Black Desert Online – How to Build a Boat

by Falagar / Articles, Black Desert Online Guides / 03 Nov 2019

First of as this does cause some confusion. Instead of building a boat you create a ship license, which you then register at a wharf to receive your ship as mentioned before.

The very first thing you need is to gain access to a shipyard. You can get a shipyard in any of the coastal towns by spending contribution points. The highest tier which you can upgrade the shipyards too varies from town to town. Velia, Heidel, Tarif, and Calpheon only have tier 1 shipyards. Altinova has tier a 2 shipyard and Epheria has a tier 3 shipyard, capable of creating Epheria sailboat licenses.

When you have found a shipyard, you can access it and see which ship licenses can be produced there, how much material is needed for each license and the time required. You also need a worker to create the ship license, which is usually not a problem as every town allows you to have a single worker without the need of lodgings.

The time listed is the time needed to complete a single material piece. As an example, the Calpheon rowboat needs to complete 65 cycles where each cycle takes 20 minutes for a speed 50 worker. You can, however, use multiple workers to work on a single boat to speed this up.

Your workers can also come from different towns as long as the towns are connected via nodes. The materials you use need to be located in the storage of the town from which the worker originates. So, if for example you are making an Epherian Sailboat in Epheria and want to use a worker from Velia to work on steel ingots, the steel ingots must be located in the Velia storage and not Epheria.

When you have access to the correct shipyard tier, at least some of the needed materials in the correct storage and at least a single available worker you can start the production, which is completed when you have added all the needed materials to the ship with your workers. Note that the license goes automatically into your storage at the city were the boat license is made.

Falagar

He is the founder and editor of Magic Game World. He loved gaming from the moment he got a PlayStation 1 with Gran Turismo on his 7th birthday.

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