BDO Epheria Sailboat: Blueprint, Materials, Quest

Epheria Sailboat is the best T2 barter and trade ship because it has more inventory slots and Weight Limit than the other T2 ship, Epheria Frigate. It is easier to craft than the battle ready Epheria Frigate, but still takes a bit of planning and time to create yourself.

Why Epheria Sailboat Matters:

• Epheria Sailboat is the easiest T2 ship to obtain.
• Its cheaper than the Epheria Frigate in every way.  In materials, silver, or seals cost.
• Most materials for Epheria Sailboat can be obtained via having workers gather at nodes. Logs will probably have to be gathered yourself, since they are usually a bottleneck item.
• Epheria Sailboat can be used for battle and sea monster hunting, but keep in mind it has half the cannons and 10% less manuverability. Epheria Frigate is a better choice if you have more fun sea monster hunting.

For a detailed T2 ship comparison, view our Epheria Sailboat vs Frigate guide.

Epheria Sailboat can be upgraded to Improved Epheria Sailboat (T3) or Epheria Caravel (T4).

Epheria Sailboat from Shakatu’s Seals

The easiest way to obtain an Epheria Sailboat (besides buying at the Marketplace) is by exchanging Shakatu’s Seals in the Manage Currency UI.

Radiant Shakatu’s Seal x20 = 1x Ship License: Epheria Sailboat

Requirement: Level 56+

Shakatu’s Seals are obtained over a period of time via Attendance Rewards.

2 months = 1 Epheria Sailboat

With 10 Shakatu Seals per month from “Loyal” Attendance Reward, it would take 2 months to obtain an Epheria Sailboat.

This assumes you log in every day to obtain the Attendance Reward. (You can catch up on the weekends, Friday and Saturday after reset, if you get behind. Up to 2 Attendance Rewards per day.)

You can have more than one Attendance Reward tab, depending on your choices. For example, you can have one Attendance Reward for “Loyal”, one for “Returning”, and one for “Guild” all at the same time.

Special events can also give Shakatu Seals.

The old Shining Shakatu’s Seals were phased out. (They had a higher cost requirement of 30.)

Shipyard Contribution Cost:

• 5 pre-requisite buildings (9 CP)
• 1 Shipyard building: Port Epheria 3-5 2F (3 CP)
• Worker Lodging (1+ CP)

You will need to free up at least 12 Contribution Points. (Or more depending on Lodging cost for workers.)

You can assign multiple workers to build your Epheria Sailboat.

More workers = faster build time.

Workers can come from any town, as long as the nodes are connected to Port Epheria. Nearby Calpheon City has very cheap lodging, often just 1 CP per worker, but the CP cost in the nodes from Calpheon City to Port Epheria alone is 8 CP for the cheapest route. Only do this if you are already invested those nodes for other reasons.

Standardized Timber Square

You will need 400 Standardized Timber Squares to craft an Epheria Sailboat.

Craft Standardized Timber Squares via Processing (L) → Chopping Logs all the way to tier 3.

Processing (L) Chopping Logs
T1	→	T2	→	T3
Log	→	Usable Scantling	→	Standardized Timber Square

Gathering Logs for Epheria Sailboat

The base Log amount required is about 7,400, if you have Artisan 6 Processing.

Logs are often considered a bottleneck item, because they can’t be obtained via worker nodes. Usually they are obtained via gathering with a lumbering axe. Unless there is a special event or similar going on, you can expect these to be in low supply/high price.

Also, Standardized Timber Square is one of the least profitable items to process for silver, so only make them if you have to.

Time to equip an axe and get started gathering trees! (Pine trees may be your best option, since you will need Pine Plywood as well.)

Pine Plywood

You will need 750 Pine Plywood to craft an Epheria Sailboat.

Craft Pine Plywood via Processing (L) → Chopping Pine Timber all the way to tier 3.

Processing (L) Chopping Pine
T1	→	T2	→	T3
Pine Timber	→	Pine Plank	→	Pine Plywood

Getting Pine Timber for Epheria Sailboat

The base Pine Timber amount required is about 5,600, if you have Artisan 6 Processing.

Pine Timber is not as difficult to obtain as Logs, but it can be in high demand since the nodes to obtain Pine Timber can be tricky to purchase for new players. There are two very nice and cheap ones in Land of the Morning Light.

Pine Timber Worker Nodes:

• Honglim Base → Dalbeol Village – 2 CP
• Bomnae County → Nopsae’s Byeot County – 3 CP
• Serendia Shrine → Glish – 6 CP
• Marie Cave → Keplan – 8 CP
• Khimut Lumber Camp → Tarif – 8 CP

Logging Minigame

You can use the Green Artisan gathering skill to gather more Pine Timber and Logs in a shorter amount of time.

Get this ability by reaching Artisan level gathering and obtaining Green Thumb knowledge in Land of the Morning Light.

Press SPACE when the yellow bar is within the blue target area.

Each successful strike, makes the target area smaller and more difficult to hit.

Sometimes the yellow bar moves faster than other times.

If you press SPACE outside the blue target too many times the minigame ends in failure.

My Gathering Minigame Gear Set

The images below show the minigame loot from a Season Character on a Season Server before the Life Skill changes on June 5, 2024. (Season Characters can now wear Life Mastery gear, however 100% Basic Resources was removed from Season Servers.)

• Low gathering skill – skilled to professional level
• Yawning Hedgehog Lightstone Combo
• T4 Hedgehog well fed and chubby with cuteness 🙂
• Season Server +100% more basic resources.
• Demihar gathering tool

Getting Coal for Epheria Sailboat

The base Coal amount required is about 610, if you have Master Processing.

Coal is not as difficult to obtain as Logs, but it can be in high demand since there is really only one good cheap node near Keplan that gives it.

Coal Worker Nodes:

• Keplan Quarry → Keplan – 2 CP
• Omar Lava Cave → Tarif – 7 CP
• Glutoni Cave→ Keplan – 8 CP

Getting Iron Ore for Epheria Sailboat

The base Iron Ore amount required is about 1220, if you have Master Processing. Processing (L) → Heating this will produce about 610 Melted Iron Shard.

Iron Ore is easy to obtain usually since there are many cheap, beginner friendly nodes for it.

Iron Ore Worker Nodes:

• Coastal Cave → Velia – 2 CP
• Southern Swamp → Glish – 2 CP
• Coastal Cliff → Velia – 3 CP
• Pilgrim’s Haven → Sand Grain Bazaar – 4 CP
• Abandoned Iron Mine → Altinova – 4 CP
• Northern Heidel Quarry → Heidel – 5 CP

There are many more, but they get more expensive in CP cost.

Getting Flax for Epheria Sailboat

The base Flax amount required is about 1240, if you have Artisan 1 Processing. Processing (L) → Grinding this will produce about 620 Flax Thread. Then Heat the threads to make Flax Fabric.

Flax is easy to obtain usually since there are a few beginner friendly nodes for it and not much demand for its use.

Flax Worker Nodes:

• Costa Farm → Heidel – 3 CP
• Moretti Plantation → Heidel – 3 CP
• Kamasylve Temple →  Tarif – 6 CP

Gathering with Gathering Pet

Hedgehog and Llama pets give a chance to obtain an extra gather. They also give Life Skill EXP +1-5%, depending on Tier.

Gathering Proc Chances:

• T1 and T2: 30% proc chance
• T3: 40% proc chance
• T4: 50% proc chance

Blueprint: Epheria Sailboat

You will need 20 Blueprint: Epheria Sailboat in order to craft the Epheria Sailboat.

You can obtain the amount you need in a day as long as you have enough Rough Gemstones.

Epheria Sailboat Blueprint Quests:

• Step 1: Falasi Family’s Kindness from Philaberto Falasi – carry two boxes down to the the wharf.
• Step 2: [Repeat] Philaberto Falasi’s Request – give 10x Rough **gem**. You can complete this as many times as you like in one day as long as you have the materials.

Exchange Epheria Blueprints

Exchange an Epheria Sailboat Blueprint for an Epheria Frigate Blueprint or vice versa at Philaberto Falasi of Port Epheria. Click his “Exchange” option.

If you need to see a man about a ship, Falasi is the man to sea–I mean SEE! He’s located in Port Epheria in Northern Calpheon Territory.

He sells green grade ship gear, ship upgrade permits, Sailor Contract Certificates, and offers daily repeatable ship building quests for the Epheria Sailboat and Frigate.

Crafting an Epheria Sailboat requires careful planning and time, but it’s well worth the effort.

As the best T2 barter and trade ship in Black Desert Online, the Epheria Sailboat offers more inventory slots and weight limit than the battle line of ships.

Epheria Sailboat is a gateway ship to the most powereful barter ships available.

Epheria Sailboat Gear

Epheria Sailboat has both green grade and blue grade ship gear available.

Epheria Old ship gear of green grade were introduced with The Great Expedition Update on 23 October 2019.

The green grade Epheria ship gear is important for one major reason:

• +10 Epheria Old ship parts are required to upgrade to a Caravel.

Ship Parts Increase Ship Stats:

• Cannon: Damage & Durability
• Plating: Weight Limit & Defense
• Figurehead: Speed & Defense
• Sail: Turn & Rations

The enhancement level does NOT drop and never fails.

You will need Memory Fragments or the same ship gear to repair Max Durability. If you want to save on silver cost, you can use an optional pearl shop item called Artisan’s Memory.

• Each same gear repairs 10 Max Durability or 50 Max Durability using Artisan’s Memory.
• Each Memory Fragment repairs 5 Max Durability or 25 Max Durability using Artisan’s Memory.

Max Durability cost for each enhancement level is always 10. Total Max Durability you will need to repair is 100 for each ship part.

Obtaining Tidal Black Stone

Tidal Black Stone is obtained via barter, sailing quests, or sea monster hunting.

• Spend Crow Coin x10 at the Crow Coin Shop
• Barter with [Level 1 to 4] Sea Trade Goods
• Repeatable Sailing/Barter Quests
• Hunt Sea Monsters – drops from Hekaru, Ocean Stalker, Sea of Silence, Young Candidum, Young Nineshark, Young Black Rust.
• Regional Sea Monster Quests
• Give Sea Trade Goods to Baori <Storage Keeper> at Iliya Island.
  • [Level 2] Sea Trade Good = 2 Tidal Black Stones
  • [Level 3] Sea Trade Good = 4 Tidal Black Stones