For Dummies crafting guide??

[Robaroo]

Anyone know of any For Dummies crafting guides i can use to help me get into crafting?

 

Looking for something simple for the first couple of ships that tells me exactly how many of each material is needed.

 

That way i can just look at the map, travel and purchase

[gozer]

well, it'd be great to at least have some spreadsheet with crafting materials and production chains ... some materials are easy to find, other are used for bloody everything in ridiculously high numbers as either end product or part of another production (yes, iron ore / ingots, I'm looking at you) so I have trouble planning any production because I end up underestimating the needed materials. I looked at wiki but the page about crafting seems severely outdated

 

if anyone knows about good list of the production chains I'd really appreciate it

[Sir Richard Bolitho]

I also tried crafting, will now wait until a chart etc is produced, just far to difficult/confusing at present.

[poison]

If you check recipes, you can create your own spreadsheet. But I'm sure someone around here has one laying around somewhere. Just not I.

[VonVolks]

Personally to start out, I would just start acquiring key resources, and doing basic parts building to get your hand in.

 

Buy iron ore and coal, and make iron ingots, buy logs and make planks, frame parts etc. buy fir to make tar, buy hemp, buy stone to make ballast. Here are some essential resources for ship crafting:

 

Iron ore - LOTS

Coal - LOTS

Hemp - Quite a lot

Fir logs - LOTS

Oak Logs - LOTS

Pine Logs - Quite a lot

Stone - Not much

TEAK LOGS -optional

LIVE OAK-optional

 

Just assemble a whole bunch of the above and then start making the basic parts, and simple ships. In the ship building tab, click on a basic ship, and it will show you the parts required for it (scroll down too!) and if you click on the part it will show you what you need to make that part. You can keep clicking through parts till you get to the most basic "ingredients" needed.

[jodgi]

Edit: ninja'd

If you're starting out, just get:

Oak

Fir

Iron

Coal

Hemp

Teak to offload oak needs for frames

A little bit of Lignum vitae and pine

And just start clicking.

[Dante2153]

A Question, not quite off-topic:

How many durability does a crafted ship have?

Edited January 27, 2016 by Dante2153

[Suenami]

But the problem is there is no iron to be found !

[VonVolks]

Well that's a whole nother problem. It's why trade ships are important. ☺

A Question, not quite off-topic:

How many durability does a crafted ship have?

Normally 5 for the lower rank ships.

[Holden]

There's some good info on the Naval Action wiki, although when most of the info I put in was from before the wipe (but should mostly be accurate).

 

http://navalaction.wikia.com/wiki/NavalAction_Wikia