Help, Boat destroyed and marooned on random Plains island.

[Sminky]

I can survive plains, but not well. As I understand it there;s no copper on the plains. So how on earth do I get home?

Thanks

[Azgarod]

Is it entirely plains? Most are connected to swamp and black forest

[Natjur]

Your boat should of dropped all its parts, so you can re-make it. Did you lose the parts?

And you went exploring without carry the part to make a fast portal home?

[Joe]

Probably just die and go back to your bed. Then make new gear and go collect whatever you lost, if you want.

[Puppers]

Originally posted by Sminky:

I can survive plains, but not well. As I understand it there;s no copper on the plains. So how on earth do I get home?

Thanks

lol I had that happen to me i just made waypoint to my body and reset my spawn point

[Lime]

I assume you boat died too far off coast for you to retrieve the materials (especially the materials that sink)?

If so, grab a bow, snipe every Deathsquito you see, and make your way along the shore until you find another biome.

You could also suicide, then sail back with proper materials. If you have that mats for a portal, you can even do that beforehand.

[Butcher]

Create new world, enter, create chest, put everything inside, go back to the main world, die, get equipment from other world, profit.

[Buntkreuz]

Even if, it takes ages to get back if you traveled a bit.
I was also dead locked on an island because of nonsense (i slept at my main base but was somehow spawned on a bed really far away on an island i visited once like 20 hours earlier).

I recommend to just active the console commands and teleport you back.
There is difficulty and there is wasting time.
Im fine with dying and having to get my body back or even reforging every item and i am even fine with having to survive on a tough island (one island i ended up early game when having bronze was a tiny patch of black forest surrounded by plains and mountain biome without a chance to escape that small area, i managed to escape many hours later).
But im not fine with spending a dozen hours to get back into the game because i get deadlocked on a biome i cant possibly trespass.
The problem is, even if theres black forest near, you need finewood to get a boat and black forest doesnt have finewood and if you cant beat the plains biome you cant harvest the finewood there.

I think that losing your boat is a problem the game has. It easily can cause you to become deadlocked on an area you cant escape and then its basically "gg" if you happened to set your spawnpoint there.


Again, my recommendation is to just use the console to teleport yourself back.
YOu still have to get your stuff back etc, but this way you simply save time that is otherwise wasted.
You wont gain anything by enduring the grind to get back by hand.

[Natjur]

Originally posted by Butcher:

Create new world, enter, create chest, put everything inside, go back to the main world, die, get equipment from other world, profit.

This is the best ideas, you lose nothing and you home again fast with all your stuff. Just do not use the same world seed, as that can cause issues

[Lime]

Originally posted by Argentum:

You wont gain anything by enduring the grind to get back by hand.

I wouldn't say that, necessarily. On my first run, I died checking out the plains from landing on a shore. Sneaking into hostile land to get my corpse, then sneaking out, was super enjoyable.

Obviously, TC will need to decide if he might enjoy that.

[Sminky]

Sadly although i got my cargo back, the bronze nails sank to the depths. So it's a desperate fight, which i don't mind as this is where the game shines. But i'm not to familar with the plains yet, but as i understand it on this tiny landmass that is just that and a sliver of swamp i'll never be able to get the means to sail home?

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Keepo:

Originally posted by Argentum:

You wont gain anything by enduring the grind to get back by hand.

I wouldn't say that, necessarily. On my first run, I died checking out the plains from landing on a shore. Sneaking into hostile land to get my corpse, then sneaking out, was super enjoyable.

Obviously, TC will need to decide if he might enjoy that.

Thats what i did also, but my point stands because its based on nonsense that happens.
For example when i landed on a swamp area (pretty late into the game) on an island with only swamp, set spawn point there, went to explore, came back to see that a sea serpent destroying my boat.
I jump into the water to kill it by hand, bugged out and got stuck on some boulder.

Ship destroyed, body retrieved afterwards, but then no chance to escape.
Since you need bronze nails to build a boat, you cant sail except by raft.
In this case, it was the other end of the map.
Diving isnt a thing, so not getting the materials back.
I cant craft iron nails or anything else to make a new ship, because i have no materials for a forge there.
And even if i had, i cant repair my items on an early forge.
So i ended up being stuck on a swamp island with broken tools from the excurse.

I wont waste tons of hours sailing with a stupid raft.
Sailing is the most tedious and boring activity right now in the game, a total slog.
I rather just teleport myself back than enduring an hour of sailing on a stupid raft.
Thats just wasting time.
And commonly i spent the time on water tabbed out watching videos anyway.
But why waste energy and time on a fancy loading screen that is the ocean?
Yeah, exactly.
This isnt givign anything, not a better experience, it just stretches the time you spend ingame for nothing.
In such situations you dont progress, neither ingame, nor as a player by gaining experience on the game.

And to me, thats fine.
At this point it isnt cheating but a workaround on the games flaws.
The game missing diving to retrieve items and lacking other quality of life aspects or being buggy and at some areas unbalanced is not a feature.
And if i have to bypass that with a workaround, then im fine with that.

[Lime]

Originally posted by Argentum:

Sailing is the most tedious and boring activity right now in the game, a total slog.

Completely disagree. I love the sailing aspect. It's one of my favorite things.

To each their own, though.

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Keepo:

Originally posted by Argentum:

Sailing is the most tedious and boring activity right now in the game, a total slog.

Completely disagree. I love the sailing aspect. It's one of my favorite things.

To each their own, though.

It looks good, but theres nothing to do.
Im not talking about whether it is oh so cool to sail after the wind and watch the waves, im talking about its gameplay value.
And its gameplay value currently is nearly zero.
The only things you can do to interact on the ocean biome is sea serpents, thuna and harvesting on those floating monster rocks.
And just watching waves on a raft to sail from one end of the map to the other for 2 hours is nothing about "opinion".

Its factually the worst part of the game right now, even the devs aknowledged that its the most empty part needing a lot more to do before it becomes any interesting.
But lets not argue about that.
Being stuck on an island or even deadlocked sometimes needs workarounds.
My suggested workaround is one, there are others, OP is free to choose.
After you got deadlocked once, you will make sure that in future you will be prepared to teleport back.

My personal strategy was to establish a portal on every island for the case of being stuck there.

[SeeingeyeDug]

This is why I always try to carry 10 wood, 20 fine wood, 2 surtling cores, and 10 dwarf eyes wherever I go on boat. I also have a portal prebuilt at my base with a name unused by a second portal. If I find somewhere interesting or if I get stuck, I drop a table, a portal, and go back home.

I recommend keeping portal supplies on you with a second unused portal at base when adventuring far from home. You can drop it and resupply/dropoff, rest at night, etc.

[Lime]

Originally posted by Argentum:

Originally posted by Keepo:

Completely disagree. I love the sailing aspect. It's one of my favorite things.

To each their own, though.

It looks good, but theres nothing to do.
Im not talking about whether it is oh so cool to sail after the wind and watch the waves, im talking about its gameplay value.
And its gameplay value currently is nearly zero.
The only things you can do to interact on the ocean biome is sea serpents, thuna and harvesting on those floating monster rocks.

Its factually the worst part of the game right now, even the devs aknowledged that its the most empty part needing a lot more to do before it becomes any interesting.

I enjoy sailing around finding new lands as well as transporting items back. On every single run, my enjoyment skyrockets the second I unlock the Karve and more so when I get the Longship.