Ship Customization and Upgrades

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.

Apparently, ships can be upgraded so that they give boosts to sailing skills. They also have visually customizable hulls, sails and emblems. This is an Unlimited Access feature only (see Game Notes).

The following features are customizable/upgradable however, all of them will cost gold.
 * Hulls
 * Rigging
 * Sail Color
 * Sail Emblem

Hulls
The hull is the body of the ship, constructed of timbers and sealed watertight with caulk. There are 3 types of hull upgrades a pirate can purchase

Reinforced
A Reinforced hull is designed to withstand more punishment. However, having more protection lowers a ship's overall speed and greatly reduces cargo space.

Cargo
The Cargo hull is designed to carry more plunder, but with a loss of speed and turning.

Streamlined
Streamlined hulls are built for speed. They slip through the water with minimum drag but to go faster costs your all of your other stats (Armor, Cargo and even Turning).

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:

Offensive
Increases Open Fire Ability, +1 per level.

Defensive
Increases Take Cover Ability.

Speed
Increases Full Sail Ability/ Each level of Upgrade comes with a cost in gold and materials needed.

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.

Emblem
An emblem can be embossed on your ships sails, or the sail can be left blank. All emblems are available in Black or White.

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, particular warships and bounty hunters. Any found materials are stored in your Materials Pouch.

The various materials include:

Wood

 * Pine - Lightweight wood
 * Oak - Heavy wood, known for resiliance.

Metal

 * Iron - Common heavy metal
 * Steel - Refined iron alloy, lighter weight but stronger

Cloth

 * Canvas - Standard heavy fabric for sailmaking
 * Silk - Finer, lighter material

Game Note

 * This feature was first announced in a video seen below.
 * Only unlimited access Players can Customize ships.
 * Players can only customize Merchant(medium) and war class ships.

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