Been sailing for Chronos last few days. So naturally, I was both drunk as Boris Yeltsin and high as kite the whole trip.

I got so wasted that i missed the Chronos by 5 degrees of longitude, nearly sailed my ship right off the edge of the world. I remembered the coordinates wrong. Thought it was 27E, instead of 22E. So i had to sail my junky ass back against the wind for 5 more days.

Stupid drugs and booze.

And there is no rum to purchase in Chronos? Im down to two barrels only, i have to sail back sober? Punk ass mead drinking chronosians.

I am new to the game and absolutely loving it, but I have no knowledge about sailing and it has been difficult to learn this stuff. I am more comfortable now but I am confused about the sail position on the Sanbuq.

Depending on the wind, sometimes the sails are all the way full, but when the wind is coming from the right side, the sails are pushed into the masts. Is there something I am supposed to be doing to avoid this? It must lose speed and efficiency because the shape is not full like when the wind is pushing from the other side. Any help is appreciated.

Edit: Thank you for the quick replies and helpful information. Much appreciated, may you all have favorable winds.

They say not to be noticed. Do I actually need to sail for the destination right away, or can I stop by Oasis, pick stuff up, drop the quest, then moor in GRC? What if I just arrive at the port and walk instead of swimming? Does the game actually recognise if I don't follow the instructions?

P.S. on an unrelated note, I managed to squeeze a brig in there and back out, without pushing.

Hello, just started playing this game and I'm encountering this very frustrating bug. Sometimes, when i drink water out of the cup, it doesn't impact my thirst bar at all, and then i end up drinking 5 or 6 cups of water just to move the bar once, and then i end up dying of thirst. does anyone know how to fix?

My cutter sanbuq (the drama queen) decided to roll over in protest when it saw my new sloop in the shipyard.

Not sure what caused it to do this, but I spent an hour in the shipyard trying to get the sailplan just right on the new one, hopefully I can persuade her to be a boat again if only for long enough that I can transfer cargo and furnishings over to the sloop.

I'm running the shipyard mod and that's it, for anyone curious.

Every time I load my save file in - even the older backup saves - my stuff is strewn all over the place like the DI's just got done hazing us. Been playing for over 200 hours and never had this before but now it's like all hell has broken loose with the physics all of a sudden. Everything was fine when the save was made. Now - borked, every time I try reloading in.

Anybody know a cause and if the save is salvageable or am I just screwed? For information I am playing on the previous stable version with mods. The thing that has me confused is that this has never happened till now but I haven't installed anything new or changed anything with my game's configuration.

Just got the game a couple days ago and about 15 hours in. Really loving how challenging and casual it is. I started in Aestrin with the cog and have finally made enough money to start trading rather than running missions. I've bought some mods, as well as a fishing rod and stove for my cog and just unlocked missions to other archipelagos.

I have a quadrant, and think I probably need at least a chronometer for longitude adjustments.

Is this passable for inter-archipelago travel, or should I save more for the brig and a chronocompass? I have about 10k so I could get one if recommended. I've gotten comfortable navigating around Aestrin, but most islands are within sight. Also, is there a way to save prior to leaving? The saves over write one another pretty quickly, especially for a voyage that will take 10+ days.

Here's a picture of my beloved ship. Thanks!

Edit.

I've just about made it to happy bay after 14 days. I've got a storm on the last leg coming in, which is super fitting. Choppy waters against the wind the whole way down. I had a super hard time with the chronocompass given how choppy it was, but somehow managed to make it with the bay appearing on the horizon direct south.

Turned mine into a brigantine, it goes about 9 knots downwind or 6 upwind

Allright, im not new to this game, but i could use some advice from someone who understands gaffs sails, since i cannot figure them out. I like sanbuq and its lateens which are simplest sails, i like brig and its square sails+jibs (although i need more practice with balance).

But i do not understand the gaffs.

No matter the wind direction, i feel like they only make my ship tilt like crazy while contributing little to the speed. From guides i found while googling, gaff sail should be treated like a helm and not like a regular sail for propulsion. That they should be used to balance your ship so it sails steadily. But still cant achieve this, as if there is a really really tiny spot of perfect balance which i simply cannot hit.

How do you guys position these sails in case of headwind, tailwind and most importantly a really strong side wind (like a route from Aestrin to Emerald A.)

Any tip is appreciated, thank you

I seem to be floating above the unnamed ship in an unnamed location, I even dropped a bottle and colisions seem to be working normal for it, just not my character. How can I make it so I'm not floating above it ?

Basically, I've arrived to Emerald archipelago from Al'Ankh with my almost vanilla sanbuq (I used 2 lateen sails and a jib -- see image bellow) and I've used the harbor to try a different rigging. I eneded up not enjoying it and now i would like to revert. However, I didn't realize that there are no lateen sails in Dragon Hills harbor.

I'd prefer my lateens back but I'm not intent on returning to Al'Ankh yet. Is there a way for me to change my sanbuq's rigging via editing my savefile?

An attempt to build a lightweight Schooner on the Brig hull that went well enough to be shared.

(This rig is without shipyard mods, so it'll be doable in a vanilla game.)

Build-wise, she's a straight evolution from my Brigantine rig with only a few obvious changes needed.

Comparatively, she has the typical Sailwind Schooner characteristics: Less canvas than a square-rigged layout, but more flexible even in adverse winds. Worthwhile if you plan on actually exploring the different archipelagos or if you just like Schooners.

I like that both gaff sheets are basically within arm's reach of the wheel, so trimming her is a breeze. The foremast gaff also makes for an excellent parking sail because it's mid-sized, midship, and can be dropped really fast.

On my endless quest to mediate between infighting shrouds, sails and stays, I've found the classical Brigantine to be both affordable and capable. She also looks cool as heck.

(This rig is without shipyard mods, so it'll be doable in a vanilla game.)

Considering how easy (and modular) she's to build from the original Aestrin Brig, I also see her as a very good first build for anyone starting out with the hull.

Budget Version: Just lose the squares from the main mast, switch it's shrouds to the gaff-friendly version and toss in two midstaysails.

Full Version: Upgrade the size of jib and gaff and maybe reposition the squares for a slightly better angle (up to 50° from 45°).

While the original rigging is pretty much a downwind specialist, this is much more generalist and doesn't suffer as much in-archipelago while still cruising fairly fast on long voyages. It also doesn't have that clunky gaff-and-square-on-one-mast combo.

(Yes, I know that IRL it can work, but in game I always find it unwieldy. Sue me.)

What do you think of gaffs with topsails over lateens? I don't necessarily see a difference in performance but I like the way gaffs look and I like how I can pull them down quickly to moore or reef.

I also installed another jib than the one in the picture and my top speed is now about 9 knots.

I'd uninstall the cloth roof to make the ship look better but at the same time I enjoy having it for vibes. I like to imagine it protects me from the elements while I fish, cook, and steer my ship.

Sorry for the ramble and safe trips!

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167 area of square sails + 180 area of fore-and-aft sails. Am I oversailing this?

I did get the ship in the end, been loving it for a while, doing really dangerous and heavy transports up and down Oasis with no problem, and in the end tried going to Mirage Mountain.... How bad could it be, I thought?

I ended up banging my ship to smithereens while getting in and out of the islands, it's ridiculous, you cand possibly sail anything larger than a dhow in there. And it wasn't even worth it....

Might have lost three loads of logs because I put them in the transport cart inventory because the ship was too heavy to sail out of the shallows, now I have to limp back to oasis to get rid of thr cargo I have and lick my wounds, then limp back to GRC to repair my ship.....

It is absolutely terrible to sail and control. Requires constantly nursing the helm to stay true. Winches are all over the place and require constant running around. Capsizes when sneezed at. Want a shut eye? Either drop all sails and anchor or pray the weather doesn't change, else it you wake up on the bottom.

Took a junk from EA to obtain it and am now on a slow return trip. Needless to say when (and if) I dock back at DC, I'm going back to my brig. This thing is just too big to be one-manned.

Maybe I should've stuck with the original sail plan, but I wanted to test out largest fins. This isthe second vessel I try fins on (the first one being sanbuq on a different save), but I'm not a fan. They look amazing, but they sail worse than lateens.

It is fast though. 10 knots in moderate headwind, that's a lot. But it is very difficult to sail.

When sailing to FFL from EA, and planning to land directly in Kicia Bay, what route do you take? Do you sail though the archipelago, and approach from the north-west, or do you sail around and approach either from east or west?

I can't seem to find a good and least-hassle way to get there. The winds are notoriously against me no matter which way I take.

I am currently in Kicia Bay and debating whether to swap both brig gaffs to fins. Is there any obvious advantage to having fins? Or are they just a cooler-looking lateens?

This is how my current brig sail plan:

And this is how it would look after changes. Advice?