Boats (Create: Deep Seas)

Since 0.5.2-birch-15 the pack includes Create: Deep Seas, the boat and submarine add-on for Create Aeronautics. Most shared boats on createmod.com are built with it: their propellers and their floaters are Deep Seas blocks, so before this update those boats pasted in with no props and sank.

What it adds

• Floaters: coloured blocks that push a boat up toward the surface. Each floater holds up about 25 blocks’ worth of boat, so a heavy ship needs more of them. This is how big ships stay afloat.
• Submarine Propellers and Water Thrusters: underwater propulsion, turned by Create rotation like any other propeller.
• Sails that use the wind, a boat engine, oars, anchors and buoys: wind gets stronger in rain and storms, and a bigger ship needs more sail.
• Submarines: ballast tanks to dive and surface, oxygen diffusers, pressure goggles, sonar and a copper diving suit. Deep water has real pressure: dive below what your hull can take and blocks give way and let the sea in, and very deep the whole sub can implode. Divers get hurt past about 120 blocks deep (280 in the full suit).

Changed on Indigo:

• No Underwater Mines. Their blast removes blocks and starts fires, like the explosions we keep off everywhere else, so the recipe is turned off.
• Steel cables reach 128 blocks, not 1000; the mod itself suggests a lower limit on servers.
• The Abyss is not here. Deep Seas has a deep-sea dimension in the works, but in this version it is switched off in the mod itself, and no setting turns it on. If a later version opens it up, we will look again.

Paste a boat in and float it

This is the way that works, tested on a copy of the server with two shared boats (454 and 2,690 blocks): both assembled in one go and sat level on the water.

1. Check the required mods on the schematic’s page (see Building planes). Deep Seas, Create Deco and the other common add-ons are in the pack now.
2. Paste it in clear air: a few blocks above the water, with nothing touching it (no shore, dock or sea floor). Use a Schematic Table and creative Print, as in Building planes.
3. Look at any block of the boat and run /sable assemble connected (OP only; press Tab and it fills in the block you are looking at). It follows the boat’s own blocks, whatever its shape, and turns the whole boat into one vehicle. No glue needed for this.
4. It drops into the water and floats.

If it says “too many blocks”, something else is touching the boat (water, the ground, a tree), so the command followed it out into the world. Paste it higher and try again.

Without OP: glue the boat (Honey Glue is the easy one: two clicks, then Ctrl-scroll to fit) and pull a Physics Assembler on it, the same as a plane.

Steering that does not swing

Some boats steer by swinging their propellers on Swivel Bearings. If the gears turn when you press the keys but the propellers do not move, the propeller pod lost its glue in the paste: park, Honey Glue just the propeller under each Swivel Bearing, then press the keys again. If it still will not swing, break and re-place the Swivel Bearing.

Not tested yet on Indigo: driving and steering a Deep Seas boat in game. The steps above come from the mod’s own code and a server-side test that placed, assembled and floated two shared boats.