Originally posted by Screenblast89:

Never done it but what about going to the edge of your world and having your boat fall down fully loaded with stuff possibly your player character too...

In my main world I have (had?) a portal setup at the edge of the world in Ashlands were I tried to build a pier to the edge of the world, or as close as I could get. I couldn't get as close as I wanted, but it did allow me to test swimming off the edge of the world, which was fun!

One time I wanted to get to some place in that area, so I grabbed the mats for a longship, hopped in the portal, built the ship, and started sailing around the edge of the world. Unfortunately I was horribly unprepared. I didn't bring hardly any food, a portal, wood, pretty much anything. It was a short hop to where I wanted to go...

Turns out there was no way to get around Ashlands for a LONG way. I sailed through storms, over countless rocks, tried to sail up everything I could find, and never got anywhere. Eventually I noticed my ship was about to sink, so I had to land it. Even more unfortunately I landed it near a mound of Flametal, so I and my ship started getting pounded by Surtling.

I ran away from my ship to prevent it from sinking, and was out of food at that point, so I had to run away from the combat, but now I'm stuck in the middle of Ashlands without even enough wood to make a crafting table. I saw a Black Forest not too far, maybe a days run away, but I didn't know if there was water in between.

I ran that direction and found a land bridge that got me to the Black Forest, where I was able to cut wood, get food, and (somehow that I don't remember) get to one of my bases with a portal.