Boats?

[Anon-Emouse|TTV]

silly question but how come there aren't any boats?

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

Bridges are too low, we'll bump our heads if we try to pass under.
But I too would like to have coracles.

[Anon-Emouse|TTV]

Originally posted by AliveSince1961:

Bridges are too low, we'll bump our heads if we try to pass under.

yeah but if you had a dock along the bigger parts of the lakes you could have fishing boats.

[Enjoy The Journey]

Coracles would be a good addition, and we could portage around the low bridges.

[Spotter]

Or canoes even

[lozza_dearnley]

It would be cool to have rafts, more than boats, or a raft ferry to speed you across the lake for a few coins. Implementing it might be more work than its worth though.

[wildguy]

the bridge's would limit your area but rafts and a fishing rod would be cool.

[tom.mcsally]

It would be nice if the fishermen used boats instead of wading in the water.

[Anima Mundi]

I second having fishing rods. Current fishing system was cool to get but it's not deep enough. Only 3 fish species but it doesn't even make much difference. Fish schools are locked to specific spawn points. Only thing they can be used for is Fish Tart or roasting. There's almost no incentive to even fish or build a fishing hut.
The fun part of fishing (whether in game or real life) is the surprise element, not knowing what's gonna come at the end of the line.
I think adding a fishing rod system with randomization / surprise elements would really be worth the Devs man hours by adding depth and another time sink to the game. Also there could be different dishes per fish, to motivate chasing species : "Fried Perch", "Stewed Pike", etc.

[🎮AliveSince1961🎮]

Here some interesting bedtime reading about medieval fishing rod.
http://www.luminarium.org/renascence-editions/berners/berners.html

[zenstrata]

Originally posted by Anon-Emouse:

silly question but how come there aren't any boats?

I suspect this is due to the small size of the map. To justify boats we would need a bigger map with more water that would give us a reason to actually use a boat for travel.

Otherwise perhaps boats could be used for fishing somehow? (we need fishing poles)