Sugestions for the upcoming ocean qol based on what was shown on the live stream

[Malfario]

These are just sugestions based on the content shown on the dev stream a week ago, probably some of the features listed will arrive in the release, but still, i feel like posting them now wouldnt make any harm.

Relocatable/craftable sea stacks.

This change alone would make barnacles, one of the most inconsecuential food sources in the game, and probably the less usefull resource of the ocean, 100 times better. Been able to create our own sea stacks near of a dock or coast for easy harvesting would be lovely. As well as open more creative options for future content, structures that need to be attached to sea stacks, creature spawners that apear on seastacks etc etc.

Been able to attach bath bombs to boulders or statues, drop them on the water with the pinch and winch, and wait for a full moon for them to become a sea stack is a concept i would like to propose, mostly because it will give a new use for bath bombs that have been forgotten by the players since the grotto was added. Also if this is duable it would be outstanding if the sea stack was partially shaped like the statue it originated from.

Indications for more ocean byomes and set pieces

Salt formations could have broken down boat fragments around them, waterloged byomes more of those drift wood roots and waterloged tree saplings etc, sea weeds a different looking bull kelp.

Make pearl house cost shell bell fragments instead of cookie cutters

Asuming we are getting indicators for salt formations as well, it wouldnt solve the problem that finding salt formations is still rng, easier to do, but still rng, The house costing shell bell fragments also sinergies perfectly with other pearl task, now pinching the trash around her island will be like killing two birds with one stone. I know some people would argue that why she would make us go for shell bell fragments if she sells sea shells to us already. To that i say she thins they are to pretty to be broken and expect of us to not breake them, you can veen give her a funny line for when you break them in front of her.

More bottles and better trades with them

Make it so crab king drops like 20 bottles, lore wise those are the remains of the letters he catched from pearl because he cant also let go from her but doesnt dare to come back, or make it so sunken chest contain 5-15 bottles, anything but just something better than hoping to find them.

Fish food should be as good as a read from wickers book, wicker still has them be rechargable, easier to use and incredibly more avaliable and cheaper to craft, they would be still worlds apart from each other but other charcaters still will have a way for easier fishing

Pearl could sell a regular fishing rod, for when you forget to get it before arriving to her island and seasonal fish start spawning

Better boats

The ancient boat is, assuming once again all it will do is what it was shown, a bit underwhelming, not only it does not have enough storage for the amount of item you need on the ocean, as well as for the items you do harvest in there. But even if it did i dont think it woul be that much of an advantage, specially for the amount of effort you need to get it, the needs of the player on the ocean are many and i would like to give ideas for boats that would fill those needs.

A boat that collect items on water as they get in touch with the boat (they could go to the inbuilt inventory of the ancient one). This would make it so when we see drift wood and bottle we dont need to stop the whole boat to catch them, with with sails its a lot of trouble.

A boat with retractable structures. A void powered boat that lets you hide structures, you press alt+right click on a sail and it hides on the boat leaving a patch like mark on the boat, you right click it and the sail is back. this will make it so we could have all the necesary structures for sailing, but choosing to have in display only the ones we are actually choosing, for simplicity it could be made so it only worked with baot related structutures.

QOL for fishing

Make it guranteed that all schools of fish have at least 1 big fish and high chances for a second.

Make it so seasonal fish are way more comun in certain parts of the ocean, way more comun could mean a school of seasonal fish always spawn the first time you load the area each x time.

Make it so fish like the catfish are posible to catch and dont take 15 minutes to do so ,please.

Make it so we can befriend otters and they will catch fish for us, putting the live fish on our inventories or tin bins

 

And finally, please make it so when we are fighting a boss sharks, narwhales swuids or monkey raids cant spawn, there is not way we can deal with them and the boss please its just a rng check to see if we can fight the boss or not

[Topazaz]

 I would love if sails could be replaced by some kind of motors. That way we could steer it with WASD while keeping original DST boat concept.

[gamehun20]

1 minute ago, Topazaz said:

That way we could steer it with WASD while keeping original DST boat concept.

You can use wasd right now too

[Topazaz]

On 5/23/2024 at 10:38 PM, gamehun20 said:

You can use wasd right now too

I know, but you can't really stop until you raise the sails making boats a bit more annoying than it need to be.. I think very reactive motor would add fun to boating. Of course much more content and new islands are needed also.

[wen_kesi]

I'd also like to make a suggestion: when a bumper is wrecked, it doesn't disappear immediately, but becomes a wreck with 0 durability, at which point it serves no purpose, but can be patched, because currently if a bumper is wrecked, it disappears and if there's a building near the top of it, a new bumper can't be put in the place, so this change would favor the player to build a small home on the ship.