Past Exalted

Standing past Exalted now pays a chest, the chests hold four new ships, the Manufactory turns old stockpiles into Steel, and Fishing and Cooking go to 70.

Past Exalted

Warden's Sea ChestChestThe Wardens send these to captains who keep the old sea law without being asked.FoundEvery 5,000 standing past Exalted with the Tidewardens Guild Tool ChestChestAn Ironwright packs a chest like this for another builder, and for nobody else.FoundEvery 5,000 standing past Exalted with the Ironwright Guild Captain's ShareChestEvery hand that fought gets an equal share. This one is yours.FoundEvery 5,000 standing past Exalted with the Blacktide Compact Accord Ditty BoxChestWhat the sea gave the Accord, passed to the captain who fished beside them longest.FoundEvery 5,000 standing past Exalted with the Deepwater Accord

Every 5,000 standing past Exalted now pays that faction's own chest. The first comes at 7,500, and there is no last.

• Something from the deep, every time
• Two materials of the faction's own, found nowhere else
• Gemstones and a hoard's worth of stores
• Now and then, a set of the faction's ship plans
• Once in a long while, a relic of the faction's own

Once you are Exalted, the bar on the faction page now runs toward your next chest.

Four Relics

Each faction's chest keeps a relic of its own, out of the faction's oldest stories.

• The Unsold Chart, Tidewardens: more from every scouting find
• Kael's Adze, Ironwright Guild: faster Drydock repairs
• The Burned Pardon, Blacktide Compact: more plunder
• The First Net, Deepwater Accord: more bumper hauls

Three New Roads

Prize BookTokenA prize court's record of a ship taken, every gun and cask counted. The Blacktide Compact keeps these. Read it to earn their regard.FoundA won raid on an NPC port of three stars or more Great Prize BookTokenThe Compact's own register of prizes, every ship it ever took, bound in black and sealed by the captains. Read it to earn their high regard.FoundA won raid on an NPC port of three stars or more, rarely Pilot's BookTokenA pilot's book of sailing directions, soundings and leading marks for water nobody had written down. The Tidewardens keep these. Read it to earn their regard.FoundA scout that charts a tile for the first time Master Pilot's BookTokenA master pilot's lifetime of soundings, currents and safe passages, copied by the Tidewardens and never sold. Read it to earn their high regard.FoundA scout that charts a tile for the first time, rarely Salvage BargeLightSalvageRecovers wreckage from battle sites. What went down does not all go to waste.Recovers 35% of what it lifts from a wreck.Raid Salvage: Recovers materials from every ship sunk.Salvage: Tonnes an hour worked at a wreck. One hull works a wreck.Attack 0Hull 30Cargo 400Speed 3 Raid Salvage 20% Salvage 400

Three factions now pay standing for more than quests.

• A won raid on a port of three stars or more can turn up a Prize Book, read for standing with the Blacktide Compact.
• A scout that charts new water can turn up a Pilot's Book, read for standing with the Tidewardens.
• Each book has a great one, five times the standing, and far rarer.
• Salvage trips now pay standing with the Ironwright Guild, and the deeper the wreck, the more they pay.

Plans That Sharpen

PathfinderLightSpecialistrareA Tidewarden exploration vessel built for long voyages into unknown waters.+15% fleet speed when in fleet.Attack 20Hull 60Cargo 200Speed 9 DockmasterMediumSpecialistrareAn Ironwright construction vessel. A floating shipyard that accelerates ship building.-15% ship build time at this port.Attack 0Hull 150Cargo 100Speed 3 MarauderLightCombatrareA Blacktide raider built for speed, violence, and plunder.+20% raid loot when in fleet.Plunder: Resources from the wrecks, win or lose.Attack 120Hull 40Cargo 300Speed 8Powder 6/rd Plunder 3% Leviathan HunterMediumFishingepicThe Accord's finest. Built to chase the great schools and survive what guards them.A bumper haul on 10% of trips, twice the usual.Catch: Base barrels of fish it brings home from a school.Attack 40Hull 150Cargo 1500Speed 8 Catch 160

A blueprint rank now raises a hull's ability as well as its guns and its hull.

• Pathfinder: up to +22.5% fleet speed at rank V
• Dockmaster: up to 22.5% faster ship builds at rank V
• Marauder: up to +30% raid loot at rank V
• Leviathan Hunter: a bumper haul on up to 15% of trips at rank V

The plans in a faction chest rank that faction's own hull.

Four New Hulls

WayfarerLightSpecialistepicSails where the charts run out and comes back with new ones.A scout charts the two tiles either side as well.Attack 120Hull 300Cargo 300Speed 9Powder 10/rd MasterworkHeavyCombatepicBuilt by the Guild for the Guild. Nothing on her was rushed.15% of your sunk ships make it home.Attack 750Hull 1100Cargo 150Speed 4Powder 45/rd WidowmakerLightCombatepicThe Compact sends her after the ports with a price on them.Up to +50% loot from Wanted and Notorious ports.Attack 320Hull 240Cargo 400Speed 8Powder 16/rd Sea MotherMediumFishingepicThe Accord's mothership. The smaller boats come home to her.Other fishing hulls add to her haul, up to +100%.Catch: Base barrels of fish it brings home from a school.Attack 150Hull 600Cargo 2500Speed 6Powder 10/rd Catch 180

When a faction's hull reaches rank V, its chest starts carrying the plans for a second ship, built from that faction's own two materials.

• Wayfarer, Tidewardens: a scout she sails with charts the two tiles either side as well, and brings home what they hold.
• Masterwork, Ironwright Guild: while she is afloat, some of your sunk ships make it home.
• Widowmaker, Blacktide Compact: more loot from Wanted and Notorious ports, and the higher the bounty, the more she takes.
• Sea Mother, Deepwater Accord: she works the school, and every other fishing hull in the fleet adds to her catch.

All four can hold their own in a fight, and all four rank up like the rest.

Seventy Fathoms

Striped BassFishA fighter on the line. Striped flanks and a temper to match. 2-18 lbs. Cooks into Bass Chowder. Bull SharkFishShort, thick and bad-tempered. Goes up rivers and into harbours where it has no business. 150-600 lbs. Cooks into Bull Shark Stew. PikeFishA long green ambush with a mouthful of needles. Takes anything smaller than itself. 3-40 lbs. Cooks into Pike in Butter. Blue MarlinFishBlue as the deep and faster than the boat. A trophy captains talk about for years. 150-700 lbs. Cooks into Marlin Steak. PermitFishWary and silver and hard to fool. Feeds on the crabs in the surf line. 5-60 lbs. Cooks into Permit Roast.

Fishing and Cooking now go to level 70.

Five more fish can now go in the pot: the Striped Bass, the Bull Shark, the Pike, the Blue Marlin and the Permit. Every fish in home water is now in reach on any rod.

Experience earned past 60 counts now, and the level 70 achievements are now there to be had. Experience now stops at the level cap.

The Manufactory

ManufactoryBuildingTurns the stockpiles your producers can no longer use into Steel, Aged Rum, Ironwood and Black Powder. Slowly.Needs Lumber Mill 8, Iron Mine 8, Distillery 8, Powder Works 8, Gold Panner 8 Manual: Steel Making IRecipeTeaches the Manufactory to make Steel out of Iron. Sold at the Trade Hubs.FoundSold at the Trade Hubs Manual: Rum Ageing IRecipeTeaches the Manufactory to make Aged Rum out of Rum. Sold at the Trade Hubs.FoundSold at the Trade Hubs Manual: Timber Seasoning IRecipeTeaches the Manufactory to make Ironwood out of Timber. Sold at the Trade Hubs.FoundSold at the Trade Hubs Manual: Powder Corning IRecipeTeaches the Manufactory to make Black Powder out of Gunpowder. Sold at the Trade Hubs.FoundSold at the Trade Hubs

A new building for the port that has outgrown its producers. It turns the stockpiles nobody can spend into Steel, Aged Rum, Ironwood and Black Powder.

• It opens once every production building is at level 8.
• Fifty thousand Iron makes one Steel at first. Better manuals cut the cost and the time.
• The first manuals are sold at the Trade Hubs. The rest come out of Company Factories and the Ironwright Guild's hardest work.
• More queues open at levels 5 and 10.

Fresh Ink

Man-o'-WarHeavyCombatShip of the line. The most powerful warship afloat. Requires steel plating.Attack 1000Hull 800Cargo 300Speed 3Powder 60/rd GalleonHeavyCombatMassive warship with devastating broadside. Requires steel reinforcement.Attack 400Hull 300Cargo 200Speed 4Powder 30/rd Merchant CogLightCargoHeavy transport. Slow but enormous cargo capacity.Attack 0Hull 50Cargo 500Speed 3 War SloopLightCombatCheap and fast. The backbone of any early fleet.Attack 30Hull 20Cargo 20Speed 8Powder 4/rd Treasure HunterMediumSpecialistA well-equipped expedition vessel with diving bells and surveying tools. Finds rare materials on raids and scouts.Finds: May bring rare materials home from a won fight.Attack 5Hull 50Cargo 80Speed 4 Finds 10%

Twenty-three ships now have new art, drawn side-on and facing the enemy, from the Merchant Cog to the Man-o'-War.

There is always another chest.