How to make a boat?

[7499275]

So... How do you make a boat in stock ksp? how do the float mechanics work?

[JiWint]

Well,this game is about building rockets

Anyway,currently the easiest way is to use floating intakes bug.Here's a video showing it.

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This way you can add intakes below the wheels,and make amphibious rover.

Here you go! This is a quick made thing,so don't take it very seriously

Ground

Water

Edited December 29, 2013 by JiWint

[Dogface]

All stock parts float. It kind of depends what you want the boat for.

[7499275]

I knew from Danny's video that intakes would bounce, and then bounce away lol. How stable is using intakes light that doing turns?

Yes all stock parts float but for example, if you land a pod in water it rolls to its side and is half submerged. If I wanted to make like a small cargo vessel to carry a rover out of flat wing sections do they work? Do they stay 100% above the suface?

[Dispatcher]

So... How do you make a boat in stock ksp? how do the float mechanics work?

Just as you can make rockets, planes and rovers in a remarkable variety; so it is with boats. Just think of a boat as a plane or rover or even a horizontal rocket; only you want to get it into the water.

For me, the hardest part is simply getting the craft to and into the water without wrecking it. I usually start at the runway, back up to the shallow drop and then turn and drive parallel to the runway, to the coast. Near the shore where the incline is steeper, I turn and approach the waterline at nearly a 90 degree angle; going across the hill surface instead of straight downhill. This allows greater control of your speed and also lets you enter the water very slowly; otherwise its easy to break the boat when it hits the water.

There's even a submarine mod out there, but I've not tried it.