2talltyler / canalboats

Sal's Canalboats is an OpenTTD vehicle set for transporting cargo during the early industrial revolution.

Sal's Canalboats

♫ I've got a mule and her name is Sal / 15 miles on the Erie Canal ♫

Before railroads, canals powered the early industrial revolution. Towed by horses, mules, or sometimes people, canalboats could carry up to 30 tons of cargo.

This work-in-progress canalboat set starts in 1700 and currently includes two British narrowboats:

• Narrowboat (carries all cargo except passengers and mail)
• Packet boat (carries passengers, mail, valuables, and express cargo)

In order to make early networks viable, the cost of building, clearing, and maintaining canals is reduced to 1/16 of default.

canalboats's Issues

Todo: Experiment with horse sprites

Autorefit

Hi, can you please add autorefit to the canal boats? It makes sense given the variety of cargo these can carry, to have them carry different things both directions.

Todo: Canalboats should be incredibly slow on ocean tiles (no horse paths)

Set ocean_speed_fraction to a very low number (float 0 ... 1). I guess they can still row?

Todo: Replace canal and lock (and maybe dock) sprites

Todo: Add steam and diesel boats