OldChronianRefit

The Old Chronian Refit (Caelanor Mast Platforms 3.0.1)

The Old Chronian mod's Caelanor and Aelasyl refitted to fight: fighting tops

and lookout posts on their masts, lower ratlines and leaning futtock ladders

you can climb, a walkable net slung under the bowsprit, copper sheathing below

the water, davits over the frigate's stern, and a bilge pump for the frigate.

Everything is bought at the shipyard, with the ship's own parts. Nothing in the

Old Chronian mod itself is changed.

This is the same plugin that ships inside Dangerous Waters. Install one or

the other, not both: if both are present BepInEx loads one copy and skips the

other (same plugin ID). With Dangerous Waters you also get Gun Port Lids as

a shipyard option, the Caelanor's sliding fore hatch and the frigate's trim;

those are part of Dangerous Waters, not of this plugin.

This plugin replaces the old separate Caelanor Mast Platforms (2.6.2). If

you have that one, delete its folder; if you forget, BepInEx skips it anyway.

Requirements

• Sailwind, BepInEx 5 (installed by Mod Manager / r2modman)
• The Old Chronian ship mod (the ships themselves)

Optional, each adds one thing:

• Dinghies (, Pr0SkyNesis) - the Aelasyl's stern davits and

the boat in them. Without it no davits are offered.

• Old Chronian Fixes (Discord, with Old Chronian) - gives the Caelanor her

bilge pump; with it installed the Aelasyl gets the same pump. Without it she

has none.

• Shipyard Expansion (Discord) - the copper sheathing wears its copper,

matching the brig's. Without it the sheathing wears a plain copper of its own.

Old Chronian itself is a Discord mod, not, so a mod manager

cannot fetch it for you: install it by hand first.

Install

Unzip into BepInEx\plugins\. You should get:

BepInEx\plugins\CaelanorMastPlatforms\CaelanorMastPlatforms.dll

BepInEx\plugins\CaelanorMastPlatforms\CaelanorHatchFix.dll

BepInEx\plugins\CaelanorMastPlatforms\OldChronianReadable\ (the four ships, readable)

The second file is the Caelanor Hatch Walk Collider Fix (by Dixiecapt): the

Caelanor's cabin hatch has an invisible walk collider twice the length of the

opening, which blocks the companionway even with the hatch open; this slims it

to the hatch itself. If you already have it installed elsewhere, keep one copy.

Start the game. The settings file

BepInEx\config\com.dixiecapt.caelanormastplatforms.cfg (or the name your

log shows) is written on the first run; press F1 (Configuration Manager) for

the few settings there are.

What you get, and where to buy it

Take the Caelanor or the Aelasyl into any shipyard.

| Fitting | Ship | Shipyard list | Price, bought / fitted |

|---|---|---|---|

| Fighting Top, one per mast | both | Masts | 140 / 40 |

| Fighting Top + Lookout Post, one per mast | both | Masts | 220 / 60 |

| Bowsprit Netting | both | Other | Aelasyl 180 / 60, Caelanor 120 / 40 |

| Copper Sheathing | both | Other | Aelasyl 1400 / 300, Caelanor 600 / 150 |

| Stern Davits | Aelasyl | Dinghies' own davits entry | as Dinghies prices them |

| Bilge pump | Aelasyl | Other (needs Old Chronian Fixes) | - |

Fitted as she loads, nothing to buy: the lower ratlines laid rope by rope on

her own shrouds, the futtock ladders to every top, and the gap ropes where a

gun port leaves a shroud out of the Aelasyl's netting.

Climbing

Every rope lights when you look at it. Look at a horizontal line (a ratline,

a rung) and click: up. Look at a vertical line (a topmast shroud, a stay)

and click: down. The leaning futtock ropes differ by ship: on the Caelanor they

click up, like the rungs; on the Aelasyl they click down, to her deck. The

topmast shrouds above a top can also be walked, slowly, the old way.

The net

A safety net for the men on the headsails, slung under the bowsprit: tied to

the bow under the spar, its corners lashed round the catheads, its point tied

round the spar's end, the middle hanging like a hammock. Jump into it from the

bow rail and walk out to the point; i