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Really? That's going to be a game-changer if it works Coldpaws, thanks.

This rag-doll effect where the ship flips around wildly, causing a massive amount of damage and you have no control whatsoever from literally just touching a sandbar or rock hidden under the water surface even while moving really, really slowly is the worst way to lose a ship. When this happens, you can't manoeuvre, can't repair or replace planks as you can't move about because of the ship flipping all over the place. All you can do is sit back and watch most of the planks get destroyed and your ship sink. I've had it happen to me on many occasions when moving really carefully and slowly when arriving at and leaving islands, out in the open sea when there has been a whale in view but not that close that it would come into contact with the ship and definitely no where near the hull when camming under the water to look. Seems like some kind of physics problem to me. Sure, I would expect to take damage from being careless and bumping into sandbanks, rocks or whales and have to repair or maybe even replace planks but not have the ship flip about to the point that you can't do a thing about it. After this has happened to you a few times, sailing in anything larger than a Schooner can sometimes feel rather like covering the soft, dangly collection of objects in your pants in cat food and jiggling them about above a hungry lion in a small cage. I try not to sail without the sextant buff or constantly bringing the map up and zooming in when approaching land whilst camming under the water and looking around the hull and I always drop the anchor as far out as possible. Best to have a slightly longer swim than you would like than to have to retrieve your stuff and build another ship.

So having spent hours searching for and taming high level bears then many more hours breeding and imprinting to 100%, not at all happy that after spending more time levelling the fruits of my labour, I set off to do some treasure maps and notice the bear that is the result of all them hours, skipping about on the deck of my ship while out at sea. Stop the ship to move the bear back to where it was on the deck and could not access it in any way to ride it, enable follow or access it's inventory. Log out and log back in again and the bear is gone. Turn the ship around and retrace the route as best as possible all the way back to base and no sign of it. No message in company log to say it has died, nothing. This was on EU PVE between J13/I13/I12 We need some sort of tracking system like in Ark so we at least have a chance to find tames that have cost so much time and effort if they are still alive in world somewhere bobbing about on the ocean. Really, really annoying!

Visited an island recently where elephants used to spawn but because people had built so many massive, eyesore, lag-inducing traps not one single elephant was to be found. They had killed all the spawns with their traps. There really is no need to build any kind of trap at all for the main harvesting tames such as elephant, giraffe or rhino. Use a bear to get the tame's heath down, then bola it from the bear. At most, when taming bears it makes it easier to use billboards or put down thatch foundations and walls around horses because they are a real pain to catch again but it still amazes me the number of lazy people who put down 4 bill boards round a bear then once it's tamed, demolish only 1 and then sod off. They are just as bad as those who build a ramped trap and leave it there for other people to get their tames stuck in or the ones who build a trap and put a bed on a single foundation next to the trap and keep resetting the timers by hopping back to see if their crappy construction has anything better than a level 1 sheep in it. For elephants, pop down a thatch foundation and bed just to be safe. Use wheat, deal damage and bola from a bear then either put your bear on passive or as I prefer, if it is on neutral, move it a good distance out of range then do the quick in, feed, retreat if it's hard to find the sweet spot and it often is. Kill any other elephants or anything that will aggro that is getting too close for comfort with your bear or by other means during the feed count-down. Rinse and repeat and then demolish that foundation and bed before leaving. Having as many points in taming proficiency as possible and having been present at a sperm whale kill in the arctic regions for the achievement and 30% extra taming proficiency or what ever it is will help speed up the taming process for any animal greatly.

If you add a Lieutenant Podium to your ship and use that when you have an npc at the wheel, you have full control over raising and lowering the sails with the normal commands as if you were on the wheel. The podium allows you to do everything that you can do when actually using the wheel yourself aside from turning the ship (as your npc on the wheel will be controlling the sail rotation and the rudder according to your heading whistles) so you also have full control over your gun ports opening/closing, cannons and other weaponry too using the front/left/right etc. groups and the same menu you have when on the wheel.

Yeah, it will always show what repair resources are needed when you look at the plank or anything else on the ship. As the previous posters have said, if you have the mats in your inventory, you can repair direct from there. If you don't have the mats in your own inventory (that is when you will see that you have 0 of 1 or more of the required mats) but the mats are in your ship resources box you can repair only if you have the repair hammer equipped. Npcs will start doing the sweeping animation when unseated, wandering isn't on and your ship is anchored. Providing all the needed resources are available in the ship resource box and one unseated npc has a repair hammer in their inventory, the repairs will start after being anchored for a short while. I'm not sure if this is once you are fully anchored and the anchor icon above your ship turns from white to green, I have never really checked that. I usually anchor, hop off the ship and when I come back, the repairs are done. As Terra says above though, npcs don't repair everything on the ship. This may be a daft question but you are using the specific ship resources box learned from the Captineering tree yes? It won't work if you are using a general storage box. So basically, all your mats need to be in the ship resources box in order that you can repair with your own hammer or an npc with a hammer can repair what it can when unseated and your'e anchored. Hope that helps

Nothing you can do about that unfortunately. As I'm sure you know, if the structure has been there over 24 hours or was there before you claimed the island, you can not remove it. Some people like to have outposts to gather resources and ship them to other grids where they are based where those resources are not available and others insist on resetting timers on dead bases, no idea why. I understand your frustration. The ones that really annoy me are those who build traps right on a decent spot where someone may like to build and then stick a single foundation and bed down so they can keep coming back to see if their lazy eyesore has caught anything, thus resetting the timer. No regard for anyone at all. For some reason, even though a foundation with a bed on it says it can be destroyed, it can't. Had a guy the other day build such a trap on the island I own and he had obviously read the island message banner I set where I politely ask people not to build traps beds/foundations because he said to me "just here for a couple of bears, will remove the trap when done". I left him to it thinking decent chap then much later saw he was not around and I could have removed it but didn't within the time allowed. Next day I was doing the rounds and he has placed a single foundation with a bed next to it - grrrr! My fault, I will just delete traps/etc like that in future and if I see anything in these traps - it's dead before "Captain I Can't Tame For Toffee" returns. As to the benefits, well you do get to build without having to consult a landlord or worry your structures will be removed, though most landlords are decent I think. You get the resources you mention in taxes and maybe it's not much, just some from people visiting your island and gathering a little but you will also get gold back from people doing treasure maps. Who knows, someone may come along and decide to settle on your island and then you get much more in terms of resources without them being taxed on what they gather for base, ship building etc. saves you a lot of farming. If island ownership isn't for you, you can give up your island at any time but can still live where you are without the worry that anyone will be able to remove what you have already built in the future. Not sure what the daily cost of your island is, mine is 712 and I find that doing treasure maps on 2x events and then diving ship wrecks and killing the odd whale at other times gives me enough gold for over a week so I don't have to worry about collecting gold on a daily basis. Cheers.

Make a second repair hammer and put it into the main inventory of the crew member you want to do repairs. This can be any crew member but they must be unseated when you are anchored. You will see the sweeping animation but there is a delay before the actual repairs take place, so you have to be anchored a short while.

Jat, zomgwee has posted a screen shot of the mini-map issue in the bug reports section:

I too have this issue with the mini-map on Blackwood, on SP, non-dedicated and dedicated. It's as if the mini-map image is the wrong resolution and zoomed right in, just a blurred, pixelated image that doesn't track your position. Unlike Forb Hidden though, I am also seeing (only on Blackwood) that the M key map doesn't track my position correctly either and is also a very poor quality image when zoomed in.