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Realistic Functional Boats

Please, watch the videos before asking any questions

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Realistic boats with respect to physics (HAVOK-driven).
They DO have collisions and they are stable on the water.
They DO NOT move like cars or horses.

Please, before using this, make sure you have the Wiseman's critter fixes or Unofficial Skyrim Patch. Otherwise, both fish and insects will affect the boat momement (because they are static physical objects with infinite mass)

The mod provides driveable realistic boats with respect to physics. All the movement is controled by the game physics engine (Havok). Scripts are used only to navigate and accelerate. Boats are literaly acting like boats.

The boat is stable enough on the water and it can even carry some cargo without sinking. The boat is also a good shooting platform for the player. Unfortunately, can't say the same about followers :(


How to build a boat

- Find the Lumber Pile
- Activate it and wait the saw to do it's job
- The building menu will appear


How to deliver the boat to the water
- Unequip your wepons and activate the boat. "Drarwen Oil" and "Troll Fat" will be used from your inventory to reduce friction. The boat will slide more easily.
- When muscles fail, you can use magic. Telekinesis is a good way to deliver the boat to the water.


Basic Operations

Most operations are context depended and should be intuitively clear. All you have to remember: there are three ways you can control the boat (in all three cases you must hide your hands):


[Activating with weapons or magic equipped]
- Push the boat
- One paddle movement
- Push the boat from the bottom


[Activating with weapons or magic unequipped]
- Two paddles movement
- Restore the original boat position (when it's turned upside down)
- Push the boat with low friction (Troll Fat, Dwarwen Oil)


[Activating with weapons or magic unequipped WHILE SNEAKING]
- Define a dock

Rowing will decrease the stamina. You can't move the boat when stamina is low.


How to row with one paddle?
(you must have at least one oar in your inventory)
- Hide the weapon, make sure something is equipped in your hands
- Activate the boat at one end to move to the opposite direction. The player will keep rowing until you start to run or change the position
- To change the direction, activate the right or left sides of the boat.
- To push the boat, activate it from the bottom


How to row with two paddles?
(you must have 2 oars in your inventory)
- Unequip your weapons and magic
- Activate the boat to sit and row backwards (control the boat with WASD).
- Equip something into your hand to exit the mode

No support for third person in this mode.


How to deliver a cargo:
(also covered in the first video)
- Unequip your wepons.
- Sneak and activate the boat (the boat must be on the water) -> Make the current location as a dock
- Drive the boat to the place B
- Drop the goods to the boat
- Drop at least ONE oar
- Talk with a guard, a fisherman or a hunter.Select the topic:
"Do you know someone who can handle the boat?"
- If you confirm the deal, the boat with all the goods will be moved back to the dock


How to revert the boat to it's original state (when it's upside down):
When the boat is upside down, you can use regular "push-style" movement, but you are unable to sit and use control keys to move
To revert the boat to it's normal state:
- Unequip your weapons and magic0
- Jump into the water and push the boat from the bottom.

This action will take a lot of stamina.