A Production Line is any collection of goods that you choose to create. Typically these goods will be related in some way. For example let's say you want to manufacture sail outfitting for ships. Examples of these include Nimble Rigs, Speed Rigs, and Stealth Sails.

Contents 1 What is a Production Line? 2 Creating your own Production Line 3 Recipes 4 Stored Labor 5 Unrest Bundles 6 Related Pages

Production Line (The Economy) is part of the guide: Economy. This guide contains the following topics:

• Warehouse
• Structures
• Production Line
• Selling Your Goods
• The Auction House and The Shop
• Making and Buying Ships
• Freetrader
• Advanced Economy Tips

What is a Production Line?

Structure	Output
Oak Logging Camp	Harvest Oak Logs
Lumber Mill	Manufacture Oak Blocks from Oak Logs
Fir Logging Camp	Harvest Fir Logs
Tar Distillery	Manufacture Wood Tar from Fir Logs
Hunting Lodge	Hunt Game
	Skin game for hides
Tanner	Process hides into leather
Plantation (General)	Harvest hemp
Textile Mill	Weave rope from hemp and tar
	Weave hemp canvas from hemp
	Knot rigging from leather, rope, and oak blocks
	Stitch Sailcloth from hemp canvas
	Create Nimble Rigs from Rope and Rigging
	Create Speed Rigs from Oak Blocks, Rigging, and Sailcloth
	Create Stealth Sails from Rope, Rigging, and Sailcloth

To manufacture these items you will need many different types of materials including Hemp Rope, Rigging, Lignum Blocks, Sailcloth, Hemp canvas, Wood Tar, and more. Each of these items are procured from other sources like Hemp Plantations, Oak Logging Camps, and Distilleries.

With these details in mind, a Production Line for creating Nimble Rigs, Speed Rigs, and Stealth Sails might look something like this example to the right.

The example Production Line produces the end products (Nimble Rigs, Speed Rigs, and Stealth Sails) from raw materials (those being an oak forest, a fir forest, livestock, and a hemp Plantation). Your Production Line will obviously vary depending on what you decide you want to manufacture.

Creating your own Production Line

The example Production Line (creating Nimble Rigs, etc.) required eight Structures, and you may remember you are limited to only ten Structures total. So you may wonder what if you wanted to make additional products that require different Structures—wouldn't you be stuck?

Actually, you don't need to make everything from scratch. For example, you might choose to forego the Hemp Plantation and simply buy your hemp from another player or from the Shop. By buying the hemp, you will eliminate one Structure from your Production Line, giving you room for more.

Of course, when you buy materials from other players or from the Shop you will be paying more for the materials in nearly all cases. Bear this cost in mind when planning your Production Line.

When planning a Production Line, consider the relative location of your Warehouse and Structures.

For example, imagine you want to manufacture Chain Shot . The raw materials required for this include iron ore, limestone, saltpeter, sulfur, and common wood. If you examine of the World Map you will see several ports where some of these materials may be harvested or mined.

Pick ports that are close to one another to most efficiently manufacture this product. Try to avoid making long trips carrying materials back and forth (which can be both time consuming and dangerous). Any cargo you carry in your hold may be lost if your ship is defeated or captured at sea.

Recipes

Before you rush out and start your new production line there is one more key element you need to know. Just owning a Structure does not mean you will know how to use the Structure.

As you travel throughout the Caribbean you will come across Recipe Books. Each book will contain one or more Recipes which may help you when using the Structures you build. Everything you produce with your Structures requires that you know the recipe.

To see what Recipes you know, on the Toolbar click on the Skills & Recipes button, and then click on the Recipes tab.

You may obtain Recipe Books in several ways:

• Shop—you may buy them in the Shop.
• Trade—you may trade for them with another player.
• Capture—you might find one in the hold of a defeated or captured ship.
• Reward—you may earn one as a reward for completing certain missions.

When you purchase or capture a Recipe Book, it will be automatically placed into your personal inventory. To learn the Recipes a Recipe Book contains, simply right-click the Recipe Book, and then click Learn Recipes.

If you already know the Recipes contained in a book, sell it on the market or trade it to other players.

The in-game help has additional information on which Recipes are required to create specific items. (To get to the in-game help, on the Toolbar click the Options button . Then on the Options menu click Help.) Each Recipe will describe the items required for creating an item.

Notice that the Recipe includes a listing of the following attributes:

• Labor required—1 hour
  

  Note: The actual amount of labor required will vary depending on what Structure you use to create the recipe.
• Manufacturing cost—200 doubloons
• Materials required—Black Powder and Ingot Iron
• Quantities of required items—one of each
• Which Structures use the Recipe—Advanced Forge, Assembly Yard, and Forge

Just like with Structures, there is a time cost involved in making any item. The amount of time an item requires for construction is taken from the Stored Labor pool of the Structure.

Stored Labor

From the moment you build a Structure, it begins to accrue Stored Labor. Labor is stored in real time, in other words a Structure takes four hours (for example from 1:00 until 5:00) to accumulate four in-game hours of stored labor. Stored labor does not accrue if your Structure has been shuttered from lack of upkeep.

When you use a Structure to manufacture an item, we deduct the labor required to create that item from the stored labor pool. Any Structure can accumulate up to three days of stored labor.

The limit on stored labor will also play a role in the design of your Production Line. Depending on your desired products, you may find that you will need two or more Structures of the same kind.

For example, you may find that you need three or more forges to provide the proper amount of smelting time required for a mine.

Unrest Bundles

Our discussion of the economy would not be complete without at least mentioning Unrest Bundles. Though more closely related to the battle aspect of the game, Unrest Bundles are produced in the economy by a variety of different Structures including the Textile Mill and the Lumber Mill. Unrest Bundles, when delivered to the Rebel Agent of a port under attack, will help decrease the amount of contention in that port.

Check out the Conquest Guide for more information on the contention.

Related Pages

Related Pages
Economy	Warehouse | Structures | Production Line | Selling Your Goods | The Auction House and The Shop | Making and Buying Ships | Freetrader | Advanced Economy Tips
Understanding Sailing	Novice Sailing | Ship Types and Specifications | Expert Sailing
Getting a New Ship	The Basics | Treasure Aisle (Getting a New Ship) | The Shop | Capturing Ships (Cutthroats) | Fallback Ship | Societies | What to Look For in a New Ship
Conquest	Generating Unrest | Port Battle | PvP Zones (Red Circles) | PvP Flags | Server Victories