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.
 * 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.

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. Prices for emblems vary by ship class.

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. Any found materials are stored in your Materials Pouch.

The various materials include:


 * Common goods will be found in Materials Chests, but Rare Goods can only be found in Rare 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 3 types of hull upgrades a pirate can purchase

Reinforced
With metal plates bolted to the hull, you won't move very fast, but you'll get there in one piece. This type increases your armor +20%, but reduces speed by -5. Cargo and Turning are uneffected.

Cargo
The crew quarters have been converted into another cargo hold. You can sleep on the crates! Increasing the cargo hold add 25% Cargo, with an additional +10% Armor.

Streamlined
This cuts through the water like a knife through... well... water. Streamlining your ship adds another 10% Speed, but a -10% loss of Turning radius and -10% in Cargo space.

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 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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