MagicManICT wrote:You need two tar kilns iirc for a snekkja, which is 3-4 days (assuming kilns filled with pine). As VDZ points out, you can get enough wool from mouflon. Used to be an exploit for them, but I believe it got fixed, so it's not an easy method, but is doable. There were certainly snekkjas on the water almost as soon as the tar kilns quit burning their first load last world. There were people fleeing the central continent not much after than, probably larger groups (5-10 people) at first that could organize their efforts, and solo players were taking a bit longer depending on their risk tolerance.
Yes, a farm may speed it up a bit. You certainly don't need to wait on an entire farm over multiple cycles just to get enough flax or hemp cloth, which is what was being implied. Also, there's leather fabric, which cuts your need on hemp or flax by 60% (though does require a lot of leather in a short time--9 cloth is a whopping 36 leather and 18 flax/hemp). Whether to farm some or all of it is going to be up to you, but I can tell you, again this world, there are going to be snekkjas floating by on day 3-4.
All I ask is that you think rather than spewing your shit on the forums, and we certainly don't need flame wars in Announcements.
Why even bother to build shekkja if one can jump into rowboat and go trough whirlpool?