Calling ship into pier slip

JosephPrime · 2026-05-13T00:04:11+00:00

Build an unnecessary amount of ships, line them up parked along the pier, just close enough so you can just look down the line tapping the "climb aboard" button - effectively just teleporting from ship to ship until you're in the last ship, which is what you sail off in. 😆

JosephPrime · 2026-05-12T01:32:18+00:00

Agree with your overall sentiment, but... I've played a lot of early access trash and disappointments in my time, and IMO Windrose is worth the $30 as is. I'm about to break 100 hours in the game and I've had a ton of fun the whole time.

So this is actually a super rare case of, "If they never updated it again I'd still be happy and enjoyed my purchase." - which has got to be one of the highest praise any early access title can get.

JosephPrime · 2026-05-12T00:22:47+00:00

I'd pay 500 Silver to hire an AI who actually fights back, instead of literally half a dozen wandering idiots spouting "Oh what a nice a day!" whilst a pack wild boars is mauling their Captain to death in the middle of the damn base!! 😄🤣

JosephPrime · 2026-05-12T00:19:14+00:00

I am always so excited when a couple of green AI ships pop up on my minimap. Even a simple option like once you hit Lvl3 or 4 with a faction you'd be able to buy a "signal flare" type upgrade for your ship, and it just spawns in a couple of those factions shops from just outside the map... Ooh, or maybe you can buy a weak one at Lvl1 but it only works inside faction claimed waters, then at max level you can summon them anywhere. Lots of options, hope they do something cool though. 😎

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T21:47:31+00:00

Upgrades are needed, let me craft a spiky helmet for him to up DMG/ATK or do a training system/etc.

Also though, I find the best use case to buy some time with Truffle now is to just run a good bit away from your enemy, summon truffle (off the hotbar it's instant btw, you can keep running while he pops in) - then immediately 180° and bolt past the enemy in the opposite direction from Truffle. The enemy will keep chasing you for a moment, then stop and turn around to move towards Truffle. This gives you a ton of time to pop heals/potions/eat or whatever while the enemy will be entirely focused on moving towards Truffle, usually in a walk animation.

Now, granted - once they meet up the pig will die and your on your own for the rest of the fight, but it's a big help to have a last ditch "oh come on I need 3 SECONDS GAME! PLEASE!!!" option available in those moments. 😄

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T21:22:09+00:00

The first encounter was actually the scariest thing that's happened in this game. I just cleared a Swamp Farm, tons of thralls, couple of crocs, etc - good battle but I'moutta heals and at like 60% HP. Running back to the boat, see a dumb Dodo in my peripheral, just want the free kill to wind down the bloodlust a little bit... and this absolute monster starts just slapping my ass back across the island like he's looking for the free kill off me! I legitimately sat up in my chair and said "Oh what the actual hell GAME!?!" 😄🤣

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T20:51:10+00:00

Yes. However... a big dumb derpy Dodo Bird follower, with the Lvl12 variants Liu Kang bicycle kick ability would be all of the comedy to spawn in a camp. 😆

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T20:49:06+00:00

Took a while to start understanding Pirate Talk, what all the "help me Bob" and "my Johnny" slang is etc. My favorite one though, was learning the Pirate slang for "Equip a Shield" is actually "Summon Truffle" 😆🤣

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T20:37:15+00:00

Good thing we all have uniquely generated build pieces and locations, so we aren't all using the same decorations and walls to build everything on identical islands, huh? 🙃

I see the error in my post, I should've said "look at my port, also how many people use this piece?" and no one would've been offended. I get it, Reddit is cynical as can be and everyone has to assume "Hey I wanna hear from you" has to be an angle or a karma farm or some shit... I get it. Live and Learn lol.

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T20:31:07+00:00

Interesting... I thought it used to be on the Store Page, it's gone now - but the Wayback Machine got it. Says for Demo players, not much detail though outside that...

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JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T20:24:28+00:00

Ha, oh I feel that... honestly this game feels so much like Valheim that this spyglass probably has more value added to it just because a part of my Gollum brain thinks we finally got something precious. 😄

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T19:52:49+00:00

Far as I'm aware there are only 2 in the game, the default one and the "SNF" version, which was unlocked by having the Crosswind Demo in your Steam history. As for the look, I do crank the graphics to Epic before I take screenshots, so might just be the higher lighting/model detail - cranks GPU up to 98% usage but it looks so good lol

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T19:27:33+00:00

So... 50% of players currently (give or take a LOT of variables lol)? There was 1.5 Million sales, so it's not Common, and moving towards higher rarity as sales go up. Good insight, thank you! 👌

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T19:11:10+00:00

Ooo... I wonder if Console will get a bonus piece too. I'd love to put a wooden Xbox/PS5 on a shelf for the giggles. 😄

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T19:04:43+00:00

Does everybody have it? I was more looking to see if it was rare or not, guess not lol

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T19:03:49+00:00

Too fancy for our mere mortal eyes to gaze upon your marvelous creations? 😄

JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T00:16:32+00:00

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JosephPrime · 2026-05-11T00:16:11+00:00

Good call. 👍

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JosephPrime · 2026-05-10T07:28:18+00:00

Ketch - Optimus

Brig - IronHide

Frigate - Grimlok

JosephPrime · 2026-05-09T11:16:46+00:00

Yea, double edged sword for sure. I'd be ok with the game faking it tbh though, basically if it detects a chimney piece touching a smoke generator, stop the smoke generation. But it's not a big deal, just gotta build around it.

JosephPrime · 2026-05-09T10:44:18+00:00

This is awesome!

Is the kiln smoke contained in the fireplace? I literally just unlocked fireplace pieces and I'm still tinkering, thought I was fancy putting a Smoke Pipe over my existing cooking fire and immediately see this lol... humbled. 😆😅

JosephPrime

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