Originally posted by magilla666:

Originally posted by Slynx Jewel:

the only thing longboat gives you over carve is storage slots. but you don't need storage unless you're transporting large amounts of metal (which for only reaching iron age sounds quite unreallistic)

I often get two serpents on my sailing trips, and twice I have bagged three in one night. That's without putting into shore to repair my longship. A karve would not survive that number of serpent encounters. It's also extremely rare for longships to take storm damage, while karves will get battered unless you drop down to 2/3 sailing speed.

Didn't you have a harpoon though. Cause I used arrows and when it got down to 1/2 strength it just swam away. I have not seen a Serpent while in a Karve. Everytime I go out in a Longboat I see a serpent. Its a serpent magnet. Could be programmed that way as its a bigger target. I don't have a harpoon yet.

I've only ever lost a boat to shore mobs overnight. Until I fenced them in always after that.

A Karve can do everything a longboat does except get scales, but that is endgame.