Construction/Common Recipes

Disclaimers

• These recipes are not guaranteed to give the exact ship wanted in any reasonable number of crafting attempts.
• Percentages listed are sourced from the drop databases and may not be representative of the real craft rates.
• Some ships require special Secretary to be crafted (see here).

Destroyer / Light Cruiser / Heavy cruiser / Submarine

				Notes
30	30	30	30	Mainly common destroyers and light cruisers. No rare destroyers. Small chance of Akigumo, Yayoi, & Yuubari.
250	30	200	30	Heavy cruisers, submarines, rare light Cruisers, and rare destroyers. Small chance to yield training cruiser Katori. Includes chance of rare destroyers (Shimakaze, Yukikaze) and submarines (I-168, I-58, I-8). 1.22 % Shimakaze, 1.71 % Yukikaze, 2.6 % for submarines. [1] Z3 when using Z1 as Secretary. Z1 when using Z3 as Secretary.

• Recipe percentages do not count Z1 & Z3 yet.

Battleship

				Notes
400	30	600	30	BB (32.52 %), CA (59.84 %). 2.98 % Suzuya, 2.01 % Mutsu, 1.09 % Nagato.

Standard Carrier / Light Carrier

				Notes
300	30	400	300	Most common recipe. 7.9 % chance for carriers. 32.3 % light carrier [2] Minimum amount needed to possibly create a CV/CVL according to KC Kai data.
350	30	400	350	8.5 % < 500 entries
300	30	600	400	14.3 % < 500 entries
350	30	600	350	11.9 % carrier, 32.7 % light carrier [3]

Large Ship Construction Recipes

Due to their nature and expansiveness, data on LSC recipes is relatively low and may not be fully accurate or up to date.

• Please note that all ships craftable via LSC often come back as Event rare drops.

Theorical Recipes

The following are optimized recipes using data from the Kancolle Kai version [4].

The general rule for using the recipes:

• The "minimum recipes" are the minimum resources needed to obtain the desired ship.
• Increasing the resource does increase the rate and is recommended to some extent.
  • Depending on the pool, increasing some resources is more effective than others.
  • Like normal construction, resources should be increased by step. Those steps are here collapsed in the recipes table below.
  • Unless capped, it is not recommended to increase the DevMats cost.
• Unless stated otherwise having more construction docks empty increases the rate.
  • That means LSC should not be done one after another because the "in construction" docks will decrease the rate.

Maruyu
					Note
1500	1500	2000	1000	1	Recommended recipe
Notes Unlike other recipes, the number of free docks should be minimum (ideally 1).

Yamato-class (& Bismarck / Warspite)
					Note
3360	5500	6750	1950	20	Minimum recipe
[Show resource steps]
3840	5700	7000	2700	100	Increasing ammo is more effective than fuel Bauxite should not be increased above 2700, else the recipe will fall on the carrier pool.
4170	5900
4500	6100
4840	6300
5170	6500
5500	6700
5840	6900
6170
6500
6840
3360	6900	7000	1950	20	Recommended recipe
Notes This recipe should be used first if neither Yamato nor Musashi are in possession. If Musashi is constructed first, use the "Yamato only" recipe below for Yamato instead. Using the adequate secretary with those recipes can construct Bismarck or Warspite. Note that it will greatly reduced the rate of both Yamato and Musashi.

Yamato only
					Note
3000	4340	4670	1690	1	Minimum recipe
[Show resource steps]
3500	4670	5000	2300	X	Increasing ammo and steel is more effective than fuel Bauxite should not be increased above 2800, else the recipe will fall on the carrier pool. DevMats should not be increased, else the recipe will fall on the heavy pool.
4000	5000	5000	2800
4500	5340	5340
5000	5670	5670
5500	6000	6000
6000	6340	6340
6500	6670	6670
7000	7000	7000
3000	6000	6000	1690	1	Recommended recipe
Notes The above Yamasushi recipe should be used first if neither Yamato nor Musashi are in possession.

Taihou (& Saratoga / Ark Royal)
					Note
3670	1950	4250	5200	1	Minimum recipe
[Show resource steps]
4000	2340	4500	5400	X	Increasing steel and bauxite is more effective than fuel and ammo.
4340	2670	4750	5600
4670	3000	5000	5800
5000	3340	5250	6000
5340	3670	5500	6200
5670	4000	5750	6400
6000	4340	6000	6600
6340	4670	6250	6800
6670	5000	6500	7000
7000	5340	6750
	5670	7000
	6000
	6340
	6670
	7000
4000	1950	5000	6000	1	Recommended recipe
Notes Using the adequate secretary with those recipes can construct Saratoga or Ark Royal. Note that it will greatly reduced the rate of Taihou.

Old Empiricla Recipes

This section is outdated and needs updating. Some recipes and percentages are missing and outdated. Potential misinformation. Those recipes are still viable.

Using any of the above mentioned Helper is either required or discouraged, depending on the targeted craft.

• When crafting a ship requiring a helper, then said helper is mandatory,
• However, when crafting any other ship, using those helpers will decrease the crafting rate of the targeted ship.

					Focused Ship	Crafting rate	Sample size	Helper?	Notes
Any	Any	Any	Any	Any	Maruyu	14.9 % with 1.5/1.5/2/1 6.2 % with 4/6/6/2	-	❌	Using fewer resources increases the rate
1500	1500	2000	1000	1	Nagato-class Mogami-class Agano-class	3.2 % Nagato; 6.2 % Mutsu 2.1 % Mikuma; 3.0 % Suzuya; 3.2 % Kumano 3.2 % Agano; 2.1 % Noshiro; 1.7 % Yahagi	25 000	❌
4000	2000	5000	7000	20	Taihou	5.5 %	7 062	❌
4000	2000	5000	6000	20	Taihou	5.7 %	4 721	❌
4000	2000	5000	5200	20	Taihou	5.0 %	15 165	❌
3600	2000	5300	5200	20	Taihou	4.6 %	717	❌	Lacking data
3600	2000	5300	5200	1	Akitsu Maru	7.0 %	717	❌	Lacking data
4000	2000	5000	5500	20	Taihou Akitsu Maru	6.0 % Taihou 8.6 % Akitsu Maru	909	❌	Lacking data
4000	6000	6000	3000	20	Yamato-class Yamato focus	2.7 % Yamato 2.9 % Musashi	23 902	❌
					Bismarck	2.4 %	4 064	✔️	Yamato-class possible
4000	7000	7000	2000	20	Yamato-class Musashi focus	2.7 % Yamato 5.8 % Musashi	10 117	❌
					Bismarck	1.1 %	4 628	✔️	Yamato-class possible
4000	7000	7000	2000	1	I-401 Yamato	4.1 % I-401 3.2 % Yamato	4 547	❌
6000	7000	7000	2000	20	Yamato-class Musashi focus	2.7 % Yamato 7.2 % Musashi	9 975	❌
4000	6000	7000	2000	20	Yamato-class Bismarck focus	1.9 % Yamato 3.5 % Musashi	17 498	❌	Should uses Bismarck's helpers
						6.9% Bismarck	11 683	✔️
4000	6000	6000	2000	20	Yamato-class	2.4 % Yamato 2.6 % Musashi 1.3 % I-401	57 104	❌	Most Reported
					Bismarck	2.5 %	19 000	✔️
4000	6000	6000	2000	1	I-401 Yamato	4.3 % I-401 2.5 % Yamato	30 200	❌
4000	5900	6000	2000	1	I-401	4.3 %	1 324	❌	Lacking data
4000	7000	7000	3000	1	I-401	6.9 %	306	❌	Lacking data
3000	4500	4500	2000	20	Zara	3.3 %	3627	✔️
3500	3500	6000	6000	20	Kamoi	1.5 %	4796	❌
4000	2000	5000	6000 7000	20	Kamoi Saratoga	2.8 % Kamoi 2.0 % Saratoga	19 350	✔️
7000	7000	7000	3000	20	Warspite	1.9%	161	✔️	Lacking data
4000	2000	5000	5200	20	Ark Royal	? %	N/A	✔️	Lacking data
??	??	??	??	??	Kashima	? %	N/A	❌	Lacking data
??	??	??	??	??	Hayasui	? %	N/A	❌	Lacking data

Notes

• Regarding the use of 1/20/100 Devmats:
  • The amount used affects the pool of craftable ships, with some ships only appearing with 20+ Devmats.
  • Using 100 Devmats does give better rates for some heavier ships, but the gain is often too marginal to justify this cost increase.
  • E.g.:
    • I-401 chances are improved with 1 dev mat.
    • Yamato appears with all dev mat inputs.
    • Bismarck and Musashi do not appear with 1 dev mat.
    • Aiming for Bismarck before Musashi can help save both resources and Devmats as Musashi can always appear from a Bismarck attempt, but not necessarily the other way around (if a German ship is not used).

Sources

• Based on Poi-Statistics.
• Kancolle DB reports include all development materials and Secretary used. This is especially noticeable for BB recipes where the number of attempts with/without Z1/Z3 skew the results towards either Bismarck or Yamato-class significantly. However, since the data sets are still significantly less biased than wikiwiki reports, it gives a better idea of what to expect.

See also

• Japanese Wiki - LSC Page
• Chinese Wiki - Construction Page