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

[Buntkreuz]

Originally posted by Keepo:

Originally posted by Argentum:

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.

Just ignores needing to sail with a raft for 3 hours to get attacked by serpents all the time that destroy it with 4 hits.
What you talk about is the common gameplay loop.
WHat i am talking about is that you are stuck somewhere you cant possibly escape or need a dozen hours to get a chance to do so.
Thats time wasting, not accomplishing.
I also enjoy progressing in the game, but that was the point, in some situations you literally stop every progress because you are stuck on an island.

And believe me, i have seen islands that are easy to become stuck on and never escape.
But i have to admit the seed im using is like New Game+ difficulty compared to my first seed.

[Lime]

Originally posted by Argentum:

Originally posted by Keepo:

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.

Just ignores needing to sail with a raft for 3 hours to get attacked by serpents all the time that destroy it with 4 hits.

Don't use a raft, then? You can just die, then sail back on a Karve which is super easy to make.

Or he could explore the island he got stranded on and see if he could find the materials there.

If you don't enjoy either of those options, that's fine, but plenty of us do. Feel free to cheat. It's your experience, do whatever you think is going to enhance it.

[Mirage]

Depends on how much gear you have left.. I once lost everything when we died at the edge of the world, but realized it's impossible to progress without boss loot, so bit of a flaw with the game.. only option was to remove spawn and suicide to get back.

[Jolard]

It is up to you, but I am disciplined enough to only use the console commands occasionally. So maybe spawn your bronze nails and go from there.

My first opening island was small, with just a couple of boars on it. This made it really hard to get enough leather scraps to build the raft. Finally did, headed out to an island with Black Forest and got killed.

Spawned back home, spent an hour waiting for enough boars to spawn, and then sailed back to the other island and died again.

Third time the same.

Fourth time I managed to get a defensive structure built but then a troll destroyed my home and my bed, and I died and spawned back on the original island again.

At that point I just said screw it, and spawned in another raft. I wasn't going to spend another hour just trying to wait for boars to respawn.

[LeFrenchie]

LOG OUT ~!
join a new seed world .
grab loot to make a new workbench and a boat in your inventory.
log back in your game, drop a boat and carry on !

[👁]

This exact thing happened to me, I got stranded on a Black Forest & Planes Island with no Pickaxe and because there were no boars I couldn't even make a raft.

The way I solved it was by creating a new character to mount a rescue expedition

[OGPG]

F5
imacheater
spawn Karve

[PajamaBanana]

All you gotta do is log out, log into another game, drop off all your gear, log back into the game you were stranded on the plains, die, log out, log back into the game with your gear, grab your gear and log back into the other game. Simple.

[Lime]

Originally posted by PyrateLV:

F5
imacheater
spawn Karve

Yeah, if you just want to avoid trying to navigate back, that's probably the best option. Just respawn your boat and go on your way.

[👁]

The problem is that you're all suggesting that the player cheat or get themselves killed.

Starting a new map to get the necessary resources to at least build a raft is one thing, saying "Just drop your stuff in a chest and kill yourself" is another. I like to avoid dying if I can help it personally.

And cheating? Come on man, come on.

[👁]

Really I hope the devs make it so that this can't happen at some point because when millions of people play a game it's gonna happen to a lot of people.

[Lime]

Originally posted by 😈:

Really I hope the devs make it so that this can't happen at some point because when millions of people play a game it's gonna happen to a lot of people.

I mean, it's their choice if they want to cheat or not. It's not going to affect you in any way.

[👁]

Maybe they don't want to cheat though, maybe they need a better solution...

Like creating a secondary character to build a new boat and mount a rescue expedition.

Or starting a new world seed to gather the materials necessary to go back to the first world seed and build a boat.

[Sentient Entropy]

Originally posted by 😈:

Maybe they don't want to cheat though, maybe they need a better solution...

Like creating a secondary character to build a new boat and mount a rescue expedition.

Or starting a new world seed to gather the materials necessary to go back to the first world seed and build a boat.

I don't consider either of those to be solutions. Workarounds at best.

[Eternie]

I found when I went exploring and got killed I needed to get back to my body with no boars nor flint in these areas makes it incredibly difficult. I had been sleeping in small camps as I went and when killed spawned next to a camp of dwarves and trolls with no way to make a weapon or shield.
I do think there should be flint and boars in all areas of your map ...( just less than in starting areas ) to be able to make a weapon and shield while attempting to get back to your body.
Without needing to cheat via console or seed.