Offshore decor?

I've put my ship next the the land, and becaue of how everything was shaped, the ship was actually out in the void. And I was able to go to it and return. The ship got returned to me at some point. Do not recall how long it took. Might have been a sim restart or something that caused it to come back.

Restarts will bork void objects.

Yes, which is why I only used something that was copy. I figured if something happened, I didn't want to lose the thing.

I suppose one could make a rezzer that automagically puts back void objects on restart....

wouldn't the rezzer also be returned? or, are you thinking you would you place it on your land and have it scripted to rez at those particular 'void' coordinates?

I've restarted my sim loads of times, never had anything returned ... the ROOT prim has to be on the land anyway.

The boat wasn't on my land. Maybe there was something invisible I didn't notice, but it did not appear to be on my land.

Put the rezzer where the root prim will be... the root prim needs to be in the sim, with child prims in the void. Have the rezzer call out every 15 mins, and if it doesn't get a response within 5 mins, call out a kill command (just in case) and then rez a new copy.

The item should have a script to respond to the rezzers query, and llDie on the kill command.

Rezzbox has that functionality?

I'll just take your word for that.

LOL I am asking. I doubt it does but I am a scripting dunce.

I dunno. I've never heard of Rezzbox. Is this a common product?

Rezzbox is a temp-rezzer, does not have this feature, and it's a nomod product, so you would not be able to drop a script in it to do the little ping that Annabelle is suggesting.

Besides, her (very clever) suggestion is the opposite of a temp-rezzer ... you could call it a perm-rezzer, to be used for prims that might be vulnerable to unexpected disappearance

Correct me if wrong, Annabelle, but I think what you're suggesting is a simple little script that you could dump into any object fully on your land. The script would rez a separate linkset in the position y'all have been discussing, root on your land, children in the void. Then, it checks to see that the linkset still exists every 15 minutes with a chat command that the linkset hears and responds to. If no response to the ping is received from the linkset, the perm-rezzer kills the rezzed linkset and re-rezzes it. Cute.
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Ah now I get it. Duh! (script dunce is being kind to myself, I really don't have a clue)

HOWEVER I'm still not seeing something that moves me to put it on the ocean so I am going to have to think what it is I would like and then make it, I guess. Nothing interactive, just something visual to make my island seem less isolated (does it make sense that it seems weird in the same way as a floating house does to just have nothing but sea?). I think a helipad or a landing strip might also be in order for the sake of my virtual (relative) sanity.