For record's sake, we're looking at casting Animate Objects on a ship in conjunction with a Permanency spell, which will cost 15,000gp, and then casting Awaken Construct, which costs an additional 2,000gp per HD of the awakened Construct, or 26,000gp. Assuming the party Wizard is taking care of all the casting, you'd need to be level 14. Assuming this a group project and the cost is split 4 ways, this is actually a pretty affordable and awesome task!
I would suggest going with the craft construct feat rather than a permanent spell, would not want one lucky dispel to bring the whole thing crashing down.
Ship is explicitly an option for Animate Object, and it gets construction points that are enough to make it fly (40 ft and it's a no-con creature so it can run forever making it 160 ft per 6 seconds or 18.1818 miles per hour) and have hardness 15 and NA +4. Sure by the time you can afford this you can also teleport, but an airship is fun.
The real interesting part is it's a creature now. This means it can be buffed, given magic items and get construct modifications (Ultimate Magic) and you don't need much of a crew as it moves under its own power 24/7 (though navigation may be an issue). You can turn it invisible (create a resetting trap within) which may not get the occupants, but will get all the cargo and lets you park it. Giving it a brain gives it 13 feats, just dumping them into Run, Extra Traits (Wanderlust and Following Breeze) and 5xFleet brings you to 40 MPH, and 2 skills (likely spending one on Knowledge: Geography and Survival to allow it to travel 24/7 without a human to guide it). Burrowing Armor (you can add it to the construct directly) lets it go underground (You shouldn't need to worry about air for shorter travel, portable hole). Anything else interesting to do with it?
Ship is not listed under Animate Objects.
There is a ship listed as an Animated Object. As a colossal object, you need a caster level of 32 to cover it. This ship already has the CP used, and only goes 30', not 40' fly.For a well worked out flying ship, see my post here. That thread goes into a lot of detail on flying ships.
/cevah
Ship is indeed listed under Animated Object in Bestiary 1 (Size: Colossal, Sample Object: Ship), but that's pedantic.
That is why I put in the second link. :-)
Not sure how you figured the sample Animated Object has already spent its CP: The stats there aren't even taken from any Paizo source (it's not in the bestiary or PRD), it's just the given frame for a medium Animated Object advanced to 13 HD by d20pfsrd (which is how the official stats should work, but Paizo only printed how to make the stat block, not the block itself) to save you time calculating it yourself.
My bad. I did not even read the creature description. Many SRD examples are fully constructed, but this one is not.
That reminds me, I need to put a post on the playtest forums so the "increasing size doesn't increase speed" problem isn't repeated.
What did you think of the thread I linked?
/cevah
Faster speed is not one of the CP abilities that says it can be taken multiple times.
Where does it say you can take a given CP only once?
As for the ship's cost, if you're a wizard it's not too hard to make one via Fabricate and save some cash. Between your 25+ intelligence (starting 18, 3 level ups and +4 headband) giving a +7 bonus, Crafter's Fortune (+5), Heroism (+2), getting the Cleric to cast Guidance (+1) and hiring some shipwrights to give you a crash course via Aid Another (+6 for less than 1 GP) you can easily hit DC30 for craft (which has no trained only clause).
Tears to Wine can give you +5 as well. As Azlanti Pendant can add +10.
Check out this post for a more complete list of craft buffs.
/cevah
Anything else interesting to do with it?
I suggest reading The Liberation for ideas.
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Faster speed is not one of the CP abilities that says it can be taken multiple times.Where does it say you can take a given CP only once?
It's not that it says that, but compare these:
Burn (Ex, 1 CP): The object gains burn (1d6) with its slam attacks. This can be applied multiple times. Its effects stack.
Faster (Ex, 1 CP): One of the object’s movement modes increases by +10 ft.
One of these says you can apply it multiple times and what happens, one doesn't.
Huh. Does that mean that RAW you can't even take it for DIFFERENT MOVEMENT TYPES???
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Huh. Does that mean that RAW you can't even take it for DIFFERENT MOVEMENT TYPES???
I think that's right by RAW.
Now, on things you can do. It should be possible to mount a horn section on your awakened animated ship, give it a rank in perform (wind instruments) and have really loud theme music playing as you strafe your enemies from your ship.
Paint or carve your likeness on your ship, use majestic image and intimidate the hell out of anything.
Possess or magic jar your ship in order to cast personal range spells on it. This would also work to effectively give it a fly skill without awakening it.
I'd go craft construct for the ship, but you could use permanent animate object on other parts of the ship. Self loading, self firing Batista come to mind. Of course you'll need at least one guy with a brain to give order to the lot. Still though, a crew of 1 on a ship is pretty cool.