Originally posted by Frank McFuzz:

Originally posted by Trakehner:

First, if you are trying to get help, I wouldn't end the post the way you did.

Anyhow, are you certain there aren't any boulders underneath that it's hitting as waves come in?

An unseen event swimming up close to it?

Are you running mods?

I'd rather the chance of this happening be 0% than my particular problem be sorted. I 100% agree that I shouldn't end posts this way but my other threads tend to go that way so I thought I'd get it out the way first lol.

I don't believe the rising and falling tides and slow damage ticks over time to be the culprit here - at least not all 3 times. I had just recently built the boat. If just having a longship parked by the shore can destroy it in a few ingame days, then something should be reworked. Maybe just allow us to drag the ship onto land (in a way similar to the cart, not by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pushing it, sick of that as a solution to problems too lol) to prevent tide damage, if that really is a thing.

Can the boats be given a 'run down' or 'wreck' state, which can be repaired or restored or at least salvaged, before just straight up disintegrating? At least when it happens so close to my base? I had just built the longship and I am still in the relative early game and 10 iron isn't especially cheap right now. It's happened so many times now. It's gonna make me so paranoid that I'll only ever park the boat 100 metres out and just swim to it lol.

Yeah, as others have already said your OP was practically begging for a fight followed by a locked thread, which would be unfortunate because this deserves to be talked about.

But those are great suggestions. Visual cues showing boat damage would be nice, and he'll yeah we should be able to pull boats onto the shore! That was in fact one of the major advantages of Viking longboats, they had low draft hulls making them easier to move over land to access rivers etc. (We actually CAN push karves around, but longboats are too heavy even with multiple players.

But as it is, one thing that helps a lot is to build a dock so you can park in deeper water. Just make sure to include a ramp going into the water in case you miss the jump.