Boats!

[Pizza Mode]

I was thinking it'd be nice to have some more aquatic stuff in Rimworld. I started up a game used [db] bridges & archipelagos for a fun, thematic desert island colony, but it just feels like it's missing something: boats!

I think adding boats could be really nifty and provide a lot of room for expansion down the road. At first boats could be primitive & simple, just transit across water tiles on the big map & maybe within your colony, but I'd love it if you could design & build your own boat like you do a colony and send it out to see! Then instead of watching a caravan you would watch the deck of your boat & there could be pirate raids on the high seas, or friendly trader encounters, or rescuing shipwrecked sailors. As it is you can do an isolated island game & just use drop pods to get to the mainland (but then you need to build more to get back), but having boats as an option would really make islands compelling.

[jptrrs]

Just transit across water tiles on the big map would be a neat feature! Picture heavily loaded caravans, able to trade on far-reaching routes. It could be an earlier trade infrastructure, before the advent of launch pods. Or maybe factions requesting ferry transport across water bodies... We need this!