The Treasure Hunt

"Nine pieces of a ship are only driftwood. Nine pieces of a map are an invitation."

— From the Guild's notes, before the silence

TL;DR: The sea occasionally washes salt-crusted fragments onto your shore. Nine pieces form a map. A map leads to a salvage.

- Fragments appear rarely and by chance while beachcombing

- Four rarities exist — the rarest only once in a lifetime

- The harbour's black market lets you swap fragments

- A complete collection unseals a treasure island

- Salvage takes hours and costs a real fleet

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How it begins #

When you collect on the shore, a lone map fragment may occasionally sit among the usual driftwood. It is not guaranteed — the sea decides.

Each fragment bears one of four rarities. The rarer the piece, the larger the reward for a full map. Every rarity has nine slots.

The Treasure Map #

A new entry appears in your navigation: Treasure Map. There you will find:

• Collection — Which slots you own and which you still lack
• Black Market — A harbour where fragments change hands between governors
• Chronicle — Your completed salvages
• Legend — The Hall of Treasure Finders: the names of those who broke the Seal of the First Admiral

Trading on the Black Market #

Have duplicates, or need just one missing piece? The black market is not an official merchant — it is a meeting point. Offers expire after seven days. You can post them publicly or direct them at a specific governor.

The Salvage #

Once you own all nine slots of a rarity, you unseal a map. An uninhabited island appears in the ocean — visible only to you. Send a fleet with at least one trade ship and one warship. The on-site dig takes several hours, depending on rarity.

Unsealing also starts the salvage deadline: from that moment you have only a limited window to send the salvage fleet on its way. The rarer the map, the longer that window — roughly three days for the most common maps, up to a week for the rarest one. Let the deadline pass and the map sinks back, with the nine fragments spent: they are collected at the moment of unsealing and do not come back. You can watch the countdown on your treasure hunt page.

The reward is frozen at the moment of unsealing. Your ranking-list position scales it — the higher, the larger.

Things to remember #

• Fragments are rare. A weekly world-wide budget limits their appearance. Be patient.
• Only one salvage at a time. Finish the current one before starting another.
• Salvage fleets are protected. They cannot be recalled, but other players cannot attack them either.
• The black market doesn't remember you. Cancel an offer in time, or it will expire or be accepted.

"Some maps end at an X. Others end at a coast no chart ever shows."