Once you've gotten a ship and Lost Ark Gold unlock it, you'll be able assign crew members to finish specific tasks. These missions offer currencies for strengthening your strongholds, upgrade materials, and even rewards granted from Chaos Dungeons and Guardian Raids (explained in the Additional Stronghold Features section).

To access your stronghold go to your music sheet option (F2 to default). You can use the "Song of Hearth and Home" option to transfer onto your stronghold. You'll be able to roam around your estate and access diverse structures and features however, there's an easier way use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl +1. This will open a menu that will allow you to navigate to the most important options of your castle through several menus. For decorating your estate, press Ctrl + 2.

Manor: Create bonuses for your stronghold.

Training Camp: Boost the level of your alts to two levels above your main.

Knowledge Transfer: Increase a character's level straight to 50. Costs Gold.

Let's look at what each menu is before we get to the next one.

Lost Ark Stronghold Manor Rank 2 Upgrade

The lab can be used to cheapest Lost Ark Gold unlock the latest features of your stronghold. The unlocking of new recipes for the workshop, upgrading components of the stronghold, as well as unlocking new ship types could be completed from the lab. Research projects may take several hours to complete and usually require ore and wood.