Dockyard: the Rules Made Simple

You've got a plethora of gifts coming your way as the year comes to an end!

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The Dockyard is where you’re going to build cruiser X Puerto Rico.

• The building process is automatic and will occur continuously between December 17 and January 14, even when you’re in the heat of battle or after closing the game client.
  
• Shipbuilding Points will be credited every second, progressing the ship through the building scale from one phase to the next.
  
• The shipbuilding process is split into 36 phases, with rewards issued for each phase you complete.
  
• To finish the construction of the ship in time, use boosters that you can get in exchange for a special temporary resource—Shipbuilding Tokens. The Tokens can be obtained by progressing through Directives, Daily Missions, and Daily Shipments.
  
• Use a booster as soon as possible—you’ll immediately receive Shipbuilding Points and also increase the rate at which they are accrued.
  
• Some Dockyard boosters are available in exchange for doubloons.

In line with tradition, ships in your Port of Tier V and above will have a Snowflake. The first victorious battles playing each of these ships will reward you with Coal, Steel, and Santa's Gift containers.




Update 0.8.11 will give you the chance to grab a lot of gifts for participating in various New Year-inspired activities. Among the gifts, the following particularly stand out:

• VII Gorizia
• More than 12x Santa's Gift containers
  
• 3x Santa's Big Gift containers
  
• 1x Santa's Mega Gift container
  
• 41x Shipbuilding containers
  
• 5x New Year permanent camouflages
  
• The new cruiser X Puerto Rico, with a one-of-a-kind festive camouflage

Complete the Directive missions and progress through shipbuilding phases to claim a vast array of other goodies such as signals, camouflages, Coal, Steel, and days of Warships Premium Account.

One of the most enticing rewards in Update 0.8.11 is cruiser VII Gorizia. She can be obtained by completing the third Directive, which will be available from December 20.

• Gorizia unlocks a chain of special combat missions that will reward you with the following researchable ships: VI Furious, VI Izmail, VI Guépard, and VI Trento.

Santa's Gift containers, which have chances of dropping a Premium ship in addition to other nice rewards:

• 2x containers on the screen with the cargo container ship in the Port.
  
• 2x containers in a free-of-charge bundle available in the festive section of the Armory.
  
• 3x containers in Daily Shipments.
  
• 1x container for completing the sixth phase of the shipbuilding process at the Dockyard.
  
• 4x containers for completing Directives.
  
• Containers are given for blowing off Snowflakes from Tier X ships. Throughout the Update, your first victorious battle playing each of your Tier X ships will bring you one Santa's Gift container.

Santa's Big Gift containers:

• 1x container issued for completing the "Shipbuilding" collection.
  
• 1x container issued for completing phase 12 of the shipbuilding process.
  
• 1x container issued for progressing through the missions of Directives.

1x Santa's Mega Gift container can be obtained for completing phase 18 of the shipbuilding process.

Shipbuilding containers carrying elements of the new collection which demonstrates various stages of the shipbuilding process:

• 24x collection containers issued for completing Directive missions.
  
• 12x containers issued for completing Gorizia’s combat missions.
  
• 5x containers delivered with Daily Shipments.

New Year permanent camouflage patterns that can be applied to the majority of Tier VIII ships:

• 1x camouflage for progressing through the missions of Directives.
  
• 1x camouflage for completing each of the 24th and 30th phases of the shipbuilding process.
  
• 2x camouflages issued for completing Gorizia’s combat missions.

More details on rewards will be available in the game client.

Even if you don't have time to enter at least one battle, you can still log in to the game to collect the rewards that will drop from Daily Shipments. Daily Shipment rewards contain 75 Shipbuilding Tokens that can be used to speed up the construction of X Puerto Rico. Keep in mind that Daily Shipments will be available for 21 days, and you can skip as many as seven of them—and still collect all rewards.

Also, keep an eye on Daily Missions, which can bring you up to 640 Shipbuilding Tokens to assist you in building Puerto Rico.

Don't rush to knock off the Snowflakes from all of your ships. It would be a bit more expedient to start by completing Directives using suitable ships first, and then move on to dealing with the Snowflakes on the remaining ships.

• Directives can bring you 1,950 Shipbuilding Tokens. Don’t waste time—get started! Promptly exchange them for shipbuilding boosters. The sooner you activate a booster, the faster Puerto Rico’s construction will proceed and the more rewards that will eventually come your way.
  
• Snowflakes will be available for the entire duration of the Update. Focus on enhancing your Dockyard first, then blow them off your ships afterwards.

Watch out for the opening dates of the Directives. There are seven of them this time, and they are set to become available every 4–5 days.

The Directive missions are divided into "combat" and "economic" ones. Pay attention to the conditions of each mission before selecting the most suitable ship to accomplish it.

• Example: in order to complete a mission that requires you to earn ribbons for hitting hostile ships with secondary battery guns, deploy a high-tiered French or German battleship.
  
• To swiftly accomplish economic missions that require you to earn a certain amount of credits and XP, use economic and special signals, as well as camouflage patterns. Don't forget that Premium ships generate a higher yield in each battle!

Getting VII Gorizia from the Premium Shop will enable you to complete the first three Directives faster. The trick here is that once you complete the third Directive, you'll get back the cost of the ship in the form of doubloons.

We recommend that you enhance your Dockyard as soon as possible, because boosters will give you an immediate bonus to Shipbuilding Points, as well as interim rewards for completing the shipbuilding phases. The rewards range from Coal to Steel, Santa's Gift containers, and days of Premium Account.

• The first Directive should be completed before building commences.
  
• Directives 2–5 should be completed within 3 days of opening.
  
• The sixth Directive should be completed within 4 days of opening.
  
• The last Directive should be completed no later than 24 hours prior to end of the overall event.
  
• Complete 20 Daily Missions and collect all the rewards from Daily Shipments.
  
• In order to get the most out of boosters, spend your Tokens as soon as possible.

• The first Directive should be completed before building commences.
  
• Directives 2–4 should be completed within 3 days of opening.
  
• The fifth Directive should be completed within 6 days of opening.
  
• Finish the first 15 Daily Missions and collect all the rewards from Daily Shipments.
  
• In order to get the most out of boosters, spend your Tokens as soon as possible.

• The first Directive should be completed within 5 days of opening.
  
• Directives 2–3 should be completed within 6 days of the completion of each previous one.
  
• The fourth Directive should be completed within 12 days of the completion of the third.
  
• Finish the first 13 Daily Missions and collect all the rewards from Daily Shipments.
  
• In order to get the most out of boosters, spend your Tokens as soon as possible.

• The first Directive should be completed within 7 days of opening.
  
• The second Directive should be completed within 7 days of the completion of the first one.
  
• The third Directive should be completed within 14 days of the completion of the second one.
  
• Collect all the rewards from Daily Shipments.
  
• In this case, Daily Missions Tokens aren’t required at all, but can provide an additional boost if desired.
  
• In order to get the most out of boosters, spend your Tokens as soon as possible.

In any event, starting from phase 18 of the shipbuilding process, you'll be able to complete the ship immediately by using doubloons. The more active you are during the event, the less the ship's construction will cost: the cost will go down at phases 24 and 30 of the shipbuilding process. First of all, get all the boosters available for tokens, and If you want to buy doubloon boosters, it's better to do that early. Use doubloons to complete the ship only after all other possible sources of Shipbuilding Points have been exhausted. You’ll still be able to complete the unfinished ship during the next Update, after the shipbuilding process comes to an end. So, there’s no need to rush, actually.

Even if you won't make it to X Puerto Rico, it's still worth building boosters to get rewards for completing the shipbuilding phases.

The first Directive opens up with the release of Update 0.8.11.

Second Directive: Tue. 17 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Third Directive: Sat. 21 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Fourth Directive: Wed. 25 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Fifth Directive: Sun. 29 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Sixth Directive: Thu. 02 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Seventh Directive: Tue. 07 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Directives will be available until: Tue. 14 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Boosters can be activated from: Thu. 12 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Shipbuilding process starts on: Tue. 17 Dec. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Boosters available for doubloons can be purchased until: Tue. 07 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1) Shipbuilding process ends on: Tue. 14 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)

Please note: boosters will provide you with Shipbuilding Points and rewards immediately, but the permanent bonus to the speed of shipbuilding will only be in effect from December 17.

Snowflakes can be blown off ships until: Thu. 16 Jan. 06:00 CET (UTC+1)


You can start to receive rewards from Daily Shipments within 21 days of Update 0.8.11 going live.

• Combat missions for VII Gorizia will be accessible from December 12 till January 16.
  
• Shipbuilding Tokens for Daily Missions can be obtained between December 12 and January 12, inclusive.

The Ships for Doubloons coupon will be renewed on December 26. On that date, we'll give you three one-off Ships for Doubloons coupons with a 10%, 15%, and 20% discount. The coupons will be available until January 8.

More details on our New Year festivities are available in a dedicated article.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/552990/announcements/detail/1701728480498939066

New Year’s special—some articles will contain a special hidden button for attentive readers! All you have to do to claim your presents is read each article and click a special button you find within. Each button will remain active for 3 days and, when clicked, will endow you with three signals: Zulu, Papa Papa, and Equal Speed Charlie London.

Equal Speed Charlie London will bring you 50% more XP for each battle, Zulu will raise your credit earnings by 20%, and Papa Papa will triple your Free XP gains.

Attention: that button is available either

• inside the ingame news (click your name in the lower left corner of the Port → News → find this news post and the button inside)
  
• or you need to open the article on the webportal of your game region(choose below), log in (if you haven't linked email and password yet — choose Steam option on the right) and click it.