Fix Boats That Still Look Vanilla or Look Different for Friends

Boats still show the default model

1. Open Options > Resource Packs and confirm the pack is in the Selected column, not just Available.

2. Check the order of your selected packs. Any pack listed above this one that also changes boats will override it. Move Medieval Boats higher, or disable the conflicting pack.

3. Press F3 + T in game to reload resources, then look at your boat again.

4. Place a fresh boat on the water and inspect that one, rather than relying on a boat you were already looking at.

5. If you use chest boats as well as regular ones, place one of each to see how each displays.

Friends on your server see normal boats

Resource packs only change what appears on the computer that has them enabled. The sails, masts, oars and hull textures are visual only.

• Every player who wants to see the sailing ships needs the pack enabled in their own Resource Packs screen.
• Players without it will see ordinary vanilla boats in the same spots. Nothing is broken; they are just viewing the vanilla look.

Shaders look odd on the sails

Shaders need a loader such as Iris or OptiFine. If the cloth sails or wooden textures look strange with shaders on, switch shaders off briefly to confirm the pack displays correctly. Then try a different shader pack.