misterjeffman

Agreed for the world gen. A dugout would be a middle ground between the raft and the sail boat. I think the utility of a dugout, depending on how big it's made (if its only 2 slots, it'll be worse than the raft), would be countered by the time cost of having to burn and scrape out the interior. It could also be scaled, with one being able to do 2-8 logs and have a canoe of the size you want, with speed penalty or the inability to really pick it up for a portage after 3 logs. Being able to have a watercraft that has multiple slots would be great. It could also be expanded into outrigger canoes and outriggers with sails to add more middle ground between the raft and sailboat. Hopefully since they are planning to add rivers, dugout canoes make perfect sense to add then as sailboats aren't a massive river thing, and if rivers are added, we'll hopefully get more bodies of water and improvements to fishing (such as nets, traps, or the automatic salmon catchers). https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Dugout_canoe_manner_boats_de_bry.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Pōpao.jpg/1920px-Pōpao.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Südseeabteilung_in_Ethnological_Museum_Berlin_11d.jpg/960px-Südseeabteilung_in_Ethnological_Museum_Berlin_11d.jpg

I have seen that mod, though that's arguably an even later game one than a dugout canoe, just as birchbark canoes are less common worldwide than dugouts, and dugouts are incredibly simple and we know they've been used for ages.

Adding dugout canoes as an early game boat option, would be great. The utility of it would be evened out by the time taken to burn out and then chunk out the canoe, with it being much smaller than the sail boats. Possibly birch bark canoes as well. If you could portage them, and they are just a permanent entity in the world, with you creating them by taking 3 logs and putting a campfire on each, that with it taking a couple in game days to complete the canoe, it would be a great early game vehicle for exploration. Also please add more to fishing, such as nets.