Windrose Ship Guide: How to Get, Repair, and Upgrade Your Vessel
The dinghy Windrose hands you at the start folds under a strong current, let alone a fight.
Doc Galen shows up at camp a few hours in, kicks off the "Need a Bigger Boat" quest, and sends you after a missing crew and a string of local shipwrecks. The quest itself isn't complicated. Packing the right materials before leaving base is what separates a clean run from an afternoon of backtracking.
Prepping for the Wreck
The ruined galleon needs 100 Wood, 20 Nails, 10 Rope, and 20 Coarse Fabric to patch up. Rope and fabric come from plant fiber without much trouble, wood is everywhere. Nails take more effort, smelted from raw metal or scavenged off the smaller wrecks scattered along the starting coastline.
A Fast Travel Bell dropped near the wreck site turns a forgotten item into a two second detour instead of a fifteen minute one. If cargo space runs out before that trip even starts, sorting storage out first saves the second trip.
Finding the Crew
Seven sailors need rescuing across three pirate camps before the ship actually sails anywhere. The first two camps are routine. The third ends in a boss fight that punishes walking in blind.
Picking off the outer guards with a ranged weapon before entering the arena keeps things from turning into a crowd fight. Once it's just the boss, heavy attacks or firearms break its armor posture before the kill lands clean.
Patching the Hull
Losing hull integrity mid-fight sinks a ship fast, and everything in the cargo hold goes down with it. Two repair methods exist, one for home, one for open water.
At base, a Wharf costs 10 Wood and 10 Coarse Fabric to build. Park the ship, open Manage Ship, hit repair, and raw wood brings the hull back up. Cheap and simple, useless anywhere but home.
Out on the water, the standard Repair Kit costs 10 Wood and heals gradually, but taking any damage cancels the effect outright, which limits it to quiet stretches between fights. The Combat Repair Kit costs 5 Wooden Planks, 1 Steel Nails, and 1 Rum Bottle, restores 30% of hull health over ten seconds, and only loses duration under fire instead of canceling outright. Rum Bottles also feed into fast travel potions, so the cost adds up, but it's the kit worth having equipped before sailing into anything hostile.
Arming the Ship
A Shipwright's Workshop unlocks the heavier naval gear, the difference between a transport vessel and something that can actually fight.
None of it attaches on its own. Cannons and bracing get hauled back to the Wharf, dragged from the Character Action Panel into the Ship Gear slots through Manage Ship.
