--- title: "Special Servers - Ships and Naval Movement" description: "Special Servers - Ships and Naval Movement" url: https://support.travian.com/en/articles/25-special-servers-ships-and-naval-movement collection: "Gameworlds and specials" updated: 2026-10-20 language: en alternates: [it, de, ar, cs, fr, tr, es, pl, pt, ru] --- # Special Servers - Ships and Naval Movement Special Servers - Ships and Naval Movement Ships can be **built, stored, and used only in villages that have a harbor**. - [Special Servers - Harbor and Deep Water](https://support.travian.com/support/solutions/articles/7000083547)

Ship type	Purpose	Lumber	Clay	Iron	Crop	Time	Speed in deep water
Trade ship	Sending resources	2835	1235	1985	750	1:15:00	18 fields / hour
Warship	Sending any army	18500	8355	12275	7500	3:45:00	18 fields / hour
Decoy warship	Sending up to 60 units	950	350	750	350	0:35:00	18 fields / hour
Raid ship	Raiding with up to 200 units	750	450	450	350	0:20:00	Most tribes: 18 fields / hour Vikings: 24 fields / hour

There are several ship types, each with its own purpose and construction cost. The construction time depends only on the **ship type** and **harbor level**—higher harbor levels reduce build time. **Ancient powers that affect troop training do not influence ships**. On higher-speed gameworlds, ship speed is multiplied in the same way as unit and merchant speed. - [Game versions and speed](https://support.travian.com/articles/20) #### Naval movement You can send ships to **any target on the map**, even if the destination is not near deep water. Ships always travel in a **straight, shortest path**. This is a change from older ship versions, which used more complex pathfinding. A journey may include **deep water segments** and **land segments**: - Over **deep water**, ships always move at their fixed ship speed. - Over **land**, the speed is based on the **slowest unit** in the army or the merchants traveling with the ship. For example: A warship carrying cavalry and a warship carrying catapults move equally fast at sea, but on land, the one carrying catapults becomes much slower. - [Troops Speed Increase & Tournament Square](https://support.travian.com/articles/71) ## **Speed Bonuses** Ship speed **cannot be increased** over deep water. This includes bonuses from: - Hero items (except the map’s return-travel reduction) - Hero special bonuses - Ancient powers On land, all regular bonuses apply. The **Tournament Square** activates after 20 land tiles have been traveled and applies only to the remaining land distance. * * * ## **Warships, Decoy Warships, and Raid Ships** - **Warships and decoy warships** can send out armies for any movement type: raids, normal attacks (including scouting), reinforcements (including forwarded reinforcements), and settling new villages. - The difference: - **Warships** can carry armies of any size. - **Decoy warships** can carry up to **60 units** and cost fewer resources. Important rules: - Both types travel **18 fields/hour** over deep water. - Only ships from the **village with the harbor** can be used. - One movement uses **one ship**; two decoy ships cannot combine to carry more than 60 units in one wave. - If the army aboard is destroyed in battle, **the ship is destroyed**. - Ships return instantly to their home harbor if not needed for return travel (except trade ships, which always travel back normally). - Ships **cannot be stationed** in other villages. - **Warships** cannot be used in farm lists. - **Raid ships** are used only for raids; they cannot carry reinforcements or execute standard attacks. - One raid ship can carry **up to 200 units**. - On deep water: 18 fields/hour for most tribes - Vikings produce faster raid ships: **24 fields/hour** * * * ## **Trade Ships** Trade ships significantly increase a village’s resource transport capability. They operate **in addition to merchants** and do **not** count toward the merchant limit. - They carry large amounts of resources. - On x1 speed worlds, they move at **20 fields/hour over deep water**. - Over land, they travel at the same speed as merchants of the ship’s tribe. - Capacity depends on the tribe and is affected by the **Trade Office** and **alliance commerce bonus**.

Tribe	Trade ship base capacity	Speed in deep water	Speed over land
Romans	2500	18 fields / hour	16 fields / hour
Teutons	3000	18 fields / hour	12 fields / hour
Gauls	2750	18 fields / hour	24 fields / hour
Egyptians	2500	18 fields / hour	16 fields / hour
Huns	3000	18 fields / hour	20 fields / hour
Spartans	2750	18 fields / hour	14 fields / hour
Vikings	300	18 fields / hour	18 fields / hour

Trade ship capacity depends on the tribe and is affected by Trade Office and the alliance commerce bonus. - [Alliance Bonuses](https://support.travian.com/articles/88)