Overview
Shipwrecks are a recurring point-of-interest category in Windrose. Wrecks appear along coastlines and in open water, often dragging curios, crafting materials, and quest-starting items from lost crews. They are a primary entry point for early-game loot before bases are fully built.
What Shipwrecks Contain
Curios: quest-starting items such as the Blurry Sketch of the Island, which triggers Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest.
Materials: Coarse Fabric, Rope, Wood.
Loot chests: Piastres, ammunition, occasional Elixirs and Healing Potions.
Lore fragments: diary pages tying into Traveler's Journal Collection and the Marcel Boucher questline.
Notable Examples
Location | Notable Contents | Linked Quest |
|---|---|---|
Starting island, east coast | Decrepit Chest + Blurry Sketch of the Island curio | |
Coastal Jungle waterlines | Material and Piastre stashes | General exploration |
Open-sea wrecks | Ammunition caches, Homemade Gunpowder | Naval exploration |
Tips
Run the coastal perimeter of every new island before venturing inland; wrecks are signposted by debris and beached hulls.
Drop a Fast Travel Bell at any wreck you want to revisit; quest items sometimes require backtracking.
Wrecks in deeper water may attract Drowner or Swollen Drowned ambushes.