Novels like I Build City Ships in an Ocean World
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- 1 Reborn as a Mothership Core, I Crush Trillions of Zerg 重生成为母舰核心，横推亿万虫族 Gu Huaian, a captain who died on a battlefield of the future, had his remaining consciousness bound to an abandoned Titan Core. He was reborn as the core of a supercarrier. Knowing that the insectoid race would invade Blue Star in a month, he had to prove himself and guide humanity in preparing for war. With the help of the genius girl Wang Ziwei, he awoke and revealed the truth of the impending apocalypse. Using his memories of the future to redesign weapons, he successfully routed the insectoi 5Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 2 Shipwright in the Ocean World: Building a Mighty Fleet 我在海洋世界当船修铸巨舰 [Evolution Ship] + [Multiple Heroines] + [Beast-Eared Girls] + [Ten Thousand Races] When you transmigrate, make it count! At the mountain peak, one misstep and you transmigrate on the spot! Wang Hao opens his eyes and sees a ten-thousand-meter-long giant ship right in front of him? A giant ship? Ten thousand meters long? Looks like this could actually work. Let’s see how a tiny toy boat grows into a giant ship that rules the seas! The blurb can’t do it justice. Read the story!!! 1.4kReads7.1Score10814d adds
- 3 Boatman! Why Can't I Subdue the Heavens? 船夫！怎么就不能镇压诸天了？ The world was thrown into turmoil. Countless spatial rifts appeared in the Apocalypse World, and monsters from countless other worlds emerged, leaving humanity on the brink of collapse. Some people awakened a profession and rose above the rest. Lu Chenzhou was lucky enough to awaken a profession. Unfortunately, all he got was the profession of boatman. His innate vessel was nothing but a little wooden boat, prompting countless people to shake their heads and sigh. No need to panic. How about tak 700Reads7.1Score10814d adds
- 4 Reborn as the Captain of a Ghost Ship: I Can Plunder Anything 重生为幽灵船船长：我能掠夺万物 [System + Reborn + No Saintly Protagonist + Post-Apocalypse + Evolution + One Female Lead] After the apocalypse erupted, the ocean swallowed 95% of the world’s land, ushering in the Age of Great Voyages. But Lu Chi was betrayed by his girlfriend and brother, then died in the jaws of a sea beast. When he woke again, he discovered he had come back to life, only as a skeleton. All he had with him was a dilapidated little wooden boat. But he also discovered that he had awakened the Ghost Ship Evolut 2.8kReads8.6Score27414d adds
- 5 Everyone Sails the Seas? What a Coincidence, I'm a Sea Demon! 全民航海？巧了，我是海妖！ [Fresh Premise] [Wish Fulfillment] [Comedy] [All-New Setting] Nearly ten billion people around the world are transported in an instant to an unfamiliar place. There is no civilization, no order, only an endless blue ocean and the law of the jungle! Haoran, an ordinary office worker, lies down after being berated by his parents. But as he sleeps, he starts to suffocate. It turns out he’s transmigrated, along with everyone else in the world! [System prompt: A ship has been automatically selected f 337Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 6 A Cruiser from the Start 开局一艘巡洋舰 After transmigrating to a fantasy world, Yang Ge discovered he owned a warship, and not just any warship: one that could evolve! From that moment on, the world changed a little... You have divine-grade techniques? I have cruise missiles. You have protective qi armor? I have high-speed close-in guns. You can fly through the sky and dive into the sea? Then I have missiles and torpedoes. If all else fails, I’ll upgrade my warship a few more times and give you a mushroom cloud. This is the story of 3kReads8.7Score19914d adds
- 7 So This Is How You Build a Battleship 战舰还能这么造 Warship design and construction + sales + Terra + farming Development path: transport ships, destroyers, cruisers, carriers, battleships, megastructures. Other things may be added along the way, such as carrier-based aircraft. Warship references: Legend of the Galactic Heroes + 40K + EVE, and so on. Combat follows the 40K style. If you can’t accept that, or want to see ridiculously epic space battles, this probably isn’t for you. Also, I’m a new author, so please don’t flame me. 539Reads6.3Score11414d adds
- 8 Age of Discovery: Evolving from a Bamboo Raft 大航海：从竹筏开始进化 Li Yuan was reborn, but unfortunately, he had become a boat. More precisely, he was a raft made of three bamboo poles tied together. However, everything changed when Li Yuan, who had thought there was no chance of turning things around, discovered he had a System. “Congratulations, you've received the beginner's gift pack: one Labrador Retriever.” “Wood +1” “Wood +1” Upgraded to a wooden-plank boat. “Fiber +1” “Fiber +1” Upgraded to a single-masted sailing ship. “Iron ore +1” “Iron ore +1” [Plea 503Reads9.0Score19114d adds
- 9 Starsea Shipgirls: The Age of Expansion 星海舰娘：开拓时代 [Sea of Stars] [Shipgirls DLC] [Frontier Lord] [Interstellar Fleet] This is the age of starships, and also the age of shipgirls. The transmigrator from China, Luo Xingyuan, arrives in this golden age with a mysterious treasure. He will build his own fleet of starship girls and set out on a journey across the dazzling sea of stars. 8.1kReads8.9Score72014d adds
- 10 Global Cataclysm: Building Noah's Ark from the Start 全球灾变：开局建造诺亚方舟 Qin Bin is reborn and awakens a God-Tier Apocalypse Survival System. The apocalypse is just three months away! Three months from now, disasters will strike one after another: an asteroid impact, global mega-tsunamis, frequent earthquakes, an ice age, mutated life forms, a biological crisis, and more! Faced with catastrophe, he buys a beat-up cargo ship from the start and sets out to upgrade it into an apocalypse survival vessel, Noah’s Ark! Diesel engine to nuclear engine, then a fusion engine, 3.8kReads8.6Score26114d adds
- 11 Apocalypse Game: Buying the Whole World from a Subway Station 末日游戏：从地铁站购买全世界 [Apocalyptic survival + cities + upgrading hideouts + no female lead + decisive and ruthless + disaster survival] The apocalyptic game has arrived. Disasters are striking all over the world. Volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, extreme heat, viruses, bitter cold… In just six months, Blue Star's population has fallen by 80 percent, and civilization has nearly collapsed. With no other choice, humanity must enter the apocalyptic game and take on survival challenges in the hope of staying alive. Fortunat 22.3kReads8.7Score1.9k14d adds
- 12 Starting Out as a Space Junk Scavenger 从太空垃圾佬开始 [Space Opera] [Exploration and Frontier Development] [Interstellar Trade] [Dreadnoughts and Big Guns] [Interstellar Colonization] A modern man transmigrates to the interstellar age, but can't handle future technology? No problem, Emperor Gaozu of Han already showed us the way. I'll start my own business, offering benefits with one hand and dangling promises with the other. I don't need to master everything; the talented people will take care of it for me. From the start, my unreliable parents di 66.4kReads9.4Score6.7k14d adds
- 13 Flying Immortal on a Warship: I'm a Ship Cultivator in a Xuanhuan World 御舰飞仙：我在玄幻当舰修 [Overwhelming firepower] [Unmatched technology] [One heroine] [No brainless characters] A young captain arrives in this world of fantasy, bringing with him the Xihe, a warship that once ruled the seas of stars. No matter how you fly through the heavens or shatter mountains and rivers, even the arrogant cultivators must bow before the miracle known as “science.” Rift cannons, two-dimensional foils, light-particle strikes, black hole bombardments... Mechanical golden cores, electronic nascent soul 21.3kReads9.4Score2.2k14d adds
- 14 Train Survival Begins as My Home Planet Explodes 从母星爆炸开始列车求生 [Supernatural evolution] [Civilization collection] [Theism] Their home planet explodes, and humanity escapes into the depths of space aboard interstellar trains. Chen An becomes a train conductor, carrying passengers through the struggle for survival among the stars and creating a unique civilization of his own: the Fuyao Civilization. Under his direction, the passengers sweep across the stars like locusts. They develop technology, plunder species, destroy empires, and trample civilizations. Cou 35.2kReads8.9Score2.9k14d adds
- 15 Sorry, My Interstellar Fleet Only Recruits Female Soldiers 对不起，我的星际舰队只招女兵 He transmigrated into the body of a down-and-out noble young lord in an interstellar age. His territory was barren, resources scarce, and starships in ruins. The whole mess was dumped in front of Zhao Chen. No star gates in the territory? Then we'll build our own! No starships in the territory? Interstellar destroyers, frigates, cruisers: whatever you want, we'll build it. An aircraft-carrier starship leading swarms of drones, descending like a hive, announced its dominance over the battlefield. 42.7kReads9.1Score3.7k14d adds
- 16 EN Sequence Highway: Don't Fall Behind! 序列公路：不要掉队！ [Fresh Premise + Not Mindless Wish Fulfillment + Not Invincible + Sequence Potions + The Supernatural + Road Survival + Upgrading Supplies + Ruthless Protagonist] The supernatural descended, turning cities into forbidden zones for humanity. People had to rely on Sequence Awakened to keep migrating. Settled life gave way to a nomadic existence. During one such migration, Chen Ye awakened an upgrade System. In his hands, a rusty bicycle transformed into an armored battle vehicle. A tattered tent e 629.9kReads8.5Score43.3k14d adds
- 17 EN Global Metahumans: Awakening the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning at the Start 全球异能：开局觉醒紫霄神雷 On Blue Star, vicious beasts run rampant. Everyone can awaken an ability and has a chance to become a powerful force, feared across the land! Yet Xu Jingming, who transmigrated here, had only an E-rank ability. Fortunately, the Deep Blue System appeared, upgrading his weak E-rank electric ability into S-rank Purple Firmament Divine Thunder! That’s not all. Every time he kills a vicious beast, he earns ability points. Spend ability points to raise his level and strengthen his skills. “Deep Blue, 250.5kReads9.1Score20.6k14d adds
