Introduction to Ships
ArcheAge has a huge world, with three big continents, many small islands and water as far as the eye can see, and reaching other lands by swimming would be impossible, the seas are filled with sharks and other monsters, with pirates and PK'ers hungry for your goods, and with a badass roaming Kraken boss. So thats why we are able to craft ships and sail with them, to travel from one to the another location or explore the vast world of AA.
Types of Ships:
There's currently three kinds of sea bound vessels that you can summon and captain.
The ships are all extremely well done and have many components you can interact with. The rowboat has a small lamp on it, the sailboat has the lamps and sails that you can raise/lower, while the galleon has all that and an anchor, extendable planks, a climbable mast complete with a crow's nest up top, 8 fire-able cannons, 4 on each side and some gears to change the angle of the sails, some boats have harpoon.
Customizing the sail:
XLGames also implemented a feature to put your own design on the sails, and the ability to name your vessel.
Destroyable ships:
Your ship can be damaged by monster/player attacks.
The most sturdy vessel (the galleon) has 30,000 hit points and can have 1,000 hit points repaired at sea by spending 2 wood and I think 1 labour point, so a healthy supply of wood is recommended for any extended sea battles.
If your boat is completely destroyed you can (at the moment) not resummon it for 10-15 minutes, but when you do it is back to full HP.
Another important feature is the ability to hijack enemy ship, its not called stealing the ship (you can't unsummon other players ship to get the ships scroll in your inventory), but anyone can take the steering wheel and sail the ship.
(from Entaro's CBT4 review)
Ship Types
Rowboat:
Info: Obtained from quest at early levels (5-7).
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Harpoon SpeedBoat:
Blueprint Price: 30 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 10 wood planks, 10 iron bars
Materials Needed for Ship: 1 pack of (wood, metal, cloth)
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
With cannon on it:
Adventure SpeedBoat:
Blueprint Price: 30 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 10 wood planks, 10 iron bars
Materials Needed for Ship: 1 pack of (wood, metal, cloth)
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Galleon:
Blueprint Price: 100 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 5 packs of (wood, metal, cloth)
Info: 8 cannons located on the ship, 4 on each side. A device for the detection of enemy ships. There is a harpoon, scuba gear, etc.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Chinese Galleon:
Blueprint Price: 100 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 5 packs of (wood, metal, cloth)
Info: 8 cannons located on the ship, 4 on each side. A device for the detection of enemy ships. There is a harpoon, scuba gear, etc.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Merchant Ship (Cargo Boat):
Blueprint Price: 50 Delphi Stars
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 2 packs of wood, 3 packs of (metal, cloth)
Info: Trading ship is more like a greatly enlarged speedboat with 16 drawers where you can put packs, 4 cannons, 2 on each side, and the instrument to detect other vessels. The speed of the merchant ship is the same as that of fighting galleons.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Black Pearl (Unique Pirate Ship):
Blueprint: dropped by pirate boss
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 3 packs of wood, 4 packs of (metal, cloth)
Info: Almost the same as the Galleon, a bit different in look, has a bit higher speed, and an extra drawer slot for shipping packs.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Link: How to Get the Blueprint and to Craft It by Advaita
NPC Cruise Ship:
Info: Can't be crafted, nor sailed by players, atm its only serves as decoration.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
ArcheAge has a huge world, with three big continents, many small islands and water as far as the eye can see, and reaching other lands by swimming would be impossible, the seas are filled with sharks and other monsters, with pirates and PK'ers hungry for your goods, and with a badass roaming Kraken boss. So thats why we are able to craft ships and sail with them, to travel from one to the another location or explore the vast world of AA.
Types of Ships:
There's currently three kinds of sea bound vessels that you can summon and captain.
- Simple rowboat - given from a quest early on.
- Speedboats - there are 2 versions of Speedboats, with and without a harpoon, and they are very fast.
- Galleons - there are 3 versions of Galleons, a normal, a Chinese one, and a pirate one (Black Pearl like in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean) their main purpose are the battles, with their 8 cannons.
- Merchant Ship - perfect ship for transporting packs.
- Cruise Ship - huge NPC ship, not controllable yet.
The ships are all extremely well done and have many components you can interact with. The rowboat has a small lamp on it, the sailboat has the lamps and sails that you can raise/lower, while the galleon has all that and an anchor, extendable planks, a climbable mast complete with a crow's nest up top, 8 fire-able cannons, 4 on each side and some gears to change the angle of the sails, some boats have harpoon.
Customizing the sail:
XLGames also implemented a feature to put your own design on the sails, and the ability to name your vessel.
Destroyable ships:
Your ship can be damaged by monster/player attacks.
The most sturdy vessel (the galleon) has 30,000 hit points and can have 1,000 hit points repaired at sea by spending 2 wood and I think 1 labour point, so a healthy supply of wood is recommended for any extended sea battles.
If your boat is completely destroyed you can (at the moment) not resummon it for 10-15 minutes, but when you do it is back to full HP.
Another important feature is the ability to hijack enemy ship, its not called stealing the ship (you can't unsummon other players ship to get the ships scroll in your inventory), but anyone can take the steering wheel and sail the ship.
(from Entaro's CBT4 review)
Ship Types
Rowboat:
Info: Obtained from quest at early levels (5-7).
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Harpoon SpeedBoat:
Blueprint Price: 30 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 10 wood planks, 10 iron bars
Materials Needed for Ship: 1 pack of (wood, metal, cloth)
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
With cannon on it:
Adventure SpeedBoat:
Blueprint Price: 30 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 10 wood planks, 10 iron bars
Materials Needed for Ship: 1 pack of (wood, metal, cloth)
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Galleon:
Blueprint Price: 100 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 5 packs of (wood, metal, cloth)
Info: 8 cannons located on the ship, 4 on each side. A device for the detection of enemy ships. There is a harpoon, scuba gear, etc.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Chinese Galleon:
Blueprint Price: 100 tears
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 5 packs of (wood, metal, cloth)
Info: 8 cannons located on the ship, 4 on each side. A device for the detection of enemy ships. There is a harpoon, scuba gear, etc.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Merchant Ship (Cargo Boat):
Blueprint Price: 50 Delphi Stars
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 2 packs of wood, 3 packs of (metal, cloth)
Info: Trading ship is more like a greatly enlarged speedboat with 16 drawers where you can put packs, 4 cannons, 2 on each side, and the instrument to detect other vessels. The speed of the merchant ship is the same as that of fighting galleons.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Black Pearl (Unique Pirate Ship):
Blueprint: dropped by pirate boss
Materials Needed for Platform: 100 wood planks
Materials Needed for Ship: 3 packs of wood, 4 packs of (metal, cloth)
Info: Almost the same as the Galleon, a bit different in look, has a bit higher speed, and an extra drawer slot for shipping packs.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos
Link: How to Get the Blueprint and to Craft It by Advaita
NPC Cruise Ship:
Info: Can't be crafted, nor sailed by players, atm its only serves as decoration.
Spoiler: Pictures and Videos