This guide will teach you to become a 7 nations ShipBuilder, including skills to develop, path to defection to others nations and tips and tricks to survive after Ottoman defection.

Firstofall, you need to become base R16 crafter in handicraft, sewing, casting, storage and cooking. You can search the Net for guides to become a full crafting player.

Besides building ships, a shipbuilder needs to craft ship parts in order to improve any ship.

This include, for example :

• Cooking : r12 to make Galley part
• Handicraft : r15 to make Official Hulls with the help of another R20 SB
• Sewing : r15 to make Large Gaff Sail part
• Casting : r13 to make Modified Heavy Gun Port part
• Storage : r12 to make Money Chest part

To become a full SB, you need to build and build ships, again and again, to level your shipbuilding skill until r16. In my case, I have built 2600+ ships. All shipbuilding grinding can be done in Europe.

Build what your shipyard master proposes, any ship is welcome.

Note that at r5 you can refit any ship, ask any shipwright on world map for that.

Build cutters (r6 needed), they are available in most Europe shipyards, cost is 360k ducats and after 8 days at sea, you can sell it for 300k. You’ll loose 60k + 8 days wages per cutter.

By the way, if you are in static grinding session (without actually sailing), you can lower your crew to one sailor to minimize wages spent while sitting outside port.

You can also build schooners, they are more expensive : 612k to build and 500k to sell, so you’ll loose 112k per schooner, they can also be built only in a company colony but they require just 6 days to build.

At r10, you need to get a job that favors shipbuilding skill, because any other job cap SB skill at r10. I recommend Arms Dealer job, so that you can also grind provisions (transform fishes to provisions, procure water from rain) and caution skills while sitting outside.

Continue to build cutters/schooners or, if you have full equipment/aide boosts (see below), you can start to build r14 ships.

At r14, start to build Turkish galleys in Tripoli or Algiers. Tunis is not recommended because shipyard is far from any port official and bank.

Note that building requirement is false on Ivyro site (r18), Turkish galleys SB requirement has been lowered to r14 recently.

Turkish galley costs 4m47 and can be sold at 3m725, you’ll loose 745k per ship and they take 11 days to build.

At r15, you’ll need the shipbuilding skill as expert skill. Only one job can do that : Shipwright job.

Continue to build Turkish galleys until the end of grinding.

Be aware that SB grinding costs a lot, I spent roughly 200m to get from r15 to r16.

They are 5 boosts to the SB skill :

• Shipwright job gives +1
• Shipwright saw gives +1
• Secrets of SB book gives +1, rare item drop from fleet to defeat, but present in Sailor’s bottle recently.
• Specialized aide as surgeon gives +1, long to train battle level.
• Ruqun cloth gives +1, expensive Astro item recently released.

Another one is to build in colony which has Manufacture Control building (gives +1 to all crafting skills, including SB).

Virtually, you can reach r22 SB (base r16 + 6 from boosts), but it is capped at r20.

In order to build any ship that the UWO game proposes, it is recommended to follow the defection path.

Indeed and for example, San Gabriel can be built only by portuguese SB, Gunboat only by english SB, Assault Ottoman galley only by ottoman SB, and so on.

Begin to visit all the palaces in the others nations capitales, except Istanbul. If you can defect (a “defect” button appears along to the investment button), that means that you can defect to this nation and this nation is weaker than yours.

If you are in the strongest nation, you’re lucky : try to defect to others nations until the weakest.

If you are in the middle, defect to weaker nations before buying Secret defection application from players or from Astro shop.

This item allows you to defect to the strongest nation (you must wisely choose it) and, then, defect to others nations.

Be aware that upon any defection (except with this item), you’ll loose 5k adv/trade/battle fame (for a total of 15k fame) and you’ll get in hostile status with the previous nation (in case you were in normal status with it).

Another way to reach the strongest nation is to correspond with flagged NPC, we’ll see that in details in the Ottoman defection section.

In order to build foreign ships, you must invest in their territories. That the meaning of defection path.

For example, I have invested 25m in each capitale (40 RIBs), and 5m in each territory (24 RIBs).

Some territories have no shipyard, so it’s up to you to invest or not.

Choose a job that favors sociability and craft or buy (in Florence) Request Investment Books.

Invest in London, Edinburgh, Dover, Plymouth and Grand Cayman.

Invest in Amsterdam, Den Helder, Groningen and Willemstad.

Invest in Lisbon, Faro, Porto, Madeira and Pernambuco.

Invest in Seville, Gijon, Malaga, Valencia, Palma, Barcelona and Trujillo.

Invest in Marseille, Calais, Nantes, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Cayenne.

Invest in Venice, Trieste, Zadar, Ragusa and Caracas.

Ottoman defection is weird : you can’t use Secret defection application and you get heavy penalties upon defection.

In order to defect to Ottomans, you must have an aide with Ottoman Empire correspondence and correspond with Ottoman flagged NPCs until you’ll reach the Affection status with them.

There’s 11 status in game : Warring/Hostile/Enmity/On Alert/Distrust/Normal/Amity/Goodwill/Trust/Affection/Sworn Allies.

For the details of defection cases, please take a look at this comprehensive guide to defection.

Ottoman defection is a nightmare :

• you loose 50k adv/trade/battle fame (for a total of 150k fame).
• you get Hostile status with all other nations and maybe Warring status with the previous nation.
• you get 8k notoriety points, as for now you are considered as privateer and can be attacked even in safe waters (Orange name).

You loose notoriety points by sailing, and sailing again as follow, White name is recovered under 1000 points :

• 8k to 6k : -4 points/day sailing
• 6k to 4k : -3 points/day sailing
• 4k to 2k : -2 points/day sailing
• 2k to 1.5k : -1 point/day sailing
• 1.5k to 1k : -1 point/3 days sailing

Then begins the exile : defect to Ottoman, invest in Istanbul, Kaffa, Trezibond, Algiers, Alexandria and flee through Suez Canal to Guam / Hiva Oa or another lost place.

This is the adventurer point of view, remember ? The issue is : how to do adventure stuff during exile !

Of course you can have Modified Long Schooner as main ship and Modified Super Frigate as aide ship, but I would like to introduce a lighter combination.

During my exile, I used Xebec Cruiser as main ship + Caoyun ship as aide ship.

Xebec Cruiser 7/7 with max sails (+90 +90), max armour (+17) wave resistance of 11 (can sail through storms), turn speed of 16 (13 effective with 3 additional Modified Full Rigged Sails).

I have refitted the XC with 60 sailors (23 needed, and ratio .875 for cannons), 40 cannons (2 x carronade16, 1 x stern carronade8).

XC has Emergency Acceleration, Improved Rudder and Heavy Bombing : the trick is, upon attack, to turn fast, flee with EA while heavy bombing the opponent with stern carronade + accuracy.

I added a weathered iron plating to gain up to 47 armour, my sails power were still 888.

As for the oxford skills, I choosed :

• General check : repairs sails and rudder with timbers
• Gunnery 3 and 4 : with Gerome aide as lieutenant, I was r13 gunnery and r12 for accuracy
• Ship speed 3 and 4

I also renamed my captain aide to “7nSB-WiP” (7 nations shipbuilder – work in progress) and change my status to “7nSB-WorkInProgress”.

So you are a r15 storage meister ? Let’s use it !

I choosed the Priest job, because :

• it’s an adventure job (and i need to do adventure thesis, the second salvage one)
• sociability is favored (for investment)
• caution is favored (i was r12 caution)
• storage is favored (r15 + boosts)

To reach r20 storage, and so to be plundered with difficulty, I wore :

• Natal’s staff : +1 storage (+1 search also)
• Pomegranate-dyed Dolman/Chadri : +2 storage (available only in ottoman territory)
• Star ruby brooch/Jewellery box : +2 storage

After recovering White name, I returned to Europe and use Secret defection application to defect back to France.

Yeah, I have now the 7nSB title !!!

— Lucie’Nantes 2014/08/26 11:42

Kubrius, Yeltdel and tinygrass for inspiration, AdmiralLafitte, Jean_Dupleix, AuroraBorealis for support / help.