Battleships are the heaviest and best armed vessels most navies deploy. They are directly designed and equipped for combat between other vessels of their class, therefore possessing heavy armament, armour and a versatile array of anti-aircraft and ship artillery.
Ships of this class are few and usually the most valuable naval asset a nation has.
A Battleship may be between 5250 and 13575 blocks.
A Battleship may carry an armament of:
A Battleship's engine can produce an output of:
The following blocks can be used to construct a Battleship:
| Anvil | Banner | Barrel | Bell | Blast Furnace | Bookshelf | Brewing Stand |
| Bricks | Button | Cake | Calcite | Campfire | Candle | Carpet |
| Cartography Table | Cauldron | Chain | Chest | Chiseled Deepslate | Coal Block | Comparator |
| Concrete | Cracked Nether Bricks | Crafting Table | Daylight Detector | Deepslate Bricks (all) | Deepslate Tiles (all) | Dispenser |
| Door | End Stone Bricks | Fence | Fence Gate | Fire | Fletching Table | Flower Pot |
| Furnace | Glass | Glass Pane | Glowstone | Grindstone | Hay Block | Honey Block |
| Hyphae (all) | Iron Bars | Iron Block | Ladder | Lantern | Lectern | Lever |
| Lightning Rod | Log (all) | Loom | Nether Bricks | Note Block | Observer | Planks |
| Polished Andesite | Polished Blackstone | Polished Blackstone Bricks (all) | Polished Deepslate | Polished Diorite | Polished Granite | Pressure Plate (all) |
| Prismarine Bricks | Quartz Bricks | Raw Copper Block | Red Nether Bricks | Redstone | Redstone Block | Redstone Lamp |
| Redstone Torch | Repeater | Scaffolding | Sea Lantern | Signs | Slab | Slime Block |
| Smoker | Soul Campfire | Soul Lantern | Soul Torch | Stairs | Stem (all) | Sticky Piston |
| Stone Bricks (all) | Target Block | Tinted Glass | TNT | Torch | Trapdoor | Trapped Chest |
| Tripwire Hook | Tuff | Wall | Waxed Copper (all) | Wood (all) | Wool | End Rod |
To pilot a Battleship, you may use the command /pilot Battleship while standing on an eligible Battleship. Alternatively, you may right click a sign on the craft that has Battleship written on the first line.
Battleship is fuelled by Coal, Charcoal, Blocks of Coal, and Blocks of Charcoal placed inside an on-board Furnace.
Give vessels of this class screens, meaning destroyers or frigates escorting it, to avoid it being lost to submarine or bomber attacks.