Wishful thinking with the Rhymes with Klei Ocean QOL Teaser

[Primalflower]

does this hole look... remarkably, enterable, to anyone else? It's so open and wilson-could-fit-in-this-shaped, it honestly genuinely reminds me of a cave cleft.

Now, I wouldn't be thinking this without this extra thought: doesn't the new boat sort of look like it could be enterable too?? like, its got the smaller circle in the middle thats meant to invoke what would in a real ship be an entrance to the inside, in the same spot as the otter boat. if there were ever to be a point where interiors would be introduced into DST, there would probably be a thing like the otter boat that spawns naturally and exists in the same way a cave cleft does, alongside the more refined slanty-shanty-esque option. 

am i making sense??? i wouldn't really think this if there existed these two distinct boats separately introduced, but they chose to show these two at the same time...

 

[Masked Koopa]

While I would prefer land houses, a boat house would be way way better than nothing and any sort of interior existing would make adding land based houses much less effort than adding them from nothing. An enterable Otter den sounds great for exploration though. It could also perhaps be fun to claim the otter den for ourselves if its possible.

[Mike23Ua]

I don’t even know if that’s technically possible, the reason why we don’t have slanty shanty’s or Hamlet Temples in DST is because Klei doesn’t know how to handle those in a multiplayer game.

it has been several years since they made that statement so of course with advancements in technology and their own ideas on how to better implement stuff who knows, maybe they found a way..? 
 

In fact I actually think the NewHome multiplayer has player houses (idk cause I’ve never played DSNewHome)

[Szczuku]

I think what this new boat will have to offer is 100 more hp and a chest worth of built-in space in the middle, at best

[chirsg]

4 hours ago, Primalflower said:

does this hole look... remarkably, enterable, to anyone else? It's so open and wilson-could-fit-in-this-shaped, it honestly genuinely reminds me of a cave cleft.

Now, I wouldn't be thinking this without this extra thought: doesn't the new boat sort of look like it could be enterable too?? like, its got the smaller circle in the middle thats meant to invoke what would in a real ship be an entrance to the inside, in the same spot as the otter boat. if there were ever to be a point where interiors would be introduced into DST, there would probably be a thing like the otter boat that spawns naturally and exists in the same way a cave cleft does, alongside the more refined slanty-shanty-esque option. 

am i making sense??? i wouldn't really think this if there existed these two distinct boats separately introduced, but they chose to show these two at the same time...

 

Even if we didn't get houses in game in lieu of this, it would be game over. The modding community would go nuts and we'd get a hamlet mod the week after the update drops. 

I do not think you're right. I really don't. I think you are completely wrong, but this is one of the things where I do hope you're right.

[PunkShark]

5 hours ago, Primalflower said:

does this hole look... remarkably, enterable, to anyone else? It's so open and wilson-could-fit-in-this-shaped, it honestly genuinely reminds me of a cave cleft.

I think this is more-so closer to a spilagmite rather than an entrance. I think the idea here is that these otters live inside of this sea-bed of kelp and sticks, like a floating dam they've built themselves. I think it's just a spawn point.

While i'd be happily want to be proven wrong i don't think the cave cleft mechanics (like housing and whatnot) could entirely work on the same premise as an enterable small sea-bed

[Mortalbane]

Man, this hole literally looks like a home of that otter thingy.
Besides, where would you go, if you'd enter it - drown? =)

[Masked Koopa]

6 hours ago, Mortalbane said:

Man, this hole literally looks like a home of that otter thingy.
Besides, where would you go, if you'd enter it - drown? =)

Well you are assuming that it is a boat and not like a structure of some sort with a tunnel kinda like a beaver dam.

[Uedo]

You know it's literally just gonna be a regular ol' boat haha - Hopefully not though

[Wormboi]

God that would be the second biggest troll klei has done if they do that

39 minutes ago, Uedo said:

You know it's literally just gonna be a regular ol' boat haha - Hopefully not though

 

[Mike23Ua]

1 hour ago, Uedo said:

You know it's literally just gonna be a regular ol' boat haha - Hopefully not though

I’m not a huge fan of the ways this otters den thing looks, it looks like it’s intentionally meant to look like a boat instead of a sea nest for an ocean mob, Klei could’ve just copy/pasted the moose goose nest twig art and put the otter dens on top of that for them to spawn out of on the open ocean.

Because if this image IS their sea nests, why do they look so ridiculously close to being boat platforms?? Surely Klei has a REASON for making them look intentionally like boat platforms, instead of more clean and Natural & professional (like Catcoon dens)

This is either beta place holder art- OR there’s a reason it’s intentionally designed to look like a boat platform.

[Uedo]

4 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

I’m not a huge fan of the ways this otters den thing looks, it looks like it’s intentionally meant to look like a boat instead of a sea nest for an ocean mob, Klei could’ve just copy/pasted the moose goose nest twig art and put the otter dens on top of that for them to spawn out of on the open ocean.

Because if this image IS their sea nests, why do they look so ridiculously close to being boat platforms?? Surely Klei has a REASON for making them look intentionally like boat platforms, instead of more clean and Natural & professional (like Catcoon dens)

This is either beta place holder art- OR there’s a reason it’s intentionally designed to look like a boat platform.

I think that's to indicate that you can probably sail it.

[lowercase skye]

4 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

OR there’s a reason it’s intentionally designed to look like a boat platform.

If something is shaped like the existing boats, then we intuitively know that we can jump on it and row it around and stuff, like the ice floes from a few updates ago.

[Wormboi]

5 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

I’m not a huge fan of the ways this otters den thing looks, it looks like it’s intentionally meant to look like a boat instead of a sea nest for an ocean mob, Klei could’ve just copy/pasted the moose goose nest twig art and put the otter dens on top of that for them to spawn out of on the open ocean.

Because if this image IS their sea nests, why do they look so ridiculously close to being boat platforms?? Surely Klei has a REASON for making them look intentionally like boat platforms, instead of more clean and Natural & professional (like Catcoon dens)

This is either beta place holder art- OR there’s a reason it’s intentionally designed to look like a boat platform.

yeah I kinda wished the otter den was a proper small island instead of boat reskin

[Mysterious box]

My theory is that they'll be a small hire able crew who will help you with rowing.

[Primalflower]

you win some you lose some

 

 

[chirsg]

15 hours ago, chirsg said:

Even if we didn't get houses in game in lieu of this, it would be game over. The modding community would go nuts and we'd get a hamlet mod the week after the update drops. 

I do not think you're right. I really don't. I think you are completely wrong, but this is one of the things where I do hope you're right.

I hate that I'm right.