Ship Design: Brethren's Ketch
Ship Design: Brethren's Ketch is a Recipe Papers item that unlocks the Brethren Ketch, the vicious 8-gun Ketch variant of the Brethren of the Coast. The Brethren Ketch trades the Stock Ketch's lighter hull for a tougher frame: more HP, slower top speed, and the same three primary cannons.
Effect
Reading the design adds the Brethren Ketch recipe to your Shipwright menu. The recipe persists across deaths; the paper is consumed.
Brethren Ketch Stats
Property | Value |
|---|---|
Hull class | |
Faction variant | |
Cannons | 8 guns (description); 3 primary 12-pounders per Ketch hull |
Hit points | 65,000 (highest of the three Ketch variants) |
Top speed | 17 knots |
Trade-off | Slower than Stock Ketch (19 kn) and Blackbeard Ketch (21 kn) |
How to Get the Design
Sold by the Brethren of the Coast Provisioner at a mid-tier Brethren reputation. The Brethren Ketch design is cheaper than the Brig and Frigate equivalents, so it is usually the first faction-locked ship a new Brethren-aligned player can afford.
Tips
Treat the Brethren Ketch as the durability upgrade for the Stock Ketch: same combat profile, more buffer when a fight lasts longer than expected.
If you regularly take chip damage from Naval Combat patrols on the way back to base, the +30% HP from Stock Ketch to Brethren Ketch is the cheapest survivability upgrade in the game.