Abandon Ship!

[Mike23Ua]

The huge 6 person rafts are fun as is but they are well.. HUGE! And tend to crash into the map often (it’ll only get a hundred times worse when they start adding in Shipwrecked features like ocean waves, and sea creatures)

and when we Abandon a big ship, we extend the plank hopping off into the ocean (basically dying to wash up back on Shore) 

you can add many things onto your giant circular boat but what I thought would be really cool would be to have smaller one-man boats that attach to the side of the bigger one in a circle

(Allowing players to hop off the large raft and venture off in the small Shipwrecked style solo boat)

they will of course need to balance this, by maybe increasing the amount of wooden planks required to craft the large boat we have now- but I just find it strange sailing around on this large wooden platform that smashes into everything.. 

these smaller boats would need to be crafted and can only be attached/detached from the bigger raft.

(think of them as sort of Lifesaver boats on a larger ship)

[Mike23Ua]

Actually the most played Don’t Starve Experience for me has been within the Shipwrecked DLC pack (what can I say..? I just really dig boats and love the whole “Pirates at Sea” theme.)

so there are a lot of things that could still be done with the boat, two things that should be added as soon as possible is the ability to fish off the side of the boat & a string of Boat lanterns, DS:Shipwrecked had a Boat Lantern crafting option, so DST boats should get one too! they will still need to be refueled turned on/off like regular lanterns, but instead of taking up place on your raft that could be used to place something else.. (such as a campfire & crockpot) these lanterns would instead surround the outer ring of the boat itself. (Attached to some fish net rope with some floaty buoy ball type devices)

Working Pirate Cannons and Naval Warfare Sea Battles would be my long term goal for the Turn of Tides update (having enemy pirate A.I. Pig or Merm people trying to blow up your boat with their cannons or board and raid it’s loot) I’d expect this update to also come with item skins to reskin some existing items like a regular storage chest would be reskinned to appear as a pirate chest always opened and filled with golden coins, a spear can be reskinned into a pirate cutlass, and a straw hat into a pirate captains hat or a Red Do-rag with an Eye patch.

But that’s just me dreaming big.. 

i highly doubt any of that stuff is ever going to actually happen with the DST Boats.

[Mike23Ua]

This stuff- this is what boats need..