Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe
by ABabby
Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe lets players craft boats, rafts, chests and minecarts with blocks by splitting a combined item back into its separate parts.
What it does
Crafting a boat or raft with a chest produces the vehicle and the chest as separate items again, and the same applies to minecarts carrying chests, furnaces, hoppers or TNT. Custom boats with chests convert back into a chest boat and the chest on their own, and a filled minecart is split the same way.
The recipe is added in the vanilla naming convention, so other mods that follow that convention can work with it, and it is meant to be extended. Minecarts made from different materials, custom chests and unintentional compatibility with other mods are all counted in the separation. The mod is a server-side only addition for Fabric, published for 1.21.5 – 26.2, and it is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source.
Key features
Boat and raft separation
Boats and rafts with chests can be taken apart into the vehicle and a separate chest.
Minecart part recovery
Minecarts holding chests, furnaces, hoppers or TNT return those blocks as their own items.
Custom boat support
Custom boats with chests convert back into a chest boat and the chest separately.
Vanilla-style recipes
Recipes follow the vanilla naming convention, which lets other mods add their own separation recipes.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.21.x7 of 7 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Rebuilding a chest boat
A player who crafted a chest boat can recover the loose chest and the boat without losing either part.
Moving blocks by minecart
A minecart carrying furnaces or hoppers can be broken back into the minecart and the blocks it holds.
Who it’s for: Players who build with boats and minecarts on Fabric servers that run the mod, and server owners who want vehicles and blocks to stay separate items.
How it compares
Large Chests on Boats! is a Fabric client and server mod under the MIT License, published for 26.2 only. Simple Boats is a Fabric client and server mod under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only, published for 1.21.11 – 26.3 and open source. Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe is the only one of these that is server-side only and not open source.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe | Fabric | 1.21.5 – 26.2 | Server-side only | 2025-09-04 |
| Large Chests on Boats! | Fabric | 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-07-16 |
| Simple Boats | Fabric | 1.21.11 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-13 |
Questions
Does Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe need to be installed on clients?
Which Minecraft versions does the mod support?
Can other mods add their own separation recipes?
In the catalog
Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Vehicle/Block Separation Crafting Recipe (VBSCR) allows for crafting boats/rafts with chests and minecarts with chests/furnaces/hoppers/TNT back into their respective parts. VBSCR should work with other mods which follow the vanilla naming convention, as long as they add the recipe with the block's output. Custom…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/vbscr
- Owner
- ABabby
- Published
- 2025-09-04
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2025-09-04
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15