so how do you use the npc crew members?

[FilthFace]

could someone link something that is indepth or explain to me how it works for food, sails, cannons, repairing and what ever else it comes with

[Adam Earlston]

Buy an NPC, Press E on him and set him to follow u, take him/her/person back to ur ship. Bring him to the object u want him to use (Wheel, Sails, Cannon), and press E again, click on something like "Use Cannon".

To auto repair the ship, give him a repair hammer and have him doing nothing. He will repair whilst u are anchored and have the required resources in the Resource chest (unlocked in Captain skill tree i believe), apparently it shows him sweeping the deck whilst he is repairing, i havent confirmed it, but have seen that animation.

Get a Resource Chest and put all of the repair materials into that chest, including all your gold unless the weight gets too much.
Idk about the Crew Food storage, i assume it feeds the crew for u. But there really isn't a need for it if you only have like 5 crew members imo, they very rarely need feeding.

They will have a Wild Level on their stats, as far as i know all bought NPCs at the freeport have a Wild Level of 1, meaning their max lvl is 2 (just x2 the wild lvl). I assume stranded NPCs will exist in the future, or maybe we can hire the crew from destroyed Ships of the Damned?

Putting a crew member on each sail means u no longer have to touch the sails urself, u just press W to lower the sails, S to raise the sails, X to anchor (as normal), Shift + A/D to turn the sails and then A/D to turn the rudder.

Hold right click whilst on the wheel and then left click at a location to command NPCs to target/fire at something when possible, i think its C to tell them to cease fire, not sure.

Advice: Get atleast 1 crew for each sail ASAP, its really fun and only requires 1 human to control the ship from now on.

Maybe set them all to passive so they dont try attacking stuff when u are anchored maybe

[Hathcyn]

They do the sweeping animation with or without a hammer, and I can't seem to get them to actually repair while doing it either way.

[Cipher]

it tells you in game wow read much?

[FilthFace]

ok great thats perfect, how do i control the guy on the steering wheel?

[Cipher]

some are deck crew Derp

[Sullust2K]

How much gold you paying for them?

[FilthFace]

1.7 an hour for each. how do i get them to auto repair and harvest?

[FilthFace]

so i can put swords in their inv and they will use them?

[Specter_Omega]

You have to equip them with the sword or pike. (Put weapon in NPCs inventory right click weapon and Click equip)

[Strikingzeta]

Originally posted by Adam Earlston:

Buy an NPC, Press E on him and set him to follow u, take him/her/person back to ur ship. Bring him to the object u want him to use (Wheel, Sails, Cannon), and press E again, click on something like "Use Cannon".

To auto repair the ship, give him a repair hammer and have him doing nothing. He will repair whilst u are anchored and have the required resources in the Resource chest (unlocked in Captain skill tree i believe), apparently it shows him sweeping the deck whilst he is repairing, i havent confirmed it, but have seen that animation.

Get a Resource Chest and put all of the repair materials into that chest, including all your gold unless the weight gets too much.
Idk about the Crew Food storage, i assume it feeds the crew for u. But there really isn't a need for it if you only have like 5 crew members imo, they very rarely need feeding.

They will have a Wild Level on their stats, as far as i know all bought NPCs at the freeport have a Wild Level of 1, meaning their max lvl is 2 (just x2 the wild lvl). I assume stranded NPCs will exist in the future, or maybe we can hire the crew from destroyed Ships of the Damned?

Putting a crew member on each sail means u no longer have to touch the sails urself, u just press W to lower the sails, S to raise the sails, X to anchor (as normal), Shift + A/D to turn the sails and then A/D to turn the rudder.

Hold right click whilst on the wheel and then left click at a location to command NPCs to target/fire at something when possible, i think its C to tell them to cease fire, not sure.

Advice: Get atleast 1 crew for each sail ASAP, its really fun and only requires 1 human to control the ship from now on.

Maybe set them all to passive so they dont try attacking stuff when u are anchored maybe

I feel i Must respond to this message, I want to thank you and words alone are not enough to express how happy i am to have stumbled on this post.
I just started the game and i see its a simple explonation you said but yet still i find it so encouraging and the ship Controls specially ♥_♥ Thank you.

best wishes :)