Where can pirate coves be built?

[Ackillez]

Hi there everyone, I've got a little question that's causing me some confusion. I started playing this mod a short while back, and now I'm trying out the Lanun civilization, with its awesome pirate coves. I've built several with work boats on sea tiles but on a lot of places I keep seeing it referenced that it might be possible to build it on inland tiles adjacent to water as well. If this is the case, how do you do it? My workers don't seem to be able to construct that improvement. Is this perhaps just the way coves worked before?

Thanks in advance.

 

[readercolin]

Pirate coves right now can only be built by a workboat, on a coast tile (cannot be freshwater lake), and must have a minimum of 2 squares between it and another pirate cove (as in x 0 0 x, with the x's being pirate coves, and the 0's being empty ocean). In previous versions, they were created by taking and sacrificing a worker on a land tile next to the coast, and it turned it into a "coastal" tile that had extra bonuses.

-Colin

 

[Monkeyfinger]

You can cove lakes. In order for a lakeside city to be able to build boats, though, it has to also be next to coast.

 

[Senethro]

Do fortresses still allow ships to pass through?

 

[Valkrionn]

Not in FfH. In Orbis and FFPlus (at least, next patch...), the highest level of fort will allow that.