Mods / Canoe Mod

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Author: iuno
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Created: Dec 15th 2024 at 10:41 PM
Last modified: Dec 17th 2024 at 4:05 AM
Downloads: 5006
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Latest file for v1.20.0-rc.4:
canoemod.zip 1-click install


Are you tired of floating around on a makeshift raft? Are you still waiting for your flax field to grow? Or do you just not feel like building a huge sailboat just to get across a lake? This mod adds a sporty birchbark canoe that's perfect for your early-mid game transport or exploration needs. No need to use those awful crude oars anymore either, this mod adds craftable woodtyped carved oars that you can use to row around in style.

The canoe can carry up to 4 players or 1 player, 2 reed baskets, and a clay vessel or chest. It also has a rack on the side to store your carved oar. The birchbark canoe has the same travel speed as the sailboat and the raft. The birchbark canoe can be picked up and portaged in an empty bag slot.

The carved oar can be used with the vanilla raft if you're so inclined, and the crude oar can likewise be used with the birchbark canoe. The crude oar cannot, however, be stored in the bark canoe.

If you have suggestions, issues, or localizations you want me to include in the mod (with credit to you of course) please put them in the forum thread! https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/13586-canoe-mod/

Crafting

Canoe

Crafting a birchbark canoe is simple. Just combine 6 logs of any type you like, 10 birch logs, 4 portions of pitch glue, 4 coils of rope, and an axe in the crafting grid. 10 durability will be taken off of the axe and you'll have a shiny new canoe!
Birchbark Canoe Recipe

Carved Oar

The carved oar is crafted almost exactly like the crude oar, requiring 2 units of rope and 2 logs of any type, and a knife with at least 4 durability.

Carved Oar Recipe

 

 

Future plans:
  • add a few different types of small watercraft, kayaks, umiaks, coracles, sampans, etc. 
  • tweak and tune the rowing animations
  • transition from a content to a code mod, allowing use of the game's shipbuilding system and control over a bunch of hardcoded stuff like boat speed
  • add some more customization options like decals and decorations
  • add a slightly faster (and quite expensive) small endgame watercraft

 

 

Changelog:

v1.0.2

  • fixed the inventory icon for the birchbark canoe, which I accidentally messed up in the last version

v1.0.1:

  • fixed some Z-fighting textures on the birchbark canoe
  • fixed a piece of the keel poking through the stern of the birchbark canoe
  • resolved some ambiguous texture references
  • patches that only need to be loaded serverside should now only be loaded serverside
  • added the ability to pick up the birchbark canoe with a free bag slot
  • added a portaging animation for moving canoes around


v1.0.0:

  • Released with woodtyped birchbark canoes and carved oars

Version For Game version Downloads Release date Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
v1.0.2 4791 Dec 17th 2024 at 4:05 AM Show canoemod.zip Install now
v1.0.1 109 Dec 17th 2024 at 2:51 AM Show canoemod.zip Install now
v1.0.0 106 Dec 16th 2024 at 10:45 PM Show canoemod.zip Install now

50 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

💬 Kaziek, 1 day ago

CrashMink I do use that mod, and now that hanging oil lamps was updated it looks like the issue has been fixed! I can attach the lamp to the canoe now even with hanging oil lamps installed.

💬 TheSkreeBat, 3 days ago

has anyone tested this in 1.20 stable?

💬 Tamrelayne, Jan 15th at 3:53 AM

How do you get the pitch glue out of the pot? It vanished XD

💬 Coues, Jan 13th at 6:30 AM

I'm not sure if it's your mod causing this issue or not but I'm having issues with pitch glue no longer repairing clutter due to it not being inside of a pot anymore. 

💬 CrashMink, Jan 1st at 1:45 AM

Kaziek i could not use lamps either and I assume it is because of hanging oil lamps mod and the way it changes the lamps. do you use hanging oil lamps mod?

💬 Kaziek, Dec 31st 2024 at 11:51 PM

Love the mod, this fits in with vanilla perfectly! I just have one problem; I can't add a light to the front of the canoe. Is it currently bugged or is there something else you have to do to be able to attach it?

💬 CKitt, Dec 31st 2024 at 3:24 PM

I don't suppose we'd be able to carry our elk in the canoe?

💬 MumboMumbo, Dec 26th 2024 at 9:17 PM

@Savrs It doesn't drop into any water source like the raft or sail boat, it sort of drops as a pick-up and dissapears after second.

💬 RIVVION, Dec 24th 2024 at 4:57 PM

It would be excellent to have a way to config the speed of the canoe much like how this mod changes raft & boat speeds!
https://mods.vintagestory.at/speedboat

Keep up the good work!

💬 Savrs, Dec 23rd 2024 at 8:08 PM

And  also add a combat oar!

 

💬 yapludepatte, Dec 23rd 2024 at 6:56 PM

:O 

 

your mods looks super cool

do you think you can add dugout canoes ? or even types of war canoes like the ones made by the people of the north-west coast or the waka taua of the maoris ? 

your mod is great ! keep the work 

💬 Savrs, Dec 23rd 2024 at 3:24 PM

If you make one of the backpacks active and press shift RMB on the canoe, the canoe will drop as loot and you have to pick it up again, freeing up the backpack slot.

Funny....

💬 Savrs, Dec 23rd 2024 at 1:33 AM

MumboMumbo

You must have one of your backpack/basket slots free. The canoe is carried like a beehive or trap.

💬 MumboMumbo, Dec 22nd 2024 at 10:40 PM

I can't seem to place or pickup a completed canoe after completing the craft.

💬 Paradoxal, Dec 22nd 2024 at 4:35 PM

I tried to add a clay vessel, it worked. Basket still doesn't though an the oil lamp won't equip either.

💬 Savrs, Dec 22nd 2024 at 1:00 AM

Paradoxal

Catching a canoe with a basket is cool! Apparently the basket considers the canoe as an entity. Try holding down ctrl. It will work. Apparently the lantern cannot be installed. But the oil lamp is installed in the slot on the bow of the boat.

💬 Paradoxal, Dec 21st 2024 at 6:44 PM

iuno Im an idiot, i had 1.0.0, i can pickup and place the canoe now, however i still cannot seem to put any containers on the canoe or a lantern. If i try to use a reed basket it says "This animal is too large  or too wild to catch with a basket"

 

 

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 20th 2024 at 6:46 PM

Paradoxal

I only added the ability to pick the canoe up in v1.0.1, so make sure that you are using the most up to date version of the mod. And just to confirm you are using one of the v1.20 rc builds right?

Like I said It's using the exact same code as the raft, so it should behave exactly the same.

💬 Paradoxal, Dec 20th 2024 at 6:31 PM

iuno I didn't have any containers in it, was just testing it in a lake and I couldn't pick it up after.

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 20th 2024 at 2:46 PM

Paradoxal Make sure you don't have any containers or other stuff attached to the canoe before you try picking it up. It uses exactly the same pickup logic as the raft and needs to be completely empty for you to grab it.

💬 quartzar, Dec 20th 2024 at 1:12 PM

Saw this on Reddit a few weeks ago, awesome work, excited to use this <3

💬 AnOldGondola, Dec 20th 2024 at 1:56 AM

Another awesome mod that feels so perfect in-universe that you could forget it isn't vanilla. Thanks a ton for putting it out there and looking forward to seeing how it develops!

💬 Paradoxal, Dec 19th 2024 at 9:20 PM

I'm trying to pickup my Canoe, but it doesn't seem to be able to be picked up. I believe Shift + Right Click picks up Rafts, but it doesn't work for the Canoe. I was wondering if you knew of anything that could be causing a problem? I've also opened a bag slot and it still doesn't get picked up.

Thanks in advance

💬 Magmabot16, Dec 19th 2024 at 7:19 PM

Savrs I don't understand your complaint, this mod author is offering a free mod that you can choose to use or not to use and you're complaining that it doesn't perfectly fit your expectation. While it might not be faster than the makeshift raft, it's still an upgrade that has more capacity for players/storage, the ability to place a light on it, and it just looks nicer than having some logs bundled together.

TLDR: check your privlige

💬 Savrs, Dec 19th 2024 at 7:01 PM

@iuno

Yes, you are right, I don't have to use your mod. But I would really like to get rid of the need to use the very slow vanilla boats, and I was hoping that your canoe would help me with this. Unfortunately, it is also slow.

💬 MRGOOSE, Dec 19th 2024 at 5:07 PM

suggestion for this mod: a special better version of the carved oar that rows the canoe faster, but it is much more expensive to make.

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 19th 2024 at 1:31 AM

Savrs Fortunately you don't have to use it if you don't want to. The point is to provide an intermediate boat option between the log raft and the sailboat and provide some variety, not to completely break the already generous game balance around boats and make the vanilla boats useless. 

The speed of the birchbark canoe is exactly the same as that of the raft and the sailboat just like it says in the mod description above, and I am not going to change that until I transition this project from a content to a code mod. When I do change it I will keep the sailboat as the faster option because sails are just faster than paddles and oars, that's just how physics works. If you want to change the speed, feel free to download a mod like Configure Everything and change it to whatever you like. You need a good amount of glue to make it, but that's because you're gluing the entire outer hull of the boat together. That's a material-intensive job. 8 pieces of resin isn't really that hard to get either, that's a trip or two to a pine forest. If you don't like the recipe, you can easily change the amounts or the items required by editing the recipe JSON file in the mod folder. 

💬 Savrs, Dec 18th 2024 at 9:52 PM

The speed of the canoe is as low as the raft and the sailboat.

We already have floating craft on which you can fall asleep.

I am disappointed.

What is the point of your mod? Please increase the speed three times.

Otherwise it will be just a useless item. And also requiring a slot from the backpack. The amount of glue required for manufacturing is simply enormous.

Spending 8 parts of resin is an unaffordable luxury.

💬 Auro, Dec 18th 2024 at 7:46 PM

Awesome, looking forward to it.

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 18th 2024 at 7:11 PM

Auro That is the plan eventually. I've got it working in test builds, but I'm not exactly a great programmer and I don't want to straight up copy a bunch of the base game's code (at least not without getting permission) so it will probably take a while for me to figure out how to work around that. 

💬 Auro, Dec 18th 2024 at 4:49 PM

Are you going to adapt this to use the new ship building step by step proccess?

💬 Annastasija, Dec 18th 2024 at 9:16 AM

This is amazing. I love it!

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 17th 2024 at 10:01 PM

pharmer

Unfortunately it won't, it relies on the new vehicle and attachment system in 1.20.

💬 pharmer, Dec 17th 2024 at 9:38 PM

Any idea if this will also work with v1.19.8 ? I prefer to play on stable.

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 17th 2024 at 6:43 PM

MrFlame

Thanks! I don't really do discord, but feel free to put the localization and anything else in the mod's forum thread! I've got it linked up above as well.

MRGOOSE

I was thinking about that but I haven't done it for 2 reasons: reason 1 is that this is currently only a content mod and the speed for boat entities is hardcoded in the current version, meaning I'd need to start messing with the code to get that to work. That's on the to-do list though! Reason 2 is that I don't want to touch the vanilla entities too much when I do transition this mod to a code one as that might break compatibility with other mods depending on how I do it.

Worker

In my defense the base game makes that mistake too, haha. I'll change it whenever I put out a new version. There's STILL some Z-fighting going on in a few small spots on the canoe model so I have other stuff to fix too. 

Thanks for the support everyone!

💬 Thranos, Dec 17th 2024 at 5:59 PM

Very cool mod- could future releases please have a version identifier in the .zip name though? Just so it's easier to check which version is on a client/server.

💬 Plumeria, Dec 17th 2024 at 4:53 PM

Hello! I just made my first canoe, the process was great progression wise I think and I'm loving it! I'm a big fan of boats so this is amazing, thank you for making this mod (: I like how the player sits in the canoe as well, nice work here ^^

💬 Worker, Dec 17th 2024 at 2:20 PM

Sorry to niggle but what you've got there is a paddle, not an oar.  Oars are for rowing.  Looks great though!

💬 MRGOOSE, Dec 17th 2024 at 1:35 PM

you should make the carved oar move the normal raft faster if you use it instead of using a crude oar

💬 MrFlame, Dec 17th 2024 at 11:52 AM

This is a great mod to add to vanilla
I've localized the mod and have a couple of ideas on how to improve it. What is your discord nickname so I can send you materials and feedback?

💬 RIVVION, Dec 17th 2024 at 11:39 AM

Instant install, keep up the good work man!

💬 AzuliBluespots, Dec 17th 2024 at 11:03 AM

I was interested in the joy of sailing mod but this? This is beautiful!

💬 Tels, Dec 17th 2024 at 10:27 AM

This looks fantastic, almost as if it should have been in the game itself. Great jobs! 💛

💬 Retrovertigo, Dec 17th 2024 at 9:53 AM

Thanks for the update ! :) It makes sense a lot the way you made it !

💬 Khaosmatic, Dec 17th 2024 at 9:23 AM

I swear the Vintage Story mod community is listening to the Discord Im in! Was literally discussing the other day how I'd love canoes as an upgrade to rafts!

Really like how you carry it! Awesome mod!

💬 TrevorPride, Dec 17th 2024 at 3:36 AM

Love this idea, and it's great to add a bit of variety to a city dock/port!

💬 iunoAuthor, Dec 17th 2024 at 2:55 AM

@Retrovertigo

I just added the ability to move the canoe around in an empty bag slot. It's bigger than the raft so I don't think it should really fit in the player's inventory, so this seems like a decent compromise. 

thanks everyone!

💬 Michaloid, Dec 17th 2024 at 1:53 AM

Now i have a reason to make glue, fantastic!

💬 SniperGecko, Dec 16th 2024 at 11:46 PM

This looks spectacular!

💬 Retrovertigo, Dec 16th 2024 at 11:45 PM

Hello ! Super cool mod. Just have a question ? Could you make it so that it can be picked-up after use ? Maybe some tweakable option or something like that...Excellent work !

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