Jan 11
Shipwright Need Product to Feed Other Skills
The shipwright skill is cool and making boats is great, but other than Wooden Hull Planks for Basic Upgrade 2 (BU2), the shipwright produces no other product needed by another skill.this greatly limits the shipwright to sonly selling boats to people who need/want one, and once that have a boat…it’s kind of end of trading. I suggest adding Wooden Hull Planks to: Windmills, Waterwheels, and Large Lumber Stockpiles for low/medium consumption, and to Wooden Molds for higher consumption in brick making. I’ll also suggest then swapping Wooden Boards for Wooden Molds in the Composite recipe, which would make a more late game demand, retain the logger skill input, and add the shipwright.
Pending
Seafaring club for culture) But more realistically: 1. Ships are in fairly hostile environment (salted water) and need periodical maintenance as well as removal of sealife from hull. So a shipwright can be either providing such services or selling consumables to service vessels. 2. Pumping oil from deep sea probably can require at least something marine related 3. Some rare fishes (or whales?) can require single use armaments made by shipwright 4. There can easily be naval themed early game decorations, like wooden ship models 5. Specially treated wood made by shipwright can be used for water mills and for some of the furniture.