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The Motorboat is a Vehicle that allows for transportation on water. The Motorboat's surface is useful for establishing a mobile base, seeing as Structures , Beds , and Containers can be placed directly on top, though Foundations must be used to build some Structures upon it such as Walls .

Limitations [ ]

  • Structure limit: 135 (On private servers or in single player the limit can be increased via PerPlatformMaxStructuresMultiplier )
  • Height limit: Survivors can build up to 8 walls high above the raft, and up to 80 walls below it.
  • Size limit: 13x13 (discluding the corners)

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  • If a Baryonyx stuns the Survivor driving the Motorboat whilst the Motorboat is moving forwards, it will continue to drive forward without a driver.

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Motorboat is added to the game.
Fixed a bug where the Raft and   would not work properly in some water volumes.
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Sunday, february 27, 2022, motorboat vs raft - ark survival evolved.

The raft is an awesome way to explore a map in Ark Survival Evolved in relative safety, as long as you avoid Leeds and swamps infested with various crocodile-like animals.   You can turn a humble raft into a compact and capable base.   After years I finally got a look at the motorboat .   It sort of snuck in under my radar and I discovered it there in my list of engrams.

Driving the motorboat in Ark Survival Evolved

Just like a raft, you can build on it, either by just placing campfires, storage boxes, etc. right on it, or you can put foundations down and build a proper base.   As a mobile base, the motorboat would be great, especially on maps with a lot of water access, which is about half.  

Resources to Craft the Motorboat

  • 1,200 Metal Ingots
  • 150 Obsidian
  • 400 Polymer
  • 60 Black Pearls

On the Ragnarok map this thing could really shine.  The cost is full lined with metal nodes.  Using the motorboat as a cargo ship could be really useful, and pay for the 1,200 metal ingots it costs in short order.  The motorboat might be useful on the Island map too for hauling wood or stone around the coast.  The Island doesn’t have any really fast beasts of burden. 

Motorboat top view 

I play PvE and I really don’t have much practical use for the Ark motorboat, by the time I can learn the engram. By that time I have enough dinos for harvesting and transport.   However, maybe it will be time for a video series living on a raft, and then a motorboat.   Hmmm.

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A floating metal platform that you can pilot across the water, requires gasoline to power its motor. Can support the weight of structures and be built on.

motorboat vs raft ark

The Motorboat is a Vehicle that allows for transportation on water. The Motorboat's surface is useful for establishing a mobile base, seeing as Structures , Beds , and Containers can be placed directly on top, though Foundations must be used to build some Structures upon it such as Walls .

Limitations

  • Structure limit: 135 (On private servers or in single player the limit can be increased via PerPlatformMaxStructuresMultiplier )
  • Height limit: Survivors can build up to 8 walls high above the raft, and up to 80 walls below it.
  • Size limit: 13x13 (discluding the corners)

motorboat vs raft ark

Notes/Trivia

motorboat vs raft ark

  • If a Baryonyx stuns the Survivor driving the Motorboat whilst the Motorboat is moving forwards, it will continue to drive forward without a driver.
  Changes
Motorboat is added to the game.
Fixed a bug where the Raft and   would not work properly in some water volumes.
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The Motorboat is a vehicle that allows for aquatic transportation when fueled with Gasoline and structure support for up to 135 structures, similar the Wooden Raft or Platform Saddles . The Motorboat has a limit of 1,800 weight for attached storage containers. The Vault cannot be placed on a Motorboat, Wooden Raft, or Platform Saddle.

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By MackTheKnife , July 8, 2018 in General Discussion

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For the longest time I thought the limit was 88 for wooden boats. Today I went to the wiki, and saw that the new limit is 69, according to a week ago. 

Is this true? Or was it just some anonymous troll thinking 69 is funny? Because I hope it’s still 88. 

It’s bad enough that my walls/foundations/ceilings take damn near 60 or more. If it’s 66 then I can’t make a raft unless it’s a motorboat. 

88 was fine. Barely enough to place necessities but that’s it. Nothing that adds to it,  like a ladder or hatch/windows. Or even turrets. I mean we should have more in the first place because there are people like me who would build a turret raft to keep Leeds and flyers out. Plant X and spikes as well. 

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45 minutes ago, MackTheKnife said: For the longest time I thought the limit was 88 for wooden boats. Today I went to the wiki, and saw that the new limit is 69, according to a week ago.  Is this true? Or was it just some anonymous troll thinking 69 is funny? Because I hope it’s still 88.  It’s bad enough that my walls/foundations/ceilings take damn near 60 or more. If it’s 66 then I can’t make a raft unless it’s a motorboat.  88 was fine. Barely enough to place necessities but that’s it. Nothing that adds to it,  like a ladder or hatch/windows. Or even turrets. I mean we should have more in the first place because there are people like me who would build a turret raft to keep Leeds and flyers out. Plant X and spikes as well. 

I think that may be the old limit, they may have updated since the wiki was last changed.  You should be using a motorboat instead, much faster, better durability, and much more structures are allowed.

9 minutes ago, RipRavage said: I think that may be the old limit, they may have updated since the wiki was last changed.  You should be using a motorboat instead, much faster, better durability, and much more structures are allowed.

Should I just make a small enclosed wood raft and farm purely 1200 ingots overnight? What can I do about black pearls? I was given them last time and it was x8 official. Do I farm trilobites?

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Just now, MackTheKnife said: Should I just make a small enclosed wood raft and farm purely 1200 ingots overnight? What can I do about black pearls? I was given them last time. Farm trilobites?

If you own any of the dlc, aberration has harvestable black pearls on the ground near the drake trench and scorched earth deathworms drop them.

Also otters I believe can get them from fish, otherwise you'll have to go in the ocean and kill eurypterids with a shark, ammonites and alpha water dinos (except alpha megalodon)

2 minutes ago, MackTheKnife said: Should I just make a small enclosed wood raft and farm purely 1200 ingots overnight? What can I do about black pearls? I was given them last time. Farm trilobites?

It depends what kind of map you are on.  If you can transfer to a scorched earth or Ragnarok death worms are by far the best way to get pearls in my opinion.  If you are on a hyper competitive pvp server where you are going to get raided for farming metal you might just wanna try to buy a motorboat from another tribe.

1 hour ago, Wazzamaniac said: If you own any of the dlc, aberration has harvestable black pearls on the ground near the drake trench and scorched earth deathworms drop them. Also otters I believe can get them from fish, otherwise you'll have to go in the ocean and kill eurypterids with a shark, ammonites and alpha water dinos (except alpha megalodon)

Nah, I don’t own any DLC. This game has annoyed and mentally tortured me so much that I won’t give these developers another cent. I’ve lost hundreds of hours worth due to glitches and not players. Juggling both is just too much to handle. 

Getting off track. Im on ORP so now I have decent protection. I think I’ll just trade for them in-game.

37 minutes ago, MackTheKnife said: Nah, I don’t own any DLC. This game has annoyed and mentally tortured me so much that I won’t give these developers another cent. I’ve lost hundreds of hours worth due to glitches and not players. Juggling both is just too much to handle.  Getting off track. Im on ORP so now I have decent protection. I think I’ll just trade for them in-game.

Ragnarok is free and has deathworms and tons of resources.

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The limit may have changed for rafts but it’s still 138 structures on a motorboat.

Black pearls can be harvested on Aberration however as Ragnarok is free, head to 70, 20 immediately off the SW coast in the water to farm harvestable black pearls that cluster in around 12 clams. You should farm enough for a motorboat just off of them alone - even on official.

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    The Motorboat is a Vehicle that allows for transportation on water. The Motorboat's surface is useful for establishing a mobile base, seeing as Structures, Beds, and Containers can be placed directly on top, though Foundations must be used to build some Structures upon it such as Walls. It is the upgraded version of the Wooden Raft and offers a greater speed, size and health than its wooden ...

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    Be aware that when I had used a motorboat last (close to release) it bugged the hell out when I had an anky loaded on it. I had built a decent expedition raft and was headed out to get oil from the icy north, but the collision detection kept triggering on the anky that was on my raft, so the motorboat would move in a really lurchy manner, moving at about the same speed as a normal raft.

  4. Motorboat vs Raft

    The raft is an awesome way to explore a map in Ark Survival Evolved in relative safety, as long as you avoid Leeds and swamps infested with various crocodile-like animals. You can turn a humble raft into a compact and capable base. After years I finally got a look at the motorboat. It sort of snuck in under my radar and I discovered it there in my list of engrams.

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    I've heard the motorboat is faster, sturdier and can also go in reverse but it requires you to constantly farm resources for fuel (ie oil and hide) compared to the wooden raft that doesn't require fuel or many resources to repair or build. So basically my question is, is the motorboat worth the cost and upkeep?

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    I put a motorboat in the water, placed 20 foundations down, 20 pillars on that, 20 ceilings on that, 20 pillars on that, etc. 138 is the structure limit I hit. I then drove the boat out into deep water, spawned a Leedsichthys (level 1) and let it chew on the boat. Hits for 603 every time, and the boat has 32,000 health.

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