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11 Cutter is a small, fast ship class in Windrose, used primarily by factions as a scouting and raiding vessel. Player-facing Cutter entries exist in the game database, but they are not built at the Wharf like the Brig, Frigate, or Ketch. At sea the Cutter appears most often as an AI-controlled scout belonging to a faction, where it is a fodder encounter during patrol flags: low hull, good speed, quick to sink in a fair broadside.
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33 Overview
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66 PropertyValueFamilyCutterDescriptionA swift and nimble raiderPlayer variant hitpoints500Player variant top speed21.5 knAI variant hitpoints200 (most factions); 500 for the scripted Quest variantAI variant top speed17.3 kn (most factions); 21.5 kn for the Quest variantCrew capacity30
77 Mobility
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99 Cutters share a single mobility profile across all variants. The top gear reaches 21.5 knots in calm wind. Turn-rate values per gear are listed in the Mobility table below; comparative rankings against other ship families are not published in the in-game current data, so treat the Cutter's reputation as a quick-turning raider as a role description rather than a numeric claim.
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1111 GearSpeedTurn RateTurning RadiusGear -1-5 kn-11°/sGear 00 kn9.5°/sGear 12.3 kn15°/sGear 28 kn17°/sGear 315 kn16°/sGear 421.5 kn15.5°/s
1212 Variants
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1414 The Cutter family includes eight entries in total: faction-flagged AI scouts that patrol open water, a scripted Quest Cutter used in mission context, a player-classified Default Cutter, and a higher-hull Default variant.
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1616 VariantKindFactionHull HPTop SpeedBrethren ScoutAIBrethren of the Coast20017.3 knBucaneer ScoutAIBucaneers20017.3 knSmuggler ScoutAISmugglers of Port Royal20017.3 knScoutAICivilians20017.3 knCutterAIBlackbeard20017.3 knCutter (Quest)AIQuest50021.5 knCutter (Player Default)PlayerDefault50021.5 knCutter (Player Default, hardened)PlayerDefault700
1717 Role at Sea
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1919 Cutters fill the scout slot in faction fleets. Their low hull (200 HP for faction scouts) means they fall to a couple of well-aimed broadsides from a stock 12-pound battery; they are the ship you sink to clear a patrol marker rather than the ship you fear in a head-on fight. The Quest Cutter is the exception: its 500 HP and 21.5-knot top speed make it closer to a player-tier ship when scripted missions call for it.
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2121 No hull in Windrose can be captured and added to the player roster. Boarding an AI Cutter lets the player clear the deck in melee, but loot drops into the inventory and the hull either sinks or remains as a static wreck. The same rule applies to every other class; see Boarding for the general boarding and crew-clearing ruleset.
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2323 Acquisition
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2525 Player-kind Cutter entries exist in the game data but are not produced at the Wharf and have no published unlock method at the current Early Access version. Unlike the Brig, Frigate, and Ketch classes, no Ship Plans entry has been surfaced for the Cutter family, and the Shipwright's Workshop does not list Cutter hulls as a buildable keel. Encounters with the AI scouts are therefore the only reliable way to see a Cutter at sea in the current build.
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2727 See Also
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2929 Ships for the top-level ship index
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3131 Ship Types for the broader class overview and lore context
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3333 Naval Combat for the general ship-vs-ship ruleset
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3535 Boarding for the boarding and crew-clearing mechanic
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3737 Brig for the next-size-up player-buildable class
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3939 Brethren of the Coast, Smugglers of Port Royal, and Blackbeard for the factions that sail AI Cutter variants
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4141 Details
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4343 Build Cost
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4545 IngredientQuantityPiastrex1