I took a boat all the way to Plotina Toshina dam.

[Daricles 20]

It took quite a bit of effort, but I made it. Had to do some serious portaging, pushing the boat around a few narrow spots between the rocks.

Speaking of rocks…it would be nice if the devs tweaked the way boats interact with rocks. If you even touch some of them the boat starts jumping all around uncontrollably, sometimes flipping it over. IIRC, this was a feature added awhile back to help prevent high centering vehicles and getting them stuck. It’s probably safe to remove that behavior from boats to make them behave in a more stable manner.

Speaking of flipping boats over…it would be nice if there was an easy way to flip an upside down boat back upright. My boat got flipped over by the rocks a few times on my trip to the dam. I had to push it around onto the rocks letting it get randomly tossed around until it finally got flipped back over.

The boats are a great addition to the game. It would be really awesome if you made the rivers truly navigable by boat. It wouldn’t take much, at least for the river on the western edge of the Chernarus map. If you fixed the rocks tossing the boat around issue, then there would only be a couple of places too narrow for the boat to get through. If you go fast enough, you can make it over the downed trees and several of the rocky crossings. There are also a couple spots where it’s too shallow, but that’s okay, you just have to get out and push a little. However, if you could make the river about a foot deeper it would make things a lot easier.

Having a navigable river leading inland would open up all kinds of amazing new game play possibilities.

Edited October 24 by Daricles

[Daricles 20]

I have now portaged the boat up over the dam and am trying to boat all the way to NWAF.

The canyon under the RR bridge at Rostoki is impassable due to those boat repelling rocks, so I had to portage a good ways down the tracks before I could put the boat back in the river. Unfortunately, when I did so I touched an anti-boat rock and it flipped the boat. It took me about a half hour to get it flipped back over and then I had to catch and cook some fish because I was starving. By the time I finished all that, it was dark and I had to log for some lunch IRL.

now all of the NY official servers seem to be down.

I plan to continue my journey once they are back up (If the boat is still there and no one kills me — I’m surprised I haven’t been shot by someone yet. I’ve spent a couple hours just pushing that boat around obstacles). Krona castle is just around the next river bend.

Edited October 25 by Daricles

[Daricles 20]

Here’s a link to screenshots:

https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ap2aKHFgUU59gsBQGbEQBf50vAScGQ

[Daricles 20]

Oops. I missed my turn and ended up in the swamp west of Vavilovo. Now I have to turn around go back a ways.

[Daricles 20]

Well, NWAF by boat just isn’t worth doing.

I figured out that I missed my turn because the branch heading toward NWAF doesn’t actually connect to the branch I was on except by a culvert. After doing a little scouting on foot, it looks like the other branch is little more than a rocky ditch and I’d end up spending a lot more time pushing the boat than driving it. I’d say I already spent as much time portaging around obstacles as I did driving just to reach Krona castle.

Someone stole the spark plug out of my boat last night while it was parked in the swamp, but I had spares. So, whoever you were, you didn’t slow me down in my quest.

However, I jogged up to Krona castle to look around and some bandit shot me dead without saying a word. Whoever you were, thank you for putting that crazy life to an end! Now I can move on to other more sane things to do than trying to boat all the way to NWAF.

I’ll settle for having reaching Vavilovo swamp and call it a victory.

Edited October 26 by Daricles

[BadBoyBubby 0]

Well done sir! I got as far as the first foot bridge and the boat interacted with the rocks and flipped. I then searched for "Can you flip an upturned boat in DayZ" and found your thread. What an effort, I'm impressed with your tenacity, it kinda reminded me of Kramer in Seinfeld taking the car for a test run then seeing how far he could get on an empty tank. I could see myself falling for this challenge and had to immediately walk away with my head slightly drooping forward but then raised it high again when I started to visualise the scenario of what DayZ would have had in store for me around each bend of the creek. I would 've been up all night sucking on sugar drinks and swearing loudly at my PC before realising the effort was a lost cause.

 I agree that BI should look into deepening this particular water channel and joining it to other tributaries that would allow access to the interior. I was trying to get John Mclane to carve a channel into the Alteria map to allow the boats access to the internal waterways from the ocean, unfortunately 1.26 happened and took a massive dump on modded maps and John had to turn his attention to damage control to get both Deer Isle and Alteria playable again. The boats are great fun and add so much to the immersion in game, now all it needs is to refine their use and allow them to go further than just around the East/West coastline.