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Merchant Escort (level 30, Fireship)
Merchant Escort is a level 30 fireship with 68 Hull. It retaliates when attacked.
Location and behaviour
Merchant Escort appears in Fleet waters · levels 30–50. The listed Hull and combat values describe this specific level and ship variant.
Does not initiate normal combat on sight. It retaliates when attacked.
Its authored chase distance is 18 tiles and home leash is 18 tiles. Returning enemies recover before resuming their route.
Combat statistics
Normal attacks use Fireship combat with maximum base hit 4. This is a maximum before target defences and active combat effects, not a guaranteed hit.
Single-combat regions and multi-combat pirate regions have different engagement rules; check the region before beginning a fight.
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Hull | 68 |
| Displayed Combat level | 30 |
| Underlying combat-skill input | 30 |
| Maximum normal hit | 4 |
| Attack interval (seconds) | 3.6 |
| Attack range (tiles) | 5 |
| Equipment defence bonus | 0 |
Drop table
A normal kill creates a Loot Barrel containing its rolled rewards. Equipment in new NPC loot is Common; improve its rarity at the Shipwright. A Common Artifact Scroll rolls independently at 10% and can drop alongside a Rare, Epic or Legendary scroll of the same tier. The extra treasure-chest roll is separate from equipment and scroll rolls.
The Skull weighs 790–1,100 grams, in 10-gram steps, and is Rare.
| Reward | Quality | Quantity | Chance | Roll |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boat Scrap | — | 6–10 | 100% | Guaranteed |
| No main-table reward | — | 0 | 50% | Main roll |
| Coins | — | 50–125 | 25% | Main roll |
| Health+ | — | 1 | 12.5% | Main roll |
| Cannon T5 | Common | 1 | 3.125% | Main roll |
| Hull Plates T5 | Common | 1 | 3.125% | Main roll |
| Sail T5 | Common | 1 | 3.125% | Main roll |
| Spyglass T5 | Common | 1 | 3.125% | Main roll |
| Artifact Scroll T5 | Rare | 1 | 7% | Independent roll 1 |
| Artifact Scroll T5 | Epic | 1 | 2.5% | Independent roll 1 |
| Artifact Scroll T5 | Legendary | 1 | 0.5% | Independent roll 1 |
| Artifact Scroll T5 | Common | 1 | 10% | Independent roll 2 |
| Artifact | — | 1 | 1% | Independent roll 4 |
| Trireme I Blueprint Piece | — | 1 | 20% | Independent roll 5 |
| Skull | Rare | 1 | 100% | Guaranteed ship reward |
| Common Treasure Chest | — | 1 | 1.5625% | Extra chest roll (one chest maximum) |
Loot bonuses and collection
Loot is reserved to its owner for 5 minutes and sinks 7 minutes after it appears. Collect it before the deadline.
The Regular Lookout doubles eligible acquisition chances; equipment improvement uses available empty main-table chance and does not double the Coins or Health+ row. Grave Robber increases the separate chest chance by 500% relative to its base chance. Combined chest multipliers are capped at 12×. Neither effect improves the rarity of a successful roll.