fishing while sailing?

[Meh]

I would like to see the top 10 list revisted after I get done with a new feature I am working on. It will take me some time to finish that feature.

[PRUT]

I suggest to add in every boat everywhere on the sea, possibility to start project "fishing" No mater what kind of fish it would be.

I really can't imagine how someone can starve to death in the sea full of fish.
It should be most common thing done on boats instead of repairing projects or crushing hematite

[Just A Bill]

If you had areas where particular types of fish were found, you might be able to implement a significant step to free-roam(resource areas vs locations).

[Stan]

You can crush hematite on a boat? It's been awhile but the last time I tried to build a stone table on a boat I couldn't.

[Bear]

I've got two characters with stonetables on their boats, one is a longboat and the other one a sloop.

[Sho]

I believe anything that can be built outdoors can be built in a vehicle, and vice versa.

[Stan]

Nevermind...that's right. It was the full fledged smelting furnance that can produce steel that I couldn't build.

[marol]

I think most realizabe solution will be creating areas on the sea where particular kind of fish is available, and then treat ship on that area as a location with that resource.

This however changes very much sea traveling - sailing would require no more gathering of food supplies before sailing away, which seems to be not realistic. AFAIK sailors can't survive on the sea when food ran out, and giving fishing possibility will make this aspect of sailing not imprtant.

[Sho]

They will still have neither fuel for cooking nor rice and seaweed for sushi. Well, I suppose seaweed could be gathered too - but rice? No way.

[WojD]

In past (and now too) sailors always take food (and water) from land - and often starve at end of cruise if don't cath fish...

If allowing fishing at sea is so dificult maybe more easy will be to implement sea animals migrating from beach location to beach location (with very high 'migration' factor) - then sailors can hunt for animals from boats?

EDIT: Maybe 'dried seaweed' or 'animal fat' can be used as fuel?

[Crosshair]

I suggested this before, and it was ignored, so far as i know, but meh i like it...

[Phalynx]

I too want to revive this idea...

Fishing from boats, with nets or handlines if you want to be realistic.....

And I think salted cod is the answer for sailors...

Salt should be able to be collected from the sea by using a large cooking pot (or alternative) and the process of evaporation....

That said,I think I see fishing, less as support for voyaging sailors, but more as an industry for coastal towns - it fits in with the general reduction in food value of vegetables..

[fishfin]

And this could pave the way for long line ships, whaling ships, ...!!

[Wee]

Something like this idea has been spining in my head for awhile. I suggest that this could be not totally like fishing on shore but something like hunting. I.e. sometimes there is what to catch, sometimes there isn't. It would give a chance to add some new creatures to Cantr: like sharks, rays, dolphins, even whales or...

[Rusalka]

In past (and now too) sailors always take food (and water) from land - and often starve at end of cruise if don't cath fish...

As far as I know, the problem of long jurneys was fresh water, not the food.

If you are worried about making see travels too easy, my solution is:

!. places where we could gather fish would be rare
2. there will be always small number of extraction places in every virtual location
3. Ship will have to stop when the crew chooses to start fishing

The idea is very good because it opens a whole nie world of ocean life and resources.