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11 Plans: Basic Construction Elements is a single-use Recipe Paper in Windrose. Reading it permanently unlocks a starter group of basic construction elements: the foundational walls, floors, and frames that every land base is built from.
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33 How Recipe Papers Work
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55 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.
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77 What it Unlocks
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99 Reading the paper adds the basic construction elements set to the build list at the Workbench. This is the entry tier of base building: plain wall, floor, and roof segments plus the simple frames that later, fancier plans slot into. Because it is the baseline set, most players read this plan early so the rest of their Building pieces have somewhere to attach.
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1111 Where to Find
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1313 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.
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1515 Properties
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1717 PropertyValueItem TypeRecipe PaperStack Size20UseSingle-use; consumed on read
1818 Related Building Plans
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2020 Basic Construction Elements pairs with the decorative and structural plan papers that expand the same build menu. Other plans in this family include Plans: Elegant Leaf Doors and Windows for plant-themed openings, and the various door, window, and Fences plans that slot into the walls this paper unlocks. Each is a separate single-use Recipe Paper.
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2222 Tips
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2424 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.Once read, the unlock is permanent for that character. Reading a second copy does nothing, so a duplicate paper is best traded or sold.