Sooooo.... are sailboats just broken?

[Crystal Honecker]

Title pretty much says it all. I spent all day making a sailboat (DAMN YOU, SCARCE COPPER FOR TOOLS) and finally finished it. It slid off the rollers and into the water, but I cannot get in. Whenever I try to enter, the sailboat bottom has no collision and I just fall into the water and am pushed away. I have tried spawning a new one in creative mode, same issue. What is happening?!

[Dalorend]

Sailboats work like a big raft that doesn't need oars . it is not a physical object to walk on. you need to sit in the right hand stern seat to move it (it highlights like blocks outlines if you have that active. the stern is the opposite end to the mast.) it's easier to see if you build a dock or platform the stand right beside it.

 

Reed chests, Clay Storage pots and/or  Single wooden chests can be placed in any of the 8 central slots by holding ctrl + a right click, like a raft. Shift click quick inventory placing doesn't work properly for shipboard chests so you have to drag them over manually. It does oddly work for retrieval though.

To place an elk mount (if you have one) in the ship you need to put a wooden fence post in one of the chest slots towards the Prow (front, sail side) and leave two open storage slots aft of it (towards the stern, captain seat side). use the lead rope and right click the fence post to let the elk in or out.

Variation of this: Elk(E), Chest(C), Fencepost(F)

Stern - C C C C - Prow

Capt. - E E F C - Prow

[SnugglyBurrick]

To help with illustrating this, here's a screenshot of where you sit (you can also see all the chests I've placed in my boat)

I second the recommendation to build a dock, it helps a lot with kitting the boat out, plus even just a half-hearted one like I've got here makes the whole thing feel more... nautical, I guess

 

While we're talking about boats does anyone have any idea what, if anything, attaches to the Halyard cleat and the Carved Figurehead attachment nodes? Unless it's a spoiler, in which case nevermind

[Brady_The]

14 minutes ago, SnugglyBurrick said:

what, if anything, attaches to the Halyard cleat and the Carved Figurehead attachment node

According to the boat configuration file, the halyard cleat is supposed to accept ropes. I guess it could be a future-proof (or due to bugs disabled) slot the player can use to manipulate the sails.

The figurehead mounting point will eventually accept a figurehead the player can create by chiselling.

(The port prow storage accepts an anchor which currently has no use.)

[SnugglyBurrick]

Neato

Knew about the anchor, I like to fill it in for aesthetics. The cleat makes sense, since at the moment the sails go down automatically, it'd be nice to be able to adjust that manually. So rather than an attach point it's more like a lever