While the Tech Lab facility you’ll unlock inDredge: The Iron Rigonly features two tiers of upgrades, both tiers present exciting opportunities for players to permanently enhance their boats. You may think your ship is as upgraded as it can get, but the Tech Lab is about to change that for you in abigway.
In this guide I’ll outline every enhancement that is made available across these two tiers of the Tech Lab. This will include everything from what each costs to what enhancement they’ll provide for your ship. Naturally, I’llalsoshow you how to unlock both tiers.
1 Crate, and $50
Enhance the power of your lights
1 Crate, 1 Research Part, and $50
Enhance the range of your spyglass
1 Crate, 2 Research Part, and $50
Enhance the range of your foghorn
The Tech Lab’s first tier will be available once you have the generator online. It will simply cost you an Ironhaven Crate. This tier provides a one-time enhancement for three of your ship’s abilities. After you purchase all three of these enhancements, you will have more effective lights, a better spyglass, and a more effective foghorn.These enhancements are cheapandpermanent.
$200, 1 Crate, 2 Dark Splashes, 3 Research Parts
+10% Trawling Speed
You will unlock the second tier of the Tech Lab once you completethefirstfish request given to you by the Scientist. This tier of the Tech Lab is even more interesting than the first.Instead of these items being one-time permanent upgrades, they are instead upgrades that affect a specific aspect of your boat, while taking up a single tile in your hull.
These items don’t require specific tiles either. Anywhere will do. As far as I could see,the only limitation is how large your hull is.I had 28 Trawl Guidance Chips on my ship, and I was catching fish by driving my boat around at an alarming pace.
Pairing a number of Trawl Guidance Chips with the Material Harvester will make it easy to quickly acquire more crates, as you will be able to assemble them out of materials you pick up with your net at the foundry. Which, of course, will allow you to purchase more Trawl Guidance Chips and continue the cycle of trawl fishing domination!
