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11 Plans: Cutlass is a single-use Recipe Paper in Windrose. Reading it permanently unlocks the Cutlass, a one-handed Saber-class melee weapon that deals Slash damage and scales with Agility. Because the Cutlass occupies only the main hand, it pairs naturally with a Pistol, torch, or shield in the off hand.
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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 unlocks the Cutlass recipe at the Personal Weapons and Ship Fittings bench. Once crafted, the Cutlass is a strong anchor for hybrid Saber and Pistol play: each melee hit applies a stacking effect that raises the damage of the next shot, so the same weapon feeds directly into a ranged off-hand. The Sabers category page compares it with the other one-handed slash weapons.
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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 PaperUnlocksCutlassWeapon ClassSaber (one-handed, Slash, Agility scaling)Crafted AtPersonal Weapons and Ship FittingsStack Size20UseSingle-use; consumed on read
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2020 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.Players building toward a Saber and Pistol hybrid should prioritize reading this plan early, since the Cutlass scales with Agility and rewards consistent melee pressure between shots.