Category:Ship Customization

Craft Your Craft
Ship Customization is a game feature which allows players to customize their own ships. Players may do this by visiting any shipwright and choosing the "Upgrade" option, then choosing a ship to upgrade. Ships can also have visually customizable hulls, rigging, sails, emblems, and special broadsides (hull rank 4 only). Only Unlimited Access players are able to customize their ships. Also, only Medium and War Class Ships are able to be customized. The following features are customizable/upgradable; however, all of them will cost gold.


 * Sail Color


 * Sail Emblem


 * Hulls


 * Rigging

Sail Color
Players may change the color of a ship's sails by choosing from a variety of color options. Cost to change colors range from 1 to 10,000 gold. The price does NOT depend on ship class.

Emblem
An emblem can be embossed on your ships sails, or the sail can be left blank. Most emblems are available in Black or White. The price for an emblem is 5000 gold. No materials are required for emblems.

Materials Pouch




To customize your vessel, you must gather and collect the materials you need. The needed material will depend upon the type and level of grade.

You can only obtain the material by sinking enemy ships, particularly warships and bounty hunters. As you plunder and fill up your cargo you will notice that royal chests are replaced by materials chests. Any found materials are stored in your Materials Pouch.

The various materials include:
 * Common goods will be found in Ship Materials Chests (similar to Loot Chests), but Rare Goods can only be found in Rare Ship Materials Chests (similar to Loot Skull Chests).

Hulls
The hull is the body of the ship, constructed of timbers and sealed watertight with caulk. There are three types of basic hull upgrade paths a pirate can purchase, and then another five advanced ones.

Cargo

 * Cargo upgrade screenshots

Rank 4 Hulls
The hull is the body of the ship, constructed of timbers and sealed watertight with caulk. There are 5 types of advanced hull upgrades a pirate can purchase.



Copperhead (Rank IV)
Available through the Reinforced Tier.
 * Copperhead Screenshots

Skull & Bones (Rank IV)
Available through the Reinforced and Cargo Tiers.

Fortune Hunter (Rank IV)
Available through the Cargo Tier.
 * Fortune Hunter Screenshots

Firestorm (Rank IV)
Available through the Streamlined Tier and Cargo Tier.

Stormchaser (Rank IV)
Available through the Streamlined Tier.
 * Stormchaser Screenshots

Rigging


The ship's rigging may be upgraded to give boosts on sailing skills (Full Sail,Open Fire and Take Cover).

This feature will require gold, iron and canvas.



Like Hull Upgrades, Rigging upgrades have three types:

Game Notes

 * On September 1, 2011, Pirates Online released a "Sneak Peek" Video featuring some of the ship customization features.


 * Later, on October 7, 2011, just hours before the update was released to test, they released a second Sneak Peek, which showed the Brig in more detail.
 * Ever since the inception the game (since BETA) the developers had constantly appraised the players of their intention to release ship customization. The much-awaited feature finally appeared on the Test Server in October 2011.
 * The Brig and Ship Customization went live on Wednesday, December 14, 2011.

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