Sailing era info and guide for all players enjoy

[cleavertrash]

Barmaid gifts after 3 heart quest done

Camille-Marseilles Tulip Brooch(+1 organization +2 biology) & Camille (bottle of wine, seems to be a gift?)Brooch gives extra +3 organization on Beatrice

Julianne-Lisbon Sextant(+2 mapping) Sextant gives extra +1 mapping and +1 geography on Joyce

Vera-Venice Etruscan Necklace (+2 steering +1 organization)

Latia-Malacca Napier's Bones (+2 calculating +1 organization) Garaba Reunion Quest

Priya-Athens Velvet Coat (+2 leadership) & 3 marble statues (trade good)

Merriam-Istanbul Sipahi Armor (+80 hp)

Nubu Kasheli-Alexandria Thebes Necklace (+2 firearm +1 mapping)

Monica-Seville Recruit Castello (has ability that unlocks sweet talk interaction with bar maids. Random chance for -20 favorability or +50)

Shalin-St. George Lute (+2 music)

Emin-MuscatPelican Brooch (+1 culinary +2 repair)

Kanam-Calicut Blue Bird Bracelet (+2 mapping +1 shipbuilding) Holi Questline, leads to recruting Sassi Palmis

Gu Wan-Zhangzhou Jadeite Golden Ring (+2 firearm +1 sail control)

Sakurako-Nagasaki Shakuhachi (+2 music) & Folding fan (seems to be a gift item)

Andrea-Veracruz Red Coral Choker (+1 observation +2 culinary)

Astrid-Stockholm Armlet (+2 steering)

Margarita-Amsterdam Sea Amber Necklace (+1 organization +2 brawling)

Theresa-Hamburg Gladiator Armor (+120 hp +2 brawling)

Daisy-London Scholar flat cap (+1 humanities +1 treasure) Flat cap gives extra +1 geography +1 humanities +1 biology on William

Valentina-Havana Eagle Warrior Armor (+55 hp) Can be obtained from expedition events also. Has extra +1 leadership and +1 brawling on Jaca

Ship Parts tech 1000

Seville- General Keel,General Mast,General Canvas,General Penal,Tar,Light Canvas,Large Penal. Large Mast, Reinforced Keel,Special Fishing Net.Special rudder,SuperB Penal

(in progress)Tunisia=General Keel,General Mast,General Canvas,General Penal,Tar,Light Canvas,Reinforced penal,Reinforced Mast

(inprogress)Plymouth-General Keel,General Mast,General Canvas,General Penal,Lime,Large Canvas,Light penal,Reinforced Mast

Aden: General Keel, General Mast, General Canvas, General Penal Asphalt. Light Canvas, Large Penal, Reinforced Mast Large Keel, Special Oar, Special Rigging superb canvas


Char equipment stores tech 1000
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Blueprints

Athens-Large Carrak blueprint
Alexandria-Galleas blueprint
Zhangzhou-Shachuan blueprint
Seville-Large Caravel) blueprint
Sakai ????? blueprint
London-galleon blueprint
Cape verde -Arab wind sail ship blueprint
St george- carving skill dolphin blueprint
Buenos-Aires long barreled cannons blueprint
Havana-Schooner blueprint 1 Premium velvet
San Juan-Cutter blueprint Must be able to sail from Caribbean to Africa and back in 35 days ( you only get 1 chance at this!)
Calicut (India) - Carving Skill Eagle (10 premium Red Sandalwood)
Gia Dinh (SE Asia) - Tech Book Guangchuan (10 premium Teak)

Land Expedition/Post(items and discovery's found)
St/ George Discovery's - African Elephant, Ivory Carving. Item-
Cairo Discovery's- Statue of goddess bast, golden mask, Pyramid. Item-
London Discoverys Hadrian's wall, Stonehenge, excalibur. Item excalibur
Lisbon Discoverys- The lady of elche, Staff of hermes, Item-staff of hermes
Post north east of Athens-
Plymouth- ship of the line blueprint -gives a quest to hunt a pirate for 500, after that you get the blue print for the ship of the line seems you need a trigger for this to take affect first will post when i figure out the trigger

The trade tip below after you invest in theroute to max brings in 3.2mil for 7 mins of work

Trade tip Europe selling firearms and other weps to Africans big money in it.
the African trade route below once unlocked can make you 300k to 500k a trip
recommend starting guilds specifically in Arguin(Gold) Sierra Leone (diamonds), Abidjan(gold - Ivory) and St. George(gold) For the Guilds, you only need to invest mainly in Trade and a little bit in the Population.

port trade routes auto move charts Where to buy them

Lisbon: Spain, Portugal
Genoa: Ligurian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Ionian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Dias, New World (x2)
Athens: East Mediterranean, Black Sea
London: English Channel
Amsterdam: North Sea
St. George: Northwestern Africa, Gulf of Guinea
Cape Town (black market): Vasco de Gama
Zanzibar: Eastern Africa
Suez (black market): Indian Ocean
Muscat: Arabian Sea
Basrah: Red Sea

Unlocking chars

Character: Aji
Recruitment: Rose banner questline (triggered by a Garaba event in Malacca?)
Specialties:
Southeast Asian Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the central south peninsula cultural sphere
Together as One - Increases sailor max morale
Hand-to-Hand Tactics - Inflicts enemy ships with water leakage after hand-to-hand combat
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Horn - +1 brawling +1 music
Languages: Khmer / Siamese

Character: Anastasia
Recruitment: Complete an event in the Western Turkey expedition landing and then recruit along with Mustafa Amir in Beirut.
Specialties:
Eastern European Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Balkan cultural sphere
Spinner - Increases profits of textile goods
Neat Cargos - Ship cabins can hold +10 items
Languages: Slavic

Character: Andrea
Recruitment: Bring black pepper to Calais and recruit in the tavern
Specialties:
French Climate: Increases trade profits and contribution in French cultural sphere
Spice Expert - Increased profit from food and spice goods
[Unknown]
Languages: French

Character: Andreas Heinrich
Recruitment: See event in Pisa and then find event in Naples expedition
Specialties:
Nordic Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Northern European cultural sphere
March - Reduces supply consumption
Strong Willed - Protects fleet from hallucination
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Knight's Longsword - +50hp +1 brawling
Languages: German
Character: Andrew
Recruitment: After beating the game as Andrew, recruit at the Lisbon pier.
Specialties:
Adventurous Spirit - Increases EXP gained from sailing
Innate Leader - Reduces EXP required to level up character who are below Andrew's level
Route Pathfinder - Discovering new ports grants +100 local contribution
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Compass - +2 leadership +1 geography
Languages: Portuguese

Character: Beatrice
Recruitment: Tulip quest line in Amsterdam, start by going to Amsterdam in November
Specialties:
Craftmanship - Increases trade profit of artware
Lowland Climate - Increases trade profit and contribution in Dutch cultural sphere
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Tulip brooch - +3 organization
Languages: Dutch

Character: Beluget
Recruit: After learning about the Minos fleet in west Africa, find and defeat the fleet. They will not attack you, you must attack them. Then, find Beluget in Cape Verde.
Specialties:
Has one specialty that does nothing. (Quest upgrade?)
Languages: Swahili / Spanish

Character: Blackbeard
Recruitment: Finish his questline in Nassau
Specialties:
Coercion - Adds chance to cause confusion when battles take place
Reign of Terror - Provides protection from confusion
Tyrannical - Can recruit surrendered small and medium ships
[Unknown]
Languages: English

Character: Carlos Cortez
Recruitment: In Seville after recruiting Blackbeard (and possibly Costello?).
Specialties:
Spanish Nobility - Increases trade profit and contribution in Iberian cultural sphere
Cannon Expertise - Increases damage, accuracy, and penetration of cannons
[Unknown]
Languages: Spanish

Character: Costello Hermann
Recruitment: Monica (Seville Barmaid) questline
Specialties:
Seasoned Pirate - Increased chance of inflicting abnormal status with cannons
Troublemaker - Inflicts enemy ship with burning after hand-to-hand combat
Master of Love - Unlocks sweet talk interaction with barmaids. Random chance for either +50 or -20 favorability.
Languages: Spanish

Character: Daniel Crete
Recruitment: See event in Trieste then travel a few times between Venice and Trieste. Eventually rescue from pirates.
Specialties:
Surgery - Recovers a portion of dead sailors after battle
Plague Doctor - Protects from plague while sailing
Pharmacological Mastery - increases profits from trading medicine
Languages: Italian

Character: Dietlind
Recruitment: Starts with the quest in Benghazi from the merchant. You then meet her in the tavern at Hamburg. After that, find the deed to a ship from Lübeck and order a ship at the shipyard there. After a pirate encounter outside the port, she joins.
Specialties:
German Climate: Increases trade profit and contribution in German cultural sphere
Sniper - Increased damage in boarding attacks
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Daybreak - +30 hp +1 firearm
Languages: German / Slavic

Character: Esmeralda
Recruitment: Find in Marseilles and then Palma (Requires Daniel I think)
Specialties:
Thought Reader - Interpret news topic that barmaids are interested in
Caravan - Increases expedition load (seems to double)
♥♥♥♥♥ Traditions - Increases profit of trading hobby goods
Languages: French / Slavic / Greek

Character: Garaba
Recruitment: Picked up in a stowaway event seemingly somewhere in Southeast Asia (would like more detail if possible)
Specialties:
Java Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in Southeast Asian cultural sphere
Pick the Lock - Chests can be opened immediately
Hidden Cargos - Ship cabins can hold +10 items
Languages: Indonesia / Khmer / Chinese

Character: Henry
Recruitment - Recruit Blackbeard and then find in London
Specialties:
Remote Combat - Increases damage, accuracy, and penetration of long-barreled cannons
Briber - Increases max sailor morale
Languages: English

Character: Hiyar O'Worley
Recruitment: Pick up in (random?) port
Specialties:
Arabic Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Arabic and East African cultural spheres
Doctor's Kindness - Restores sailor morale after battle
Desert Traveler - Reduces supply consumption on Gobi terrain
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Glass Reagent Case - Medicine +2; Organization +1
Languages: Arabic

Character: Jaca
Recruitment: Nassau tavern after recruiting Blackbeard
Specialties:
Caribbean Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Caribbean cultural sphere
Boarding Tactics - Allows hand-to-hand combat immediately when a ram collides with an enemy ship
Fearless Charge - Increases ram damage
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Eagle Warrior Armor - +1 leadership +1 brawling
Languages: Indian / Spanish

Character: Joyce de Fritz
Recruitment: Recruit in Amsterdam
Specialties:
Precise Routing - Increase Fleet auto-sail speed
Mathematics - Increase fleet artillery accuracy
Orange Addict - Protects the fleet from scurvy
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Sextant - +1 mapping +1 geography
Languages: Dutch / Portugeuese / German

Character: Kornelly
Recruitment: Event and expedition in Toamasina
Specialties:
Wilderness Resident - Reduce supply consumption in forest
Way of Preservation - Increase fish gained from fishing and trade profit on fish
Languages: Hausa

Character: Loris Falaise
Recruitment: Purchase his songbook in the London item shop and then recruit in the London tavern
Specialties:
Italian Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in Italian cultural sphere
Oenology - Increases alcohol trade profits
Bard - Increases contribution gain
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Gone with the Wind - +1 music +1 treasure
Languages: Italian

Character: Lu Liyuan
Recruitment - Must find random event in a port first (not sure if the port is random?). Then, travel to Istanbul to see another event, and find him in the Western Turkey expedition (skill requirement?)
Specialties:
Ming Empire Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Ming Empire and Korean cultural spheres
Mountain Traveler - Reduce supply consumption on hills or swamp
Stone Identification - Increases trade profit of gemstones
Languages - Chinese

Character: Marma Cora
Recruitment: Wolf child clue in Veracruz
Specialties:
Inca Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Central and South American and West Coast American cultural spheres
Instincts - Increase Field of View in expeditions
Languages: Indian

Character: Maltim Almeida Blanca
Recruitment: Travel to Genoa and speak to him in the tavern. Then, discover Ras ben Sakka (is this Andrew only?)
Specialties:
Seasoned Officer - Increases negotiation success rate with NPCs
Climate Conqueror - Drastically reduces hull damage in storms
Supply Utilization - Reduces consumption of supplies while sailing
Languages: Portuguese

Character: Mustafa Amir
Recruitment: Complete an event in the Western Turkey expedition landing and then recruit along with Anastasia in Beirut.
Specialties:
Turkish Nobility - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Turkish and North African cultural spheres
Treasure Appraisal - Adds a chance to obtain precious items when trading
Fire Cannon Expertise - Increases damage, accuracy, and penetration ability of fire cannons
Languages: Turkish

Character: Nasser
Recruitment: Rose banner questline (started by Garaba event in Malacca?)
Specialties:
Knowledgeable - Increase sailor max morale
Confusion Tactics - Inflicts confusion after hand-to-hand combat
Business Adept - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Persian cultural sphere
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Dice - +1 negotiation +2 firearm
Languages: Arabic

Character: Sassi Palmis
Recruitment: Complete the Holi questline in Calicut and attend the festival (requires completing Kanam's questline?)
Specialties:
Indian Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in Indian cultural sphere
Dancing Grace - Increases sailor morale cap
Languages: Hindustani / Sanskrit

Character: Shen Shi
Recruitment: Pick up from the oceans around China in a random event
Specialties:
Scout - Reduce stamina loss during expeditions
[Unknown]
Languages: Chinese

Character: Takigawa Amagai
Recruitment: Meet in Nagasaki tavern and then learn about Moro-haku sake (Sakai I think?). Rescue from pirates.
Specialties:
Japanese Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in the Japanese cultural sphere
Ronin - When hp reaches 0 in duel, restore 1 hp and unleash an ultimate
Provocation - If both sides have morale after hand-to-hand combat, challenge the enemy to a duel
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Delicate Katana - +2 brawling
Languages: Japanese

Character: William Ansel
Recruitment: Pick up in London and take him to Ceuta to recruit.
Specialties:
British Climate - Increases trade profits and contribution in British cultural sphere
Sketch - Increases rewards and contribution from reporting discoveries
Journey of Odysseus - No longer become out of control in storms
Extra Equipment Bonus:
Scholar Flat Cap - +1 geography +1 humanities +1 biology
Languages: English / Latin / Greek / Portuguese / Spanish

Character: Yoshitaka Shizuma
Recruitment: Nagasaki after beating the game as them
Specialties:
Prestigious Shipbuilder - Grant exp when shipbuilding
Cats at Hand - protects fleet from rats
Craftsmanship Knowledge - Increase trade profit of industrial goods
Nature Surpassing - Can freely modify ship cabins
Languages: Japanese

Character: Yuskin
Recruitment: Tulip quest line in Amsterdam (go to Amsterdam in November to start) After recruiting Beatrice, go to Venice.
Specialties:
Penny Pinching - Reduce fleet supply and sailor wage costs
Merchant of Venice - increased experience and profits from trading specialties
Business Craft - increased rewards from completing business contracts
Languages: Italian / Dutch

[Timmy the Tooth]

You're doing good work here Cleaver, keep it up.

[Sytze]

I got the blueprint for a Brig from Veracruz.

[MustBeDone (J.B.)]

It’s time someone put up a wiki page or a guide section for the game! Lol thanks for compiling /organizing

[cleavertrash]

.. lots of back tracking to add info

[Dusanity]

two more blueprints:
Calicut (India) - Carving Skill Eagle (10 premium Red Sandalwood)
Gia Dinh (SE Asia) - Tech Book Guangchuan (10 premium Teak)

[Emperor Ovaltine]

Originally posted by Dusanity:

two more blueprints:
Calicut (India) - Carving Skill Eagle (10 premium Red Sandalwood)
Gia Dinh (SE Asia) - Tech Book Guangchuan (10 premium Teak)

Is there not something else with William Ansel? I have been to London about 20 times and never run into him. I am playing as Abdullah and have already completed Andrew's questline (of which William played a bit part)

[Emperor Ovaltine]

Originally posted by Emperor Ovaltine:

Originally posted by Dusanity:

two more blueprints:
Calicut (India) - Carving Skill Eagle (10 premium Red Sandalwood)
Gia Dinh (SE Asia) - Tech Book Guangchuan (10 premium Teak)

Is there not something else with William Ansel? I have been to London about 20 times and never run into him. I am playing as Abdullah and have already completed Andrew's questline (of which William played a bit part)

So I just answered my own question. You must have contribution in the port it seems. I had 0 before and I just now did a bounty to get 200 contribution and William was immediately was available to talk in the tavern.

[cleavertrash]

nice thxs for update guys

[cleavertrash]

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[cleavertrash]

updated list again enjoy

[Eldiora]

How do you get the blueprints? I was in Zahzhou but could not seem to find the blueprint. Anything special you need to do to unlock it?

[Fabulous Nathan]

blueprints are either commerce guild star quests or bounty star quests ,

you will see them clearly and always have premium goods to deliver.

[Antiga]

Sakai: Fuchuan blueprint
(Commerce guild)

"Fu chuan" without spaces... Idiotic censorship.

[cleavertrash]

thxs

[cleavertrash]

started barmaids info now