Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances (bugs.mojang.com)

I can't find a permalink, but this comment is interesting and explains some of the technical details: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC/issues/MC-119369#:~:text=I...

When I saw the title I was imagining structural analysis of seagoing vessels in heavy seas ;-)

One of those niche, (presumably?) widely-unknown bugs that is actually extremely relevant to subcommunities of people who play the game - in particular, any decent Minecraft speedrunner is well aware of "boat break" and plays around the possibility.

Part of the reason I love speedrunning games in general is how it tends to bring weird bugs to the forefront of your consciousness, just like this!

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Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths analyzed the "Minecraft boat-drop mystery," in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei58gGM9Z8k

"is duplicated by" is amusing.

I thought this was about Haulover Inlet.

Oh dang, they fixed it? Nice!