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Goods and Production is Corsair Cove's economic backbone. The haven runs on more than 50 distinct goods, organised into layered production chains that climb the haven's vertical tiers. This page collects the goods documented for the release build and explains the broad chain structure tying raw materials, intermediate goods, and finished products to the buildings and crews that make them. See also City Building, Buildings, and Crew and Population.

Catalog Scope

Limbic and Hooded Horse have repeated the same headline number across announce coverage: more than 50 distinct goods, organised into layered chains. The catalog spans the everyday provisions a pirate crew needs to keep showing up and the specialised pirate paraphernalia that turns the era's atmosphere into mechanics.

Confirmed Raw Materials

Confirmed Manufactured Goods

The full per-building catalogue, with inputs and outputs per minute for every gathered resource and worked chain, is in the Gathered Resources and Worked Chains tables further down this page, and the building costs are on the Buildings page.

Unlocking Chains

Production chains are not all available from the start. Many are gated behind the compass: to open a chain, complete the deeds tied to the area of the compass that chain sits under. Others unlock as a consequence of progress rather than as a direct goal, arriving when a new population type is unlocked or when a new desire creates demand for a good that did not previously matter.

The in-game reference for this is the resources overview screen. Each resource's tooltip there states how and where it is acquired, and whether it can be produced on your island at all or has to come from elsewhere.

Managing Shortfalls

When drain on a good outruns production, there are two levers. The direct one is to build more of the structure that makes it. The other is All Hands on Deck, which applies a temporary production boost that can cover the gap without new construction. Neither changes the underlying chain, so a persistent shortfall eventually needs more buildings.

A third lever arrived after launch. Since Patch 5 on September 3, 2026 the Trading Post can be set to trade resources automatically, and Patch 6 on September 17 raised its maximum number of Fetchers to five, so a persistent shortfall in a good the island cannot make efficiently can be covered by trade without constant attention.

Advanced drink is worth singling out. Basic swabbies are satisfied by plain booze, but higher crew tiers want goods such as cider or moonshine. Producing them costs an extra chain, and the return is higher ship statistics, which links the production economy directly to naval performance.

Chain Structure

Each production chain pulls a raw material through one or more intermediate stages and ends at a finished good. Because each stage can sit on a different tier of the cliff face, a chain is both a layout decision and a logistics decision. Iron from a mine on one tier, smelted on a second tier, and pressed into cannons in a foundry on a third tier is one chain that crosses three Vertical Construction tiers and depends on pulley systems and depots at each break to keep flowing.

The haven's economy is therefore not just about producing enough of each good; it is about routing each chain through the cliff-face geometry without starving the workers or stranding inventory.

Goods That Move the Crew

Three goods are explicitly tied to the morale system because they are the ones the crew actively consumes:

• Ale routes through taverns and is the fastest lever on cohesion.

• Tobacco the second named comfort good; sustains morale alongside ale.

• Clothing a basic provision rather than a comfort; under-supply pulls the meter slowly but persistently.

Higher worker tiers expect richer provisioning. Masterhands eat and drink better than greenhands, and the production chains for the upper-tier provisions are usually longer than the basic ones.

Ship Outfitting

Goods produced on land also outfit the fleet. Cannons go from foundries to ships; sabers go to boarding crews; spyglasses to navigators; ale and food to the ships' provisions before each Expeditions expedition departs. A fleet at sea is a depletion event: every action burns supplies that have to be re-produced before the next voyage.

How a Chain Converts

Every building in a chain consumes its inputs and produces its output at a fixed speed and ratio. A Sawmill turns 4 Hardwood into 10 Planks per minute, and the conversion is visible in the detail tooltip on its production wheel. Boosters bought on the Compass add bonus output on top of the base figure, shown separately on the panel.

Two conditions have to hold for any building to run: the required input has to be in its input storage, and there has to be space in its output storage for the result. The second condition catches new players out, because a producer with nobody collecting from it quietly stops once its output fills, wasting the upkeep of its workers the whole time. Assigning a fetcher from a Warehouse is what keeps it moving.

The production chain overview, opened with the I key by default, lays out an entire chain at once. Black Powder is the first genuinely multi-step good a haven meets, and its overview shows five producers, two deposits, and a fertile area behind a single output. See Buildings for the per-building rates and Ships for the goods each hull tier demands.

Patch 6 rebalanced the middle of the game by moving the Tabby and Cannonball production chains from the mid game to the late game and adding a Slop Shop productivity booster on the Compass. Patch 5 corrected two chain faults: the Iron Mine and Iron Caster had wrongly required Hardwood rather than Planks to build, and input storage had grown when All Hands on Deck was enabled on a production building.

Unconfirmed Details

Production rates, inputs, and building staffing are published for the released chains. Still open:

• Whether any goods spoil or carry a shelf life, which nothing in the published material suggests.

• Trade pricing behaviour over time, as opposed to the flat stack selling values listed in-game.

• Storage caps per building beyond the stack sizes shown on each resource.

Resource Categories

The game sorts everything the haven handles into three working categories, which is the distinction that actually matters when planning a chain.

Upkeep is the category that catches players out. It drains continuously rather than at the moment of an action, so the number to watch is the island's net production, shown in green when output is outpacing consumption and red when it is not. See Crew and Population for what each role eats.

Gathered Resources

These are produced from a deposit or the environment with no input goods, and they are where every chain starts.

Worked Chains

Every producing building converts a fixed input into a fixed output each minute. The Sawmill is the canonical example: four Hardwood in, ten Planks out.

Because each stage can sit at a different elevation, a chain is a layout problem as much as an economic one. See Vertical Construction and City Building.

Raid Resources

A handful of goods cannot be produced on the island at all. They have no production building and no recipe, and the only way to hold them is to take them from the Seven Seas. They are also the highest-value goods to sell, which makes raiding an economic strategy rather than only a military one.

Lens feeds the Spyglass Maker and Grain feeds the Tack Oven, so two ordinary-looking chains bottom out in goods that can only be raided. That is the clearest mechanical expression of the setting: a haven that never sails cannot finish its own industry. See Expeditions and Naval Combat.