Building a boat in wilderness (no cities)

[Viik]

To this point I thought that I could build a simple boat with oars. Unfortunately it’s a bit useless without controls. Maybe I can find some odd vehicle somewhere but that is a challenge on its own.
Something like a bicycle or a row boat, require a full set of controls is slightly odd.
“Simple vehicle controlls” where discussed some time ago but they where focused on simple electronics panel for operating switches.

[Mantar]

You don’t need controls, just oars, though you’ll need at least two tiles with boat boards. I used three for safety, since you’re liable to hit things and have your boat damaged, so a little redundancy is good if you don’t want to have to jump out and push your boat to shore.

Da boat dat works

[Viik]

Hmm, but how do you control it then? How would you steer it?

[Mantar]

Drives just like a car, which is not surprising since the boat mod’s basically hacked on top of the current vehicle code. You sit on the tile with the oars, press ^, and away you go. Well, provided you’ve got enough of the boat sitting in water tiles.
Just watch out for schools of fish, they don’t go under your boat as-is, you ram into them and damage your boat. I find it helps to zig-zag in areas with lots of fish, it gives them a chance to get out of the way. Oh and beware of Jawed Terrors, their name isn’t fanciful. I’d bring a shotgun along just in case.

[DeWolf]

I’d imagine he only has access to spears as this is a no cities run.

[Mantar]

Well if a spear is the best he’s got, then I’d say don’t go out on the water unless you have to. My innawoods guy unloaded about 6 rounds of shot into a jawed terror to kill it. It really was terrifying.

[Viik]

You sit on the tile with the oars, press ^, and away you go

It asks which vehicle you want to control. Maybe I’m missing enough boards, will try to grind to mechanics 2 so I can install them.