I know boats are pretty fragile and can't take a lot of bumping into solid blocks. But the problem I'm having is they're just breaking apart in open water without having hit anything. In my previous world I could manage to get from one side of the map to the other OK, maybe even get a few trips out of a single boat if I didn't hit too many lilypads or try to be clever and explore a river inlet. But in this world, one of the first things I did was build a boat and see if I could explore the outer edges of the map by travelling through the ocean, but I never could get more than 20-30 blocks without the boat breaking, without it having touched anything except water.
Today I decided to try to give it another shot, and took a boat out to the mushroom island. For about the first 20 blocks offshore, in open water that was >3 blocks deep, the boat seemed to be bumping into something every other block, although it was just water, and trying to turn sideways, like when you bump into a solid block. Then once I got it to stop doing that it broke apart on me. WTH is going on? Is this a glitch?
Yeah, I think it is. Yesterday I was fiddling with other texture packs in newly generated worlds, and in all four of the ones I started i could build a boat and use it on water with none of those issues I mentioned in my original post. I did collide with a squid or two.LOL. It's got a me a little bummed because despite the vanilla boats in Minecraft not being the best thing as is (really, devs, improve them already!), I do enjoy skimming around in them for a little change of pace. But I absolutely cannot get them to work worth a bleep in this particular world. It happens in any water in that world--and they don't "explode" and break apart like they do when they normally hit something--they just come apart underneath me and suddenly I'm sinking.
But in addition, in areas I've built something in this same world there tends to be what I unaffectionately call "glitchy blocks"--empty (air) blocks, usually in areas like around leaves blocks where you wouldn't normally walk iwthout having built something or pillared up, that act as if there's a solid block there and if I walk into them I get stuck, like walking into cobwebs but even worse and harder to get out of. I can't lay down another block there either. It's only a few so far, and I've just learn to build around them. But maybe that is related to the issue with boats lagging, jerking and breaking on open water--maybe it's the *air blocks* right above the water that are buggy and doing this. I guess this world is just messed up like that. Pity because things like this have a way of ruining a game for me, or at least that particular play-thru (I say this is a very bug/glitch-battled Skyrim freak) and I heart my treehouse, the spiffy new rail hub I've spent the past week working on and all my kitties and doggies.
Today I decided to try to give it another shot, and took a boat out to the mushroom island. For about the first 20 blocks offshore, in open water that was >3 blocks deep, the boat seemed to be bumping into something every other block, although it was just water, and trying to turn sideways, like when you bump into a solid block. Then once I got it to stop doing that it broke apart on me. WTH is going on? Is this a glitch?
Formerly known as ORabbit around these parts.
But in addition, in areas I've built something in this same world there tends to be what I unaffectionately call "glitchy blocks"--empty (air) blocks, usually in areas like around leaves blocks where you wouldn't normally walk iwthout having built something or pillared up, that act as if there's a solid block there and if I walk into them I get stuck, like walking into cobwebs but even worse and harder to get out of. I can't lay down another block there either. It's only a few so far, and I've just learn to build around them. But maybe that is related to the issue with boats lagging, jerking and breaking on open water--maybe it's the *air blocks* right above the water that are buggy and doing this. I guess this world is just messed up like that. Pity because things like this have a way of ruining a game for me, or at least that particular play-thru (I say this is a very bug/glitch-battled Skyrim freak) and I heart my treehouse, the spiffy new rail hub I've spent the past week working on and all my kitties and doggies.
Formerly known as ORabbit around these parts.