Rigging

Rigging is the Common ship-material resource used to build and restore every ship in Windrose. It is a refined fiber product, not a base material, so it has to be crafted rather than gathered. Every ship-plan recipe consumes Rigging alongside Wood, Steel Nails, and Coarse Fabric, which makes it the single most farmed refined material in the naval-loop economy.

Summary

How to Obtain

Rigging is crafted at the Spinningwheel from refined Flax Fibers. It is the second step of the Flax processing chain: Flax plant yields Flax Fibers at the Spinningwheel, and Flax Fibers convert into Rigging at the same station. Players who farm Flax heavily for armor production usually end up with a stockpile of Rigging as a byproduct.

Rigging is not sold by any faction provisioner. There is no looted source. Every unit in the economy is player-crafted.

Uses

Rigging is consumed by every ship restoration and construction recipe. The first practical encounter with it comes during I Need a Bigger Boat, when the player must supply 10 Rope (a related fiber product) to restore the starter Ketch. Later, Brig and Frigate plans scale the Rigging requirement up steeply:

• Ketch restoration: low-tier Rigging cost, affordable by mid-Coastal Jungle.

• Brigantine construction: mid-tier Rigging cost, usually crafted in a dedicated batch.

• Frigate construction: high-tier Rigging cost; the Frigate plan gates the bulk of the grind for many captains.

Rigging also appears in a handful of advanced hull-component recipes, such as specific sail and mast upgrades. Ship variants from the Blackbeard and Brethren lines consume Rigging at the same rate as the Stock variants.

Farming Tips

• Plant at least fifteen Flax at your base before committing to a Brig or Frigate craft. Flax is a Seedbed plant, and a mature Flax harvest returns the seeds so the loop is self-sustaining.

• Keep a Spinningwheel near the Wharf so Flax, Flax Fibers, Rigging, and the finished ship recipe all run in the same base corner.

• Rigging does not spoil and does not weigh much relative to the ship plans it feeds, so build a buffer of 40 to 60 units before starting a large ship.

See Also

• Flax the base crop

• Flax Fibers the intermediate product

• Spinningwheel the crafting station

• Wharf where ship plans consume Rigging

• Ships full roster of hulls that consume Rigging

• Coarse Fabric the paired fabric input for ship recipes