Station to build boat instead of workbench

[Letterdief]

Hello,

I am still discovering the game but I got discouraged because of the interaction between range of the workbench and building a boat. It's annoying and breaks the flow of my game play.

Here is my use case. I build a house, I put in a workbench. I build a wood cutting thingy to upgrade workbench, I build a leather thingy to upgrade workbench. I go defeat the first boss.
Next I wanted to set sail on the rivers!

I collected the items I needed for the boat, but when I wanted to build the boat, I noticed I am JUST out of range of the river. I had two ideas to solve this and I dislike both:

1. Dismantle my current base and move it a few meters to the river.
2. Build my current base again, but closer to the river. What's event he benefit of having two workbenches so close together besides increasing the range? It's not that it would save me, the player, time. They are right next to each other just to please the game? Also, I need to have roof, workbench, wood station and leather station else I cannot build the boat...

Both will take me an hour or two (maybe more) just to be in range of the river and be able to build my first raft/boat?

Now, if I would restart a save (doubtful) I would build my next base RIGHT next to a river to avoid this. But I did not know this was going to happen as a new player. This event took the "wind out of my sails" and now I don't even want to continue to play anymore.

My suggestion would be: make a separate station (with it's own range) for boats that we can build next to a river so this ordeal is avoidable.

[warrenchmobile]

Collect the items you need to build the boat of your choice. Add ten wood. Go to the shore where you want to launch the boat. Use the ten extra wood to build a workbench there. Build your boat.

One may, after building the boat, dismantle the workbench and take the ten wood when one sails. Please note that a basic workbench can be used to build any of the three boats in the game. Moving or constructing an entire base is not required.

Good luck with the game!

[Letterdief]

Originally posted by warrenchmobile:

Collect the items you need to build the boat of your choice. Add ten wood. Go to the shore where you want to launch the boat. Use the ten extra wood to build a workbench there. Build your boat.

One may, after building the boat, dismantle the workbench and take the ten wood when one sails. Please note that a basic workbench can be used to build any of the three boats in the game. Moving or constructing an entire base is not required.

Good luck with the game!

I just tried it again. It worked!

[vinyblaster]

Workbenches are cheap, just add one next to the shore and build your boat. Even take the 10woods with you on the boat. Temporary workbenches for boats or portals are easy to make.

[The Big Brzezinski]

Do other people not build piers? A workbench's radius is plenty of distance to reach all the way back to shore from a workshop on the water. Core wood for pilings helps.

[vinyblaster]

Originally posted by The Big Brzezinski:

Do other people not build piers? A workbench's radius is plenty of distance to reach all the way back to shore from a workshop on the water. Core wood for pilings helps.

I used to do that, and still do it for esthetic/role play reasons, but usually I just destroy my boats and store the materials in a chest near the water. So it's better to just dock on the beach to make sure you don't lose the nails in the water.

I actually would be totally in favor of making ships more difficult to build. Today, it's just about jumping in a portal with the materials, building the ship and sailing home with ores or something like that.

[Bjørn Thorsson]

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

I actually would be totally in favor of making ships more difficult to build. Today, it's just about jumping in a portal with the materials, building the ship and sailing home with ores or something like that.

In theory, to craft a boat (so not to just deploy it in the water) would require a shipyard and, hopefully, a shipwright skill to raise (which, later, may also help with sailing too). So a nice new array of tools: shipwright workbench, maybe winches and pulleys (to upgrade that workbench) etc. etc.: something one really should have in his base, but nothing one can "quickly deploy" when around. When sailing, the workbench rapid deployment, should be used for repairs only IMHO.

[Complaintdesk]

I always easily manage to find a small isthmus like finger of land or rock jutting out into deep water, on which to plop a level 1 workbench to build my longship. I also always find an offshore sand bar or an island to plop down a workbench after beaching my vessel, for quick repairs while sailing, or temporary moorage. If my vessel does get destroyed while I am off exploring, because I moored in the shallows, reclaiming all the ship materials is easy peasy.

In my experience if I can moor my vessel 20 - 30 feet from shore, it is very rarely attacked. It is important though not to leave a workbench on the shore near where the vessel is moored (unless it is enclosed in a boxlike structure), because workbenches are an enemy magnet. Once the fulings or greydwarves have destroyed the workbench, if your boat is close enough to be detectable, it will suffer the same fate ...

[blprice61]

You can also place a workbench where mobs can't path to it - for example: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1830165414582307093/CC623DB54E5E5B161079F6602F0B443BB342DDA5/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[Megahurts]

Plopping down a fire to keep pests away from your bench/boat works well too..also allows you to dry off quick when hitting shore if needed.