Rowboats are useless.

i can see using one at night to sneak on to someone else's ship to steal their loot.

Spyderhat has the idea. A rowboat is of marginal usefulness in normal play to me... but as a lifeboat, it is invaluable and can save your bacon.

Pro Tip: Using a rowboat during a skeleton ship battle will let you get the loot from all the ships you sink while still having the rest of the crew fight the ship.

I saw an excellent use of the rowboat by one member in my community.

He rowed up behind a sloop with gunpowder on board, docked to the back of it, ran inside the sloop and detonated the gunpowder, loaded the rowboat with their treasure and waved goodbye as it sank.

Fantastic use of the rowboat.

@creepingdeathbk That... is actually a good idea assuming that the "ownership" of a rowboat is tracked somehow in the game for some reason. Bravo.

I've gotten quite a bit of use out of them.

I can't even tell you how many times I load a keg onto that thing and pretend to just drive the ship by someone. Especially works on skelly forts.

Rowboats are not useless as several posters here have listed. They are flawed being a disposable resource. A sneeze can sink one. They are a bit of a gimmick, but a fun one. They are not a requirement in the Devil’s Roar as it was implied.

It would have been better to make them more durable by making them steadier and repairable. Should have just included them as a standard part of the ship when it set sail. Then they could match the ship’s hull. Could still have rowboats scattered about to replace them when destroyed. The mechanics could be smoothed out more.

Rowboats belong in the game. There are many uses for them, especially when creative. Good for immersion and playing the pirate life. Just need to be able stick around longer to get more out of them.

Rowboats can be useful in a skull ship event.

We sunk twice doing it solo on a brig and we managed to get all the loot from every single ship because of the rowboat.

Heck even right after the event a kraken came and sank us. But our rowboat survived. We couldn't have done that without the rowboat.

So find uses for it. Sneak on to ships. Be careful with them in the Roar.

I used a rowboat last night to sneak onto a sloop that was busy doing OOS quests in the Devil's Roar. It is very easy to do because they don't see your mast and sail approaching in the distance. I literally rowed up to the sloop, docked and unloaded all of their cargo onto my rowboat, then undocked and hightailed.
They never knew I was there. They were probably just noobs who were very unaware but it worked lol.

When I solo merchant voyages I always use the rowboat to carry all the pigs, when they squeal you can just turn and feed them rather than worrying about getting back to the ship in time in case they’re getting hungry again.

The funny but sad at the same time thing is that there was a lot of hype for these simple rowboats.

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Rowboats are vitally useful.

They are a new mechanic.

They are not bad but people acted like if these things would actually evolve the game

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@personalc0ffee dijo en Rowboats are useless.:

Rowboats are vitally useful.

They are a new mechanic.

They are not bad but people acted like if these things would actually evolve the game

The rowboats are vitally useful for so many scenarios, not just evasiion but also treasure boating, etc but perhaps one needs to evolve their mindset, first.

Before continuing, I want to thank you for the last thing you said as it made me laugh real good. Well, I like the rowboats, but what I mean is that this should be treated like a simple and easy to develop feature. But what it disappoints me is that I think for devs rowboats is like a giant feature which is worth it to wait for months. Rowboats are good, but sadly, is a small feature that gets treated like a big one.

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I hid my ship behind an island one night and did a bunch of voyages in a rowboat. It was fun and felt really "piratey." Of course, I picked islands that were close together and not far from an outpost. I learned a few things along the way. One of the big advantages of a rowboat is it can go pretty much unnoticed on the seas. You can carry around plenty of supplies, along with yourself and your loot. Unloading at the outpost was stress-free, since my ship was anchored far away and out of sight.

Last night my crew and I used the rowboat to attack skeleton ships, hauling a few kegs of gunpowder over. It also let us pick up some extra loot from the sinking ships.

I wish the rowboat had an ammo chest for dealing with pesky skeletons while adventuring. Being able to use a compass or telescope while seated would be useful, as well. Sometimes rowing can be a bit wonky. I wish it were possible to return to your rowboat instead of your ship when you die. But the worst fate for rowboats is the dreaded server merge. If you leave your rowboat unattended, a server merge can make it vanish. We lost some loot that way.

So clearly there's room for improvement. But overall rowboats are great and welcome additions to the game, and anything but useless.

My first use of the rowboat was frustrating and I was not a fan.

One shall never give up and always seek experience through diversity.

With that said, I have become very efficient with the rowboat. If I am in a crew, I always get stuck as the rowboat pilot because I have become so skilled at navigating the rowboat.