Real Sailing ships (RSS)
by Davi_Dag
Real Sailing ships (RSS) lets players build and steer sailing vessels where the wind direction and sail angle decide how fast the ship moves.
What it does
Sailing ships run on a simple, semi-realistic model: wind blows from a direction that varies over time, and the sails are trimmed by angle, from fully open at 90 for running before the wind to closed into it at 0. The mod is described by its author as a sailing simulator, with more realism planned for later updates. Installation needs NeoForge, the mod runs on client and server, and the 0.8.7 build targets 1.21.8 under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Wind with variation
Wind direction shifts over time, so a ship's course and speed change as conditions change at sea.
Sail angle control
Players set the sail angle between 0 and 90, opening the sails for downwind runs or closing them to sail upwind.
Sailing simulation
Ships respond to wind and sail trim in a simplified physics model that the author plans to make more realistic.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Questions
Does Real Sailing ships need to be installed on the server?
In the catalog
Real Sailing ships (RSS) is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 1,743 Transportation mods for NeoForge. 17,695 mods support Minecraft 1.21.8.
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What the author says
The mod adds a sailing ship with semi-realistic mechanics, it also adds wind, with variation and direction, for now it's a really simple sailing mod, but in the future I'll add more thinghs to try and make the mod more realistic and closer to a sailing simulator. You can also manage the sails, with the angle of the…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/real-sailing-ships-rss
- Owner
- Davi_Dag
- Published
- 2026-07-27
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-10
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15