Make Swans Float

[Vassteel]

I think that hitting swans by knarr should rip the sail of it.
Then you would have to repair the boat with cloth.

Please explain how a 20 pound bird would damage a knarr. I really would like to know.

How does it damage a 20 ton aircraft? Yet planes crash after hitting birds. (Granted, bird strikes to engines are the specific problems. Despite engineering for it, engines are still vulnerable.)

You are flying along at a few hundred mph and you hit a stationary (from your point of view) few kg of bird, the bird is going to accelerate faily quickly which is going to involve a certain amount of force being transferred to your plane. That isn't normally serious unless it hits somethign delicate like a radar dome or flap. Or it goes into an engine! Turbine blades are in a very stressful situation, they don't have a lot of spare strength to resist accelerating a bird to 200mph. When they break off they tend to go backward into the rest of the compressor

Eg 0.5kg bird hitting a plane doing 200knots e = 1/2 * 0.5 * 100^2 = 2500 J Worst case would be a fighter at mach2 hitting a Canada goose, E = 4,500,000 J Comparison, a typical handgun bullet is around 500 J ( although concentrated in a smaller area)


some more technical math on bird strikes
https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/ ... -1-410.htm

[DPblH]

You can catch them while they are retreating. Deal enough of damage, then right click on minimap/avatar. Alive swans in your inventory!

[Hrenli]

I like running them over to hear the plop, but getting them for free? Na thats too much. Can still drag them on land and do it, but thats more work at least. Should have to fight them.

I agree 100% with all of that.

Running birds over for the plop is the main feature of the game. Don't touch it!