Airship building

[BonzaiFerroni]

Revisions:

• I posted a full guide here!
• Corrected some of the quantities in the list, I'd still use it "with a grain of salt"
• There is another possible condition that is better than excellent, which is Outstanding (2/3 mats added to initial quantities).
• You do not need to get to 100 to achieve Excellent or Outstanding. Sometimes you will get these at less than 100 quality, and sometimes you won't get these when you reach 100, it just seems to improve your odds!
• Caution to those building a 2nd airship: Conditions must be met before you employ a 2nd airship into your service, but it isn't clear yet what those are. The mammet has some vague information. Will update when I know more!

We just built the first rank airship, it was fun tracking down all the materials and putting everything together.

To sum up the process, it is pretty much just a series of hand-ins. You have four different airship parts, and each part has 3 phases. Although a game dialog told us that there was a limit to how many we could do per day, we couldn't find that number anywhere and none of us reached it. You'll need 4 crafters in the party, and some of them will need to be high enough level to hand in the materials in the various jobs. Unfortunately, there isn't much for the other party members to do, they just have to be there!

Every time you hand in a stack of items, there is a chance Quality will increase. If you manage to get to 100 quality points in a phase, you will get an Excellent rating and the next phase will be condition: excellent (slightly incorrect, see note above). As far as we can tell, the only advantage to this is that you won't have to turn in quite as many items during that phase. Your quality gains will be higher but that just seems to be offsetting the fact that you have fewer hand-ins during that phase.

The biggest question that we had starting out: Does it matter if materials are high quality or normal quality?

We turned in a combo of NQ and HQ items and we actually had a higher average increase with NQ (average = 6.6, n = 57) than we did with HQ (average = 4.7, n = 26).

Our early conclusion is that the only difference between NQ and HQ is how much EXP you get. There's obviously a lot of RNG involved, so perhaps there is a slight benefit to HQ mats, but our trend was in the opposite direction.

Obviously for the lowest rank airship, the mats are not scarce and there probably isn't much advantage to using HQ mats. About half of the mats can be purchased from the amaljaa vendor!

These are early conclusions, and maybe some of this has even been said in the patch notes. Please correct any errors!

/u/Mishona from reddit put together a list of materials. Haven't double checked to verify, but this would have been pretty useful. I've marked which ones you can purchase from the Amalj'aa vendor, which is a pretty good portion of it: (EDIT: seems players have found a couple inconsistencies with this list, I've corrected the ones pointed out)

18 Yew Lumber
18 Mahogany Lumber
9 Iron Nails
66 Cobalt Ingots
18 Spruce Lumber
18 Bronze Rivets (Amalj'aa)
18 Mythril Plates
18 Electrum Ingots
18 Cobalt Ingots
36 Darksteel Plates
6 Vanya Silk
18 Boar Leather
42 Linen Canvas
18 Varnish
18 Horn Glue
123 Steel Ingots (Amalj'aa)
81 Steel Rivets (Amalj'aa)
48 Cobalt Joint Plates
6 Hard Hippogryph Leather
6 Saurian Leather
21 Iron Ingots (Amalj'aa)
96 Iron Rivets (Amalj'aa)
54 Steel Joint Plates
18 Darksteel Ingots
60 Mythril Rivets (Amalj'aa)
60 Silver Ingots
21 Rosewood Lumber
21 Darksteel Nuggets

[haloper]

Do you know where you can get the empty crystals and other mas needed to get the schematics?

[Jahin]

Do you know where you can get the empty crystals and other mas needed to get the schematics?

I can confirm that the bamboo weave comes from sending your airship out, we got 11 from sending it to Zone 2 of the Sea of Clouds. I suspect the other materials come from sending it out on voyages as well.

[lackofwords]

Adding HQ materials to it increased the chance of "Excellent Construction", which the next phase will have 1 set of materials added to each type of materials needed.
Those materials also seem to be HQ but I couldn't check before it went sent out to be completed.
http://www.twitch.tv/lackofwords/c/6859220

[Aeyis]

8 Hard Hippogryph Leather

Should be 6

Adding HQ materials to it increased the chance of "Excellent Construction", which the next phase will have 1 set of materials added to each type of materials needed.
Those materials also seem to be HQ but I couldn't check before it went sent out to be completed.
http://www.twitch.tv/lackofwords/c/6859220

Based on my own observations HQ materials had no noticable difference. I tested this with one phase of nearly all NQ items vs one phase of 100% HQ items. First phase ended at 66, second phase at 60.

The effect of excellent construction seems to be inconclusive. When I procced an Excellent Construction it added 2/3 of the materials required, rather then only 1/3

[aerolol]

I can confirm that the bamboo weave comes from sending your airship out, we got 11 from sending it to Zone 2 of the Sea of Clouds. I suspect the other materials come from sending it out on voyages as well.

I got 11 bamboos too, but from Zone 1 of Sea of Clouds. So it seems both zones can give us that.


To craft the 1st airship, it is a 3-step delivery process.
The latter ranks have many more steps.

I also had the impression that using HQ mats is not different at all then using NQ mats for the "Excellent Construction" thing.
For me it's pure RNG...
50% chance of any delivery you turn-in increasing the progress/construction thing. 50% chance it doesnt, regardless if your turning in HQ or NQ items.

[hqdm]

I saw no difference in HQ vs NQ as far as Construction bonuses go.
Having the bonus just means less mats required in the following phases though, no difference re: stats it looks like.

Day1 R1: Z1 -> Z2: 27 Vivianites from Z1 SoC
Day2 R2: Z2 -> Z1: 55 Vivianites from Z2, 4 Bamboo Weave from Z1

[Belhi]

This might seem like a dumb question, but do you get to name your Airships when you register them?

[cherrylimeaid]

Yes, when you build an airship you can register a new name. Not sure if they are unique and once you register, that name is taken for the server though.

[Aeyis]

I guess I got unlucky with the voyage. Our first one only gave 24 crystals in each zone.