Ideas for changes/additions to boats

[jj42883]

For a game centered around the ocean, does anyone else feel like the boating needs a little more work?  With the addition of the feather sail and iron wind in the two previous updates, i think the sails are in a good place.  5 different sails with a pretty good balance between them all.  I feel like the other boat-attachments need to have that level (or at least more than we have now) of complexity.  Other than sails we have 2 lights, 1 net, and 1 weapon.  i feel like there should be at least 3 levels of each of those items.  Here's some ideas i will throw out there:

• Lights
  • Boat Lamp
    • Bottle + 2 twigs + 3 electric doodads & alchemy engine
    • duration is same as boat lantern, but is refueled with gears (not much to use them for currently)
• Nets
  • Fishing Net
    • 3 vines + 3 bamboo & Science Machine
    • much more likely to catch food items, gets an extra mussel/wobster from each pickup
    • can still catch non-food, but less likely than currently
    • boat speed deceases based on how much stuff is in the net
  • Trawl Net
    • 3 rope + 3 bamboo + 2 bone shards & Alchemy Engine
    • loot probabilities same as now
    • boat speed deceases based on how much stuff is in the net
  • Super Trawl Net (needs a better name)
    • 6 rope + 8 bamboo + [hard to get item] & Alchemy Engine
    • last item in recipe could be a large number of doy doy feathers, or maybe a new item from the last boss, or some otherwise hard to get item.
    • less likely to catch food, slightly more likely to catch better loot
    • 12 slots instead of 9
    • no speed penalty with stuff in net
    • doesn't drop when full (but something happens to tell you its full) & can be brought back to wherever you want and dropped manually
• Weapons
  • Boat Harpoon
    • 5 log + 3 bamboo + 5 spear guns + Science Machine
    • gets 10 shots (doubling effectiveness of the spear guns)
    • can be reloaded with more spearguns (but will disappear if all shots are used)
    • not sure how to incorporate poison / obsidian spearguns into this... maybe not at all... maybe reloading with those types lets the harpoon fire with those affects for two shots.
  • Boat Torpedo
    • 5 log + 5 charcoal + 3 electric doodads + Alchemy Engine
    • has 10 shots that auto-fire on any creature (cannot manually fire) withing range
    • is stronger than cannon, but very long delay between shots
    • can be turned on/off to avoid unwanted firing of shots

[AnonymousKoala]

So much this, also making sea kiting actually possible.

 

[jj42883]

2 hours ago, AnonymousKoala said:

So much this, also making sea kiting actually possible.

I had an idea about this too... a new boat that's super maneuverable during combat

• Combat Boat
  • 6 boards + 3 ropes + 10 gears & Alchemy Engine
  • art for the boat would be similar to the floaty boaty knights, but without the head
  • Duribility = 400 (between cargo & armored)
  • Speed = varies when in/out of combat (based on proximity to hostile mobs)
    • Out of Combat = 4 (same as log raft)
    • In Combat = 8 (almost as fast as row boat / armored boat with a feather sail) but would also have better acceleration... basically would move the same as the character would on foot, allowing for much better maneuverability during a fight. 
    • Cannot equip a sail (but can still equip a light & weapon)