The East Indiaman is a transport ship. Its armament is limited to the Small Cannon.
East Indiaman ships are reliable for trade and boast a 20 to 50 chest cargo capacity. Like other transport crafts, East Indiamen can quickly load and unload items using the cargo commands.
While any wooden vessel is fragile and vulnerable, its direction from other players is hidden on /craftlist; they can only see its distance.
¶ Controls
The East Indiaman uses the Naval Direct Control mode. Direct Control mode (/dc) is superior to manual movement during combat.
This means it will always cruise in the direction of its "front". If you try to cruise sideways, the craft will move diagonally in that direction instead.
The "front" of an East Indiaman is determined in two ways.
- If your craft has a Cruise sign, the "front" is opposite to the direction that the sign is facing.
- If your craft has no or multiple Cruise signs, the "front" is the direction you are looking at when piloting the craft
¶ Specifications
General specifications:
- Cruising Speed: 13 m/s
- Increased by 20% during rainstorms, and 30% during thunderstorms
Block requirements and limitations:
- Minimum block size of 2,000
- Maximum block size of 5,000
- Must be at least 15% Wool
- Must be at least 40% wooden materials
- No more than 1% of blocks may be Chests, Trapped Chests, Barrels
You can also calculate these block requirements and limitations in-game by using /craftcalc EastIndiaman (block size).
Cannon limitations:
- Firepower Limit: 12
- Allowed Cannons:
- Small Cannon
¶ Allowed Blocks on Craft
You can also view these Allowed Blocks in-game by using /craftblocks EastIndiaman.
| Amethyst Block | Amethyst Bud (all) | Amethyst Cluster | Anvil (all) | Banner | Barrel | Bell |
| Bookshelf | Brewing Stand | Button | Cake | Campfire | Candle | Carpet |
| Cartography Table | Cauldron | Chain | Chest | Comparator | Crafting Table | Door |
| Ender Chest | Fence | Fence Gate | Fire | Fletching Table | Flower Pot | Furnace |
| Glass | Glass Pane | Glowstone | Grindstone | Hay Block | Hyphae (all) | Iron Bars |
| Ladder | Lantern | Lectern | Lever | Lightning Rod | Log (all) | Loom |
| Note Block | Observer | Planks | Pressure Plate (all) | Redstone | Redstone Block | Redstone Lamp |
| Redstone Torch | Repeater | Scaffolding | Sea Lantern | Sign | Slab | Soul Campfire |
| Soul Lantern | Soul Torch | Stairs (wooden) | Stem (all) | Sticky Piston | Tinted Glass | Torch |
| Trapdoor | Trapped Chest | Tripwire Hook | Wood (all) | Wool |
¶ Piloting
To pilot an East Indiaman, you may use the command /pilot EastIndiaman while standing on an eligible East Indiaman. Alternatively, you may right click a sign on the craft that has EastIndiaman written on the first line.