Historic Ships

Historic Ships adds 3 historic warships: the Viking Drakkar, the Roman Quinquereme, and the Napoléon. They all have different features and everything is craftable on the Shipwright Workbench where you can assemble them from materials. See the Showcase section to know more about these!

Anyway, let's experience the Echoes of the fleet!

Ship	Era	Engine	Slots	Passengers	Animals
Drakkar	Viking age	Oars + 1 Sail	27	4	2
Quinquereme	Hellenistic Period	Larger oars + 2 Sails	36	6	4
Napoléon	Mid-19th Century	3 Large sails + Steam	54	6	4

• The Drakkar is meant for very fast traveling, and is very maneuverable.

• The Quinquereme is meant for fighting: the ram damage other ships, can throw stone bullets while being fast and having good storage.

• The Napoléon is meant for heavy fighting: it throws very explosive bullets from the front and explosive bullets from the sides. It is also meant for heavy items storage.

Viking longship built for fast exploration

Features:

• Main Square sail (configurable color with dye) and small fast oars

• Fast and agile movement

• Small design for moving on rivers

• Simplest to craft and low passengers capacity

Normal sail:

Painted sail: (these are 2 default presets, but you can paint whatever you want! See below)

Ancient Mediterranean war galley built for combat and storage

Features:

• Large oars

• Main square sail (painting feature!) + small sail at the front (see the screenshot below)

• Throwing bullet from the fighting tower and can deal damage with its front Ram (see the video below)

• Mid passengers capacity

French warship with large sails and steam power built for heavy combat and heavy storage

Features:

• Multiple masts and larges sails

• Coal-powered steam engine

• Heavy cannons with exploding bullets at the front

• High passengers capacity

You may check the gallery images for more cool images!

In order to craft these ships, you will have to first craft the Shipwright Workbench.

Here's how it looks inside:

The top slots are for the materials used to craft the ships.

For example to craft the Drakkar, we need these items:

Then you'll have to click Assemble and the boat will be crafted!

Tip: You can also hover the ships to have this tooltip, so you know what materials you need:

There is a different control panel at the top right of the screen for each ships:

Cargo is the ship's inventory, you can access it with your inventory key or by shift+right click when you're outside the ship.

For the Napoléon Ship, there's Guns: the default keybinds are V for the front one, N/B for the left/right one.

For the Quinquereme, Tower is the stone bullet from its tower.

Crew/Animals are the passengers (players & animals).

Hull is the health of the ship.

Historic Ships: Get a Shipwright Workbench
Drakkar: Assemble a Drakkar
Quinquereme: Assemble a Quinquereme
Napoleon Ship: Assemble a Napoleon Ship
On board: Get on a ship
Full fleet: Get a Drakkar, a Quinquereme and a Napoleon Ship

You can configure which ships you want to be on your server at config/historicships-common.toml

More config coming soon! (for the crafting cost, ships health..)

Translations are available for English and French yet. Feel free to suggest better one, or directly add translations on github with a pull request!.

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Feel free to add this in any modpack published on curseforge! This is highly appreciated.

The code is open source : https://github.com/AwesomeHippo/HistoricShips under MIT license

As it was done for the ModJam 2026, I had a limited time to do it and couldn't implement everything, so stay tuned for the updates!