Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-64.189.160.203-20160310163255

One of the great things about minecraft is the sandbox gameplay. This allows great variation and creativity. The same should be applied to building ships. These are a planned feature and will be implemented, the following are just suggestions on how this might be done.

1.) The ships in the mod could be modeled after the Archimides ships mod with some changes.This mod allows the player to build a ship and then attach a ships wheel to define the entity. This mod also allows players to ride as passengers and NPCs and animals to ride using wooden crates.

2.) The changes

a.) The size limit is currently 2000 blocks or so in the Archimedes ship mod. However, This doesn't allow the creation of large galleys, especially with multiple sails. This limit could be upped to at least 5000 and even up to 10,000. This would allow the creation of very large ships.

b.) Weight distribution. Currently in the Archimedes ships mod, if you make a large hollow ship, the ship rises a long way out of the water. While this is somewhat realistic, because it provides the need for ballast, the bouyancy should be reduced. The possibility of a ship sinking if it is too heavy should be kept.

c.) The Archimedes ship mod allows a player to slap the ships wheel on anything made out of wood and sail off. This isn't realistic.

i.) When using a captains wheel, sail blocks should be placed on the ship in order to provide movement. The sail blocks           could be made by placing wool in a 4x4 grid. The output would be 4 sail blocks. The sails could be dyed by crafting them            with dyed wool. The ship would register a sail if more than 8 (this number can be changed) blocks were placed adjacent to          each other. The amount of sail blocks would be proportional to the number of non-sail blocks in the ship, as well as the             weight of these blocks. The more blocks and the heavier the blocks, the more sail needed, i.e. if a ship's hull was 500               blocks, 100 sail blocks would be needed, or if the ship was 500 blocks and 20 of those blocks were stone 110 sail blocks         would be needed. The exact numbers can be changed as needed. Another feature could be that the more sail added to             ship makes it go faster up to a certain point, i.e. if a ship is 500 blocks 100 sail blocks would be the minimum required to           move and for every 20 blocks added the ship would go a certain increment faster. This would continue until a certain cap          off point,like 180 sail blocks, after which the ship would not go any faster. 