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[Samuel]

So after embarking right on the edge of the ocean, I set about the construction of what I hoped would be a boat capable of floating (I was gonna figure out a means of propulsion later, perhaps creative use of screw pumps).

Here's roughly it's shape:

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I constructed it by building a bridge out over the water, which supported it until I would launch it by removing the support construction.

The ultimate result was what amounted to a wood stockpile at the bottom of the ocean with a dead dwarf in the middle. So that failed hideously. I think the problem was, due to the way the support structure was built, it had to drop down a z-level before hitting the water.

Is there actually a way to make a successfully floating boat?

[gopa4]

Remove cave ins? Other wise it has to have supports as of this time of date.

[Xenos]

yeah there are no true boats in DF...yet. 

[ZhangC1459]

And no propulsion either unless the water is flowing. Sorry bro

[Reese]

There is currently no means of making things float in DF- all things sink equally well until such time as Toady programs in buoyancy (and probably drifting and currents and other advanced hydrodynamics that will make your processor cry.)

[Emily]

Yeah, you have to disable cave-ins or leave the boat attached; there's no boyancy yet.  Except sort of for things that swim, I think, but that'd be difficult to leverage to create a boat.

[breadbocks]

Am I the only person who thought of "I'm on a boat" when they read the topic name?

[sjaakwortel]

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