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AirshipsFC Airships are built from FC Crafting in the FC workshop So your Free Company must be rank 6 and have a house and you must buy the workshop. Airships can undertake Exploratory Voyages, the exploration of uncharted lands in The Sea of Clouds. These explorations are carried out automatically, with airships returning after a fixed amount of time. They are always worth while and I would strongly recommend levelling at least 2 airships.
Each airship is built with four components: Hull, Rigging, Forecastle and Aftcastle, all of which can be crafted in the FC Workshop. Like Submarines Airships parts have the same stats and they have the same effects.
Surveillance: Influences the weather pattern encountered in a sector. Weather patterns affect loot tables and require specific minimum thresholds. Rarer loot requires better weather.
Retrieval: Influences the extraction rate (yield) of a dropped item (poor, normal, optimal).
Speed: Influences the duration of a voyage.
Range: Influences the maximum distance a ship may travel during a voyage.
Favor: Influences the number of anomalies detected at a single destination
Above is a chart of all the airship parts to date, and their stats.
There are a few builds I would recommend, and I myself use or have used, they each have their own purposes and uses. With my airships I try to get the most out of them, I like big hauls and lots of loot that I want, I don't care about the speed. So most of my builds are built to my preference, you of course can find other builds, these are just my own preference.
Build 1 Invincible Hull - Bronco Rigging - Tatanora Forecastle - Tatanora Aftcastle
Surveillance - 120 Retrieval - 140 Speed - 50 Range - 84 Favor - 136
This is a good build as it has a good amount of surveillance, retrieval, and Favour, and also a decent amount of range, it is a good airship. I like this build and I do use it.
Build 2Invincible Hull - Enterprise - Odyssey Forecastle - Odyssey Aftcastle
Surveillance - 110 Retrieval - 118 Speed - 82 Range - 76 Favor - 122
This build is a very popular build, it has a good amount of Surveillance, a good amount of Retrieval and a good amount of Favor, it has less range than Build 1 but has got more speed than build 1. It is a good alternative, I personally do not use this though.
Build 3Enterprise Hull - Bronco Rigging - Invincible II Forecastle - Tatanora Aftcastle
Surveillance 92 - Retrieval - 140 Speed - 50 Range - 98 Favor - 104
This is a good build as it has a decent amount of Surveillance, a decent amount of Range the best out of all of the 3 builds, it has a good amount of Favour, it also has 140 Retrieval. It has got a poor amount of Speed though, but as I previously said I care very little for speed.
Repairs Airships like Submarines will need to be repaired, to repair an Airship you will need an item called Magitek Repair Materials, these items can be crafted and require 1 Dark Matter Cluster and 5 Grade 6 Dark Matter to make 1 Magitek Repair Materials, I would advise making at least 50 to 100, as higher level parts require more Magitek Repair Materials to be repaired.
Anyway I hope this helps you with your Airships guys, best of luck and good farming.
Freya
