boat and storm

[MrΩ]

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Got a storm with, never seen before this patch, gigantic waves: the boat went upside-down, it broke, and I died in the middle of the ocean.

Bug or expected?

[hardy_conrad]

I've had my boat, a karve, damaged by waves pretty often but never anything like what you describe. Sounds horrible. I don't suppose we can blame mods for this?

[Iraneth The Goat]

Mine flipped on a beach and left me on a tiny island in a storm, but never in open water

[Lurksmore]

Hasn't happened to me since dropping sails in storms.

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Haven't played latest update.

[SyxtySyx]

4k hours playing. never flipped a boat.

[blprice61]

way back when, sometime around H&H dropped, I did a 360 barrel roll on a raft during a storm. Was fun until a serpent showed up.

[knighttemplar1960]

Expected. Boats take 10 points of environmental damage from striking objects including high waves (which can be +/- 5 meters from normal water height during a thunderstorm). A capsized boat takes 20 points of environmental damage. That means that the extra damage from capsizing is put there on purpose which also means that the devs knew that boats could capsize or they designed it on purpose to capsize in certain conditions.

[Kursor1]

Capsizing a boat is rare but it can be done. I've flipped a karve once. I'm told its possible to flip a longship but I've never seen it personally.
Its mainly a factor of speed- if youre in a storm with heavy seas slow down to speed 2. In my experience that should be safe. If you get concerns at speed 2 then slow to speed 1.

Note- dont exceed speed 1 in a longship if you're transporting a lox unless the sea is glass-smooth, no waves at all. Otherwise your ship will be taking 20 damage every 5-10 seconds, and will have to stop for repairs frequently and every time you do the lox will probably aggro on something and jump off to fight it and it becomes a hassle. (and give swamps a wiiiide berth so the lox doesnt spot an ocean-going leech and jump off far from land). If the sea IS glass smooth then you can speed up.

The random 10 damage during normal sailing is also why its risky to transport tame boars on a longship- the damage can transmit to the pigs and kill them. (plus the whole aggroing on something and jumping off the boat thing). Far better to use a harpoon to tow them behind the ship.

[Kolonel Kobb]

yea it happened to me when i was mining a leviathan when it sunk the wave sent the boat over and broke it leaving me dead in the ocean.

[Sistermatic™]

I just travelled by Longship for about 4 RL hours, through 2 storms. Never had an issue.

You might need to look out for serpents in storms, and your boat may also have been previously damaged.

[Veseljko]

It happened to me just once in more than 4000 hours. And it was 2 years ago, so it’s not something that came with new updates.

[Mineralwasser]

Only flipped a boat when we went skydiving down the mountains. Never flipped a boat in a the ocean.

[Draconis]

I have seen quite a few of these mighty storms with huge waves, but luckily I was on a longship so it was rather fun than danger.

The closest this I ever did was sailing full sails, tailwind, from the ocen to a blackforest beach and somehow parked my karve behind a tree.

[Pönnukaka]

That's why you don't travel far in a karve. It's not safe.

[MrΩ]

I did sail hours during storms, I have never seen such gigantic waves (BTW, no mods/vanilla). Moreover, those waves did happen SUPER FAST (I would not have had the time to slow down or align the boat to avoid to flip over...).
Those waves were so huge, I could bet even at speed 1 the boat would have flipped over.

I play immersive+, then I am dying often, losing my full inventory and all my stats... so I am used to that. Normal people will rage quit, :)

Addition of new pain: while in a storm far from the coast (I was travelling in the vegvisir direction for the boss spawn... nothing fancy), stop the boat, wait the long minutes until the storm ends...

[BlueHawkll]

Yep definitely very fun when my boat CAPSIZES IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE