stacks or Salt Formations, coasts, or the border of the world. Taking damage can create a leak in the boat that does constant damage (-0.5 /s per small leak and -1 /s per large leak) until a Boat Patch, Trusty Tape or Tree Jam is used on the leak. Boats can be repaired by using wood material.

Material	Repair Value
Boat Patch	25 (repair leak)
Boards	50
Living Log	37.5
Tree Jam	20 (repair leak)
Twigs	13
Log, Driftwood Piece	12.5
Trusty Tape	0 (repair leak)
Kelp Patch	0 (repair leak temporarily)

Leaks can also be closed temporarily with any items by dropping them onto the leak. The item will remain there for a period of time (depending on the weight of the item) before it gets thrown up into the air. Even players can close the leak by standing on it, but will receive Wetness over time.

Being made of wood, the boat itself is flammable and can catch fire (either from placing an open Campfire on it, or having the fire spread to other onboard flammable items), causing heavy damage to the boat depending on how many current segments are currently in flames (there are 5 segments total, the center, and 4 on each side). Contained fires, such as a Firepit or Scaled Furnace, can be safely placed and used on the boat.

In addition to sailing, a boat can be used to bridge together small gaps between land branches. This allows players to speed up their travel at little cost.

When reaches 0 the boat sinks and all players drown. The boat leaves 3 Boards and half of the materials used to create all the structures that were build on the boat.

Each Boat has one plank, which can be used to abandon ship with the same effects as drowning.

Drowning Effects

When Characters drown, they reappear on the nearest coast with 25% less max health (similar to when being ressurected by Telltale Heart), 25 less Hunger, 25 less Sanity, 100% Wetness and with half of their inventory slots dropped into the water where they have drowned. WX-78 loses 40% of their max health and 50 sanity. Woodie loses 50 hunger in normal form and 100 wereness when he is in his Werebeaver or Weremoose form. Wurt does not lose any stats, does not drop items, and does not receive health penalty, but gets 50 wetness.

Tips

• Boats are perfect for bridging small gaps in between stretches of land, thus creating shortcuts to desired locations.
• Players can put Houndius Shootius on the boat and anchor the boat offshore to cheese mobs and Bosses on land. This method does not work on the Hounds though because they can swim to the boat. Deerclops and Bearger will move out of the Houndius Shootius's range if they are hit and cannot reach Houndius Shootius to hit it back.
• A few mobs can actually jump onto your boat, including Pigs, Hounds, etc. You could use this to your advantage.
• Deerclops, Moose/Goose, Klaus (including his Gem Deer, red Gem Deer's fire geyser does NOT ignite the boat on fire) are unable to damage the boat by any means, Bearger can damage and push the boat with his shockwave attack. This can be used to "cheese" certain bosses, as jumping on the boat in the right time allows the player to avoid the damage and effect caused by the boss.
• Lureplants don't spawn Eyeplants when on a boat. You could use this to easily get Leafy Meat.

Trivia

• The Boat Kit was introduced in the Turn of Tides update.
• The function to close leaks temporarily with items or by standing on them was introduced in the Staying Afloat update.

Gallery

The boat in the Turn of Tides launch trailer.

Small leak, draining 0.5 /s.

Large leak, draining 1 /s.

Trusty Tape used to repair a leak.

• DS
• RoG
• SW
• Ham
• DST