Ship building

[xxduhaustxx]

So ive been looking at the huge map , trying to find the ship building stores, but what im looking for im not sure what ones sale what other than sailing to them, So not sure if theres a guide that shows what ones sale what ones, im looking for the light stuff to build a large Caravel. or do i have to invest in guilds at those ports to get said items

[Antiga]

Yes, to get the better ship materials such as Light, Reinforced and Large parts, you need to either invest in the population of a port with a ship material store, or crew kill other ships and salvage them and hope to get lucky. You can spawn pirates through bounties to do that, or attack NPC fleets.
I'm not sure if there's a guide that shows which store ends up selling which parts yet.

[Bengho]

This is probably the biggest negative point I have for the game, there are so many ship stores around but each sells different sets of stuff, there are no tips or suggestions which sells what. so I upgraded Aden's tech to 1000 thinking I would get the juicy tier stuff but surprise there are only a handful of it, so now i dont know which stores have what to make ship of the line for me lol.

But yes, best way for now is just to invest in guilds and spam gold into building those tech up.

[Bengho]

Originally posted by Antiga:

Yes, to get the better ship materials such as Light, Reinforced and Large parts, you need to either invest in the population of a port with a ship material store, or crew kill other ships and salvage them and hope to get lucky. You can spawn pirates through bounties to do that, or attack NPC fleets.
I'm not sure if there's a guide that shows which store ends up selling which parts yet.

Does population level actually set that too? Damn I have to Aden's population to max then xD

[Aye Harambe]

Originally posted by Zeneas:

This is probably the biggest negative point I have for the game, there are so many ship stores around but each sells different sets of stuff, there are no tips or suggestions which sells what. so I upgraded Aden's tech to 1000 thinking I would get the juicy tier stuff but surprise there are only a handful of it, so now i dont know which stores have what to make ship of the line for me lol.

But yes, best way for now is just to invest in guilds and spam gold into building those tech up.

Yeah, I'm pretty annoyed by this. too. I chose the EXACT same city for developing for parts as well.

I get why the developers did it, but I think they can incentivize exploration and investment in on other cities without making it so time-consuming. Maybe they can show what the potential unlocks are for each city?

[xxduhaustxx]

Originally posted by Antiga:

Yes, to get the better ship materials such as Light, Reinforced and Large parts, you need to either invest in the population of a port with a ship material store, or crew kill other ships and salvage them and hope to get lucky. You can spawn pirates through bounties to do that, or attack NPC fleets.
I'm not sure if there's a guide that shows which store ends up selling which parts yet.

Okay sounds fair enough, ive invested in Seville tech level is over 600 population over 25k and the only thing that got added was the masts which wasnt there before at what level does the new Keels hit any idea

[Frutz]

Originally posted by xxduhaustxx:

Originally posted by Antiga:

Yes, to get the better ship materials such as Light, Reinforced and Large parts, you need to either invest in the population of a port with a ship material store, or crew kill other ships and salvage them and hope to get lucky. You can spawn pirates through bounties to do that, or attack NPC fleets.
I'm not sure if there's a guide that shows which store ends up selling which parts yet.

Okay sounds fair enough, ive invested in Seville tech level is over 600 population over 25k and the only thing that got added was the masts which wasnt there before at what level does the new Keels hit any idea

If i remember right seville had the superb panel

[xxduhaustxx]

Originally posted by Frutz:

Originally posted by xxduhaustxx:

Okay sounds fair enough, ive invested in Seville tech level is over 600 population over 25k and the only thing that got added was the masts which wasnt there before at what level does the new Keels hit any idea

If i remember right seville had the superb panel

So where can i find the light hull, and the reinforced hull heck even the crows nest trying to build a galleon

[Fabulous Nathan]

i think the reason why the parts are so spread out is the devs are calling back to uncharted waters online, where different ship building parts could only be made in certain regions.

i have only unlocked a few ports but i know superb keel appears in plymouth and the mast is mozambique.

large panel is seville and lime is also plymouth.

that is ship of the line recipe .

crows nest is trieste iirc .

usually superb wont appear until 40k pop and 800 tech i think

[Silvina]

I am looking for the materials for clipper, anybody have any idea where i can find grease and rudder ?

[Mack]

Seville is probably the best European port to setup in. But due to the way this system works you'll still probably want to try and setup guilds in Plymouth, Trieste and Tunisia. Those four should give you all the high level parts you need.

A good hint if you're going to be ship building in Europe is that with a max level guild with the upgraded distance, if you get the Ruby Permit from Calicut it's within range of Seville guild trading as Ruby is the best thing in the game to add to ships.

A fleet made up of Galleons seems to be fine, and probably don't really need the super top tier ships.

Just note it's incredibly expensive to send the trade fleets that far, so only do it if you're raking in cash and really want the top tier of custom ships.

[Skitzo Sam]

Originally posted by Silvina:

I am looking for the materials for clipper, anybody have any idea where i can find grease and rudder ?

Im also looking for rudder

[Mack]

Originally posted by Skitzo Sam:

Originally posted by Silvina:

I am looking for the materials for clipper, anybody have any idea where i can find grease and rudder ?

Im also looking for rudder

Originally posted by Silvina:

I am looking for the materials for clipper, anybody have any idea where i can find grease and rudder ?

I just had "Special Rudder" and "Special Fishing Net" pop up when I finally got to 1000 Tech and 40k population in Seville.

[Skitzo Sam]

Originally posted by Mack:

Originally posted by Skitzo Sam:

Im also looking for rudder

Originally posted by Silvina:

I am looking for the materials for clipper, anybody have any idea where i can find grease and rudder ?

I just had "Special Rudder" and "Special Fishing Net" pop up when I finally got to 1000 Tech and 40k population in Seville.

Just found it thanks

[Darkz]

Outside of shipbuilding being random, is there a point in using a blueprint ship over just ordering a ship with high enough parts?

At the moment, it will take me longer to go to SEA to get the grease to make a ship of the line compare to just ordering a ship with all the upgraded mats from Seville and Tunisia and proccing a 50 day ship from Lisbon/Seville which will either be a large galleon or a ship of the line itself. Looking at my 5 ship of the line that I got this way, I can see it has the same cabin space as the blue print Ship of the line.

Do the custom ship blueprint have better/custom armor or different sails cause as stated above, the number of cabins between the blueprint and the random ordered one is the same.

[Silvina]

That great, now i just need to find where to get grease ><