Ship building

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Description

Ship building consists of making ships and the parts needed to construct them.

Ship building is a sub-skill of carpentry.

Items

See:Category:Ship building items

See also ship for information about using ships.

Ownership

• The person attaching the last piece to a boat will become the owner.
• Boats can be managed by the owner to have various permissions, like allowing all friends to command the boat, or to transfer ownership to another player.
• Ownership can be taken from another player on the Epic cluster and the Chaos server, but not on any other server in the Freedom cluster. To take ownership of a boat you must board the boat as captain whilst the current owner is an enemy.

Creation

Some ship building items are impossible to create with 0 skill, but at least seat and hull plank should be available to get the initial 1 skill.

If you're making your first ever boat it is recommended to not make the keels as the first item. You should start by making hull plank, tenon, peg, and belaying pin. Then you make some of the more complicated pieces like oar or seat, and you improve those as far as you can to get your ship building skill up. Once your skill has reached 10-15, you may create the keel sections with decent success rate.

All ships are started by using a keel section on a keel section. (Note: Each keel section weighs 60kg. Therefore you must be able to carry 120kg in order to start a ship.)

For more detailed information on creation chance for the various ship types, see Keel section.

Weight in parentheses is raw material weight required to create.

Hatchet on Felled Tree

• Keel section (90.00kg)
• Small mast (72.00kg)
• Medium mast (96.00kg)
• Large mast (120.00kg)
• Tall mast (148.00kg)

Saw on Log

• Seat (24.00kg)
• Hull plank (8.00kg)
• Oar (8.00kg)
• Deck board (5.60kg)

Carving Knife on Log

• Tenon (1.40kg)
• Large tackle (13.00kg)
• Small tackle (6.50kg)

Carving Knife on Shaft

• Belaying pin (0.65kg)
• Pegs (0.10kg) are a vital part of ship building, but count as regular carpentry items.

Multiple Parts

• Rudder
• Ship helm
• Stern
• Crow's nest
• Rig

Ship details overview

Component	Weight	Imp	S. Cart	L. Cart	Rowing boat	Small sailing boat	Corbita	Cog	Knarr	Caravel
Skill to Start	NA	NA	NA	NA	1	5	7	15	23	34
Occupants	NA	NA	NA	NA	3	5	7	9	13	14
Cargo Volume (kg)	NA	NA	760	?	760	760	>20,000	>20,000	>20,000	>20,000
Mind logic	NA	NA	NA	20.1	<20	20.1	21.05	22	23	24
Body strength	NA	NA	NA	NA	<20	<20	20	<20	~29	35
Keel section	60	yes	no	unfinished	3	3	4	4	5	5
Stern	120	yes	unfinished	unfinished	1	1	1	1	1	1
Rudder	13	yes	unfinished	yes	0	0	2	1	1	1
Ship helm	20	yes	unfinished	yes	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hull plank	8	no	no	yes	50	50	200	300	400	400
Seat	20	yes	no	yes	4	4	0	0	0	0
Deck board	4	no	yes	yes	0	0	40	60	80	80
Oar	5	yes	no	yes	2	2	2	2	10	10
Belaying pin	0.5	no	yes	yes	0	4	10	10	10	10
Tenon	1	no	yes	yes	50	50	200	200	200	300
Peg	0.1	no	yes	yes	50	50	400	400	400	600
Rivets	0.2	no	yes	yes	0	0	0	0	200	0
Tar	2	no	yes	yes	10	10	50	50	100	150
Rope	0.5	no	yes	yes	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mooring rope	0.5	no	yes	yes	0	1	4	4	4	8
Thick rope	5.5	no	yes	yes	0	2	8	8	8	12
Triangular rig	0	no	unfinished	yes	0	1	0	0	0	1
Square rig	86	no	unfinished	unfinished	0	0	1	0	0	1
Spinnaker rig	66	no	unfinished	yes	0	0	1	0	0	1
Square yard rig	106	no	unfinished	unfinished	0	0	0	0	1	0
Large square rig	106	no	unfinished	unfinished	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tall square rig	166	no	unfinished	unfinished	0	0	0	0	0	1

For details regarding completed vessel statistics you may also want to see the Vessel Details Table.

Characteristics trained

See: Characteristics

Titles

• Harbormaster at 50 skill
• Shipwright at 70 skill
• Master Shipwright at 90 skill
• Ancient Mariner at 100 skill