The Ultimate Bottle Maker Recruitment Guide

Managing your health pool and gathering healing supplies can be one of the trickiest parts of navigating Windrose. If you find yourself frequently running low on resources, recruiting a specialized alchemist is a fantastic way to turn things around. Rosalinda Mercer is widely considered one of the absolute best early-game Alchemists you can find, and she will significantly boost your crafting efficiency.

Here is a friendly guide on how to locate Rosalinda, what benefits she brings to your camp, and how to officially add her to your crew.

Rosalinda's Crafting Bonuses

Bringing Rosalinda onto your team drastically reduces your overall production time and saves you valuable resources. She provides two excellent perks that are incredibly helpful for maintaining a steady supply of healing items:

• Master Bottle Maker: This trait automatically doubles your clay bottle production yield.
• Talented Alchemist: This perk grants a 30% chance to craft an extra elixir completely for free. This is exceptionally valuable later on when you begin crafting expensive Infused Elixirs.

How to Find Rosalinda Mercer

Rosalinda can be recruited relatively early in your journey, but you will need to open up the map a bit first.

1. Unlock Tortuga: Complete the early tutorial quest titled "How My Sea Adventure Began." This quest will guide you to sink your first vessel, which then highlights the island of Tortuga on your map.
2. Navigate to the Market: Once you arrive at Tortuga, head over to the main market area.
3. Locate the Landmark: Walk toward the lower bend of the market near the ocean coast. Look for a wooden crafting setup nestled under a cloth shed. As a distinct landmark, you will see a large shark hanging nearby. Rosalinda will be standing right there, ready to speak with you.

Recruitment and Crew Management

To officially hire Rosalinda, you will need to cover her recruitment fee and properly assign her to her new role.

• The Cost: Her hiring price is 500 Silver Pisters.
  • Quick Tip: If you are a little short on funds, a great way to make quick money early on is to hunt local birds and sell their meat or rough hide to a nearby market vendor.
• Activating Her Buffs: Once hired, she will head straight to your camp. To benefit from her traits, you must manually assign her. Open your Alchemy Table, navigate to the Worker Tab, and select her name to assign her to the station.
• Ship Slot Requirements: Ensure you have an open specialist slot available on your ship. If your crew is currently full, you may need to safely dismiss a generic deckhand to make room for her unique talents.

Your Steps to Temporary Salvation

1. Stop failing and finish the tutorial quest to unlock Tortuga.
2. Sail to the market and find the dead shark near the lower bend.
3. Hand over 500 silver piaster to seal the deal.
4. Go to your camp and manually assign her to the correct workstation.
5. Fire a useless deckhand if your ship is already full of failures.