Awesome, I look forward to your next boat

I could move some buoys to make it easier but my computer is broken so I probably wont get to it for a while

If you take a rope and hook it onto the winch of the crane and the anchor on the cranes boom itself, then pull it in it will fold. I made it pretty compact since the boats kinda small, there should be a photo of it above that shows how it looks when properly folded.

lovely boat, the crane seems to be a bit broken? It will not sit in its cradle

skeeter can we play stormworks together

Uh oh. I know the boat can flip but it shouldn't stay flipped

Spent 20 minutes driving out to go crab fishing and got hit by a tsunami and flipped :D

He is a hostage muehehehehe

Why does it look like your holding a crab hostage in one of the pictures lol

you can only fish in water thats no more than 30 meters deep (theres a depth guage in the wheelhouse) if depth isnt an issue then you arent waiting long enough for the pots to hit the seafloor when you launch them. read the setting discription, it has a tip for how to tell when the pot hits the seafloor. the buoy isnt suppost to hold the pot up in the water column

ALL THE CAGES FALL OFF AND CRABS GET CAUGHT ONLY UNDERWATER, WHERE I CANT GET :(

SOMEONE HELP ME! I KEEP DOING THE SAME THINGS AS THE VIDEO TUTORIAL, BUT INSTEAD I KEEP SINKING THE BOAT, AND ALSO THE RED FLOATIES DONT EVEN FLOAT WHEN THEY ARE TIED UP WITH A CRAB CAGE! PLS HELP ME! IF THIS KEEPS HAPPENING I'LL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO UNSUB. I DONT LIKE DOING THAT.

Only thing I can think of it to make sure physics is on high, the crane usually doesn't freak out too much when I do it.

the crane keeps freaking out every time i spawn it, any way to fix it?

w ship skeeter i literally had no idea you made this

Very true. Until you take something apart and put it back together again, you don't truly understand it.

I have trouble with the second part.

its all good man, its hard to know where things are when you arent the one who made it.

Yeah, I was looking at the link in my hand and it did stop jumping. The problem is, I always second-guess myself, and I'm in a habit of using the picture camera. So I double-checked. :P

Yeah, what sucks is more the rope system than fishing, specifically. The ropes are supposed to have a 40 meter length, but starting at about ten meters it acts like a giant rubber-band and drags you right back to your boat. I'm surprised it doesn't drag you overboard or glitch out just from holding the rope while the pots go down.

Good to know there is a diving suit, even if my impatient self didn't find it. lol

Unfortunately the fishing system in this game sucks so there isn't s proper rope system for the crab pots

Also you can tell if it's reached bottom by looking at the link in your hand. The rope will stop jumping. Keep in mind the max depth you can fish is 40 meters, but I don't go deeper than 30 or so. If you want deeper rope length I would just copy the bouys off of the ptarmigan crabber and longline the pots.

There's a diving suit in the engine room by the ladder, next to the light switch. It should be in a metal box looking thing

Needs a diving suit on the boat somewhere. I got where I was going after hours of travel, hooked the rope to the lobster pot as instructed, sent it overboard... used the picture mode to verify it had reached the bottom.

Naturally this disconnected the rope I was holding, leaving me with a lost lobster pot, and I've noted in the past that any lost item--even a single block--can get stuck in the terrain and create a slow-mo no-go zone.

I'm confident I could've recovered the missing pot with the ship's handling equipment, if I could've dived deep enough to reach it. But without a diving suit, that wasn't happening. And my latest save would mean another hour of watching the boat slowly crawl to the spot I'd picked. I aborted the trip and loaded my autosave. :P

im making the FV northwestern right now, i have some photos of it if you wanna look

You should make some of the boats from deadliest catch! That would be so cool

thank you, it was fun to build : )

Another amazing creation by Skeeter

its set to auto at the moment but auto seems to keep it as high as it can anyways. i have the winch attached to the boom and so is the electrical connector but oh boy are the pistons jittery lol, if i could post a video i would

Tries to murder the pistons? Try putting the physics detail to high might make it better. You can Also attatch the winch on the crane to the boom so it folds up better

after fixing some of the block connections on the boom i would like to make the suggestion to possibly store the crane in a less folded position as the winch head is attempting to murder the pistons and the electrical connector is also very unhappy about being so close to the very jittery pistons

I might make a video on it just because its simpler to understand, I dont know.

No worries! I can manage to launch the pots but not sure how to get the right lengths on the buoys or how to attach them properly to the crab pots! Amazing detail in your build though!

Yeah but not today it's pretty late where im at

Can you please write a simple guide for setting and recovering crab pots, cant quite figuer it out.

The helm behind the wheelhouse facing the deck. If your talking about the boom (picking boom) that's on the control panel on the deck

How do I control the crane?

Me too, thanks for helping me troubleshoot it

Glad to see the thumbnail fixed :)

no problem

ah alr thanks for telling me!

Space marine you attatch a rope to the pot, launch it, and when it hits bottom you connect it to the bouy then toss it over. Be careful though because it has a max depth of 40 meters. I would use winch bouys but they are just too big and there's no way I could get 13 of those on there

awsome!!!

wait so do you have to add the buoys onto the pots? cause it don't show it in the photos.

thank you

if i could rate it it'd be a 5 star