I Built a Cargo Ship with a Crane to Recover Artifacts from the High Seas in Trailmakers! 

Was about to comment about outboard thrusters - I worked on a ship that had 3 thrusters - one at each corner of a delta Hull- boy did that thing roll 🤢

Passenger ships have them

the yamal max class ships have both of them (massive lng tankers) and most us coast guard cutters have port thrusters

Yes cargo passenger tuggs and even floating oil platforms use 360 thrusters and bow thrusters

Large cargoships sometimes even have propellers with adjustable pitch. Meaning you can adjust the pitch to change speed or even reverse all while still spinning the propellers at the same speed in the same direction

Yes the pistons in trail makers do not like to be fully contracted it tends to glitch out and yes having a block between pistons help but requires more space and complexity. Try to use the crane and not fully contract @kAN Gaming

the other thing to stop the jitters is have a hard limit on the pistons when contracting. even 0.05 seems to work better than full constract

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It's called the Complexity Mod. Mine lets me go up to 3000, but my PC becomes the embodiment of Ra when I use it...

if you make it 9999 the complexety Limitbar completle disapeares

To add on to this, I would recommend looking up pictures of cargo ships in drydock, or really any large ship. you should be able to see grates covering cylindrical holes that run from one side to the other, with propellors in those holes. Those are the bow thrusters people are referencing. And smaller ships that are designed to fish things out of the water, such as Buoy Tenders, have the ability to perform omnidirectional movement. They can't strafe as quickly as they can move forward or backward, but they can indeed strafe to offset the ocean current pushing the vessel around in rough seas. Even some cruise ships have this omnidirectional movement capability, so that it doesn't have to rely on tug boats to assist in docking.

@@marbleman6627 And little white icons painted right above the water line indicating where they are located.

A trailer hitch works a LOT better than hinges

Part of the problem is this DLC is just a static scavenger hunt, so there aren't really any puzzles or changes that you have to adapt to, so you can easily create a minimalist omni-solution and anything beyond that is actively making your life harder.

This would only work with the anchor block, the tractor beams no longer interact with creations.

@@MrMattkid oh I didn't know that

@@NewtIsMeName Glad that was helpful, this was actually one of the changes that occurred when the new high seas update released.

Although that depends a lot on the ship size and type. His ship seems pretty small for that kind of speed

@@Oskiirrr I just looked up "average cargo ship speed" and it said 24 knots idk

@@1mariomaniac yes, I understand. It's just that I study Naval Architecture (basically boat engineering) and I think this stuff is really interesting and hard not to share😅

I had a similar idea for a cargo door that facilitates scooping, but also improves on the crane functionality: First, make the bow a detached piece that's able to lift above its closed position far enough that you can scoop up a piece of salvage (imagine a human-like mouth, but it has only the upper jaw, that it can lift). In order to pick up salvage you'd get a bit of forwards speed (so that any artifacts in the cargo hold get flushed to the back), THEN open the jaw and drive over the salvage. And to get the crane functionality, you just attach a magnet directly to the bottom of the bow, and make the whole thing also able to extend DOWN (hopefully to 75 meters). You could even cover both directions with the same set of pistons, thus greatly reducing complexity. Then to transfer statues to the cargo hold, you'd need to get to high enough speeds that they get flushed into the cargo hold before they can drop too far from under the magnet.

Hello

It’s e but he’ll probably edit it

I knew you would edit it

@@UV_Lightning hehe