What is the purpose of the Dock tile?

[Wayward Will]

Is it purely decoration? It says something about it "floating" to walk or carry animals, but I can't seem to do anything special with it.
Is it purely flavor text, and it's just an expensive wooden platform with a nod to explain if you want to make it floating disconnected?

[Vental]

Originally posted by Aleisis:

Originally posted by Wayward Will:

Really hoping we get some sort of baby-swaddle-like animal carrier, so we can glide with animals.

I was thinking a balloon that you could tow along, like a big version of the floating resource bags. Love the idea of the animals getting a balloon ride! :tabbycat:

I love this idea JUST for how funny the imagry is. I am picturing something akin to Pixar's Up. And that's just a lovely idea. Where they would be tied onto you and thus you can form a "konga-line" like train.

[intentionally blank]

Originally posted by Vental:

I get what you are trying to correct but if the spawn point itself is arbitrary/not based on anything, then it still is a random point on the island, even if it's consistently that random point.

I say it's "not random" because the RNG didn't put it there, the level designer did (these are all hand-made islands).

Originally posted by Vental:

Question is, what would it look like. Personally, I like the idea of something akin to a mystic signal flair using the waystones. Something you craft and toss that eventually despawns. I think this is the least obtrusive way to do it. You toss it on the ground, it turns into energy and kinda "evaporates" into mystic particles going up but marks the spawn point for your animals.

Cool idea!

Originally posted by Vental:

I still say the BED is good implementation so far. That's where you go when you die and teleport. Just not where you load into the game at, and that much should be fixed.

Thank you for the correction/clarification.

[Vental]

Originally posted by intentionally blank:

I say it's "not random" because the RNG didn't put it there, the level designer did (these are all hand-made islands).

I know that's what you mean (as stated previously), I was just pointing out that there is more than one way to define "random" by. Pin the tail on the donkey as an example. It's human-operated-random-selection (dear GOD that's an awful acronym).

Originally posted by intentionally blank:

Thank you for the correction/clarification.

Happy to help. Not sure if you need to sleep in it first. And I am not sure if it works on just the deluxe beds or also the starter beds.

[Slab Hardcheese]

I've been using connected downward angle ladders which sink into the terrain fine. I also didn't understand how or why to use a dock tile until this thread.