Coggage

I've been through 3 sectors and it was a constant theme in chat. There are rocks that give bits of Copper in the zone I'm in, but I'm seriously considering sailing back to Freeport and stocking up on Metal and, strangely Fiber, because I've not found much of that in the zone I am currently in.

^^ I agree, but the Vitamin system is so borked, and in particular Fish being hunted out in Freeport zones, it's the only way to get anything done. I see they're patching shortly to make Vitamins deteriorate more slowly at sea while at the same time making food decay faster to balance it out. It might work out, but if not people will just stash their stuff in boxes, kill themselves and spawn at the bed again. I left Freeport with between 120 and 150 of each berry food group and about 70 of each meat group, plus 3 skins of water... I found land just in time because the food rots so fast NOW, and I ended up unable to eat all the produce I made. How much faster are the going to make it decay I wonder. I'd planned to use Preserving Bags and Salt to make food last longer, but of course the Skill Point "adjustment" this morning screwed that idea.

I despaired of ever sailing my Raft properly. I was all over the place. Then, this morning the penny dropped and everything clicked into place. I've been sailing from Island to Island, tacking against the wind and going in directions I never thought possible when I was crashing into everything in the Freeport harbour. :D

I made a water barrell, read I could fill it at a pool in town, which I did, but hit a snag. Empty barrell weighs 50kg but full barrell weighs 550kg, so I was moving at a speed where I was covering a yard in roughly 10 seconds. I had to drop it. This must be a bug ? I know my carry capacity isn't great at 300 but if you fill a barrell by hand you need to be able to move with it to place it on a raft, for example, simply by rolling it along rather than physically lifting it.