Corsair Cove: Tips And Tricks
Corsair Cove is one of the most beginner-friendly city-builders available, but that doesn’t mean it is easy. The game gives you more tools than most, but you still need to know how to use them.
Here is a collection of our most useful Corsair Cove tips and tricks to get you started on building your pirate haven and conquering the seven seas.
Get A Second Ship ASAP
You can make your way through your entire Corsair Cove playthrough with a single ship, but you most definitely shouldn’t. As soon as you have enough spare Drifters, which can easily do by following the guide below, you should build a second Pier.
Corsair Cove: How To Get More Drifters
Doing so will allow you to build another ship. Ideally, this one should be from a different Principle. Even if you want to achieve victory by maxing out a single Principle, you’ll always progress on at least one other passively.
Build a second ship from whichever Principle is serving as your secondary and take it to the events that are better suited for it. Send it to other areas of the map and expand your range of influence without having to take huge trips with your single ship.
Spread Your Drifters
Buildings and ships require Drifters. If you build everything around a single Pirate Camp, you will have a hard time making things work. Your Galley will need a ton of input to keep everyone fed and your logistics will become a nightmare.
Spread your buildings between camps as much as you can and you’ll have a much smoother time keeping everything in order.
More Warehouses
The Warehouse is the most important building in Corsair Cove. As we mentioned in our Drifter guide, a lot of your production besides Upkeep items won’t have steady demand. Buildings don’t have a lot of storage, so the first use you’ll have for Warehouses is to store resources you’re not using for when you actually need them.
But that’s not all. Warehouses are also your best way of spreading resources between Pirate Camps and assisting with long production lines. Let’s say you build two ships (which, again, you should) and both of them use Scallywags. This means that both of your Pirate Camps will be producing Cassava.
Eventually, you will upgrade one of those ships and you’ll need even more Cassava. Plop a Warehouse between the two camps and you can transfer the surplus from the camp with less Scallywags to the one that has an excess of them now.
Friendly Ports Are Must-Visits
There are two ways to repair your ship and replenish its resources. One is to send it all the way back to its Pier. That sometimes takes a long time, but it is cheap. You only pay a handful of resources and the crew’s upkeep.
The other way is more expensive, but essential in long trips. Most Seven Seas regions will feature a Friendly Port. There you can also repair your ship, replenish your supplies, and hire more crewmembers, and it is cheaper than you probably expect.
Repairing your ship only costs Planks and refilling supplies can be done with Gunpowder— which you’ll almost always have in excess. Hiring crew here is less than ideal as it costs money on top of all the upkeep, but it is worth it if you’re swimming in gold.
Your Crew Is Your Most Important Ship Resource
Following on our previous tip, your crew is, by far, your most important ship resource. Repairing and replenishing your ship becomes a lot more expensive when you have higher level ones. You’ll often be taking higher level ships further and further away from your island, so Friendly Ports will become your main way of refueling.
With this in mind, always prioritize your Crew in combats. Sacrifice as much ship HP and supplies as you safely can if that means you’ll minimize crew losses. You’ll always have a surplus of Planks and Gunpowder to get them back, but Crew costs money, which you’ll always need.
We hope these five tips and tricks help you smoothly sail through Corsair Cove’s waters and to build the pirate haven your mateys deserve.