# Building a boat in wilderness (no cities)

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [January 23, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846 "2018-01-23T22:27:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Viik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Viik](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Viik)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/1 "2018-01-23T22:27:45Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Mantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mantar/32/42_2.png) [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/2 "2018-01-24T18:48:32Z")

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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**
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> ![boat](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/7/73e88bc8642e65b219e4860e2a2260f25c0dc103.png)

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**Author:** ![Viik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Viik](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Viik)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/3 "2018-01-24T21:55:46Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Mantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mantar/32/42_2.png) [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/4 "2018-01-24T22:19:03Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![DeWolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/5 "2018-01-24T22:43:29Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Mantar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mantar/32/42_2.png) [@Mantar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mantar)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/6 "2018-01-24T22:48:23Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Viik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/45deac/32.png) [@Viik](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Viik)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/building-a-boat-in-wilderness-no-cities/14846/7 "2018-01-25T07:45:56Z")

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> [@Mantar](#):
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> 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.