Foes & Plunder

They sail the whole ocean, each keeping to her own waters. Damage is per ball, range in cells, reload in seconds. They take station at range with their sails eased and fight from there; close in and they bear away, run and they chase. At most 2 come for you at once — unless you fire on more. A sunk ship is replaced about 1.5 minutes later, somewhere else.

Ship	Hull	Guns	Damage	Range	Reload	Speed	Turns to fight at
Pirate Sloop	200	2	18	12	5.5s	4.9	15 cells
Orcish Longship	375	4	20	12.5	5.5s	4.7	16 cells
Lizardman War Galley	600	6	23	13	5.2s	4.4	17 cells
Pirate Brigantine	900	8	26	13.5	5s	4.3	18 cells
Ghost Ship	1,250	10	30	14	5s	4.5	19 cells
The Dread Galleon	1,813	12	34	14.5	4.8s	4	20 cells
Ophidian Dreadnought	2,400	14	36	15	4.7s	3.9	21 cells
The Infernal	3,200	16	40	15.4	4.5s	3.6	22 cells

The farther from land, the worse the water. The coasts a new captain learns on hold sloops and longships; the open sea laid round the map holds the Dread Galleons and worse.

3 crews that hunt CAPTAINS, never the fleet. Their lookouts see 310 cells, they are quicker than anything in the fleet, and each ship spends two abilities on you. One runs you down while the rest sail to head you off. A harbour's ring stops them, enough water between you loses them — and they never touch a Peace flag. A sunk crew is back in a quarter of an hour or so.

Captain	Crew	Hull	Guns	Speed	Abilities
Slaine	Slaine's Crew	1,250	10	5.1	Heated Shot, Brace for Impact
Dom Dom	Slaine's Crew	900	8	5.5	Chain Shot, Evasive Manoeuvres
Millz	Millz's Crew	1,100	10	5.2	Double Charge, Reinforced Stern
Fukada	Millz's Crew	820	6	5.6	Marksman's Eye, Smoke Screen
Dee Rail	Dee Rail's Crew	1,180	8	5.3	Against the Wind, Evasive Manoeuvres
Ambien	Dee Rail's Crew	980	10	5.2	Full Broadside, Brace for Impact

What she is

A treasure ship, the biggest thing on the water: 36,000 hull, 24 guns, and slower than any ship you can build

Finding her

One every two days, in open water out of sight of land. She is on nobody's chart and nobody is told: she is found by whoever comes upon her

Her sails

Half the canvas her hull would give her, so a raid that shoots her sails can hold her

Her escorts

At 75%, 50% and 25% hull she fires a signal gun and Ferryman's Cutters put out — fast, and they chase for 200 cells. More raiders, more cutters

Mending

Nothing hitting her or her escorts for 2 minutes and she mends 1.5% a second — mended whole, the raid is wiped

Leaving

Left alone for 45 minutes she slips away over the horizon

The raid

Everyone who damages her or her escorts joins the raiders window; escort damage counts toward your share

Her wreck

A strongbox for every raider still at sea with at least 1% of the damage, filled by their share: Silver, shot, upgrades, Special Loot, a chance at a rare gun and a survivor on far better odds of rank

Never

Boarded, or shaken off by Cut and Run

A sunk ship leaves a strongbox for whoever did her the most harm — only they can see it — for 90 seconds. Sail over it to haul it aboard. Wreckage comes only from a ship sunk by gunfire, and shot only from one taken by boarding: a box holds one or the other, never both. Besides these: a chance at a ship upgrade, an ability deed and a survivor, all rare. No gold, no gems, no weapons.

Where they come from

A Message in a Bottle, fished up anywhere. Uncork it and a chart slides out

Decoding

Cartography, like a land map: none below 30.0, half the time at 30.0, every time from 100.0. The chart then names the wreck's place on the sea

Taking it aboard

Right-click it and Take Aboard, at home: it goes into the hold of the ship at your mooring. It weighs nothing there, is lost if she sinks, and comes back into your pack if she docks home with it unused

Sailing there

The Treasure Charts panel at sea sets one chart as her course: a red X on the chart, an arrow at the screen's edge, and Navigate to Wreck to let her take the helm

The haul

Within 7 cells of the wreck, hove to and out of the fight: 9 seconds of the winch with her lying still. A shot in the water cuts the lines and keeps the chart

What comes up

2,000–5,000 gold, 60–140 Silver and some shot every time; a skill scroll half the time; 3 shots at Special Loot; about 1 in 15 a ship upgrade and 1 in 12 a castaway for your crew

For your house

About 1 in 100 wrecks gives up a piece to place in your yard or hall: Barnacled Anchor, Drowned Ship's Wheel, Wreck Bell, Salt-Crusted Cannon, Ship in a Bottle and Brass Diving Helmet. Found nowhere else

A full hold

What will not fit stays in a strongbox over the wreck for a few minutes — make room and sail over it