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This guide is always being improved and updated as I do this more often, so be sure to check back often to see if there is a better and faster way to actually pull this off.

Introduction to shipping animals
One of my personal favourite things to practice on 303 is to transport animals in the fastest way possible. This is not the only way to ship animals, but it is the easiest way I have found, and the design works for all animals.

Materials you will need:
-A raft, large raft, or sailboat (sailboat recommended for speed)

-Several welded planks (around twelve, depending on how big you want your container to be)

-A hut of any kind (Stone or wood is recommended, as sandstone buildngs have floors, which makes it very hard to get the animal up into the hut.)

-A knife of any kind (for giving a welded texture)

-Lumbermill (for making planks)

-Bush stumps, windows, or anything four studs wide to keep the animal inside of the hut, perferably higher than one stud.

-Large composts (or anything that is one stud high)

Optional: Firemaking bow(burning off excess boat parts), bucket(fireproofing), armour of any kind(for protection against aggressive animals).

1. Prep
The first thing you want to do is build your boat. I like to use a sailboat because it is the fastest and the long hull gives a bit more room to extend your container out. I also like to burn off the excess parts, though this is not required. As you can see, my boat is shown to the left.

Next, make a lumbermill, and drop about five tree stumps (or two large tree stumps) through the lumbermill. Weld all of these planks. This will be what you use for the container. I used ten planks in making this container.

Now you need to arrange the planks into a transport container. To get started, first make sure that the seat of your boat is the closest part to the land so that you can extend your container out properly. Place one plank, lying down and turned so that the long end is perpendicular with the boat, on the very edge of your boat, but make sure it is still connected. Now, extend this plank outward. Make sure that the entire floor is level. My floor was made of five planks.

Next, turn some planks on their sides and make a box. The very end of your container will be the place that the animals enter. You can make the walls as high as you want, but if you don't want to attract a lot of attention, make your walls low. I always use one plank on each side for walls.

Now your transport ship is ready!

2. Shipping
Now you need to decide which animals you want to ship. Aggressive animals are easier to transport than neutral or passive animals, and aggressive animals will follow you.

Notes: 

-You need to keep the animals level with the grass. This means that they cannot get onto the sand, water, or anything that will put it below the grass. If it does, you have to kill the animal and start over.

-All animals will want to go back to their spawn location (unless they are aggressive animals, and will give up their quest to get back to their island to try and attack you). This will move the boat when you are sailing, but it doesn't steer very far off of your course.

-The length of the animal is the amount of studs it needs to get stuck. For example, if I am unloading a lynx, and there is a gap between the grass and the ship that is two studs or greater, the lynx will fall in. Once it does, it is stuck and the only way to get it out is to kill it and start over. This also applies to length as well. If there is a two stud hole in your barrier, the lynx can run out.

2a. Teraphyx
I decided to first ship a Teraphyx. There is a specific way to get these into the boat that I have found.

First, place down your composts at a midway point on the sand, and line them up with the grass so it's level. It is up to you how many composts you want to place down. I have a rough idea of where the Teraphyx spawn, but I still placed down four composts. If you miss the spawn, you will have to kill the teraphyx and move your composts around accordingly. Also, place down a compost at the entrance of the boat to keep it level. My set-up looked like this.

Now you need to kill the teraphyxs so that they respawn. The best way to do this is to drown them because it gives you a lot more time to get to your composts above the spawns. I prefer to drown them.

Once the teraphyx has respawned on the composts, get it to chase you. A good tip for all aggressive animals is to move when they move, and this way you can keep the distance between you and the animal consistent and take as litle damage as possible. Have it follow you onto the boat, and hop over the wall to the seat so that it is still trying to attack, but you are safely out of the way of the damage range. Zoom out and lock the Teraphyx in, like what I have done here.

Now, when you are backing out, you must do it slowly and in steps to let the Terapyhx up to the barrier separating you and the teraphyx. If you do it in all one motion, the animal could become CFramed and fall out of the boat. This goes for all animals. After you have the Teraphyx in the boat, take it to your island destination, and place down a large compost. As you can see I have left two studs open. This does not matter, as the Teraphyx is four studs long. To get stuck, it would need a hole of four studs. This also goes for all animals. A lynx needs two studs to get stuck, a bento deer needs four, and so on.



To unload, make sure your hut is placed down. Then, move the barrier at the end of the ship so that the Teraphyx can run at you. Using the "move when it moves" method, lead it into the hut. However do not go inside the hut. If you do, the Teraphyx will most likely end up killing you. Instead, jump on top of the hut, and have the Teraphyx move into the hut so that you can cover the door with a barrier. I like to use a window because it fits perfectly into the door and you can see right into the enclosure.

2b. Cave Lynx
I always do the aggressive animals first, because I like to start off easy and work my way up. So, sail off to Magma. Loading a cave lynx is a lot easier than loading a Teraphyx because there is no sand or shore at the base of the cave, meaning that you can drive your boat right up to the rock cave. This is, in my opinion, the easiest animal to transport.

The steps for transporting the cave lynx are the same as the Teraphyx above. Have the animal give chase, and load it onto the boat. Be very careful here when backing out of the cave entrance, as this is a high CFraming risk. I always move about ten or so studs until i can turn around. Once you are going forward, you don't have to be as careful.

Loading the cave lynx off of the boat is also the same. Be sure to keep the gaps between the grass and the composts smaller than two studs so the lynx doesn't get stuck. Then have it go into the hut, and block it off with the barriers.

2c. Bento Deer and Bento Buck
Bento deer and Bento bucks have the same procedure, and I like to ship both of them together. To do this, I extended out my ship by adding planks length wise, and filling in the holes with welded small sticks and bush stumps as seen in the photo.

If you do decide to ship both together, you will need to take som extra steps. First, do not section off your boat by creating "stalls" for each animal. This locks up the boat and makes it "unturnable". Also, you will need to watch and make sure that the deer are not getting CFramed, as when you are transporting two or more animals at the same time, the risk is greater, even when you are going forward.

Because Bento deer are passive, the easiest way is to push them to your boat, and locking them in. I was doing dual bentos at this time, so I only blocked her in with a couple of bush stumps. This may take practice.

The Bento Buck can also be pushed, but if you want it to follow you, hit it in the torso with a stone knife. This way, it will go after you, but it will turn back. I don't do this a lot because it takes more time. Now, I have dual bentos in my boat.

When you are going to put the Bentos into an enclosure, it is a lot different than putting a Teraphyx or a cave lynx into a hut. You can only do this one at a time. I like to put composts down to catch the animal if it gets away from me. To do this, you have to stand, making sure that you are holding the bento so it isn't moving, and quickly place the hut. Make sure that it is on the brick grid. Once the bento is in, you can block it in with your barrier of choice

2d. Cow
I had my animals on Mainland, so i just pushed my cow to the hut. But, There is a way to ship them. Because they are bigger than Bento deer are, they are easier to push. The loading process is exactly the same as the bento deer is, push it right onto the boat. I rarely do dual cows because if they manage to get behind one another they can lock the boat up. To put the cow in the hut, it is also the same procedure as the bento. I like to put cows in longhouses because I usually have two for farming purposes.

2e. Field lynx
At first, shipping a field lynx was one of the hardest things. But, I did find a trick. Because lynx are small, they cannot be pushed. However, if you place a bush stump, tree stump, or anything two studs high or taller, you an push the lynx. This why, you can get it into the boat faster. Before, I used to make a tunnel to guide it into the boat, and that could take a long time. A field lynx is easier, in my opinion, to get inside the hut. You can do it two ways. You can do the "drop hut" method, which is what I explained in the Bento section, or you can push it in, as the door is wide enough for it to be pushed in.

2f. Rockma
Rockma are slower than the other animals, other than chicken, and this makes them easy to transport. Push them to the boat, sail away, and use the drop hut method to seal them in. If you go behind a rockma, you will notice that the back legs stick out from the body. If you go in between them, you can give the rockma a super speed boost, '''however this is not recommended as it makes your rockma go really fast and it looks really suggestive and hot at the same time. '''

2g. Chicken
Chicken can be hatched in nests, but I tested a way to move them. It is exactly the same as a field lynx. Chicken are too small to be pushed, so we need to add extra height. For hens, a bush stump is fine. For roosters, a welded stick turn to that it is facing with the long end pointing up works fine(or anything that is one stud wide because the tail on the rooster makes it hard to put a bush stump on). Of course, you can also hatch the chickens, but where's the fun? If you can steal all the chicken on the mainland, someone would notice.

3. Conclusion
Finally, I hoped that this "little" tutorial helped. I will probably be recording video tutorials sometime soon. In the meantime, here is a video of a zoo that I finished, not including chicken.

If you have any questions or want a more in-depth explanation of how to do this, please don't hesitate to ask. 