Ship Comparison Guide

A comparison guide for all the ships in Merchant of the Skies.

Introduction

As the name of the guide states, this guide is a comparison for all the ships in Merchant of the Skies, and is primarily there to provide a handy comparison table that can be accessed in the Steam overlay when inside the game.

Comparison Table

Boat	3	0.22	4	4	2	1	45	358
Pink	8	0.5	6	6	3	2	40	776
Knarr	15	0.75	8	10	5	3	30	695
Cog	25	1	12	14	4	4	30	1490
Birlinn	50	1.25	16	25	5	5	30	3030
Carevel	112	1.4	20	40	20	6	30	6048
Carrack	250	1.5	24	70	35	7	30	11450
Atakebune	350	1.5	30	100	50	5	20	16500
Orembai	500	1.25	10	24	12	7	70	12300
Fretta	1000	1	12	32	16	5	40	13,580
Turtle Ship	800	1	20	40	20	6	20	10 golden eggs

The ships are listed by max energy, which normally also correlates with energy consumption.
Note: The two newest are listed by introduction to the game.

Further Construction

This is work I still need to do on the guide.

• Add any missing ships (idling ship is missing)
  
• Add island names where each ship can be bought Islands have different names in each map.
  
• Images!

[red_mage_king]

@Kain, thank you for the information.

[Kain]

The 'Turtle ship' has a speed of 20

[Kain]

Hello, the ship 'Fretta' is for sale for 13,580 without discount

[Yozig]

I don't know if this might help anyone else but I threw this together in excel. The math might be entirely wrong but I figured a rough efficiency formula would be (energy capacity/consumption)*speed.

Ship Efficiency
Boat 613.63
Pink 640
Knarr 600
Cog 750
Birlinn* 1200
Caravel 2400
Carrack 5000
Atakebune 4666.666667
Orembai 28000
Fretta 40000
Turtle Ship 24000

[red_mage_king]

Thank you Paperfox.

Both ships have been added to the comparison table.

[PaperFox]

Turtle Ship
(buy from Wise Man)
Max Energy 800
Energy Use 1
Storage 20
Max People 40
Crew Size 20
Upgrades 6
Speed maybe 20-30 ??
Cost 10 golden eggs

[Arinyes Cant'ari]

Fretta is sold by a shipwright that is in the red cloud area (south east of campaign maps). Identifiable near as I can tell for its red brick style architecture, in case you have trouble finding it.

[red_mage_king]

Thanks Arinyes, I'll go in game at some, point and grab the image.

[Arinyes Cant'ari]

And finally confirmed it. If you start a new game after update 1.6.3 the Fretta's storage and consumption are 1,000 and 1. Games started before that seem to remain unaffected.

[Arinyes Cant'ari]

Fretta
Max Energy 100
Energy Consumption 0.1
Storage Size 12
Max People On Board 32
Necessary Crew Size 16
Max Upgrades 5
Max Speed 40

This is what I got on info. According to the update of April 23rd old Fretta remain the same, while newly bought ships have the new stats.