patch2026-10-07

Fight For It

Risky quests now end in a real fight, your captain keeps a set of gear for every job, and every material says where it is found.

Quest Fights

Naval Blockade Leviathan Watch Salvage Operation Smugglers' Run

Every medium and high risk quest now has an enemy waiting at the end of it, and you watch the fight when you claim it.

  • The quest card names who you will meet and what they sail, so you know what to bring.
  • Your research, gear and talents all count.
  • Warships take the hits first. Send a Diving Bell with an escort and the escort answers for it.
  • Win and the quest pays in full. Lose and you come home with the reputation and nothing else.

Gear Sets

Whaler's HarpoonWhaler's HarpoonEquipmentA whaleman's iron, barbed and still rigged to its line. It was made for one job and it has never done another.FoundThe Siren Queen in Campaigns Corroded CutlassCorroded CutlassEquipmentA salt-eaten blade pulled from a wreck. Still sharp enough.FoundCaptain Reekhook in Campaigns Sailor's CoinSailor's CoinEquipmentA lucky coin from a dead sailor's pocket. Lucky for you, anyway.FoundCommodore Ashblack in Campaigns

Your captain now keeps a set of gear for each job: Raiding, Defence, Fishing, Salvage, Hauling and Campaigns.

  • Each job wears its own set the moment it starts, so a fishing trip and a raid can be at sea together in different gear.
  • One piece can sit in as many sets as you like.
  • A job with no set of its own wears what you have on now.

Pick a set from the list above your captain in the inventory and equip as usual. Your gear now stays in the Captain tab, and a link on each piece shows the sets that wear it.

Where It Comes From

Drowned SteelDrowned SteelMaterialIron tempered by the crushing pressure of the deep.FoundCampaign bosses: The Iron Kraken, The Drowned Admiral, The LeviathanBounty bosses: Varnoth, BlackwellChests: Watchkeeper's Chest Sea-Cured OakSea-Cured OakMaterialOak that lay on the bottom long enough to turn black and hard as iron. The Breaker's Yard finds a little of it in every pile of scrap.FoundQuests: The Great Refit, Deep Salvage, Raising the HulkIron Chests, Gold Chests and Treasure HoardsThe Breaker's Yard (Oak Curing)

Every material's tooltip now lists where it is found: the quests that pay it, the chests that hold it, the bosses that drop it, the fish that carry it and the wrecks it comes up from.

Misc.

  • A quest's chest now follows how hard the quest is, and the card shows which chest it pays.
  • Treasure Hoards now come only from the hardest quest each faction offers.
  • A quest's drops and materials now follow the quest, and it now pays every material its card lists.
  • Ring trials, the Wreckers and bottle fights now count your research.
  • Quest fights now have achievements of their own, and one of them is a secret.

Nothing worth having comes home unguarded.

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