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Can be salvaged from ship and boat wrecks along the shore. Crafted at a workbench from copper or iron.

It is a Uncommonresource gathered or crafted in the world of Windrose with item level 1.

Overview

Description

Can be salvaged from ship and boat wrecks along the shore. Crafted at a workbench from copper or iron.

How to Obtain

Crafting Recipes

Recipe Variant 2

Salvaged by Disassembly

Nails can be recovered by disassembling:

• Broken Blade

• Worn-Out Pistol

• Hull bracing: Keelhold

• Hull bracing

• Hull bracing: Iron resolve

• Hull bracing: Standfast

Used in Crafting

Nails is used as an ingredient in the following items.

Used to Upgrade

Nails is consumed by the following ship hull-bracing upgrades. Additional ascend recipes may exist but are not yet cataloged.

Complete Crafting Uses

Nails is an ingredient in the following recipes.

Tips

• Weight 0.2 per unit; factor it into inventory capacity when gathering.

See Also

• Resources

• Crafting

Early-Game Salvage Tip

Washed-up debris along every coastline doubles as a free nail supply. A Stone Axe swung at abandoned wreckage, broken rowboats, small crates, and barrels on the beach returns Nails whenever the struck object contains visible metal. The salvage takes no tool upgrades and works on the starter island, so a shoreline sweep around the first beach covers early-construction nail demand without pulling a single Copper Ore out of the mining queue.

Why this matters. The first few structures a player builds (a Bonfire, Workbench, storage containers, and a Smelting Furnace) burn through the first two or three stacks of Nails quickly, and Copper Ingot is the same input that gates the Fast Travel Bell (10 Copper Ingots) and the Shovel (3 Copper Ingots). Using beach salvage for Nails reserves every Copper Ingot the Smelting Furnace produces for those gatekeeper items, which in turn opens the rest of the early-game loop. Once Foothills Iron Ingot comes online, the trade-off fades, but for the starter-island hours the salvage sweep pays back in saved copper every single run.

Sweep routine. The efficient pattern is to run the perimeter of any new island with a Stone Axe before walking inland: every beached hull, half-buried rowboat, cluster of crates, and barrel along the tideline is a potential nail drop. Pair the sweep with a mining detour only once the beach yield tapers; this usually holds the early camp through the first dozen ship-gear upgrades before Copper Ingot demand for ship hulls forces dedicated mining runs.

Details

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Workbench

Unlocked By

• DISCOVERY Iron tools, crafting stations upgrades and larger ship cannons

• Foothills

• Foothills Iron Ore

Where Found