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SubmarinesSubmarines where to start, firstly to unlock submarines you must have a free company, and a free company workshop. So your Free Company must be rank 6 and have a house and you must buy the workshop.
The first submarine build you will unlock is the shark build, and as the submarine levels up, you can equip higher level parts to the submarine. Higher level builds are unlocked through a number of items in the Free Company workshop
following is a list of materials you will need for each part of each build, and the quantity. I hope this is helpful in pre planning.
StatsSurveillance: 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 (referred to as "Double Dipping").
Exploration BuildI use this at the start of every bit of new submarine content. It has a high success rate of unlocking new areas, 4/5 times its the submarine that unlocks new areas. After all new areas are unlocked, and it is max level, I will change the parts of this submarine build, but in my opinion you always need 1 of this build at the start of new submarine content. Some people use this build as a normal submarine, I do not feel as if it has enough retrieval for me myself to be used for anything other than unlocking areas.
Modified Coelacanth-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Unkiu-class Stern - - - Modified Unkiu-class Bow - - - Modified Syldra-class Bridge
240 Surveillance 115 Retrieval 125 speed 165 Range 195 Favor 80/80
Surveillance Heavy To have the best possible chance at the newer loot you need a submarine that has got high Surveillance and Favor I would recommend any of these Surveillance Heavy builds. I do swap my builds to this build when there is new loot, maybe a minion that everyone now wants. I believe they are worth it but only the first 2 - 4 weeks after that swap back to a loot farming build.
Surveillance Heavy 1Modified Coelacanth-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Unkiu-class Stern - - - Modified Syldra-class Bow - - - Modified Coelacanth-class Bridge
220 Surveillance 120 Retrieval 130 speed 175 Range 210 Favor
Surveillance Heavy 2Modified Coelacanth-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Unkiu-class Stern - - - Modified Syldra-class Bow - - - Modified Syldra-class Bridge
220 Surveillance 120 Retrieval 90 speed 215 Range 215 Favor
Purpose BuildsPurpose builds are builds that have specific purposes and are only good for that 1 purpose they are not good for anything else. I do recommend having 1 of this build as it is super helpful to have a pile of Pure Titanium Ore and Cryptomeria Logs or Kamacite ore, but I have 1 of this build, and its farming pure titanium ore and Cryptomeria Logs I have this build because I do sell the ore and the logs, they do still sell well, but I also craft modified submarine parts which also sell well (3 - 5mil +) so for me it is worth it, may not be to others who don't want to put the time in, if you do not want to put the time in I highly suggest a loot farming build instead.
Pure Titanium Ore and Cryptomeria LogsModified Shark-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Syldra-class Stern - - - Modified shark-class Bow - - - Modified Coelacanth-class Bridge
185 Surveillance 240 Retrieval 150 speed 70 Range 175 Favour 80/80
Kamacite Farming BuildModified Shark-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Coelacanth-class Stern - - - Modified Shark-class Bow - - - Modified Coelacanth-class Bridge
175 Surveillance 205 Retrieval 155 speed 110 Range 195 Favor
Gil Farming buildsSo Gil farming builds go to certain destinations (Unidentified derilicts - The wreckage of discovery - Concealed Bay - The wreckage of the Highwind) and farm certain items which can be sold to NPC'S (Extravagant Salvaged Ring and the like) these items sell for 27K to the NPC's and the Gil farming builds bring back multiple of these items, they are very worth it.
Gil Farming Build 1 Modified Shark-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Shark-class Stern - - - Modified Shark-class Bow - - - Modified Syldra-class Bridge
140 Surveillance 205 Retrieval 145 speed 155 Range 195 Favor
Gil Farming Build 2Modified Shark-class Pressure Hull - - - Modified Coelacanth-class Stern - - - Modified Shark-class Bow - - - Modified Shark-class Bridge
140 Surveillance 210 Retrieval 150 speed 145 Range 175 Favor
I will now also include some tables of the submarine areas, maps first for you to have a visual guide. The Letters will corresponded with the following tables.
And here are the loot tables for each area
This is the first area - Deep Sea Site
This is the second area - The Sea of Ash
This is the third area - The Sea of Jade
RepairsSubmarines like Airships will need to be repaired, to repair submarines 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. I believe the modified parts require 6 Magitek Repair Materials per part.
Anyway I hope this helps you with your submarines guys, best of luck and good farming. This guide will be updated when required to be. Thank you kindly
Freya
