Repair Ship perk, how do I use?

[Truthowl]

I got the 'Ship Repair' perk and taught it to one of my crew. But he doesn't repair the ship. Is there something he needs to do his repairs?

[Johari]

Maybe it gives you the ability to place blocks at sea instead of docking at an island?
If not, then it's probably not implemented yet, just like "pets" aren't.

[picotl]

A lot of people claim he is just really slow, but I also have this problem. the repair guy doesnt do anything. *the skill never raises so I know nothing is happening*
My guess is it was not implemented.

[Truthowl]

@ownomics & @picotl Thank you. I believe you may be right. It doesn't appear to work yet.

Wish they would grey out the 'buy' buttons on things like that. We throw enough hard earned gold away on crappy crew choices as it is.

[Johari]

Originally posted by truthowl:

@ownomics & @picotl Thank you. I believe you may be right. It doesn't appear to work yet.

Wish they would grey out the 'buy' buttons on things like that. We throw enough hard earned gold away on crappy crew choices as it is.

Well, the game doesn't have any sort of cheat protection and the save files are plain text files so you could probably give yourself any coin you lost by trying to use unimplemented features.

[Mountainmanmad]

I've talked to other people about this and they said it does work so I'm not so sure if it Isin't implemented...

[snellejelle99]

no he does actually do something
when your ships gets hit by a cannon it also gives hull damage
when the hp of a piece of hull is down it will get destroyed
he repairs hull damage

[Mountainmanmad]

Originally posted by snellejelle99:

no he does actually do something
when your ships gets hit by a cannon it also gives hull damage
when the hp of a piece of hull is down it will get destroyed
he repairs hull damage

the problem is he dosen't do it

[Hansuki]

I had the opposite problem actually. I taugh my captian Cooking, fishing, and eventually repair. As soon as he learnt repair, he would prioritize repairing over cooking and only occasionally fish. He was my only cook too and everyone died because he really wanted to repair that hull.

So yea, I can vouch that repair skill is working. At lvl 1 it is very slow mind you and will take a few days to fix your ship from half to full. Not that you need hull until cannon phase.

TL:DR Repair skill trumps others (like cooking) so careful who you give it to.

[Truthowl]

Okay and thank you all for the replies. I started a new char. On my first I was adding most skills to my captain. Now I'm trying to share the skills out. Will give repair one more shot, this go round, I guess.

[Nekuromantikku]

It works. The guy with this perk needs a direct access to the block(it must be inside 3x3 cube around him) that needs to be repaired.

[Ball-Stabbing Emmanuel McCoy]

Originally posted by Truthowl:

I got the 'Ship Repair' perk and taught it to one of my crew. But he doesn't repair the ship. Is there something he needs to do his repairs?

I just discovered moments after reading this that you need to give them a Hammer AND have them be in the Ship Crew category. When you do so, they'll stand still and begin swinging their hammer when they have nought else to do and the damaged hull parts will start repairing.
(This doesn't work for destroyed hull, you have to replace those)