Grit: Increases the damage of your crew and cannons.

Guts: Griffith did nothing wrong Speeds up HP regen for crew members as well as increasing total HP.

Insight: Increases the chance that your navigator will mark a nearby point of intrigue on your map. You will see this occur in your notes.

Spirit: Decreases the rate of Sanity loss.

Graft: Increases kinetopede speed and fuel efficiency.

Guile: Increases chance to dodge incoming missiles and to escape combat.

Vigilance: Increases accuracy for your cannons.

Esoterica: Increases the rate at which you gain Apprehensions.

Lower-deck crew:
Gunners add +1 Vigilance, Junior Engineers add +1 Graft, Swabbies add +1 Spirit. Guards do not affect stats.

Guard Captains:
Ashen: +12 Grit
Abbas Salem (Stat increase after questline): +7 Grit, +3 Insight (+7 Grit, +4 Insight)
Fionna McConnaghe: +6 Grit, +12 Spirit
Ransak Morton: +8 Grit, +4 Esoterica

Light Bearers:
Genevieve Caul: +7 Spirit, +3 Esoterica
Otto Von Honbach: +8 Spirit, +3 Guts

Chief Engineers:
Judith Grimalkin: +7 Graft, +4 Guile
Gladys Scarter: +12 Graft
Dr. Henry Delgado: +5 Graft, +5 Spirit
Lucetta Quetzl: +7 Graft, +2 Guile

Surgeons:
Char Dvetistek: +6 Guts, +4 Grit
Jhang Ba Sho: +8 Guts, +2 Insight
Dr. Mobius Vanch +8 Guts, +3 Vigilance

Navigators:
Cromlech (Stats after questline): +7 Insight, +3 Graft (+7 Insight, +4 Graft)
Peter McNally: +8 Insight, +3 Esoterica
Valeria Bell-Roberts:+7 Insight, +4 Esoterica

Lookouts:
Nicholas Verdant: +8 Vigilance, +3 Grit
Violante DiMar: +9 Vigilance, +1 Graft
Spire (Thaddeus Herb): +12 Vigilance

Pilots:
Augustus Ribbins: +5 Guile, +5 Grit
Banjo Smiggs: +12 Guile
Bishop Landman (After his questline): +9 Guile, +3 Grit

Record Keepers:
Jack of Quills: +6 Esoterica, +4 Grit
Harmony Ricketts: +7 Esoterica, +4 Guts
Penpusher: +8 Esoterica, +2 Spirit

Kinetopede Armors:

• Sold in Carapas for 6000 guineas. Adds +150 hull.
  
• Sold in Byssus for 5200 guineas. Adds +120 hull, negates occult effects, and reduces sanity loss.
  
• Sold in Ghoulwatch for 1460 guineas. Adds +40 hull, resists occult effects, and reduces sanity loss.
  
• Sold in Founder's Fire for 2000 guineas. Adds +60 hull.
  
• Combining 7 Deiform Scabmatter creates a new armor. Adds +300 hull, but increases sanity loss. Scabmatter can be obtained by trading Hideous Revelations in Ghoulwatch.

Kinetopede Legs:

• Mark V kinetopede legs are sold in Icicle Spine, for 3200 guineas.

Kinetopede Weapons:

• Some better starting cannons, the 35mm Mortars (high accuracy, medium damage), can be found in the City of Knives for 800 guineas.
  
• Howitzer cannons (low accuracy, high damage) can be found in Ghoulwatch for 1240 guineas.
  
• Crew-targeting weapons can be found in Gossamer Smile, City of Angels, and Mergulus. Mergulus cannons never miss.
  
• A golem-launching weapon (high accuracy, high damage, creates golem combatant on enemy vessel, can only be fired once per battle) can be found in the Scars of Sheng for 2310 guineas.
  
• A unique weapon (never misses, crew damage only) can be obtained by following Gladys Scarter's questline.
  
• A unique weapon (high accuracy, high damage, rapidly decreases distance, can only be fired once per battle) can be obtained by following Nicholas Verdant's questline.
  
• A unique weapon (high accuracy, high damage) is a reward for defeating the mini-boss Tyranic.

Kinetopede Engines:

• A unique engine can be acquired by completing the Museum of Unnatural Curiosity in any fashion.
  
• A unique engine can be acquired by completing a quest for the Oddwinter Intrusion.
  
• A unique engine is a possible reward for Lucetta Quetzl's questline.

Trophies:

• The Eye of Bodach (+10 Vigilance) can be acquired by completing the quest in Bodach's Gaze.
  
• Severed Mandables (+10 Grit) can be found during the battles of the Entomarch civil war.
  
• Saltcove Crown (+10 Esoterica) is a potential reward for Penpusher's questline.
  
• Reynard's Mask (+10 Guile) can be acquired during Judith Grimalkin's questline.
  
• Technic Repair-Squid (+10 Graft) can be acquired from Dr. Henry Delgado's questline.
  
• Ghost-Catcher (+10 Insight) can be acquired from Valeria Bell-Robert's questline.
  
• Flag of Recalcitrance (+10 Guts) can be acquired by flooding Recalcitrance with moths. Unlock the Door to the South, then return to the city.
  
• Scrap-Metal Figurehead (+10 Spirit) can be acquired by completing the Svadalhari delving quest in Pannachak, and exorcising the spirit that haunts the rig.
  
• God-Skull (Enemies 40% less likely to attack) is a potential reward for the Dancing God's questline.

Miscellaneous/Pets:

Mascots provide periodic stress relief. They do not stack.
• Haunted Penguin is a reward for following Otto von Honbach's questline.
  
• Undead Noggin can be found in Ghoulwatch during Harmony Rickett's questline.
  
• Tiny Rhinoceros can be acquired by inviting Banjo Smiggs to your City of Keys lodgings.
  
• Waif can be acquired through Augustus Ribbins' questline.
  
• Troublesome Pup can be randomly acquired at Waste Disposal.
  
• Persistant Crow can be acquired by telling a joke to the Lord of Crows.

Abjah: Adds 10 Insight, or allows you to "store" a Hideous Revelation and a Mind-Shattering Disruption as a favor, eliminating the need to carry these with you and freeing up your sanity. However, this comes at a rather large cost in drugs and other materials. Scrutiny can be acquired easiest by looking down wells and drinking Bottled Darkness.

Morbazar: Adds 10 Guile, or can be invoked to grant a Fetch-mirror, a Key, and a Perplexing Riddle. Scrutiny can be obtained in encounters concerning fate, as well as partaking of the feast when selling information in Ghoulwatch.

Nahash: Adds 10 Esoterica or 5 Terrible Secrets and 40 Apprehensions. Scrutiny can be obtained by assisting Nahash priests, and deciphering Indecipherable Tomes.

Cobblestone: Adds 10 Graft. Scrutiny is easiest acquired by smashing Bizarre Effigies, and performing other acts that benefit the Sanctioned Gods.

Graveddon: Adds 10 Grit. Scrutiny can be acquired by winning in the Penitent's Bluff Arena, assisting Graveddon priests, and general hyper-violence.

Scorthidion: Adds 10 Guts(unconfirmed). Avoid actions against the Goatmen and the occult if Reproach is starting to become a problem for you.

Wyl o' Pan: Adds 10 Spirit(unconfirmed). Scrutiny can be earned by aiding the mycenae revolution.

Anglecrab: Adds 10 Vigilance, or ask for artifacts in the form of Undreamt Treasures, Oscillating Prisms, and Occult Relics. Particular encounters behind a few Doors will earn you Scrutiny (particularly, at the Fractal Fortress and settlements in the Stormlands/Maelstrom), as well as attacking the Noddy Doctors.

Old Lady Death: Don't let the grey congregation turn against you.

• Do not go South too quickly.
  
• Do not neglect Insight, it becomes very valuable later in your travels.
  
• Sniping the enemy vehicle's captain will not win the battle. In contrast, getting yourself killed on your vessel will cause you to lose the game.
  
• Learn which encounters have no penalty for failure.
  
• 5 clues are needed to take a guess at the City of Glass' location. Clues that give direct hints to it's whereabouts are especially important.
• A Hideous Revelation or Mind-Shattering Disruption in your Information inventory will limit your overall sanity.
  
• If you lose all your sanity, the only way to regain any amount is to holiday in your City of Keys lodgings.
  
• Kinetopede armor does not completely block crew damage. Even if your vehicle can take a few hits, a low Guts stat can make combat frustrating.
  
• The 35mm Mortars are extremely effective for relatively low cost. Strongly encourage investing in these.
  
• Upper-deck officers will become increasingly wounded until their eventual death unless you switch them out for someone else at one of the Seven Cities.
  A potential workaround is to initiate combat with a weak target, incapacitate their cannons, and then have your wounded officer(s) stand by your medic for a few turns.

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