Salty Del

I always hoped they'd create a weather system with prevailing winds that change direction mildly between zones, like the wind was moving across the servers with variances between grids due to weather. I'm somewhat disappointed that they're still on the normal rotation routine.

Two sailors looking for an island to make a smallish base on, temperate climate preferred.

We'll be building an approximately 4x4 main building, and a 6x8 attached pen.

We prefer to build on the beach, stretching into the water so as to avoid building over resources. And the view is better.

Thanks,

Del

Are you looking for NA or EU?

My wife and I are on NA PvE, and we have our own island. We don’t play quite as much as we were, but we can help you get started with a spot on our island and help you get connected to other groups as well.

We like helping others out, and you’d be welcome to join us on adventures. And if you wanted to do the power stones etc., we’d be glad to help you with those as well.

I find using the cage can be problematic at times. Sometimes the birds just pop right through the cage.

For parrots, what I found worked was to just whack them with the spyglass and walk backwards, hitting them every time they come back around. Switch to a bola when they’re low and then feed them hardtack.

Wearing hide armour and drinking rum, they do only 1 point of damage.

If you’ve got the tier 3 taming proficiency and the whale buff, on a 2x taming weekend or using the hard accordion music buff you can easily get a level 30 in a single bola.

Just carry a flintlock around to kill the ones you don’t want for respawns.

I’ve seen this happen a few times already, and I want to make sure the new players are aware of this.

The freeports have a message at the bottom of the screen informing you that ships take extra damage while in the freeports. This is very important to know, as when we first started after launch there was no message, and we lost our first schooner and had no idea why.

What is not shown is that this also happens in the Golden Age ruins. I believe that it’s at a slower rate, but ships left unattended in the Golden Age ruins will decay and sink after a day or two. Crew will not maintain your ship in freeports or Golden Age regions.

Please keep this in mind when venturing into these areas, that once your adventure is over, you need to at least move to a nearby region to anchor your ship safely. 

This change was made a while back when people were leaving ships anchored in the Golden Age ruins for doing the Fountain of Youth runs. The area around the caves became littered with these ships, making it very difficult to enter that area because all of the ships would have to load in, as well as requiring you to anchor in further, probably more dangerous areas.

Happy adventuring!

I’d like tier 3 cargo saddles that allow you to build a small base up to a percentage of the weight your tame can carry.

No weight reduction needed, like with the tier 2 cargo saddle, as the larger tier 3 tames can already carry a lot. Maybe a smaller 67-75% weight in the smaller tier 3 mounts. Depends on weight of structures that may be exploited, like multiple swivel guns, cannons or ballista.

Smaller tier 3 mounts get a smaller platform to build on with their lower weight.

These would replace the platform saddles from ARK, and you’d have to be careful because they can be damaged more easily.

The ally chat channel isn’t very useful. Unless all parties are in all of the same alliances, you end up seeing only half of several conversations.

Can custom chat channels be added, please? We had them in World of Warcraft, and they were really useful for discussing in different groups with no crossover.

Having a password feature would also be a huge plus.

Thanks.

3 hours ago, Realist said:

I would be fine with them not shooting at every fish in the ocean. Or me for that matter. Sometime when I am swimming I hear a shot go off and a splash and when I turn around I see them aiming the cannon else where like it wasn’t them that shot at me. 
 

next time I do a sunken ship one lucky cannoneer is going to distract the sharks for me.

Try putting a couple of NPCs on swivel cannons on the port and starboard sides, fore and aft. Grapeshot works really well on most anything.

Bears are the best mounts for doing treasure maps. Low quality maps can be done with pigs, bulls, ostriches......

If the treasure is up on a mountain you can’t climb up to, you can build a ramp out of thatch foundations, thatch roofs, and wooden pillars pretty easily and quickly.

Later in the game, you can use crabs to easily get up to most of those treasure locations. The crabs can jump really high and far.

To get back on board your ship, if you aim at the ship rudder and whistle, it should drop the emergency ladder at the rear.

We’ve had this happen. Two islands the identical shape in the same region, but if you look closely you can see differences in the details for ridges, etc.

Which world are you on?

I believe it is two weeks with no crew members visiting. If there are tames or crew, you can claim them after a week.

We’re on NA PvE, The Gorgon’s Gaze.

Ok, I just reread your first post, and you say that all you see is 123 and a health bar. You should also be seeing their character name and company. Is that what the issue is? If so, I believe there are options you can turn on to show that information.

I'm really excited about this and just wanted to share. We're working on getting the other stats bred into the line, but we're quite pleased with our initial results. It will be a little while before they're available for new homes. We can only breed on weekends.

Our bears and giraffes are also looking really good so far, rhinos are off to an ok start, and crows will be coming soon.

It won't let me attach the below decks shot, but I think you can get the basic idea of it. If you have any questions about our design decisions, feel free to ask. Even if their criticisms, we can learn from them

This is a view of the topside of our galleon. You can see the top decks that we used, our ramp to the bottom deck, and how we filled in the gap in the mid-level deck.

How are PC players targeting XBOX players through this? I haven’t heard anything about these tracking services in a while now. Are they tracking XBOX players now as well?

I’ve never heard acceleration on handling sails increasing top speed.

Here is my take on it from my experience:

If your ship is travelling at top speed, regardless of handling or speed sails, you will not turn your ship at it’s fastest rate. This is because your ship turns it quickest at a certain speed.

Handling sails are closer to that speed than speed sails, and adjusting them to get to that speed is quicker. You’ll also accelerate faster from that reduced speed.

The trick to getting to that speed with speed sails is not to furl the sails, but to turn them into the wind. Depending on the angle of the wind, you may still need to furl them to get down to that speed.
 

This is most noticeable on a galleon, but you can also replicate this in a schooner. Get the schooner to full speed with the wind blowing to either port or starboard. Trying turning into the wind. Then, do the same thing, but this time turn the sails into the wind first.

This is how I avoid ships of the damned with our galleon. They pop up, I turn the sails into the wind, turn the ship, then catch the wind again.

I think it’s more of an anti-cheat than a cheat. It prevents players using resources outside of the game to find another player.

I don’t believe there are any XBOX only official servers,  it I also don’t think it’s something you really need to worry about.

I’d be quite surprised if Microsoft allowed external parties to monitor their players like that.

We did the bottom floor, the top floor, and the floor inline with the hull top.

We put a ramp down closer to the rear, fill in the missing section and put half stairs to complete the gap. We put ours defending from port to starboard, leaving the gap in the bottom hull with a stair and a half to be able to easily repair bottom planks.

I’ll try to remember to attach a pic or two when I get home.

If everybody with that answers, this will be a very long thread.

The short version is that Steam users can be tracked by their Steam name by online services. So that people can’t trace where they are, the standard is to make their name 123 so they can’t be differentiated.

This is typically done for PvP reasons.

The cannons did not snap into position? That’s likely the root of your problems then. I suspect they’re detecting a collision with the gun port, and because they’re not snapped to it the gun port won’t open properly.

Try removing and replacing one cannon and see if that helps. I’ve never had it not snap to the gun port.

Check your firing groups. They replace your hot bar and have to be purple for them to be selected.

At the bottom of each box is a number for how many cannons are each group. You can set each cannon individually to a group.

If you can’t find the owners, that may require taking a screenshot of how it’s blocking you as well as a Screenshot showing the details of who owns the ship and it’s name and submitting a ticket.

It’s possible that it’s just somebody that parked quickly during a storm and hasn’t been back on.