How to Repair Your Ship in Windrose
Ships need healing too.
Maintaining and repairing your ship is one of the most important things you have to be mindful of in Windrose. You don’t want to be sailing for almost half an hour, die in the middle of the sea, and start over.
Keep your boat or ship healthy before sailing and even during combat, and here are all the ways you can repair your ship in Windrose.
How to Repair Your Ships in Windrose
Wharf Repairing
While there are several ways to repair your ships, the most underrated way is actually repairing them at the wharf. Through the main questline, you’ll eventually build a Wharf that needs 10x Wood and 10x Coarse Fabric to create. Once you have a Wharf, interact with it and go to the ship selection. Choose the current ship you want to repair and select the repair ship button (basically the ship’s hitpoint percentage icon).
This should bring up the estimated cost for repairs that use only Wood. Most of the time, you’ll get too lazy to go to a Wharf since you can practically call your ship from anywhere on your starting island, and you don’t always want to start sailing where your Wharf is placed.
Repair Kits
Apart from repairing at the Wharf, the most common way to repair is by using Repair Kits. There are two general types of Repair Kits: combat and non-combat.
The regular Repair Kit, which only needs 10x Wood each, is the most commonly used one. It works like using a bandage, where using it applies a healing buff on the ship, but once you get hit or damaged, the healing buff disappears. The problem with this type of repair is that it isn’t as effective in combat, where you keep getting hit, and it also has a cooldown. So if you were able to get a few hitpoints back during combat and you get hit, you can’t use another common Repair Kit to heal up again until the cooldown.
As for the Combat Repair Kit, which requires 5x Wooden Plank, 1x Rum Bottle, and 1x Steel Nails to craft, it repairs the ship faster but only restores 30% of the ship’s health over 10 seconds. Taking damage reduces the duration, but it doesn’t disappear. However, at least it still heals for something, which is crucial mid-combat.
If you prefer Combat Repair Kits, make sure you don’t use too many Rum Bottles. These are also used in alchemy or the Homeward Journey, which is basically a fast travel potion to your base.
These are the main ways to repair your ship and keep it healthy before you set sail.
