Easier Wagon Use

[ShadowSeaWolf]

Ok, so I've seen a lot of ideas about bridges and things to get wagons across rivers faster. However, I haven't seen anyone suggest simply riding the wagon through the river yet, so here it is.

Back in the day when people actually used wagons and they encountered a river, they just drove it across. It floats! So why don't we just do that? This would make rafts pretty useless but I hate rafts with a burning passion and I'm sure others agree with me. First you gotta set them up, then you gotta get your cows or wagons or whatever on them, take them across, then take them apart again. Not only that, but they're insanely slow.

So instead of all that you simply use your cows to pull the wagon into the water and swim it across. Or, instead of the animal swimming it across you could use paddles and do it yourself while the animal swims along side. Of course, this might mean that animals would need the ability to swim, and I don't know how well that would work. Its just an idea.

Any thoughts?

[sabinati]

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[notalbanian]

you're not playing right if you don't choose 2 every time

[Crazysnowman]

Who wants to start The Oregon Trail village, we will do nothing more than make wagons and ford rivers.

[jorb]

I think the work involved in rafting simulates an Oregon Trail style crossing pretty well.

Aaah, Oregon Trail. <3

Aaah, America. <3

[spectacle]

Fun fact: if the land between Missouri and Oregon had been made with the H&H mapgen, traveling the Oregon trail would involve crossing roughly 4500 rivers.

[jorb]

Fun fact: if the land between Missouri and Oregon had been made with the H&H mapgen, traveling the Oregon trail would involve crossing roughly 4500 rivers.

Fun fact: The "rivers" in H&H are only a couple of meters wide. Compare this to real rivers like the Danube or the Mississippi which are several 100s of meters wide, with the Mississippi at points exceeding a kilometer in width, according to Wikipedia, or for that matter to the northern Swedish rivers (Ume älv, etc.), which at points are probably at least some 200 meters in width. The "rivers" in H&H are little brooks and streams, and nothing more.

There should, however, be real rivers in the game.

[Potjeh]

It's the narrow mountain streams that get you, not the slow and wide plains rivers

[notalbanian]

There should, however, be real rivers in the game.

Wouldn't that require oceans, though, for them to drain into?

[spectacle]

The "rivers" in H&H are little brooks and streams, and nothing more.

How many hearthlings have drowned while believing this to be true?

There should, however, be real rivers in the game.

Yes!