North Sea Chapter
Required Skill Books
Art Handbook (
Cairo, reward after 400,000D in Investment)
Book of Additional Wood Armour (all six capital cities) 15000D
Book of Alloy Smelting [optional] (
Dublin, reward after 300,000 in investment)
Brewing Secrets [optional] (
Cagliari, reward after 320,000D in investment;
Hamburg) 10000D
Brewing Secrets Volume 2 [optional] (
Havana, Montpellier, reward after 800,000 in investment)
-Required Skills
Industrial good trading (mineral trader)
Handicraft (medicine trader)
Ore trading [optional] (mineral trader)
Casting [Level 7+] [optional] (mineral trader, firearms trader)
Alcohol trading [optional] (accountant)
Luxury items trading [optional] (accountant, medicine trader)
Level 1 – 3 (Lumber + Iron >>> Cedar Boards)
Although, casting is not essential, having casting at level 7 and being able to make Bronze would make the levelling up of Handicraft 10 or more times faster. For details on how to level up Casting, see my guide on Casting. The reason is that you can turn Bronze into Bronze statue and the materials to make Bronze can all be found in
Hamburg.
If you wish to master Handicraft and you are from either England or Netherlands, it is highly recommended that you start off with Casting and use Handicraft as a complement rather than head straight into Handicraft.
Purchase as many Iron from
Amsterdam as you can and then sail to
Oslo. In
Oslo combine Lumber with Iron to make Cedar Boards from the
Book of Additional Wood Armour.
Level 3 - 5 (Lumber >>> Wooden statue)
The recipe book required for making Wooden Statue is obtained from
Cairo. It is best to ask a friend from a Mediterranean nation to bring the book for you. It is a very long travel from
Cairo back to the North.
Wooden Statues will sell for quite a lot in
Oslo, and this recipe can make you rich very quickly. The disadvantage is that
Oslo has no close by ports, so you will have to buy Lumber from other players.
Level 5 – 8 (Copper Ore + Tin Ore >>> Bronze: Bronze >>> Bronze statue)
Bronze can be purchased from ports, but it is much quicker if you use level 7 casting skill and the
Book of Alloy Smelting, obtained from 300,000D in investments in
Dublin to produce Bronze from Copper Ore and Tin Ore, which are both available in
Hamburg.
In this method you can level up your Casting as well as your Handicraft, and you don’t have to leave port.
Level 8 – 10 (Copper Ore + Tin Ore >>> Bronze: Bronze >>> Bronze Statue or Raisin >>> Wine, 2 x Wine >>> Brandy, Brandy + Raisin >>> Shelly)
Path A (Copper Ore + Tin Ore >>> Bronze: Bronze >>> Bronze Statue)
You can craft Bronze Statues until you reach level 10. You will make a lot of Ducats, but the monotony might kill you.
Path B (Raisin >>> Wine, 2 x Wine >>> Brandy, Brandy + Raisin >>> Shelly)
You can also use the method discussed earlier in the Mediterranean Chapter to make Shelly in
Bordeaux/Nantes areas.
Level 10
See late game
