Dixiecapt & Co.Ironfounders, braziers and galley furnishers to the merchant service · Fort Aestrin

A Catalogue of
Ship's Stoves

Being the five stoves of the Better Stoves mod for Sailwind, with their prices, the ports that sell them, and the manner of cooking upon each

Illustrated with a plate of every stove as it stands in the game, two of them followed by the plates of the historical record they were built from, and the game's own figures for each. Compiled for the use of masters, mates and cooks of vessels small and great, who would eat hot at sea.

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Better Stoves 1.0.0 · MMXXVI · Sailwind is the work of Raw Lion Workshop; this is an unofficial modification

To the readerOf fire at sea

The five Better Stoves side by side with a copper boiler: the Tiny Ship Stove, the Camboose, the Brodie Galley Range, the Brick Galley and the Cabin Stove — The five stoves of this house, left to right: the Tiny Ship Stove; the Camboose, its copper boiler down in the well; the Brodie Galley Range, one boiler in its well and the other on the floor beside it; the Brick Galley with its back splash up and its boiler in; and the Cabin Stove.

A ship without a stove is a ship of cold biscuit. The game gives you three stoves, one to each nation, and they are honest stoves, but a small boat has no room for them and a great ship deserves better. This house therefore offers five more, from a stove you may carry under one arm to a man-of-war's range, and two of them are the very stoves the merchantmen of the last age cooked on.

Until the middle of the last century most merchant ships cooked on a brick hearth built forward under the forecastle: a great copper let into the brickwork over a fire, an iron grate beside it, a hood above to draw the smoke. By 1750 the ironfounders had begun to offer the iron caboose, a riveted sheet-iron box with its pot holes and oven, compact and safer on a wooden deck; the stove raised from the collier General Carleton, wrecked in 1785, is the pattern of ours. And in 1780 Mr Brodie patented his galley range for the Navy, with its coppers, its spit and its hooks, the finest cooking machine ever to go to sea. All three are in this book, and two lighter stoves besides for the cabin and the small boat.

Every stove in this catalogue is a new article: it has its own number in the game's book of things, and none of the game's own stoves is altered. Each burns its wood slowly, one log at a time in a closed firebox, so that a full load lasts the night or longer, and the heat under the pot is the same from the first log to the last. Each has a chimney you may lengthen or shorten in the settings (F1) while you play, to run it up through a deck. And no ship is barred from any stove: its weight and its bulk are the only limit, as the game itself has it.

The price listWhat they cost, and where

Each stove stands for sale beside the port's own stoves, priced in the port's coin. The rates drift a little with trade, so the figures below are near, not exact, when you go.

Stoves, where they are sold, and what they cost there
Stove	Fort Aestrin	Gold Rock City	Dragon Cliffs
Tiny Ship Stove	about 1120 Aestrin Crowns	–	in Emerald coin, as marked
Cabin Stove	–	about 380 Al'Ankh Lions	–
Camboose	–	759 Al'Ankh Lions	in Emerald coin, as marked
Brick Galley	2156 Aestrin Crowns	–	in Emerald coin, as marked
Brodie Galley Range	about 3230 Aestrin Crowns	–	–
Copper boiler	about 260 Aestrin Crowns	about 115 Al'Ankh Lions	in Emerald coin, as marked

The stoves are sold by day, as the port's own stoves are. Copper boilers stand beside the stoves that have a well: two by the range; one by a camboose or a brick galley, the first of them set out in a port; none where no stove has a well. The Brodie range is sold at the Fort alone; one Tiny Ship Stove stands on each side of the world.

A surviving brick galley hearth with its copper set in — A brick hearth of the old kind, its copper set down in the brickwork and the day's roast on the spit before it. From the record.

Plate IThe Tiny Ship Stove

Cast iron stove for small craft

A pattern of the present day, fitted for the sea. Model by olegiliushov.

The tiny stove, from the door side.

Capped chimney0.2 to 2.5 m, lengthened in F1 while you look at it; the smoke leaves the cap.

Pot railKeeps the pot from walking in a seaway; its corner posts turn in and step onto the top. Switched off in F1 for a stove ashore.

Flat top, one eyeOne pot, kettle or skillet inside the rail; the game's big pot is too wide for it and is refused.

Glazed doorThe fire shows behind the glass; the pane can be set clear, the game's own, or none, in F1.

Turned wooden gripOn an iron pin; the same grip as the cabin stove's, cool in the hand.

Iron air knobsTop and bottom of the door, iron like the body: no brass aboard.

Worn ironFaded and scuffed by sun and salt, a little, not a lot.

Smooth sides, round postsPlain flat side plates between four round corner posts, as on the cabin stove; it stands on its own cast legs.

Its place aboard

In the cabin or the cockpit of a small boat, where no other stove will go. Light enough to carry; set it where it will not slide, or nail it.

Key features

Closed firebox: three logs, one at a time
A full load burns the night, 8 hours
Cooks at the Aestrin stove's rate
Firelight through the glass at night

Cooks

One pot, kettle or skillet on the top (not the big pot)
Soup, tea, stew as the game's stoves do

The game's figures
Sold at	Fort Aestrin, beside the Aestrin stoves · about 1120 Aestrin Crowns · Dragon Cliffs, in Emerald coin
Wood	holds 3 logs · burns 1 at a time · a full load lasts 8 game hours
Cooking places	1 eye (pot, kettle or skillet; never the big pot) · the Aestrin stove's full heat
Size and weight	44 cm wide, 58 cm deep, 71 cm to the top · mass 50
Chimney	0.2 to 2.5 m, F1 · pot rail on or off, F1
Save number	32701

Plate IIThe Cabin Stove

Medium stove in the log-cabin manner

For the cabin of a middling vessel. Model by olegiliushov.

The cabin stove, its fireplace door and two eyes.

Smooth chimney pipe0.2 to 3 m in F1; the smoke leans away with the wind.

Two eyesRound lids on the flat top, a pot, kettle or skillet on each; the game's big pot is too wide for the rail and is refused.

Glazed fireplace doorLogs on a basket grate over a bed of coals, seen through the glass; the coals glow as it burns.

Turned wooden gripA figured hardwood handle on an iron pin; the damper knobs iron like the body.

Pot railRings both eyes; its posts turn in and step onto the top. Switched off in F1 for a stove ashore.

Worn cast ironA faint mottle, sun-fade and the odd pit over a dull metal.

Round posts and legsSmooth sides (no ridges), standing clear of the deck.

FirelightA warm, moving light about the cabin at night, from the door.

Its place aboard

The great cabin or the hold of a middling ship: a warm stove to sit by. Its size may be set smaller in F1 for a tight cabin.

Key features

Closed firebox: six logs, one at a time
A full load burns a night and a day, 12 hours
Cooks at the Al'Ankh stove's rate
Its smoke trails with the wind

Cooks

Two pots, kettles or skillets at once (not the big pot)
Soup, tea, stew as the game's stoves do

The game's figures
Sold at	Gold Rock City, beside the Al'Ankh stoves · about 380 Al'Ankh Lions
Wood	holds 6 logs · burns 1 at a time · a full load lasts 12 game hours
Cooking places	2 eyes (pots, kettles, skillets; never the big pot) · the Al'Ankh stove's full heat
Size and weight	75 cm wide, 93 cm to the top at size 1 (60 cm wide at 0.8) · mass 80
Chimney	0.2 to 3 m, F1 · pot rail on or off, F1
Save number	32704

Plate IIIThe Camboose, after the General Carleton

Compact sheet-iron merchant stove, c. 1780

Patterned on the stove raised from the collier General Carleton, built 1777, lost 1785. Built by this house.

$The Camboose$

The camboose as it stands in the game, the boiler down in its well.

Flanged hood and pipeA sheet-iron hood along the back of the top gathers the smoke into the pipe; 0.2 to 3.5 m in F1, a weather cap at its head.

The wellTakes the copper boiler, which sits a foot down into the heat of the fire; its lip rests on the ring.

The grilled eyeA round grill with room beside the copper for any pot, the big pot too, a kettle or a skillet (its handle toward you); or a piece of meat grills straight on the bars, centred and resting on them. The fire shows through.

Pot-restraint railRound both eyes, open at the hood, to hold the pots in a sea.

Right-hand doorThe fire, under the grill: feed it here. Strap hinges and a latch.

Left-hand doorThe oven, closed, for baking: with Vittles, a skillet of dough bakes in it; use the stove with an empty hand to take it out.

Riveted iron bodyA 98 by 84 cm box, widened past the Carleton's so a pot or kettle stands beside the copper, on short legs.

Bolted feetFour bolts on an anchor plate at each foot, holding it to the deck; at the shop it stands level on all four.

Its place aboard

Forward, under or near the forecastle, in its own deckhouse on some ships and below deck on larger ones; the stove the smaller merchantmen kept even after the great ranges came in.

Key features

Closed firebox: six logs, one at a time
A full load burns a night and a day, 12 hours
Three places: well, grilled eye, oven
A copper boiler stands for sale beside it

Cooks

Soup for a watch in the boiler
A pot, the big pot, a kettle or a skillet on the eye, or meat grilled on it
Bread in the oven, with Vittles

The game's figures
Sold at	Gold Rock City, 759 Al'Ankh Lions · Dragon Cliffs, in Emerald coin · a copper boiler beside it
Wood	holds 6 logs · burns 1 at a time · a full load lasts 12 game hours
Cooking places	the well: the copper boiler · the grilled eye: pot, big pot, kettle, skillet or loose food to grill · the oven: baking, with Vittles
The fire	fed at the right-hand door, under the grill
Size and weight	a 98 by 84 cm box, 66 cm to the top, 1.0 m to the hood's crown · mass 150
Chimney	0.2 to 3.5 m, F1
Save number	32705

Plate III, continuedThe camboose in the record

The compact merchant-ship camboose, c. 1780 to 1790: the stove in its galley, plan view, side section, the deck caboose, utensils and key characteristics — The compact merchant-ship camboose, c. 1780 to 1790, reconstructed from the General Carleton (built 1777, wrecked 1785) and contemporary descriptions: the stove in its galley, in plan and in section, the deck caboose that housed it, and the cook's utensils. From Dixiecapt's research.

The surviving body of the Carleton's stove measures some thirty inches square and fourteen high; ours is built longer, 98 by 84 cm, so that the copper boiler fits its well with a full-sized pot or kettle beside it, and the pot restraint bar of the record has become a rail round both eyes. The hood, the two doors, the short legs and the fireproof base are as the record has them.

Plate IVThe Brick Galley, in the manner of 1750

The merchant ship's brick galley

What most merchant ships cooked on before the iron stoves. Built by this house from the record.

The brick galley as it stands in the game, the back splash up.

Hood and chimneyA broad sheet-iron hood on iron posts, hollow beneath, tapering to the trunk; 0.2 to 3.5 m of pipe in F1.

The copperSet a foot down into the brickwork in an iron plate; the boiler's lip rests on the ring.

The grateIron bars open to the hearth below: the fire shows through, and a pot, kettle or skillet upon them boils or fries, or a piece of meat grills lying along the bars.

The arched hearthAn arch of voussoirs with a keystone; the firedog inside, the fire fed here and seen here.

The coalsA bed under the logs that glows while the fire burns and lies grey ash when it is out.

The oven doorIron, to the left: the oven, closed, for baking with Vittles; an empty hand on the galley takes out what is in it.

BrickworkA corner bond on a proud base course, the bricks set in mortar and trimmed to frame every opening, sooted round the hearth.

SplashesBrick screens up to the hood at the back and either side, switched in F1; the back is flush to stand against a bulkhead.

Its place aboard

Forward, on a deck below the forecastle, apart from the cargo and stores: a brick or stone base between the fire and the planking.

Key features

Closed hearth: twelve logs, one at a time
A full load burns a day and a night, 24 hours
Three places: well, grate, oven
Six hundredweight of brick; it sits by its own weight

Cooks

Soup by the thirty measures in the copper
A pot, kettle or skillet on the grate, or meat grilled over the fire
Bread in the oven, with Vittles

The game's figures
Sold at	Fort Aestrin, 2156 Aestrin Crowns · Dragon Cliffs, in Emerald coin · a copper boiler beside it (at the Fort the range's boilers serve)
Wood	holds 12 logs · burns 1 at a time · a full load lasts 24 game hours
Cooking places	the well: the copper boiler · the grate: pot, big pot, kettle, skillet or loose food to grill over the fire, laid along the bars · the oven: baking, with Vittles
The fire	fed at the arch; seen there and through the grate
Size and weight	1.3 m wide, 0.9 m deep, 1.0 m to the top, 1.6 m to the hood, 2.4 m to the pipe · mass 600
Chimney	0.2 to 3.5 m, F1 · back and side splashes, F1
Save number	32706

Plate IV, continuedThe brick galley in the record

The merchant ship galley c. 1750: the brick hearth under its hood in the galley, plan view, side section, where it stood in the ship, key features and utensils — The merchant ship galley, c. 1750: typical layout and features from contemporary descriptions and the archaeological and historical evidence of eighteenth-century merchant vessels; the hearth in its galley, in plan and in section, where it stood in the ship, and the cook's utensils. From Dixiecapt's research.

Ours follows the plan: the copper to the left, the grate to the right over the open hearth, the oven door on the front, the hood above. The record's hearth stood open to the galley; ours keeps the fire behind an arch so that it draws, and lets you see it there and through the grate.

Plate VThe Brodie Galley Range, 1780

The man-of-war's galley range

After Alexander Brodie's patent of 1780. Model by Uhlan, CC BY-NC 4.0, fitted by this house.

The Brodie range, hearth side.

Flue and cowl0.3 to 3.5 m; the cowl turned to any quarter in F1, or left to turn from the wind.

Two copper boilersSet down into iron well frames at the back; the lids stand above the top. Thirty measures of soup each, half a barrel.

Two stove eyesIn front of the coppers; the game's pot and kettle sit on the iron, a skillet with its handle turned out to the side. The big pot is refused: the coppers do its work.

The open hearthAt the front; a bed of coals that glows while the fire burns and lies grey when it is out.

The spitThree pieces of meat along it; it turns while the fire burns, and roasts.

The gridironOver the coals; one piece of meat or a skillet, at full heat. With Vittles it bakes as well.

Five smoking hooksUnder the hood; fish and meat hang lengthwise, head up, and smoke slowly: five at once.

Riveted ironFour hundredweight; nail it to the deck and it keeps its place through storms, reloads and your days ashore.

Its place aboard

The galley of the largest ships, under the forecastle, nailed down. Nothing bars it from a smaller vessel but its weight and its height.

Key features

The king of cookers: it boils, roasts, grills and smokes, and with Vittles it bakes
Twelve logs, one at a time: a day and a night
Aim at the part you want: it lights up white

Cooks

Soup by the thirty measures, in two coppers
Two pots, kettles or skillets
Three pieces roasting on the spit, a grill on the gridiron
Five fish smoking under the hood

The game's figures
Sold at	Fort Aestrin, about 3230 Aestrin Crowns · two copper boilers beside it
Wood	holds 12 logs · burns 1 at a time · a full load lasts 24 game hours
Cooking places	2 boiler wells · 2 eyes · 3 places on the spit · 1 gridiron · 5 hooks
Size and weight	near 2 m to the cowl · mass 400
Flue	0.3 to 3.5 m, F1 · cowl facing or wind-turned, F1
Save numbers	32702 the range · 32703 the boiler

Plate V, continuedHow to cook on the range

The range has more places than any other stove, so it lets you say which one you mean.

The places on the Brodie range, and how to use each
Place	Takes	How
Two boiler wells	copper boilers only	click the range holding a boiler; it goes down into a free well
Two eyes	the game's pot and kettle, a skillet	click the range holding the pot; it goes to a free eye. The big pot is refused
The spit	three pieces of meat or fish	hold the food and look at the spit: it lights up white; click
The gridiron	one piece, or a skillet (with Vittles: dough and the baking sheet)	look at the gridiron till it lights up, and click
Five hooks	one piece each, to smoke	look at a free hook till it lights up, and click; a hook already in use says so

A part lights up only when you hold something it takes, so the range picks up and nails down as before when your hands are empty. Click anywhere else on the range with food in hand and the range asks Where on the Brodie? Aim at the spit, the gridiron or a hook.

Plate VIThe copper boiler, and soup in a mug

The boiler

A big copper pot made to sit down in a well: the lip rests on the rim of the well, the lid stands above the top. Lift it out like any pot. Fill it with water from a barrel, put the food in, and it cooks in the well, in the heat of the fire beneath. It holds thirty measures, half a barrel, half as much again as the game's big pot (the measure is in F1). It cannot be tipped to drink from; you serve from it: click it holding the game's pot or kettle and that fills from the boiler, soup and all. Empty, it hangs on a wall hook by its lid's handle, with the Hooks Hang More mod.

Boilers stand for sale beside the stoves that have a well: two by the range; one by a camboose or a brick galley, the first of them in a port. About 260 Aestrin Crowns at the Fort, about 115 Al'Ankh Lions at Gold Rock, and in Emerald coin at the Cliffs.

Soup in a mug

Click any mug or bottle on any pot of soup, a boiler or the game's own pot, and it fills with hot soup. It steams; drink it and it feeds you as the soup would. Left standing it cools in about ten minutes of the game's time, and after three hours it has gone bad: the look text tells you which. Soup poured from one bottle to another carries its state with it. When Vittles comes out, soup in a mug is to move into it with the rest of the cooking; you will use it just the same.

Rotten soup stays rotten

In the game as it stands, pouring or drinking from a pot of rotten soup makes what is left fresh again. Better Stoves mends this in every pot, kettle and boiler: what is left is as rotten as it was.

Coming with VittlesThe cooking mod, and these stoves

Better Stoves gives you the fire and the places to cook. Vittles, the cooking mod that follows it, brings the pans, the bowls, the bread and the salt meat, and is being built to work with every stove in this book. What follows is the plan; it may change in the making.

What Vittles is to bring, and where it goes on these stoves
Article	On which stoves	What it does
The cast-iron skillet	every stove top, the grate, the grilled eye, the Brodie's eyes and gridiron; the ovens	grills one piece, or stir-fries a heap of slices with no water. Its handle points toward you, and out to the side on the Brodie's eyes. Empty, it hangs on a wall hook, with Hooks Hang More.
The Emerald wok	stove tops, grate and eyes only	sold in Emerald in place of the skillet: grills and stir-fries, never bakes
Three bowls	at table	wood of Al'Ankh, metal of Aestrin, porcelain of Emerald, about 20 cm across, larger than a mug; soup or stir-fry eaten a bite at a time
Bread	the ovens of the Brick Galley and the Camboose, and the Brodie, king of cookers	grain to the mill, flour and water to dough in a pot, a loaf, a baguette or buns in a skillet into the oven; take it out before it burns. A baking sheet, for the oven only, takes more. The Tiny and Cabin stoves have no oven: stove top only.
Salt pork and salt beef	any pot, the big pot or a copper boiler	sold in sealed casks that keep for months; soak a piece a day in fresh or sea water before you cook it. An empty cask can be filled with your own salted meat.
Soup in a mug	any pot of soup	moves from Better Stoves into Vittles
Farm foods and grog	the skillet and the pots	cabbage, peas and limes from the farming mod into the stir-fry; grog of rum, water and lime
Mind Vittles	-	a recipe book that keeps the dishes you have made, to make again

Better Stoves already leaves room for this: the Brodie's gridiron takes a skillet and a baking sheet, and the ovens of the Brick Galley and the Camboose hold what Vittles bakes in them. Better Stoves needs nothing of Vittles to work.

The cast-iron skillet with a stir-fry in it — The cast-iron skillet planned for Vittles, 34 cm across, a stir-fry in it.

The skillet on the Tiny Ship Stove — On the Tiny Ship Stove, inside the rail, its handle toward you.

InstructionsOf fitting, firing and keeping a stove

Firing

Hold a split log and click the stove where the fire is: the door, the arch, the firebox. It takes as many as it holds and burns them one after another, so the fire is never fiercer for more wood, only longer. The look text shows the logs in hand, as 4 / 6. A stove with no wood in it is dark: no light, no glow, grey ash on the hearth.

Cooking

Hold a pot or kettle and click the stove: it goes onto an eye or the grate. Hold a boiler and click a stove with a well: it goes down into it. Hold a piece of meat or fish and click a camboose or a brick galley: it goes onto the grilled eye or the grate. On the Brodie range, look at the spit, the gridiron or a hook until it lights up white, then click; the range is shown in full on its own page. Every stove cooks at the rate of the game's stove of its country.

The game's big pot goes on the grate of the brick galley and the grilled eye of the camboose, beside the boiler. It is refused on the Tiny and Cabin stoves, whose rails are too small for it, and on the range's eyes, where the coppers do its work.

The chimney

Every stove's chimney length is in F1 under Better Stoves, by stove. Run it up through the deck as far as you please; it changes while you look at it.

Keeping it aboard

The stoves are heavy and the deck is never still. The range should be nailed down with a hammer; nailed, it keeps its place while you are ashore and through every reload. The brick galley and camboose sit well by their own weight. The tiny and cabin stoves carry a pot rail against the roll; a stove in a house ashore needs none, and Pot rail in F1 takes it off. A stove left ashore when you sail is gone, as the game has it for every article left behind.

One stove at a time

The looks are set stove by stove: the chimney, the pot rail and glass, the galley's splashes and soot, the range's cowl. Stand within two metres of a stove you own and change one in F1, and only that stove changes, kept in your save; a stove in your house and one on your ship may each have their own. Change one anywhere else and it sets the default, for the stoves in the shops and every stove you never set by hand.

The shops

Every stove has its spot set by hand at each port that sells it. If one stands badly at your port, through another mod's furniture, or you would have it sold at another port, stand where it should stand, facing it, and switch on that stove's Mark the spot where I stand in F1. It moves there at once, turns to face you, and is remembered. The Tiny Stove, the Camboose and the Brick Galley keep one mark for each port, listed under Marked spots; Remove the marked spot at this port takes one away. Their boilers may be put on either hand of them.

Smoking, the grill and the ovens

Smoking is the galley range's: its five hooks smoke slowly and gently, as the game's smoking racks. The grill and the gridiron cook at full heat. The grate and the grilled eye do both duties, pot or meat, and food used on a camboose or a brick galley always goes there, laid along the bars. Their ovens are for baking, which the Vittles mod brings; use the stove with an empty hand to take out what is in the oven, and with the oven empty, that picks the stove up.

A word on removing the mod. A save holding one of these stoves needs the mod to load. Sell or drop every stove and boiler first, save, then remove it. If a model file alone goes missing, the stove comes back as the game's stove it is built on, so the save still loads, and is itself again when the file is put back.

AppendixThe settings, in brief

Under Better Stoves in F1
Group	What it sets
Tiny Stove · Cabin Stove	chimney length; the pot rail, on or off; the wood it holds, hours a load burns, logs burning at once; price; the shop spot and its marks; the door's glass pane (none, clear, the game's); the cabin stove's size
Camboose · Brick Galley	the same, with a mark for each port, how many boilers stand beside it and on which hand; the galley's brick splashes, back and sides, and its soot
Galley Range	the same, with a mark for the range and one for its boilers, how much a boiler holds, the spit turning, and the cowl's facing or its turning from the wind

AcknowledgementsOf the makers

The tiny stove and the cabin stove were modelled by olegiliushov, who sent the second after seeing the first. The Brodie stove is by Uhlan, CC BY-NC 4.0, fitted here with iron well frames, eyes, spit, gridiron, hooks, coals and cowl. The brick galley and the camboose were built from Dixiecapt's own research plates, reproduced in this book, the General Carleton stove after Parks Canada's survey of the wreck. The cooking, fire, smoke and sound are the game's own. Tested by Mad, Exocet and the Sailwind modding community.