Is the motor raft just worthless?

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

I built it and I got less than a round trip. Now I'm paddling. I may as well have swam it, at least then I could have dragged a whole palm tree with me.

[Joe Coffee]

Whoa, it shouldn't be *that* worthless. There is supposed to be a "durability" of use to them, but last I heard, you could really get some mileage out of the boat motor, unless there was a huge nerf just given to it recently.

In your case, I highly recommend looking for the jerry can. It'll refuel/renew you boat motor; unless the renewal also got nerfed.

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

From what I read the raft should basically come with a jerry can worth of fuel. I also read the it was supposed to go quite far. Well I went to one island and had to paddle back a little bit and it won't start now. My flipper seem way faster anyway. And like I said. I can chop down a whole 4 trunk palm and drag the whole thing with me at top speed.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by TrippleOGGG:

From what I read the raft should basically come with a jerry can worth of fuel. I also read the it was supposed to go quite far. Well I went to one island and had to paddle back a little bit and it won't start now. My flipper seem way faster anyway. And like I said. I can chop down a whole 4 trunk palm and drag the whole thing with me at top speed.

RAWR!!

Well, supposedly, you can also put boat motors on 3 sides of a raft, and use 2 boat motors to travel diagonally, a lot faster than with just one boat motor. Which makes no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sense why you have to have a 3rd boat motor. *sigh.

http://stranded-deep.wikia.com/wiki/Boat_Motor

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

I've also been to like 4 islands now and at least 6 or 7 ship wrecks. I have 1 jerry can. Three engines, 3 times more fuel.

[Cosmo]

Originally posted by TrippleOGGG:

I built it and I got less than a round trip. Now I'm paddling. I may as well have swam it, at least then I could have dragged a whole palm tree with me.

2 Words, Flippers!


Cosmo, Fred, Oonie Mu Mu and Liquorice

[James Mac]

I think there is a bug or feature that I haven't found in the forums so far, as far as the rafts go. Once in a while my motor will get lower on the raft and I will end up having to build another who boat and motor. And some times I can build a boat and with just one motor it is much faster than any other normal mode of travel. Then, because I have the parts, I can build a second raft+motor and it will be very slow. No mods or anything, both boats buit on the same SD build version. The faster raft+motor will take about 20 minutes of game time to reach other islands, the slower one will take almost 2 hours to reach the same island I tested with the faster one. And the slower one is slower than using the starter raft+paddle. :/

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

Flippers are pretty much the only way to go at this point. Plus they supposedly stack if you find more. Unless I'm really lucky to have found flippers right away, they're pretty much OP and make other forms of travel obsolete.

[Joe Coffee]

Does running or swimming as fast as you can have any impact on anything, like hunger, thirst, etc.?

[tiermann]

The flippers don't stack as far as i can tell. You either have them or don't. Also there's no top speed or flipper count in the save file.

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

Originally posted by Torpedahman:

Does running or swimming as fast as you can have any impact on anything, like hunger, thirst, etc.?

Not that I can tell, at least not yet. I've swam round trip twice to an island and back and it didnt seem to do much to my hunger or thirst.

[Cosmo]

Originally posted by TrippleOGGG:

Originally posted by Torpedahman:

Does running or swimming as fast as you can have any impact on anything, like hunger, thirst, etc.?

Not that I can tell, at least not yet. I've swam round trip twice to an island and back and it didnt seem to do much to my hunger or thirst.

I keep meaning to try and test this, but I get the feeling that your health might regenerate faster if you remain still and/or dont use the sprint button.
It is completely speculative as I have been unable to test it properly, and probably just psychosomatic.
But whenever my health dropped low I would fill up on food and water then just sit by the fire not moving around.


Cosmo, Fred, Oonie Mu Mu and Liquorice

[ABrokenPieceoftheSun]

Never needed to regain health yet.

[cba]

I've done a lot of testing. Summary below of the important points and speed breaks.

Task based food usage doesn't seem to be implemented as yet.

Sprinting while swimming is faster (tip, bind forward and sprint to the same key).

Lets say the "base speed" is sprint swimming, no flippers, on surface = 1

Raft with single motor = 1 (yes, you might as well swim)

Sprint swimming, on surface, with flippers = 0.65 times base speed

Sprint swimming, under water, with flippers = 0.65 times on surface speed (0.42 times base)
(come up for air as little as possible)

Rafts with 2 motors are faster than all but only if you can reliably stay on them. Fall off a couple of times and not so. I have a raft with 5 motors on and it's silly fast but can't stay on it :)

Fuel consumption is just very excessive motors. Not worth using imo.

Flippers definately don't stack, tested from 1 through to 7 sets then stopped.

Conclusion = rafts are a pain, I always sprint swim, with flippers, underwater. You outswim sharks.

[I-o-IPositive7]

walkSpeed = 4
runSpeed = 7
diveSpeed = 3
diveSprintSpeed = 5
swimSpeed = 1.5
swimSprintSpeed = 3
with flippers on surface (Sprint key not pressed) = swimSprintSpeed *1.5
with flippers underwater (Sprint key not pressed) = swimSprintSpeed *1.25
Edit:
with flippers on surface (Sprint key pressed) = 3.14159274 + 1 * (swimSprintSpeed *1.5)
with flippers underwater (Sprint key pressed) = 3.14159274 + 1 * (swimSprintSpeed *1.25)

[Cosmo]

Originally posted by I-o-IPositive7:

walkSpeed = 4
runSpeed = 7
diveSpeed = 3
diveSprintSpeed = 5
swimSpeed = 1.5
swimSprintSpeed = 3
with flippers on surface (Sprint key not pressed) = swimSprintSpeed *1.5
with flippers underwater (Sprint key not pressed) = swimSprintSpeed *1.25

Nooooo! you cant do numbers at me at this time of day! my head will ...

Never mind

Cosmo & Fred