What is your benefit of slowing down swimming? I would like the answer to that.

I also don’t agree with removing vanilla boats because 1 you cannot transport animals on a big boat and you can in vanilla boat. So i foresee a lot of “derp” dirt bridges being built across bodies of water in order for people to safely transport a damn cow. Those dirt bridges will greatly impede large boat traffic vs. the vanilla boats.

On final note I don’t agree with removing either of these vanilla mechanics. Both of them have their benefits and I honestly do not see a negative with depthstrider at all outside of someone having the upper hand in a PVP match.

Smokey

Browe, these are great suggestions; but there are a few problems implementing this into the game. First of all, to rank up you have to sail in a vanilla boat. Also, frost walker would be the fastest mode of transportation water-wise if what you suggested was done. If vanilla boats were removed, it would make it easier for “God” tier players to raid newer people, due to boats still being super slow. It might be more efficient to swim normally in that situation. When fire spread was disabled, that didn’t improve the usage of ships more than they are used now. If you look at the advantages of removing depth-strider and vanilla boats, you will indubitably see that the disadvantages of removing these items outweigh the advantages.

You are failing to see the point. As River stated above, the use of a vanilla boat is a rank up requirement. So unless you want Gods to reconfigure the whole rank system and how it has been for a long time its not going to happen.

I personally don’t think removing either of these is going to increase the use of ships. You either want to sail them or you don’t. If you really want to get that technical you can just remove walking, minecarts, elytra, horses, pigs etc. Oh and remove teleport. I mean there are many other ways of getting around outside of using a large ship. Yes we want them used, but that doesn’t mean it has to be the only way of crossing a body of water.

ahem, does anyone remember swimming back in 1.7? that was absolutely horrid, its pretty identical to what you are suggesting because boats back then broke every 2 seconds.

before i get into the bulk of this remember- PIRATES HAD ROWBOATS.

what you, actually, the BE (based on the likes from that post) are suggesting will destroy the playerbase. plugin ships are ineffective in pretty much everything they are meant to be for many reasons. They are 1. slow as hell 2. easy as hell to destroy even without firespread and 3. lag the server when they are used in numbers. also, spawn is absolutely surrounded in oceans, and if a new player wishes to make an island base they would have to endure bobbing up and down for an eternity since they cant even make a ship cause of lack of sheep around spawn.

this is a horrible idea.

@Browe you said, “No, I totally understand the point. You have to sail a distance in a vanilla boat to rank up – but it wouldn’t take long to change that line in the configs and update the website. Just because it has been that way a long time doesn’t mean it can’t change.”

I don’t think you understand that code can take a long-ass time. As I am learning code myself, it is way more complicated than “just” or “that line.”  code can be very complicated, complex, and confusing at times and it could take hours to change one thing because, in reality, you have to change multiple things. In this case, you would have to fix the line which displays the requirements, the line which actually is the requirements, the line which takes the requirements and lets you rank up, etc. Changing the website wouldn’t be that hard because HMTL is (pretty) basic but still, it could be very complex and time-consuming.

well there is a swimming plugin, it lets you swim but its like flying an elytra, you have stanama so you can’t swim forever. no point in makeing this post. im just letting every one know