how to get a zipline system over a lake?

[LadyVal]

Im trying to make a base on an island in the middle of a lake, is there a way to get the line across the water as every time i try and swim it disconnects it.

Do i simply have to wait for winter to make the main area?

[Majestic Twelve]

Build a bridge first then walk across

[LadyVal]

Originally posted by Majestic Twelve:

Build a bridge first then walk across

tried that, the water is way too deep and the length doesnt allow me to use the support building

[2smart]

You dont

[Maviba]

wait till winter and build some offshore platforms for it on ice in order to expand the range

[RainmakerLTU]

Also ziplines has range limit, but longer than rope bridge. Depending than a distance you might build few rope bridges. From what I seen, one zipline is almost 3-4 rope bridges or few more.

[joey.haks]

It's pretty simple, stand on the island shoot it on the rock and then at a tree on the left side of the waterfall.

[Psycho]

There is ONE way tho it require a ♥♥♥♥ ton of patience and alot of attempts depending on the distance.

step one: Throw a log out in the water.
step two: start jumping on it until you get the feeling how to surf in sons of the forest by keep jumping on it.
Last step surf them sons of the forest waves to your wanted location.

[Kressus]

Built my base there, here's what I did.

Build a wall, wood or stone, on the edge of the island and do the same on the other side of the lake. You're able to shoot the zip-line rope at the top edge of the wall, which lets you zip-line back and forth without dropping you.

[Mick Savage]

Originally posted by Kressus:

Built my base there, here's what I did.

Build a wall, wood or stone, on the edge of the island and do the same on the other side of the lake. You're able to shoot the zip-line rope at the top edge of the wall, which lets you zip-line back and forth without dropping you.

Very true, you can access the waterfall side of the lake without it being frozen over.

[Nerevar]

note : doesnt work for the offshore islands on the southeastern side of the map. they are "out of range" for the zipcannon. no matter what you do and that water is oceanwater so it never freezes over. you can technically make it over by tossing countless logs into the ocean first and jump from log to log but the logs slowly float away with time aswell. very very difficult to do.

you can still build a base over on the islands by simply makeing a loglauncher setup with the zipline tough. this will launch the logs nearly all the way towards the shoreline of the smaller island. still gotta swim a bit and fish them all out in the end tough. but theyll make most of the distance.

gotta dumb down build options i guess. first game too complex for the mainstream. first game you could just swim with a zipline blueprint and place it down. cannot allow that here. would be too much creative freedom

[ryannorgreeves]

Yeah, I agree with the winter. For other areas if I was impatient, sometimes depending on WHERE, if you have a wall section you can shoot at, you can make some pretty long distance shots with that zipline gun. I prefer this if I'm landing on something built over water or at edge of a cliff, sometimes ziplines have a "throw through" effect when using the traditional 3 logs in an upside down U shape for your zipline which can lead to getting launched off a cliff or into the water. (other applications can make this an amusing ride)

[Sholomar]

Create one zipline at your start point... to do this aim the rope gun into the ground for your first shot and hit where you want the zipline to be with your second shot.

Go to the destination and do the same thing. So you have 2 ziplines... one at starting point, one at the destination. Both very short.

After doing this save the game and quit. You don't have to exit the game, you just need to quit to the title screen. Find your save folder in windows and find the file ZipLineManagerSaveData.json. Keep in mind each save has it's own folder with it's own set of files. You should be able to use the last modified time to find the right folder.

C:\Users\XXXXX\AppData\LocalLow\Endnight\SonsOfTheForest\Saves\XXXXXXXXXXXXX\SinglePlayer

Open the file with the text editor and find the last 2 values of coordinates, those will be the last 2 ziplines you just created before saving. Each set of values has an anchorAPosition and anchorBPosition.

Take the coordinates of anchorBPosition in the first zipline you made (the second to last entry in this file) and paste it into anchorAPosition of the second zipline you made (the last entry in this file) ... save the file.

Reload the save.

You should have one zipline that's really long and connects to your destination and one zipline that's short going into the ground. You can remove the short one.

You can use this to make a zipline to turtle island for a base, to the top of the mountain with one zipline, whatever you want, as long as you have line of sight and clearance for your body, and with my OCD I've had to redo some to make them just right. My zipline network goes all over the map.

https://i.redd.it/u05utg2w2gdb1.jpg

There's no comparison to how much more I've enjoyed the game playing it with long ziplines, but I was that guy who used shield duping in Tears of the Kingdom too. :\

[Jing]

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