cargo ships gone?

[kit-kat]

I"ve generated several new worlds, and there is not a cargo ship to be found anywhere. Did the devs take them out of the game for some reason?

[deez]

no the ships are still there. are you talking about a certain type of ship or all of them being gone?

[kit-kat]

Specifically the new big ship with the red cargo containers. The ones with all the depths to explore, loads of floatation for raft building, and crates for storage. I haven't seen one in multiple new worlds.

[deez]

i would think the ships do spawn and you are just having some bad luck finding them. I spend most of my time in the World Editor and when i play the actual game it is testing the islands that i have made. I havent really explored the vanilla islands the game spawns except the starter island. sorry im not much help with this but i would believe the ships you are talking about do auto spawn. You can always try some of the custom islands because they usually have a LOT to explore:)

[Elfaron Tindomiel]

i started a new game a few days ago and i had the cargo ship at my starting isle, you must have luck to get or find them

[CalamityJo]

Originally posted by deez:

no the ships are still there. are you talking about a certain type of ship or all of them being gone?

I've had the same problem. I'm playing on a pc. Are you also?

[fuzzybunnyslippers]

If you want to start a new game; I have two world seeds that I like; because there is a cargo either close, or on the starter isle.

If you go to Cartographer, create world, and put in your own seed...

3030405 there is a cargo ship on the starting island.
I also like this one, because the boss' and aircraft carrier are North and NorthEast, not scattered everywhere.

35625310 is also a good seed; the center/starting isle doesn't have much, but I usually land, go around and quickly loot the loose rocks and cloth, the potato and pipi and then jump back into the yellow raft and paddle over to the island to the West, there's a cargo ship on that isle, and make that your home base. This one is also a good home base one, because the boss and aircraft carrier are to the South of that position; again, not scattered all over.

Sometimes, sure, I don't even want to fight the boss' so who cares where they are. I usually don't escape anymore; but I do like to have a nice trophy wall. :)

so, fyi, once you've created a world in the cartographer w/ a world seed, then go start a new game, and make sure you stick with "existing" instead of "random", so your world that you made in the cartographer remains.