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lvl-5 bottle is usually 1 grid away from where you found a bottle and easily "zerg" by just a regualr (even lvl-1) bear tame. It gives you around 250-300 gold. So it's actually matter of couple days - sailing sloop and digging a treasures. Also check shipwreck. Lvl-10 is around 300 gold. Lvl-18 around 600-700!!! I once got 2 wrecks next to eachother - one lvl-16 another lvl-18. Lucky me!!!) Then you go Schooner, and things go global. Go to NE island at C6 to catch a high lvl Tiger (caution this island has insane wild animals spawn so building not just a trap but also a shelter - highly recommended). And do all high lvl maps (don't forget to wear an armor and drink grog before fight. Tiger also drinks a grog btw, but his buff goes for only 5 minutes). It's tricky, do to lvl-20 map with tiger but his bleed attack goes long way. The only thing you should know - if damned warrior (or solder) don't swing his weapon for a while - he buried underground and restore health. So you have to make him swing and avoid attack. To do so - you either move backward or hit him before he hits you. Patience, caution and let the bleed do all work (it's around 5-10% of health per hit). So you go global. Do treasure. Put couple of ballistas to stern and do whales quests. Do mermaid quest. And do alot of discoveries. I personally go to a grid for the first time (if there is no goldens there), dig treasure, and do all landfalls this grid. So count this phase of a game as "earning gold and max levels". By the time you'll get your 18k for brig you'll probably have max-lvl around 60+ (enough for all in captaining skill tree), and then you will be able to join the battles on BRIG. There is just a one problem. Game still instable. There is a risk to hit whale or damned legion camping a grid border. And... well... you can loose your Schooner right the first voyage after you get a ship. It... happened to me. Game just crashed and didn't allow me to log in until my schooner was destroyed. Can you imagine how unhappy I was that day!!! As for trading... it's... wel... I mean it's super stupid and boring. You put 3 prefab building, set your trading routes, and wait until you'll get some resources you even didn't set for trading, and also gold around 1500 each day. You just don't understand - why you get all those resources. You see like 90 pages of logs per day with messages like: "You shipment 923759832475983749 was sent" "You shipment 1123412341231212413987931234124 was complete". I mean... It made really weird way. It's like "money for nothing" and you don't get how it's actually work. After a next wipe I WONT even try to set those things up again. It's better to explore the world and get gold. I don't know why devs don't wanna us to do that...

Sloops are free to build. You can build one and start doing shipwrecks. Get yourself a bear and do low level treasure maps. You'll need a bit of luck to find a suitable place to build. Don't bother with the farmhouse/warehouse/market combo because....just no. You'd have better luck punching a shark to death and surviving. You'll have to decide whether you want to save 5k gold for a schooner, or 18k gold for a Brig......or 50k for a galleon... Keep in mind that if, for example, you build a schooner in a Fine shipyard or higher, the gold cost will increase a little the higher the quality. This is assuming you're playing PvE (given the post IS in the PvE section)... if you're playing PvP, perhaps one of the PvP players can give you advice on staying alive long enough to build anything. Good Luck

After i got a small base, forge, and a small shipyard i managed to get 5k in ~8hours by building a whaling/diving sloop. Put every level into weight Add a diving platform Carry about 250 ballista bolts Start w 2 ballistas, add a 3rd Dont forget a bed, small chest, and a resource chest, carry just a bit of wood, thatch & fiber, zero metal If your speed falls below 6 knots park and wait for wind Dont recommend diving in Polar Regions (killer whales) Have a backup diving sloop in a box if bad luck occurs. Luckily never happened to me. This was on PvE btw Good luck.

Good luck finding a place to put a farmhouse /warehouse down not in lawless and most private island dont want you to build so the 1 or 2 days to get 5k lol ya right. Start diving or do maps you have 5k faster.

Rob the banks at the lighthouses, the bank breaks twice, on second break it drops a bag that can anything from 5k to 30k gold. Or kill whales..for 900g a whale roughly Or get some mates and do blue maps, can avg 5-15k a day that way. Or do all 3.. plus maybe make some semi decent weapons, tools etc and put them on a shop or trade resouces in shops for around 1g per unit or 1g per 10 and you'll have money rolling in.

Pyrates didn't really pay for ships though, they stole them. So are all the 'real' pyrates gonna stop playing now?

Reduce the gold cost for at least the schooner, dammit.