Is it possible to build a tiny base on the boat?

[WildLynx]

I seen some videos about players building and dropping carts into boats.

But is it possible to build, at the dock, a platform overhanging the bow of the boat, with small supports hanging in the air just outside the boat hull, and then detach it?

Will it sink through the boat, glitch the boat, capsize the boat, stay in place when boat is moved, make boat unable to move, or somehow it is possible to make it stable?

I just wont some torches and a chest to be on that platform.

[jonnin]

you can't attach anything to a boat without mods or something. You can get items onto a boat that will sit with gravity, so anything you can kick around, but actual construction items have to be anchored to the ground or to something else that is anchored to the ground.

you can do stuff like make a 'raft bridge' across a wide gap, or kick boxes from the cart onto a boat for storage, or pull harpooned animals onto a boat, etc. Not a lot else.

there are portable lights and chests you can put on a boat, but they are still gravity kick-ons.

[WildLynx]

I know I cannot attach structures, I mean making free structure fragment, that falls on the boat and kinda sticks to it. I suspect that boat will try to throw it out or refuse to go. I seen videos about free boxes from carts in the boats, but there is a warning that boxes will be swept away with waves during the storm.

[jonnin]

structures that are not touching the ground explode back into the materials used to make them. You can't cut the ties and have it fall, no, boat or even on land where it would land touching ground, its not allowed.

if you practice sailing skills, you can avoid losing the cart boxes most of the time, and they float (or used to?) if they go over so you don't have to lose your stuff. If you cut through the waves so they don't roll the boat so much, everything is fine. But its not easy to learn that... I spent many years working on boats and got a feel for what to do, and the game is a fair model of real sailing / waves, if basic.

[WildLynx]

Thanks!

[Mharr]

There is a Raft mod that actually allows this but it's understandably a bit glitchy.

[WildLynx]

The moment I decided to build a rig to put the cart into the Karve, the game decided that I wouldn't. Non stop storm for like 2 weeks. I tried to use beams to make boat to stay in place, but 2m high waves, even in harbor, throw it up and down. There was nice weather before I stared messing with a boat, there was slightly windy or calm weather during my trips around the Meadows and black forest, but now it's storm non stop. I just skip days by sleeping, but it does not help. Evil AI all the way.

Is there a console command to set weather to calm for a day?

[avatar.zero]

Originally posted by WildLynx:

The moment I decided to build a rig to put the cart into the Karve, the game decided that I wouldn't. Non stop storm for like 2 weeks. I tried to use beams to make boat to stay in place, but 2m high waves, even in harbor, throw it up and down. There was nice weather before I stared messing with a boat, there was slightly windy or calm weather during my trips around the Meadows and black forest, but now it's storm non stop. I just skip days by sleeping, but it does not help. Evil AI all the way.

Is there a console command to set weather to calm for a day?

env Clear

Requires devcommands to be active. Weather will stay clear until you enter a different env command in the console or issue resetenv.

[WildLynx]

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198011904353/screenshot/2100421975671655811/

How to calm the storm - stay in base and pretend you plan on long crafting session. Then suddenly run to the docks and place a cart. :)

Let's see for how long it stays here.

[MikeyMooMoo]

I would just like a way to more easily repair what ever i'm sailing in at any needed moment lol.. i keeps freaking out when i get chased down and attacked by a sea serpent.

[Mharr]

Being able to build any construct into a physics object would be kinda broken, aye? Roll a workbench onto your boat and off you go.

[WildLynx]

May be boats need a boat-only upgrade parts. Like:

Hull paint jobs. Hull can be repainted without rebuilding the boat.
Sail decals. The Lynx decal is absolutely must-have.
Colored lights that can be turned on and off. Like navigation and anti-collision lights, also anchor lights. Based on torches with some special fuels. Fuels needs to be obtainable early.
Extended storage area. It provides same space as a cart for Karve, and much more for the Longship, but there is a catch: total weight of the cargo affects handling, up to ... sinking. Also, there is a trade-off: seating versus cargo. So some ships can be modified to be specialized as cargo ships, with seating for helmsman and 1 passenger, others can be modified as passenger ships: with a lots of seats, but small cargo area.
A collapsible tent over the rudder area. Downside: when raised, it affects visibility from the rudder station and also reduces speed when sailing under sails. So it's more for anchoring ship overnight and resting.