A cruise ship is a ship that can be built in Minecraft. This page shows a step-to-step guide on how to build one.
Contents
Large cruise ships[]
Large cruise ships are usually very large and complex, and therefore may be quite difficult and tedious to build. It is recommended to build these in Creative mode, as a very large number of resources, some of which may be hard to acquire in Survival or Adventure, are usually needed to create a large cruise ship.
Videos[]
Video of the Oasis of the Seas cruise ship built in the game.
See § Tutorial Videos for more videos.
Recommended building blocks[]
- Concrete (good building block, could be used outside the ship)
- Wool (useful inside the ship, but be careful using it near fire or lava, as it is flammable)
- Planks (can be used inside the ship, but it is also flammable, so make sure that fire cannot spread to it)
- Carpets (decoration block, also usable inside the ship, but again, it is flammable)
- Torches or glowstone (useful for lighting)
- Glass pane or glass (can be used as windows)
Medium-large cruise ships[]
Medium-large cruise ships are slightly smaller than cruise ships, making them useful if you want to build a ship that is large but not as tedious and resource-demanding as a large cruise ship.
Videos[]
A video of the construction of the Carnival Breeze, which could be considered a medium-large cruise ship.
Passenger ferries[]
Passenger ferries can be built in water bodies between two land masses, where the distance between the masses is not small but not significantly large either (e.g., a large lake, but not a river or an ocean). The size of a passenger ferry varies, such as a steamboat. The boat advised to create depends upon the number of passengers expected and/or the distance between the two lands.
River cruises[]
If a huge cruise ship is not what you're looking for, you can build a river cruise boat, which is a smaller ship designed for traveling through rivers. These boats are usually two decks or lower and not very long either. You could build this on top of a naturally generated river, or you could dig your own river and build your boat on that.
Terminals[]
Strongly recommended while building a cruise ship, it can include a check in desk, toilets, playing area, café, walkway to the ship, and optionally staircases and/or lifts with more than two levels.
Recommended building materials[]
- Cobblestone
- Doors (iron doors may give a more modern look, but need power)
- Glass (for windows; glass panes tend to give more depth)
- Fences
- Stairs and/or Slabs.
- Planks (ensure to keep any wood-based blocks away from fire hazards)
- Wool (again, avoid fires)
- Piston (if creating a sliding, raising or extending terminal)
- Slime Block (if creating a sliding, raising or extending terminal)
- Honey Block (if creating a sliding, raising or extending terminal)
- Lever (if creating a sliding, raising or extending terminal)
- Redstone Dust (if using an iron door or creating a sliding / raising / extending terminal)
- Redstone Repeater (for redstone line extension)
Terminal tutorials[]
Dock (for small boats and nether hubs).[]
Create a platform of planks, add fences from floor of water body to platform corners.
Station (for small boats and nether hubs).[]
Create 2 docks separated the exact width of the boat, create a staircase, extending terminal or sliding terminal up to ship entrance. Optional: Create a customer review booth.
Low door and platform.[]
make a door level to a dock or station
Staircase.[]
Make a staircase
Extending terminal.[]
place an double piston extender.
attach a slime block line
place a line of a move-able block on front and top of slime block line.
power using a lever.
extend circuit if needed using Repeater
Sliding terminal.[]
place an double piston extender.
attach a slime block to the available piston.
create a staircase starting on top of the slime block.
place 1 slime block underneath each stair.
power using lever.
extend circuit if needed using Repeater.
Life boats[]
The interior of a player-made lifeboat
All ships have lifeboats. Depending on the size of the vessel, you may have many or only a few lifeboats. Real-life lifeboats are colored orange, so they could be easily spotted by rescue crews, so you should use orange material to build the lifeboats.
Things to have onboard[]
- Cabins for persons to live on the cruise ship. You may have different classes for cabins - ranging from ones with nothing but a bunk bed to suites with balconies and king-size beds. More expensive cabins tend to be placed on upper decks.
- Ice Hockey on large cruise ships
- Spleef arenas
- Nightclubs
- Casino
- Restaurants
- Shops (taxfree or so): A cruise ship doubles as a mall, as it has so many different shops. Make sure to have many shops for exotic and luxury goods.
- Playrooms
- Smoking rooms
- Soda vending machines
- Jukeboxes to play music (remember to put a music disc inside the jukebox or the jukebox won't play any music)
- Info desk
- Swimming pools
- Waterslide
- Engine Room: A ship cannot function without an engine. Engine rooms are huge, with tons of complex machinery. Building an engine room may be tricky, as many have never seen one.
- Car Deck
- Bridge: Any ship needs some form of a command. Build a glorious, wide bridge from which the Captain can lead the vessel.
Below are some tutorial videos from YouTube, sorted partly from 1-30, click "Show" to view those, and clicking "Show" will view all videos, but they are collapsed to prevent them from loading or crashing this page. Click "Show" on a specific video to view it.
Tutorial Videos
See also[]
Cruise ship article on Wikipedia