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33 Cannonballs is a Military Decorations piece in Windrose, a placeable decoration that displays a neat stack of iron shot. It is purely ornamental: it sits on a Floor piece, raises a room's comfort rating, and cannot be loaded or fired. It is not the ship round used in naval combat. For the functional projectile a ship's Cannons fire, see Ammunition.
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55 Summary
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77 PropertyValueTypeDecoration (placeable)Sub-categoryMilitary DecorationsPlacementSits on a Floor pieceComfort+1 MilitaryFunctionCosmetic only; cannot be firedIn-game flavorStacking cannonballs can be fun, but rum is better.
88 Placement and Decorating
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1010 The stack rests on any Floor piece, so it works on a deck, a balcony, or the corner of a study rather than on a wall.Pair it with an Ornamental Cannon for a battery scene. The cannon is also decorative and cannot be fired.It reads as a naval prop, so it suits a deck, a dockside warehouse, an armory corner, or a captain's study more than a bedroom or galley.Like every decoration, the Comfort +1 from the Military category does not stack: a second Cannonballs stack (or any other Military piece) only changes the look, it does not add more comfort. See Military Decorations for the rest of the set, including the numbered Wall Weapon Racks and Ornamental Sabers.
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1212 Comfort is a base-wide rating built up from the decorations you place, and it is what makes a home feel lived in rather than bare. Because the Military bonus is capped at a single contribution, the practical role of the Cannonballs stack is theming: it lets you build a believable gun deck or trophy room without each extra piece feeling wasted. Pair it with Trophies and Flagpoles and Banners for a fuller martial display. The full decoration system, including how comfort is totalled, is covered on the Decorations page.
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1414 Decorative Stack vs Ship Ammunition
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1616 Windrose uses the word cannonball in two unrelated places, which is easy to confuse:
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1818 ItemWhat It IsWhere It LivesCannonballs (this page)A decoration that displays a pile of shot for comfortMilitary DecorationsStandard cannon roundThe default projectile fired in ship combat, aimed at the hullAmmunitionChain shotThe alternate ship round that targets sails and slows the targetChain Shot
1919 During a sea fight you select rounds at the cannon and aim at the enemy hull; that system is covered on the Cannons and Ammunition pages. This decoration plays no part in that, it simply dresses up a room.
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2121 How to Unlock and Build
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2323 The recipe is taught by the plan Decoration: Cannon and Cannonballs. Once learned, build it from the following materials:
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2525 IngredientQuantityFoothills Iron Ingotx10Hardwoodx10
2626 The same plan also unlocks the matching Ornamental Cannon, so a single unlock covers the whole battery display.
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2828 See Also
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3030 Military Decorations the decoration sub-category this piece belongs toOrnamental Cannon the matching decorative cannonDecorations the full decoration system and comfort rulesAmmunition the functional ship rounds (a different thing)Cannons the ship weapon that fires those roundsTrophies another display category for a captain's quarters
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3434 Properties
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3636 PropertyValueMax Health7,500
3737 Build Cost
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3939 IngredientQuantityFoothills Iron Ingotx10Hardwoodx10
4040 Taught By
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4242 PlanDecoration: Cannon and Cannonballs
4343 Comfort
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4545 CategoryBonusMilitary+1