Coming Soon to Pirate101....

There are new updates coming to Pirate101 soon that are currently available on the Test Realm. Have you checked them out yet? If not, we'll break down what you need to know about the coming update, and also point something out that you may not have noticed...

Captain’s Quarters

Let's face it. We've ALL wanted to see what's below the decks of our ships, and now we can! Each ship has its very own area where you can place furniture, pets, and now even companions! Personalizing your ship is sure to give you that feeling of home even while you're out in the Skyways. Even better, you can purchase larger Captain's Quarters which you can add on to any of your ships to customize them even more. You can buy one in the Crown Shop, and another in the Black Market - if you choose to pay with Scrip, however, your Captain's Quarters will have TWO stories!

The Black Market

Sure, gold and Crowns are nice, but it's time a new form of currency arrives in the Spiral... and that's Scrip! Scrip can only be obtained through ship fights, so it brings a whole new use to nautical experience parties, as now even level 65 ship captains can benefit by acquiring Scrip! Once you have enough, head on down to the Black Market in Skull Island to buy all sorts of cool things - gear, housing items, class-based battle standards... even a summon squid doubloon! The Deluxe Ship Cabin is available there too, so if you're interested in buying that, you'll have to save up plenty of Scrip...

Smuggler’s Arena

We've seen plenty of housing gauntlets in Wizard101: the MooShu Pagoda, Grizzleheim Winterbane, and the Wysteria Spiral Cup. Now Pirate101 has its first housing gauntlet, but what makes it different than those in Wizard101 is that anyone can obtain it through the Crown Shop instead of through bundle cards! Although you can start out simple with Practice Mode, you'll also be given the option to try Challenge Mode - it may be a bit difficult, but you can earn Scrip depending on how far you go. Remember to bring friends so you can conquer everyone who dares challenge you in the Smuggler's Arena!

A New Hint!

The Update Notes included a picture of companions in houses, but you may notice something very interesting here... can you spot it?

In this picture, Old Scratch has a new title that we haven't yet seen: Skeletal Shaman! From this, we can he's going to be promoting soon, and promotions only happen through expansions to the main storyline! Even better, promotions are usually worked on last, after the main content is finished and all of the areas are created for the promotion to take place in - maybe we'll be getting Book XV sooner than we thought?

What's your favorite part of the new update? Expect it to hit the Live Realm in the next couple of weeks so everyone can try out this awesome new content.

Side Activities in Pirate101!

Wizard101 has plenty of fun activities when you’re not questing – gardening, crafting, decorating, and the recently introduced fishing. Pirate101, on the other hand, currently isn’t full of side activities, but it’s very likely for us to be seeing more soon. Since Test for Wizard101 came out not too long after vines of the new content were released on Twitter, it’s also safe to say that Pirate’s is right around the corner with more hints becoming available to us… maybe we’ll see some new side activities there!

Crafting

Crafting is one of the oldest of Wizard101’s side activities. There’s a chain of quests to get you through the ranks and cool recipes that you can buy from each NPC. These recipes can be created to yield powerful gear, housing items, pet snacks, and more… even new spells! But what does this mean for Pirate101?

How cool would it be if this was an actual crafting desk?

Introducing crafting has plenty of potential. Since rare boss loot is currently the best gear out there, this could provide an alternative to players who are willing to put in the effort but not wanting to farm long dungeons. An idea that some players have suggested is being able to customize your own gear from individual parts and use a crafting station plus some extra reagents to form one powerful item. What do you think?

Gardening

Tending to a garden daily may not seem very exciting, but it has proven to be extremely useful in Wizard101! Right now, pretty much the only way to obtain mega snacks in Pirate is through the mega snack packs, which can quickly consume your Crowns if you’re interested in buying a lot. Gardening would be a beneficial option if you’re interested in acquiring mega snacks over the long term and have a bit of patience.

Wouldn't this make the perfect garden?

Of course, the system could be changed slightly, just how Pirate learned from Wizard101 in terms of pets. Maybe instead of having to check it every day, you would only have to check up on it at certain stages. Also, instead of wilting when needs aren’t cared for, these could only stop the growth of plants until they’re cared for instead of reverting the process back to the Young stage again and having to start all over. Also, instead of only seeing mega snacks dropping from your plants, maybe we could see unique gear and housing items, too!

Fishing

A lot of people have been expecting fishing to show up for a while – in fact, many players predicted that it would appear in Pirate before Wizard! Now that we’ve seen how awesome it can be to try to collect all those elusive fish, it’s time Pirate got to try it out – how cool would it be to fish on our ships in the Skyways?

Imagine if the water here was filled with FISH!

With Pirates visiting different worlds, we can definitely expect to see plenty of new kinds of fish and another way to use our energy. Collecting these fish could also have cool benefits aside from just badges. We’ve seen that they can be used for teleport tapestry recipes, but maybe Pirate101 can even take that a step further and use them for creating Doubloons, furniture items, and maybe even gear.

New Activities

The only thing that’s even better than introducing some of Wizard101’s activities is creating new ones! The possibilities here are endless – ship PvP, for example, would be a great activity and a fun way to expand player versus player combat. Daily tasks is also an interesting idea, where we could be given optional missions to carry out for rewards, like treasure hunting or plundering hidden areas for loot!

What other piratey ideas can you think of that you would like to see in the game? Be sure to let us know in the comments!

What's New to Fishing?

Test Realm has been released! With the Test Realm release, not only are we seeing some fishing tweaks but also new fish and new fishing locations!  

Tweaks

On the bottom right of your Angler’s Tome, you will see an icon that will bring up a pop up.  This pop up consists of the following: total amount of fish caught, total amount of different fish species caught, total number of small fry caught, and total number of whoppers caught.

You will be able to see when someone gains a fishing level around you.

There is a new badge when you catch a total of 2,500 fish!

New Fishing Locations

With this update, we are introduced to four new locations with dungeons…. and FISH!

To point out some of the most significant fish that will be useful to catch in these new locations: Ninja Fish, Samurai Fish, Jolted Dekoi, Jackson Pollock, and more!  

Check out our “Sort by World” page on the Fishing Database to see what is in each location.  More information will be added to the pages so keep an eye out!

New Fish

In these new locations, there is a total of seven new fish!  Click the name of the fish to send you to the page with the information about the new fish.

With this update there is a total of 75 fish species that have been added to the game!

Yakoi

Pharaohmari

Pit Bull Shark

GarGoyle

Kid Carp

ExecuShiner

Royal Gurnard

and… More!

Mega Snacks can now be crafted… with fish!  Here are the mega snacks that can be crafted:

Cherry Tomato

Bad Honeyed Dates

Golden Wheat Bread

Caramel Corn

Cubby Broccoli

Fruit and Nut Bar

Killer Kumquat

Mystic Dragon Fruit

Captain Cantaloupe

Crab Knight Cakes

Muscle Sprouts

Sunflower Hearts

There are craftable Tapestries to the new areas!  Here are two out of four of the tapestry recipes:

Barkingham Palace Tapestry

Kembaalung Tapestry

There are new multi-aquariums!  These new aquariums hold NINE fish!  Here are the six new multi-aquariums:

Regular Small Fry Multi-Aquarium

Regular Keeper Multi-Aquarium

Tall Small Fry Multi-Aquarium

Tall Keeper Multi-Aquarium

Large Small Fry Multi-Aquarium

Large Keeper Multi-Aquarium

You can now craft new decks!  Here are the school specific decks:

Storm - Cards of the Hallowing Wolf

Ice - Village of Carpathes Case

Life - Tatyana’s Lost Tarot

Balance - Set of the Lovelorn Spirit

Death - Lord of Death’s Hand

Fire - Dragonbone Pasteboards

Myth - Deck of the Bound Spirit



That's a wrap!  Let us know what you think about these new additions to the game in the comments.  What are you hoping to see in the future?  Look out for these updates coming to live in the coming weeks!

Top Five Anticipated Pirate101 Updates

Ahoy! With the Wizard101 Test Realm online, there has been much talk in the spiral about when the Pirate101 Test Realm will come online for.....???? However, I'm sure we can speculate, so we thought that it would be great for us to sum up the Top Five Anticipated Pirate101 Updates for a post!

5. Ship PvP

Blowing ships out of the sky when they're enemies is fun, now imagine that, but when they're your FRIENDS! How fun could that be... no, no, how fun WILL that be?

4. Crafting

Now, now, I know what you're thinking, but hear me out. Imagine crafting a ship... physically crafting a Pirate ship... A SHIP or crafting the best looking gear you have ever seen better than some boss gear... don't you want that? (if not, then you're beyond cray cray)

3. Companions

Probably the best thing in Pirate101 besides combat and storyline are the Companions, the constant marriage-like bickering, brilliant one liners and amazing attack visuals are what make the game amazing... and imagine new ones, a Valencian Horse or a Corgi or a Werewolf or a Lagoon or all those other amazing companion possibilities that are out there... just imagine. 

2. Captain's Quarters

(Thanks to Tom over at Friendly Necromencer for the Picture of the W101 Dungeon)

If our First Mate can walk around our house and judge our decorating (good or bad) I think we should be able to judge our crew's sleeping quarters and be mean about it. Imagine the possibilities you could have, storing "cargo", keeping prisoners or maybe even smuggling in unwanted visitors. How piratey of us. 

1. Book XV

THE most anticipated update for Pirate101 is Book XV, it has been 18 months and counting since the last Book addition and I think I speak for all pirates when I say that the wait will be worth it...hopefully. Whether we go to explore more of Valencia, the new eery lands of Darkmoor or the mystical deserts of Krokotopia, Book XV will be welcomed by every pirate. 

Well, that's our Top 5, let us know what you want to see in Pirate 101 in the comments below and be sure to check out our other ranking post "Top 10 Favourite things about Pirate101".