How to Build Cohesive Medieval Docks and Fleets

Matching Ships to Coastal Structures

In a modded world using the Excalibur texture pack, default modded vehicles often stand out because their bright vanilla-styled textures clash with dark medieval terrain. You can use the Excalibur Small Ships Support Resource Pack to unify your port builds.

1. Construct your docks, piers, and boathouses using standard wooden planks, logs, and fences. With the base Excalibur pack active, these blocks take on a weathered, rustic appearance.

2. Craft or spawn your chosen vessels from the Small Ships mod and moor them alongside your wooden piers.

3. Because the support pack updates the wood textures across all Small Ships vessels to match Excalibur's palette, the hulls and oars will blend directly in with your surrounding dock blocks.

Customizing Your Fleet

You can vary the look of multiple ships in a harbor while keeping them within the same visual theme:

1. Outfit vessels with different sail colors, such as dark sails for warships or green sails for merchant vessels. The pack updates all sail textures so colored fabric still fits the dark medieval aesthetic.

2. Mount cannons and ship decorations onto your docked vessels. The reworked medieval cannon textures allow armed ships to sit naturally next to stone fortifications and rustic harbor walls.