No Boat Cheesing
by roland-a
No Boat Cheesing keeps mobs from using boats and minecarts to dodge fights, so hostile mobs stop riding vehicles away from the player.
What it does
Without the mod, a mob can climb into a boat or minecart and escape a fight by riding it away. With No Boat Cheesing installed, mobs that would otherwise use a vehicle to avoid combat stay on foot and keep pursuing the player or the target they were tempted toward, such as food. In all other situations the vanilla behavior is left as it was, and transportation contraptions that carry items or mobs keep working, because those mobs have no interest in the contents.
The change is meant to make mob behavior feel more immersive by making it match what a mob would plausibly do. The mod runs on the server alone, so players join without installing anything. It requires Fabric Language Kotlin and is published for Fabric across 5 release versions, 1.21.1 – 26.2, under All rights reserved. It is not open source, though the source code and issue tracker are publicly linked.
Key features
Vehicle use blocked for fleeing mobs
Hostile mobs cannot board a boat or minecart to get away from the player during combat.
Targets preserved
A mob that leaves its vehicle keeps targeting whatever it was pursuing, including tempting food.
Vanilla behavior elsewhere
In all other cases the default game behavior is kept, so the change applies only to escaping mobs.
Contraptions unaffected
Transportation builds still function, since mobs with no interest in the cargo do not board them.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Server owners who want mob behavior to match the game world more closely, and players who run survival or adventure servers where boat and minecart escapes are a problem.
How it compares
Simple Hostile Despawn is server-side only, published for Fabric on 26.1.1 – 26.1.2 under All rights reserved, and it removes hostile mobs rather than changing how they move. Mob Mounting Control is also server-side only and open source under the MIT License, but it is published for Fabric on 1.20.1 alone and controls which mobs can mount. Vehicle Upgrade runs on both client and server, is open source under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 and supports Fabric and NeoForge across 1.21.1 – 26.3.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Boat Cheesing | Fabric | 1.21.1 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2026-06-28 |
| Simple Hostile Despawn | Fabric | 26.1.1 – 26.1.2 | Server-side only | 2026-04-05 |
| Mob Mounting Control | Fabric | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2025-08-15 |
| Vehicle Upgrade | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-29 |
Questions
Does No Boat Cheesing need Fabric Language Kotlin?
Does a player need the mod installed to join a server running it?
Will minecart transport lines stop working?
Which Minecraft versions does No Boat Cheesing support?
In the catalog
No Boat Cheesing is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
With this mod, you can not longer use boats or minecarts to avoid fighting hostile mobs. Instead, mobs will leave their vehicle if they are targeting something, fleeing from danger, or tempted by food.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/no-boat-cheesing
- Owner
- roland-a
- Published
- 2026-03-03
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-06-28
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15