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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "site": "Corsair Cove Harbor Guide",
  "game": "Corsair Cove",
  "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/",
  "officialGameUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-08-13",
  "editorialPolicy": "Each answer owns one player intent, includes a checked date and named citations, preserves source disagreement, and defers update-sensitive truth to the live game and official announcements.",
  "answers": [
    {
      "id": "home",
      "query": "Corsair Cove guide",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/",
      "answer": "Build one readable production chain, stabilize worker needs, and expand only when the harbor can supply the next island. Use fleets and trade as planned logistics, not as a substitute for fixing a broken town.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This independent guide is a dated snapshot, not an official game source. Follow the linked official game and the checked dates on each focused page for update-sensitive details.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Xbox on PC listing",
          "url": "https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/corsair-cove/9PHS0189K408",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Independent Corsair Cove community wiki",
          "url": "https://www.corsair-cove.wiki/",
          "kind": "cross-check"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "beginner-guide",
      "query": "Corsair Cove beginner guide",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Beginner Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/beginner-guide/",
      "answer": "Your first useful milestone is a settlement whose inputs, workers, transport, storage, and consumers can be explained. Add a second chain only after the first one moves reliably.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This is a dated independent guide answer. Update-sensitive mechanics, values, availability, and interface paths can change; the current live game and official announcements remain final.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "production-chains",
      "query": "Corsair Cove production chains",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Production Chains Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/production-chains/",
      "answer": "A chain is only as reliable as its blocked link. Read the current building panels and follow the physical path of a good before increasing every stage at once.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This is a dated independent guide answer. Update-sensitive mechanics, values, availability, and interface paths can change; the current live game and official announcements remain final.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ships-and-fleets",
      "query": "Corsair Cove ships and fleets",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Ships and Fleets Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/ships-and-fleets/",
      "answer": "A fleet is useful when its purpose, supply, destination, and return path are clear. Name the job before moving ships away from the network that supports the settlement.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This is a dated independent guide answer. Update-sensitive mechanics, values, availability, and interface paths can change; the current live game and official announcements remain final.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "trade-and-expansion",
      "query": "Corsair Cove trade and expansion",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Trade and Expansion Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/trade-and-expansion/",
      "answer": "Expansion should answer a visible constraint: an unavailable resource, a route opportunity, or a Crown objective. It should not hide instability in the first town.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This is a dated independent guide answer. Update-sensitive mechanics, values, availability, and interface paths can change; the current live game and official announcements remain final.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Independent Corsair Cove community wiki",
          "url": "https://www.corsair-cove.wiki/",
          "kind": "cross-check"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "drifters-and-pirates",
      "query": "Corsair Cove get drifters",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Drifters and Pirate Recruitment",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/drifters-and-pirates/",
      "answer": "Drifters are part of Corsair Cove's population system. Stabilize access, housing, needs and useful work, then confirm the current recruitment or promotion requirement in the live panel and official wiki.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "Exact requirements must be rechecked in the current build and official wiki. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "swabbies-and-fetchers",
      "query": "Corsair Cove swabbies fetchers",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Swabbies and Fetchers Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/swabbies-and-fetchers/",
      "answer": "Swabbies and fetchers serve different settlement functions. Verify the current population tier, assignment controls and route before treating a stalled building as a production shortage.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "The live assignment UI controls current exact behavior. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "build-ships",
      "query": "Corsair Cove build ship",
      "title": "How to Build Ships in Corsair Cove",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/build-ships/",
      "answer": "Use the current shipyard panel as the source of record: confirm the selected hull, required materials, workers, build queue and launch access before assigning the completed ship to a fleet.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "Exact hull costs and unlocks remain version-sensitive. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "fleet-and-crew",
      "query": "Corsair Cove crew ships",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Fleet, Crew and Sail Controls",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/fleet-and-crew/",
      "answer": "A useful fleet needs assigned ships, required crew and supplies, a reachable route and one current objective. Verify sail and movement controls in the live interface.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This page does not invent permanent crew numbers or key bindings. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "second-pirate-camp",
      "query": "Corsair Cove second pirate camp",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Second Pirate Camp Checklist",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/second-pirate-camp/",
      "answer": "Before opening a second pirate camp, make the first settlement stable and name the resource, route or objective the new camp will solve. Plan workers, materials, storage and transport at both ends.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "Exact unlock and construction values are not frozen here. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "tobacco-and-booze",
      "query": "Corsair Cove tobacco booze",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Tobacco and Booze Logistics",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/tobacco-and-booze/",
      "answer": "Treat tobacco and booze as complete logistics chains: verify raw input, staffed production, connected storage, transport capacity and a current consumer before adding capacity.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "Current recipes and values must be read from the game and official wiki. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "trading-post",
      "query": "Corsair Cove trading post",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Trading Post and Goods Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/trading-post/",
      "answer": "Use the trading post to solve a named shortage or move a verified surplus. Read current terms, protect local needs and storage, then measure whether the route improves the target chain.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This page does not publish permanent prices or profit rankings. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "gun-towers-defense",
      "query": "Corsair Cove gun towers",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Gun Towers and Defense Guide",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/gun-towers-defense/",
      "answer": "Place and upgrade gun towers only after checking their current unlock, coverage, construction and operating requirements. Test the defended approach and keep fleet support available.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "Exact range, damage and upgrade values remain current-build facts. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "multiplayer-platforms",
      "query": "Corsair Cove multiplayer",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Multiplayer, Xbox and PS5 Status",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/multiplayer-platforms/",
      "answer": "Corsair Cove is a Windows single-player game sold through Steam, Epic and Xbox on PC, with PC Game Pass availability. The official Xbox listing says Play with PC; it does not establish an Xbox console or PlayStation release.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "Future official announcements can change mode or platform availability. Recheck dated official sources and the current live build before relying on this answer.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Xbox on PC listing",
          "url": "https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/corsair-cove/9PHS0189K408",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "demo-release-guide",
      "query": "Corsair Cove demo",
      "title": "Corsair Cove Demo, Release Date and Full Game",
      "canonical": "https://corsair-cove.site/demo-release-guide/",
      "answer": "Corsair Cove released on Steam on July 31, 2026. Demo-era videos and guides may not match the current full build, so check dated official patch notes.",
      "checkedAt": "2026-08-13",
      "limitation": "This page is a release-status guide, not a claim that every demo is permanently available.",
      "citations": [
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove Steam store page",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368140/Corsair_Cove/",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove patch announcements",
          "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1368140",
          "kind": "official"
        },
        {
          "label": "Official Corsair Cove wiki by Hooded Horse",
          "url": "https://wiki.hoodedhorse.com/Corsair_Cove/Corsair_Cove_Official_Wiki",
          "kind": "official"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}