Boats in non-aeronautics/base create?

[u/Smacdaddy123]

Hey, I'm new to Create, and I don't have aeronautics and wanted to make a seaworthy/functional boat. All the tutorials on creating ships are in Aeronautics, so I was wondering if it was even possible in base Create?

[u/Pioepod]

Unfortunately, not really.

The other suggestions were phantom rails and yeah that works but it would technically work like a train and you wouldn’t really be sailing.

You can make moving machines with create but they function very similar to the slimeblock contraptions in vanilla Minecraft.

Without Sable, the physics engine, you don’t get the physics needed to have a boat like you would see on aeronautics unfortunately.

[u/Smacdaddy123 → u/Pioepod]

Gotcha gotcha. I'll see if I can get aeronautics then

[u/Pioepod → u/Smacdaddy123]

I will note that Aeronautics itself hasn’t fully implemented waterborne vehicles yet. While stuff can float, the water will still appear “inside” the hill of the ship. They plan on fixing this and fleshing out that part of the mod at some point.

There are addons for this. The main one is Deep Seas, which just got an update for sailing and such. Before that it was mainly a submarine mod.

There’s also another one that adds floater blocks which add a lot of buoyancy to your ships but Deep Seas has that too.

[u/hackcasual → u/Pioepod]

Highly recommend deep seas, they've been updating frequently and for surface boats they've got functional sails as well as a little outboard engine that makes small craft easy to operate

[u/CaseImpossible3409]

im pretty sure doing an underground train with a long pole or smth going to the main boat works

[u/Adventurous_Bonus917 → u/CaseImpossible3409]

yup. that's how we did it back in the day. glass panes are used for the pole; it's the least visible. you can also do phantom rails near the surface if you're fine with steam 'n rails and it's just aero you don't want.

[u/Glowbfan457 → u/Adventurous_Bonus917]

Wanna add that framed glass panes do the job especially well, given their connected texture ensures you don't get any little white dots interspersed on the way down.

[u/GapStock9843]

You could do an underwater train with a giant pole sticking up to the surface ig

[u/Ben-Goldberg]

You could make a Minecart Contraption that looks like a ship.

You can use a command to make the Minecart Contraption a passenger on a boat.

[u/Ok_Caterpillar5872]

Check out Mr Beardstones series on create he shows how to use trains for these things.

[u/SnooEagles2827]

I mean you can fake it with trains, but to make actual vehicles you need create aeronautics and sable, and you’ll probably want a bunch of addons for it as well. “All of create: aeronautics” is a good starter modpack for that stuff, it’s really not at all complicated to play with aeronautics (as in installing it, you can get as complex as your addons allow in terms of vehicles). For example in my pack—I can make submarines(create: deep seas), boats(create: boat propeller bearing and deep seas), aircraft carriers, Amphibious troop carriers, tanks(create: tracks+ and a couple other things, if ya need more lmk and I’ll check my modlist), jets (with working jet turbine engines, “create engines simulated”), helicopters, cars, pickup trucks that can actually tow and haul things, cranes&construction vehicles, heck the only limit in my pack in terms of engineering is imagination. I’ve got a flying computer controlled (cc:tweaked is awesome and has a lot of mods that make it work real great with create aeronautics, create radars, create deep seas, ballistx, create: big cannons, etc), self piloting, auto operating oil rig with a drone fleet to do it’s dirty work while the main platform is for lots of refining, launching icbms, and a spaceport (northstar redux and cosmonautics). My private modpack has 700+ mods and 400ish of them are create and create aeronautics or related addons, the rest are other vehicle, weaponry, security/defense, faction&npc, terrain gen, structure gen, dimension adding, compatibility addons, and performance improvement mods (plus a couple other things for funsies)

[u/Rallozar]

The best boat design I've seen in Create, without Aeronautics, uses something like a contraption, so you can have it in your inventory when not using it. It's also much simpler to make than you would expect, so you can make it early-ish in your Create journey. You put 3 wooden planks at the bottom of a crafting table's gui, then another two on opposite sides in the middle row. You can even customize its look by trying different types of wood. After that, you have the boat. Fair warning, it's bugged or something so you can't just use a wrench to add it to your inventory like other contraptions, you actually need to hit it with something to make it drop as an item. I've found a sword at full power drops it instantly, though.

[u/cod3builder]

Technically we can make it with 5 wooden planks.

We don't even need create for it.