i wanna see boats that would bee soooooo good i love boats in game. maybe you can build your own boat like a custom boat then you can have some cannns and then boom pirate wars how awesome wouldent that be and a boat sinks if it get a hole some where and water fills it. a cannon ball can take upp too 4 blocks per hit but it is rare
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Please if you make a suggestion could you at least elaborate a bit more on the different ideas you post? If you just want to say I want boats then search for boats and post that in one of the many threads where we already discussed boats and other vehicles.
Btw Your grammar seems to have improved a bit. Good job keep it up.
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I thought the plan for this game was to be able to build a structure (Like with normal blocks and props, not a set model that is a boat) and then turn it into a boat/aircraft/car. The pirate cannon idea sounds plausible considering there is going to be an exploding enemy in the game as well as the already existing system where blocks can become damaged. At this point water physics is a stretch. If they were to do a boat sinking system it would be very bare bones, something like:
The speed would be reduced relative to the amount of blocks destroyed compared to how many total blocks there are and then the boat being unable to move if too many blocks are destroyed.
Secondly, if you could have cannons in the game, imagine how good of a griefing tool that would be. Also the coolest builds could be destroyed. I think cannons would be something for a modded version of the game.
The development stage is too early to think about custom boats, cannons, physics, sinking, etc. I think if they were to implement boats seriously it would be like this.
Make a structure on liquid, it must not be connected to land and must be completely hand made. You place a boat beacon onto it and then define the area where boat is in the three dimensions. You can then craft a steering wheel and it must be placed within the area. You can activate the steering wheel to move the ship (with new keyboard/controller controls). The ship has the same properties as a beacon protected area with only certain players being able to edit it. When mobile you cannot add or remove blocks from the ship. If you want to add blocks to the ship you activate the beacon block and it allows you to set the boat to be locked to the 3d axis of the game which could also act like an anchor at the same time. (Or else you wouldn’t be able to build if the boat was rotated). There would also need to be a collision box for the ship.
It seems like a lot of work at this stage so I wouldn’t count on it and even when it is implemented it will probably be buggy. A minecraft type boat is more reasonable to ask for at this stage as it would be less complicated and a way to test water physics and boat controls. Both types would be good for the game in my opinion.
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I think it´s highly unlikely that we will get boats in addition to the already (somewhat) confirmed airships. Alone the necessary buoyancy physics would imo be too much effort to justify the implementation of boats and who wants to sail with a boat if you can operate an airship?
It also seems that the worlds are focused on interesting landmasses with small rivers or lakes and not big oceans like in Minecraft. So you would probably be very restricted with the usage of your boat.
Judging from the rather negative reaction to my beacon sieging suggestion I also think that cannons, if they are going to get into the game, will most likely be some sort of PvE mechanic to wear down a titan before you jump on it and not to bombard other players ships (people just don´t like it if their stuff gets destroyed).
Ship to ship PvP will most likely be restricted to pirate like boarding.
@Combatman12 : If you want some good examples for vehicle builder in voxel games you should check out Robocraft or From the Depths (a lot more advanced and very detailed water physics).
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You know whats better then boats? FLYING BOATS!!!
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im trying my best lol
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hehe yeah thats right mate
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I wouldn’t say that the worlds are purposefully focused on landmasses but they are the most interesting thing while we don’t have anything in the water^^
As soon as there are big and small aquatic creatures we’ll see some water worlds. I garantee you that^^
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I would love to see boats too!
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Epsilo seems to be about half covered in water and boats would make it a lot easier to travel around on that planet. Plus, after 1.0 comes out, I’m sure there will be a lot of watery worlds to wander.
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portal in omnishop our project has waterways a harbour mecanical drawbridges and a boat repair(wip)
and im making sure boats can pass under bridges so im ready
also the old clubhouse from aqua got speed boats to ride on top off the oldcity 
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