Sinking and recovery

Temporary boss pause

In version 0.21.8, Europa’s Kraken, Hydra and Sirene encounters are temporarily unavailable during server architecture work. Ordinary pirates remain active. Existing earned titles and saved player progress are retained.

Boss stats, rewards and title requirements are unchanged. New boss kills and boss-title progress cannot be earned while these encounters are paused.

Prepare before danger

Bank spare Coins and valuable supplies before combat. Carry Repair Kits and keep enough room to collect loot. The chart’s danger labels and your opponent’s level matter more than the value of your equipped ship.

Do not use logout as an escape from combat. A disconnected ship can remain in the world until its active combat ends and can still take committed hits.

What enters death loot

Ordinary sinking places carried goods, equipped equipment and the fishing tool into death loot. Owned boat hull items and the active treasure-hunt map are retained under their separate rules. Bank storage is untouched.

All hired Crew, including reserves, are lost. The equipped Captain is kept on PvE death. On a player kill the equipped Captain is dropped Corrupted; carried Captains also face corruption in death loot.

Europa respawn destination

In the European regional update, ordinary respawns return you to the region of your currently active god. Changing resonance changes that respawn destination.

After a death during normal play, the ship finishes sinking in the current scene before the respawn loading screen appears. The destination stays inactive while its first view is prepared, then activation begins the full 15-second Safe arrival protection. An attack attempt ends that protection immediately; an ordinary reconnect does not restart it.

This does not change death-loot ownership, recovery timers or normal PvE/PvP loss rules. It does not relocate your three island quest captains from their original home region.

Recovering your belongings

Death loot is private to its assigned owner for 5 min and despawns after 7 min. For PvE death the owner is the fallen sailor; on a player kill the killer receives the private claim.

Your available death barrels appear below the compass with their remaining time and a Retrieve barrel button. The selected enemy stays below the recovery notice. This navigation aid does not extend the barrel’s lifetime.

When the original owner recovers eligible equipment, its condition is preserved. Another looter receives damaged equipment and Corrupted Captains. The recovery rule is not insurance against the barrel being taken or expiring.

Repair and restoration

Repair Kits heal your current HP; they do not repair Broken equipment or restore Corrupted Captains. Use the relevant city restoration service for damaged equipment and Ship Crew for Captains, when a restoration quote is available.

Spells after respawning

Respawning clears your god-spell cooldowns, so your new life does not inherit those timers. Favor costs still apply. Travelling through a portal or disconnecting does not grant this reset.

Enemies returning home

An enemy that retreats after your death cannot be attacked while returning. It resets to full Hull when it arrives, then becomes eligible for a new encounter. If a harbour service ship blocks its home berth, it can reset at a nearby clear berth within its normal territory instead of remaining permanently unavailable.

Protected tutorial deaths

The private tutorial bypasses ordinary death-loot loss. That protection ends when you enter ordinary waters. Encounter-specific protected deaths, where provided, are explained by the encounter rather than being a general rule.

Wilderness bosses

The open-world bosses have no special protected instance death. A boss kill uses normal PvE loss handling; a player kill uses normal wilderness PvP loss handling.