This page details the significant updates to Ships, including new ship types, abilities, mechanics, and related systems introduced with the Wildlands Expansion (May 19, 2024).
New Ship Sizes
Longship
- New ship type featuring 4 Cannons and 8 Crewmember Slots.
- Base Hull Hit Points: 6,000
- Base Speed: 3.846 Tiles/Sec
- Registration Cost: 500,000 Doubloons
- Upgrade Cost Multiplier: 6x
- Craftable by players; also encountered as NPC ships.
Ship of the Line
- New ship type featuring 7 Cannons and 7 Crewmember Slots.
- Base Hull Hit Points: 7,000
- Base Speed: 3.517 Tiles/Sec
- Registration Cost: 750,000 Doubloons
- Upgrade Cost Multiplier: 7x
- Craftable by players; also encountered as NPC ships.
Ship Menus
- Ship Menus and Ship Hotbars have received a design overhaul for streamlining and added functionality.
- Increased size of Ship Menu for clarity.
- Page types restructured; Players Page removed.
- Hit Points now show percentages. Sail/Gun HP display Red when boardable.
- Abilities Hotbar has dedicated Ship Repair Kit button showing cooldown.
- Navigation Hotbar adds Inspect Ship and Use Boarding Rope buttons.
- Cannon Button now Reloads if cannons are empty.
Crew Page
- Redesigned for reduced clutter.
Appearance Page
- Ship Upgrades affecting appearance are now managed here. Future appearance features planned.
Auxiliary Abilities
- Ships now have two Auxiliary Ability slots.
- Any Lesser, Regular, or Greater Ability can be installed, provided it's not already present on the ship (no duplicates).
Using Auxiliary Abilities
- Activated via Ship Menu, Ship Hotbar, or commands:
- `[AuxiliaryAbility` (Slot 1)
- `[SecondAuxiliaryAbility` (Slot 2)
Auxiliary Ability Cooldowns
- Activating an Auxiliary Ability triggers a cooldown before another Auxiliary Ability can be used.
- Cooldown duration matches the unmodified, default cooldown for that Ability Type (Lesser, Regular, Greater).
- Bonuses reducing ability cooldowns do not affect Auxiliary Ability cooldowns.
- Example: Activating "Beat to Quarters" (Regular Ability, 3 min default cooldown) triggers a 3-minute cooldown for all Auxiliary Abilities.
Ability Cooldowns
Default Ability Cooldowns updated:
- Lesser Ability: 2 Minutes (no change)
- Regular Ability: 3 Minutes (was 4 minutes)
- Greater Ability: 4 Minutes (was 6 minutes)
Repair Cooldowns
- Base Repair Cooldown for ships in combat is now 3 minutes (was 5 minutes).
Ship Cannon Damage
- Player damage bonuses not specifically mentioning "Cannon Damage" will not increase Ship Cannon damage against creatures.
Experience
- Experience from earning Doubloons is now 1-to-1 (was sometimes 1-to-2).
- Players now earn Aspect Experience and Redline Experience based on earning Doubloons from sinking NPC ships.
Ship Stats
- Base Sail Hit Points and Gun Hit Points are now baselined at 90% of Hull Hit Points.
- NPC Ships receive +25% Overall Hit Points (Paragons get additional +50%).
Cannon Ammunition Capacity
- Ship Cannons now hold 5 Ammunition (was 10).
Boarding Attempts
- Target ship's Sail or Gun HP must be at 33% or below (displays Red).
- Boarding Cooldown is now 15 seconds (was 20).
Breach / Bravery
- Breach stat renamed to Bravery.
- No longer provides Armor Ignore.
- Now provides a Damage Bonus to Crewmembers against Creatures on the same ship or against Boss/Boss Minions.
Hold Capacity / Tidings
- Hold Capacity stat renamed to Tidings.
- No longer increases Hold capacity.
- Now provides a bonus chance to encounter unique loot unaffected by normal Loot Drop bonuses (e.g., Ship Antiquities, Upgrade Deeds, Contracts, Pirate Booty).
- Existing Hold Capacity values rescaled to reflect the change.
Wake Scalar
- Minimum Wake Scalar is now 25%.
- Base Wake Scalars updated:
- Small: 50% (was 100%)
- Medium: 75% (was 125%)
- Large: 100% (was 150%)
- Carrack: 150% (was 175%)
- Galleon: 200% (no change)
- Longship: 200% (New)
- Ship of the Line: 250% (New)
Spyglasses
- Base Search Range (Ships/Fishing Spots) is now 100 (was 75).
- Search Range for Player Ships reduced to 33% of normal.
- Minimum Search Range is now 30 (was 50).
- Search results now ordered by distance (closest first).
- Search Range Bonuses from Spyglasses updated:
- Exceptional Quality: +10%
- Mastercrafted: +10%
- Iron: +0%
- Dull Copper: +5%
- Shadowiron: +10%
- Copper: +15%
- Bronze: +20%
- Gold: +25%
- Agapite: +30%
- Verite: +35%
- Valorite: +40%
- Avarite: +45%
Ship Access Levels
- Players Page removed from Ship Menu. Manual Friend/Co-Owner designation removed.
- Access Levels (for Holds, Spyglass Tracking) automatically assigned:
- Co-Owners: Same Party OR same Guild as Captain.
- Friends: Same Alliance as Captain.