Feb 8
Balance early game ship building
Early-game boat building is tough, and a few of the recipes, like the medium fishing trawler and wooden boats, have little use as fish is not used in quite a few recipes, and metal gearboxes should be utilized for heavier constructions. I.e., the wooden barge. Metal gearboxes can be a massive bottleneck for transportation in worlds that struggle with iron production and have large oceans. Adding wooden gears would help shipwrights and release pressure on mechanics so they could focus on some other early-game land transportation.
Pending
I will add my suggestion to this, the small wooden boat recipe should be changed to not require mechanics items, so it can come at the same time as the powered cart. Because the way it is right now, the wooden transport ship comes at the same time and therefore the current transition is from large canoe from day one to the best possible boat around when mechanics unlock.