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Ship hulls are pretty weak, i know, they are "relatively cheap" to build, but they can have pretty high amount of built stuff and cargo on them. The cannons do really high amount of damage on single blocks, but it lacks any kind of aoe, which should be tweaked a bit. A 1x1x1 plank block wall is more durable, than a wooden beam wall, even if the beams are actually more costy to build, and they are the same materials, etc. It needs 2 cannon shots to sink a ship, which is pretty fast, if you spot a ship on the horizon, you sink it as fast, that you can't even get close to each other. The seawaves also don't affect the aiming that much that it would make it risky to shoot from far away risking the extra wasted ammo. This removes any kind of tactics in naval combat, there are no boarding, no way to kill a crew, then overtake their ship, etc. You can't even siege a port properly, since ships are easily sniped down from a cannon tower before they can do anything. It would be more fun to have a high health ship body, and involve some kind of "skillplay"... aiming for cannons in closer range, to reduce its dps, or aim onboard crew to prepare an overtake, destroy masts to hinder movement, etc. Widening the time window by raising ship hull hp, would open up opportunity to have some "tactics" in the combat, rather than two shot sniping. Also, if i remember correctly, you can't destroy a ship's mast. Hindering the enemies movement for boarding would be a fun addition.