The Pirate Nation Crew is closing out 2023 with a release that adds the first “Settlement Building” that can be Crafted and will allow Players to upgrade their Ships: The Shipwright. This building is placed on the Player Island and will have utility for other Players who visit an Island with Shipwrights on them. Plus, the PN Crew has heard the community feedback regarding the recent Combat changes and have updated the Pirate’s Frigate (and all other Frigates) back to their full, 5 Action Point glory. Thanks again for joining us on this voyage and stay tuned for even more updates in 2024!

The Shipwright

• Craft the Shipwright and place it on your Player Island.

• Use the Merge Service to combine two Ships of the same type (one will be destroyed) to get a new, higher level Ship that will have increased Health and new Action Cards.

• Merging ships requires Simple Shipwright Plans. These are rare drops that can be found in the final Gauntlet battle reward.

• For a limited time, the drop rate for the Simple Shipwright Plan will be increased. We are doing this to introduce more of them into the system early on to get it jump started. They will still be rare, but just not as rare as they will be next year.

• Players can also visit Shipwrights on another Player’s Island and pay Gold, burn the second ship and use Simple Shipwright Plans to upgrade their Ships in it. Set your Shipwright to Public to allow other Players to upgrade their Ships.

• Owners will receive 25% of PGold that is spent at their Shipwright.

• Ship “Level” information can be found in the Trait information on Marketplaces and on the Ship Level Badge in the game.

• Multiple Shipwrights can be placed on an Island and each one will have its own cooldown timer.

• Ships with Skins attached and unique Ships cannot be burned. They can be leveled up, but they cannot be destroyed.

Game

• The Frigate has regained its AP and is now back to 5 Action Points instead of 4.

• Improved Unity performance to allow for quicker Gauntlet load times.

• Fixed an issue with the 3rd Gauntlet battle crashing the game.

Web

• Rabby Wallet is now supported for those of you who have left the Fox wallet behind.

• The Shop now allows you to purchase up to 10 items in a single purchase saving gas on ETH and transaction fees with Credit Cards.

• Streamlined Shop checkout flows to reduce common points of confusion about payment methods.

New Bugs

• Check the Pirate Nation GitBook page for the most recent list of Known Issues.

Future Work

• Continued Ship Balance work based on your feedback and our game data will be coming in January.

• Continued Bounty Reward work based on your feedback and our game play data.

• Continued Shipwright balance (cost, service prices, etc.) based on your feedback and our game play data.

• Additional services for the Shipwright are coming soon!

• New visuals for Ship Levels will be coming soon. These will make it easier to visually identify what the ship level is when seeing it on the Market. For now, check for the Ship’s “Level Trait” to confirm what level the ship is.

• Additional Settlement Building Types will be introduced in the future.

• We are limiting the Ship Merging to Lv.3 for now. We will add the ability to merge ships to higher levels in the future.

• Currently the price for using another Player’s Shipwright is a fixed cost. In the future, we will allow Shipwright owners to adjust this price.