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.

If the boat is left in shallow water at all, you are bound to experience the rise and fall of waters that ends with a broken boat ( YES it is a thing )... Doesn't matter what "the appropriate amount of time" you think that should take, It WILL happen.... If the boat touches land (even under water) it takes damage.

It has also been a thing, as long as the game has been out, that most mobs will jump at the chance to destroy a boat and usually do so in mere moments, and I have seem numerous posts stating that it's highly recommended, to de-construct your ships, rather than leave them sitting out in the open for any length of time. (unless it's at a very protected docks / port) Carry the materials with you while you explore then re-build the ship when you are ready to sail again.