Enemy ships

Emerald Isles#

Ship	Level	Behaviour	Hull	Damage	Shot	XP	Gold	Crystals (avg)
Merchant	1–7	Flees	×1	×0.4	Round	25	140	—
Pirate	1–8	Aggressive (340 px)	×1	×1	Round	40	80	—
Navy	5–14	Fights back	×1.4	×1.1	Heavy	75	150	0.09
Corsair	10–16	Aggressive (520 px)	×1.2	×1.2	Chain	130	240	0.18
Ghost Ship	13–20	Aggressive (600 px)	×1.8	×1.3	Fire	240	380	0.36

Northern Ice Sea#

Ship	Level	Behaviour	Hull	Damage	Shot	XP	Gold	Crystals (avg)
Frost Raider	20–29	Aggressive (560 px)	×0.95	×0.95	Fire	150	260	0.24
Northern Longship	24–36	Aggressive (600 px)	×1.15	×1	Heavy	210	320	0.3
Icebreaker	20–36	Fights back	×1.6	×0.9	Chain	260	420	0.36

Fire Isles#

Ship	Level	Behaviour	Hull	Damage	Shot	XP	Gold	Crystals (avg)
Ash Corsair	35–45	Aggressive (580 px)	×1.15	×1	Fire	300	460	0.42
Fireship	39–50	Aggressive (640 px)	×1	×1.15	Fire	330	480	0.42
Magma Galleon	35–50	Fights back	×1.6	×0.95	Heavy	420	640	0.6

Behaviours#

• Flees: Merchants never attack; when hit they try to get away.
• Fights back: Navy ships, icebreakers and magma galleons don't start a fight, but come after you once you fire on them.
• Aggressive: Pirates, raiders and the like come at any captain inside the listed distance. They leave ships in the harbor and ships under a shield alone.

Loot and experience#

• The gold and XP listed are for a level-1 ship. Gold grows by 30% a level (×2.2 at level 5, ×6.7 at level 20) and floats where the ship sank, give or take 20%.
• The crystal column is the average a sinking drops: the fraction is the chance of one more, and every ship has a further 3% chance.
• Ships more than 3 levels below you give 12% less experience for each further level (never under 25%). Past level 10 your share of experience also slows: Levels and experience
• Sunk ships sometimes leave a treasure map or a Blood Cove chart piece too: Treasure maps · Blood Cove expedition

Special ships#

Ship	Where	XP	Gold	Crystals
Tower	Forts	900	3,000	3
Captain of Blood Cove	Blood Cove expedition	600	2,500	2