After brutal broadside exchanges and combat with an enemy at sea, a pirate still needs to keep their vessel in tip-top condition. Their livelihood of plundering loot depend on their ship staying sea-worthy. There are several options for Ship Repair.
Shipwright Repairs
The quickest, easiest way to put a ship back out ready for action is to visit a shipwright, located on the major islands. These professionals can have your vessel ready to sailing lickety-split, but they will charge for their work.
- Carlos Cienfuegos on Cuba
- Balthasar Bollard* on Padres Del Fuego
- Clemence Basilshot on Padres Del Fuego
- Darby Drydock* on Port Royal
- Rose Seafellow on Port Royal
- O'Malley* on Tortuga
- Gabriel De Martillo on Isla De La Avaricia
- Veronique Roux on Ile D'Etable De Porc
- Offers Ship Repair mini-games
Repair Mini-Games
Aboard ship, a pirate can also do repairs themselves. This involves a series of challenging mini-games that the player must complete in order to affect repairs. It is more time-consuming than seeing a shipwright, but there is no cost involved.
To begin repairs, simply walk across the deck to a broken section (marked by a hole and a stack of planks) and press Shift.
The Repair Mini-game Menu will appear. To complete repairs, the pirates must finish all the challenges:
- Bilge Pumping - To drain the sea water from the hull
- Plank Sawing - To cut new boards
- Hull Bracing - Support the decks and beams
- Hammering - To add the new boards.
- Hull Patching - To seal up leaky spots.
In a crew, each member can take a task and get the work done that much more quickly. When a job has already been taken, the pirate's name will appear below the task being performed. Other repairing pirates can monitor their progress
Once all of the jobs are complete, the ship's hull and sails will be repaired. These repairs can occur even when the ship is in motion. However, enemy Grape Shot can slow down repair efforts.
These mini games are also found near any Shipwright. Pirates can complete them at any difficulty to earn gold. This gold earning depends on how fast the pirate completes the repairs. However, instead of Bilge Pumping, another game called Hull Scrubbing is found.
Game Notes
Earlier Ship Repair was a feature available only in Ship PvP, where crews had to fix battle damage while the ship is at rest. To fix a damaged vessel, pirates had to simply walk to a spot where a damage hole existed in the deck and press Shift. The pirate would kneel down and begin hammering away. Just like current Ship Repair, to stop, one has to press ESC and the pirate will return to standing. Once the damage is completely repaired, the pirate would stop repairing automatically.