look up building plans and use that

along side with the legacy mode gone, I am also giving this a moment of silence.

have you looked up in the sky?

if you don't have the recipe showing up, you may be missing an ingredient. have you gotten all the fish guts?

iv had a boat with well over a few tens of thousand pieces, its only takes a few seconds to load in. but once its loaded never had performance issues

im not as lucky searching in the temprate after artic. still yet to find any of this rare item, cleaned out a few forests and swam from many sharks

thats a pretty sweet build. mine looks like a brick compared to that.. i have done alot of free placing on ships before and havent noticed any issues. just a bit of lag when the ship loads in, but thats only a quick pause

Flippers,, Zirconium flippers 😮 well ima have to go get me some, dont even have the recipe yet

its a good thing the points are easy to obtain if you go to new islands often. once spent, they are gone. the reset game is a good refresher but getting all the recipes back is a task in on its own

if you have a propeller pack you can retrieve from the volcano, I also died there and got my stuff back. otherwise youll have to reset to get that cogwheel

Yes the ships are like glass. as annoying as transporting a car is currently. its a one map, one island type of vehicle, unless you build tunnels to other islands to drive in. but thats a full time job with the island distances and limited digging options. iv builts trucks that haul tons of stone or a recharge truck so i can keep drilling. but that was before my reset on 1.9 you can make a truck bed and just drop the item on it. no need to make storage. The large car frame can fit a recharger on it and a small yland generator. the explosives keg makes a nice perfect round tunnel large enough to drive in. and even big enough to add a road the same with the dynamite bundle which is slightly cheaper last i checked

i have yet to find this goo myself, but i also never went looking for it. not even sure what its for to busy trying to find components that i never can find

I use to use this strategy as well. would have to make an underground garden to be able to survive after hiding your entrance with some snow. i would sometimes go off from the polar islands out of render and make a small island with a tunnel cause you couldn't unsummon your boat to hide it. every so often you would find someone who came up and froze and their boat crashed into the island.

to much to just resummon ship orientated the right direction?

never wanted to waste the protective barrier at the start, so trying to hide your base underground was always the best method. I would usually plant trees and bushes around my entrance area to try and hide it better. plus it would always be a worry when someone comes and steals your stuff cause it wasn't in your one and only single protective barrier