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Decoration: Old Chest
May 23, 2026 at 06:59 AM
Added Comfort System and Decorations cross-links, clarified the Old Chest as a usable storage container, expanded the Where to Find and Tips sections, and added a See Also list of
Decoration: Old Chest is a single-use Recipe Paper in Windrose. Reading it permanently unlocks: Old Chest, a heavy timber-and-iron storage box that doubles as a working storage container once placed.
Recipe Papers are looted in the world: most often from chests in pirate camps, ruins in the Coastal Jungle, and points of interest scattered across the archipelago. Some merchants in Tortuga also rotate a small selection of plans through their stock. The paper is consumed when it is read. Reading the paper adds the listed entry to the relevant crafting station's recipe list permanently for that character, with no further fee.
Reading the paper unlocks Old Chest at the Workbench. Unlike a purely cosmetic decoration, the Old Chest is a functional storage container: once built and placed, it opens an inventory grid you can deposit items into, so it both dresses an interior in the Old World style and adds usable space to a base. For a full breakdown of container sizes and stacking rules, see Storage Containers.
Placed decorations and furniture feed a base's Comfort System, which raises your maximum stamina pool and stamina recovery through the Rested buff. The system rewards variety, not quantity: it counts only the first piece from each decoration sub-category, so a single Old Chest contributes its category once. Adding more identical chests does nothing for Comfort, though extra chests are still worth building for the storage space.
This recipe is part of the Old World set, a heavy timber-and-iron style fitting older European buildings. Collecting and reading every paper in the same building set gives a coherent visual style across walls, furniture, and decoration pieces.
Drops most reliably from looted chests in pirate camps and ruined points of interest, with occasional appearances in cargo crates from defeated NPC ships and in random trader stock at Tortuga. Once read, the unlocked entry is bound to the character that read it; share-base members must each find and read their own copy.
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Item Type | |
Unlocks | Old Chest (functional storage container) |
Crafted At | |
Building Set | Old World |
Stack Size | 20 |
Use | Single-use; consumed on read |
Carry duplicates as trade bait. Until a base stockpiles every recipe paper for a building set, an extra copy is a strong barter chip with other crews.
Read papers at a base, not on a ship. Some plans add bulk decoration sets that flood the crafting menu, and being at a workshop helps preview new entries immediately.
Build at least one Old Chest for the Comfort category credit, then add more only where you need the storage. Extra copies past the first do not raise Comfort.
Once read, the unlock is permanent for that character. Reading a second copy does nothing, so a duplicate paper is best traded or sold.
Recipe Papers: overview of how plans drop and teach.
Decorations: full decoration category index.
Storage Containers: container sizes and how stored items stack.
Base Building: broader build-system context.
Decoration: Pirate Chest: sibling chest plan.
