Ships

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Ships are a core mechanic of Atlas. Ships are built in shipyards and used to travel the world and fight other ships.

Building a ship

1. You will need to create a shipyard to build a ship, and you unlock the ability to do this via the Seamanship tree (Survivalism Tree > Construction & Mercantilism Tree > Seamanship Tree). It currently takes 11 skill points to get to (and unlock) the first shipbuilding node in the Seamanship tree (Basics of Sailing).
   • Look for a place with underwater shelf, and hang it off the shelf, it is possible to build a shipyard in a place that is too shallow for your boat to leave once finished, and this is a very sad discovery to make.
2. Construct a skeleton from the shipyard, put resources in the shipyard itself and use the appropriate blueprint, don't worry the inventory of the shipyard is not publicly accessible.
3. Build a smithy and a loom. It is advisable to be small structure near by to house these. The loom is a larger structure so plan your space.
4. Construct the appropriate components from the table below. This is done at the Smithy.
5. These are more like normal building components than resources as you don't need all of them at once to start building. They are all peaceable.
   • If you are missing a plank (side wall of ship), water will come in and it will sink.
     • Some planks can be replaced with Gunports.
       • This can be done after you are done, so if you don't plan have cannons at the start you can swap them out later.
   • Decks are like foundations to build on/off.
     • The bottom deck will be solid, the rest will be frames to be filled in.
6. Build wooden construction components such as walls, ceilings, stairs, and roofs.
   • Everything weighs something on a ship. Look at the deck to see your current weight
   • You can place cannons on any deck, so you can build platforms at the front and rear to place cannons that face those directions.
   • You can also place things like a smithy and chests, but this should be done last to ensure you can place your sails and such first.
   • Be sure not block access to the outer hull planks from inside the ship, you want to be able to hit everything with a repair hammer.
7. Choose and build your sails from the Loom. The sail includes it's mast and is worth a certain number of points.
   • It will force you to place your sails along the spine of the ship.
   • The mast extends through all decks, so plan accordingly.
   • The rigging (ropes on the side) do not seem to interfere with most placements(like ladders).
   • If you want to reach the crows nest, you will have to place your own ladders (rope or wood).
8. Build and place the Ship Steering Wheel from the Smithy.
   • 1st person visibility is not important as long as the wheel is placed in the open, you will drive the boat from a far 3rd person perspective.
9. It is advisable to place extra Rope Ladders to get on and off the ship. There is one automatic one hanging off the back that you can't see while buildingL.
   • Ladders can be stacked, these can make them easier to reach from the water.
   • You can use these to reach the crows nest
   • You can hang rope ladders off anything, that doesn't necessarily mean they will be climbable in the end.
10. Build and place cannons (optional)
    • Cannons have a narrow firing arc, you might want to play with this before placing non gunport cannons.
    • Gunport cannons will snap in place
    • Gunport cannons weigh less than deck cannons
11. Place and other structures you think you might need, but keep in mind weight. This includes the weight of the inventories once stocked. Remember not to block access to the planks (All Optional)
    • Simple Bed, If you die you want to be able get back your boat
    • Water Barrel, Sailing takes a long time, you don't want to die of thirst
    • Bookshelf, Convenient for doing a store all after looting crates at sea to filter you blueprints
    • Ship Resources Box, Stores resources for repairs bay hammer/crew. Stores payment for crew. Doesn't let you store anything else like armor or weapons.
    • Food Larder, Stores food to feed a npc crew.
    • Wood Wall Hook, Allows you to place lanterns, it's hard to read a map in the dark
    • Large Storage Box, To store things.
    • Wooden Chair, You can fish for food while sailing.
    • Dinghy Ship Hangar, Allows you to build and deploy dinghys/submarines
    • Ship Cargo Rack, Anything put in it has it's weight greatly reduced, but even having it empty slows down your ship.

Shipyard	Structure Resources Required	Ships Craftable	Ship/Skeleton Resources Required	Ship Attributes						Required Components
				Maximum Number of Masts	Maximum Sail Units	Starting Crew Capacity	Starting Number of Beds	Starting Weight Capacity	Starting Ship/Spine Health	Total Required Decks	Total Required Planks	Maximum Number of Gunports
Shipyardsman		Raft	75 x Fibers 20 x Hide 80 x Wood	1 fixed	None	3 (+0.2)	1 (+0.2)	900 (+30)	4000	None	None	None
		Ramshackle Sloop	225 x Fibers 75 x Hide 250 x Wood	2	2.0	3 (+0.5)	1 (+0.5)	1200 (+100)		None	None	None
Tiny Shipyard	160 x Fibers 70 x Stone 280 x Thatch 560 x Wood	Dinghy	240 x Fibers 220 x Thatch 180 x Wood	None	None	4	N/A			None	None	None
		Raft	125 x Fibers 60 x Hide 250 x Wood	1 fixed	None	3 (+0.2)	1 (+0.2)	900 (+30)	4000	None	None	None
Small Shipyard	240 x Fibers 105 x Stone 420 x Thatch 840 x Wood	Sloop	110 x Fibers 8 x Metal 180 x Thatch 120 x Wood	2	2	3 (+1.0)	1 (+1.0)	3300 (+100)		1 Small Wood Ship Deck	12 Small Wood Plank	None
		Schooner	332 x Fibers 42 x Metal 540 x Thatch 390 x Wood	3	4	14 (+1.0)	1 (+1.0)	9000 (+200)	152800	2 Medium Wood Ship Deck	28 Medium Wood Plank	10 Medium Wood Gunport
Large Shipyard	1000 x Fibers 500 x Stone 2000 x Thatch 4000 x Wood	Brigantine	1512 x Fibers 224 x Metal 3024 x Thatch 1960 x Wood	5	8.6	16 (+1.0)	2 (+1.0)	15000 (+400)	360000	3 Medium Wood Ship Deck	40 Medium Wood Plank	12 Medium Wood Gunport
		Galleon	2560 x Fibers 680 x Metal 5600 x Thatch 4200 x Wood	6	16	59 (+2.0)	2 (+1.0)	30000 (+600)		6 Large Wood Ship Deck	74 Large Wood Plank	52 Large Wood Gunport

To start building a ship, you need to first build a shipyard (be sure to place the shipyard entirely in water even if the placement system allows you to place it half in), and then construct a ship frame from that shipyard (it works exactly like the other crafting stations, just deposit your resources and click on the frame you want to craft).

Note: For ships beyond the Raft and Dinghy, you will also need a Smithy and a Loom to craft the planks, decks, and sails, as well as some of the structures you may want to install on the ship.

Once you have a frame crafted, you'll need to craft a deck and some planks. When attempting to place them on the frame, you'll see the locations that the part can snap to.

When all of your decks and planks are placed, you can craft wooden walls, ceilings, doors, etc. to place on the ship to build your cabins and compartments. These will take on special ship-styled appearances once placed.

Types of ships

Tiny Ships

• Raft
• Dinghy

Small Ships

• Ramshackle Sloop
• Sloop

Medium Ships

• Schooner

Large Ships

• Brigantine
• Galleon

NPC Ships

• Ghost Ship
• Merchant Ship
• Ship of the Damned
  • Sloop of the Damned
  • Schooner of the Damned
  • Brigantine of the Damned
  • Galleon of the Damned

Controls

See Ship Controls.

Sails

Sail Types

• Handling: Better catches the wind at more extreme angles, raises, lowers, and turns faster.
• Speed: Provides a speed bonus. Approximately 60% faster than the other sails of the same type.
• Weight: Increases the carrying capacity of the ship. (Small: 1000, Medium: 2500, Large: 4000)

Sail Unit Cost

• Small Sails: 1 point
  • Small Speed Sail
  • Small Handling Sail
  • Small Weight Sail
• Medium Sails: 1.7 points
  • Medium Speed Sail
  • Medium Handling Sail
  • Medium Weight Sail
• Large Sails: 2.65 Points
  • Large Speed Sail
  • Large Handling Sail
  • Large Weight Sail

Additional notes

Max level depending on shipyard quality level. Ship quality is about 10% less than shipyard quality (it seems) as of march 2019 patch. Ship quality increases maximum level.

Total number of visible characters on the Ship's Name Plate on the Stern of the ship is 18 max characters.

Stats notes

Weight - Adds more maximum weight capacity to ship, while reducing the weight affect on its speed.

Resistance - Increase the resistance of all the structures on the ship.

Sturdiness - Reduces sinking rates and reduces rate of offshore item spoiling and character vitals depletion.

Damage - Increases the damage of cannons and all other ship weapons.

Extra crew - Increases the total number of crew, players, tames, or other passengers allowed on the ship.

Extra beds - Adds more beds, improves crew anchored automatic hull repairing speed and reduces overall crew payment amount over time.

Gallery

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  From left to right: a schooner, brigantine, galleon, brigantine, and sloop

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  A Galleon

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  A Brigantine

im adding the spawn commands for the ships here as well as the commands for all the building mats. courtesy of Lexacerbate.

SHIP SPAWN COMMANDS

cheat ssf tank 1 0 0

cheat ssf zephyr 1 0 0

cheat ssf dinghy 1 0 0

cheat ssf raft 1 0 0

cheat ssf sloop 1 0 0

cheat ssf schooner 1 0 0

cheat ssf brigantine 1 0 0

cheat ssf galleon 1 0 0

Cheat gfi <ship name> <quantity> <quality> <blueprint[bool]>

cheat ssf <ship name> <quantity> <quality> <blueprint[bool]>

cheat gfi sail_small 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_small_weight 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_small_accel 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_medium 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_medium_weight 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_medium_accel 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_large 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_large_weight 15 0 0

cheat gfi sail_large_accel 15 0 0

Decks:

cheat gfi ship_deck_wood_small 15 0 0

cheat gfi ship_deck_wood_medium 15 0 0

cheat gfi ship_deck_wood_large 150 0 0

Planks:

cheat gfi Ship_Plank_Wood_small 15 0 0

cheat gfi Ship_Plank_Wood_medium 15 0 0

cheat gfi Ship_Plank_Wood_large 150 0 0

cheat gfi Ship_Gunport_Wood_medium 15 0 0

cheat gfi Ship_Gunport_Wood_large 150 0 0