Black Desert Great Ocean Guide

This update is also known as the “Great Expedition” update which will be released on 23 October in NA/SEA.

1. New Ships

The following new ships are introduced in the update:

• Cog
• Epheria Caravel
• Epheria Galleass
• Epheria Carrack
• Improved Epheria Sailboat
• Improved Epheria Frigate
• Bartali Sailboat

Here you will find our guide on how to create the old Fishing Boats

1.1. Ship Stats

Stats highlighted in blue are different from the base ship.

Big ships now have the following additional/modified stats:

• Rations: Replaces power of the ship. Functionally identical to existing system, in that rations are consumed when you move the ship or use ship skills. Rations can also be used for certain actions like gathering food on islands. If you run out of rations the ship will move slowly. Current 1 ration unit is equivalent to 1000 power from before.
• Sailor cabins: This affects how many sailors can board your ship. Sailors may occupy more than 1 cabin.

Upgraded ships will allow cannons to be controlled by the captain while steering, but the cannons can no longer be used directly by players. Food, weight capacity, inventory and sailor rooms will also increase.

1.2. Epheria Caravel/Epheria Galleass

The Epheria Caravel/Galleass are upgrades of the Sailboat/Frigate respectively.

1.2.1. Upgrading your ship

Upgrade process can be performed at the wharf manager. The base ship needs to be checked-in first. After the upgrade the old ship will be converted to the upgraded version.

Upgrade paths for ships

Materials to upgrade Epheria Sailboat to the Epheria Caravel.

Materials to upgrade Epheria Frigate to the Epheria Galleass. Materials highlighted in blue are different from the ones used for upgrading a sailboat.

Left: Items to purchase from Falasi

Right: Enhancement material needed for the “old” gear

Notes:

• Falasi is located in Port Epheria.
• Upgrade process cannot be reversed once completed
• The green gear involved in the upgrade of the old ships to new ships use a different enhancement material and appears to have a higher enhancement success rate than regular ship gear.
• The green gear for the upgraded ships can be purchased from Falasi.
• Blue gear for the upgraded ships can be crafted from the Ship Part Workshop in Port Epheria.
• Parts for new ships will not degrade on enhancement failure.
• The old ship gear cannot be used on the upgraded ship.
• You cannot use boatman on the new ships yet.
• The upgraded ship cannon damage will be reduced against World boss.
• Processing 증축용 흑연 주괴, 증축용 목재, and 증축용 접착제 do not appear to contribute to processing EXP and seems to only yield 1 item.
• The Caravel and Galleass were previously known as Trader and Destroyer respectively.

1.2.2. Ship Equipment

Both Caravel and Galleass green equipment have identical stats and cost. The equipment can be purchased from Falasi in Port Epheria.

Blue gear can be crafted at Port Epheria ship part workshop. Like green gear, both Caravel and Galleass have identical stats.

Materials for crafting blue upgraded ship gear for the Epheria Caravel.

Materials for crafting blue upgraded ship gear for the Epheria Galleass. Items marked in blue are different from sailboat.

Notes:

• sea coins are obtained from barter (stage 5). The NPC to exchange them is located in Ross sea north of Lerao island.
• Ship parts for Caravel/Galleass will not degrade if enhancement fails.

1.2.3. Enhancement Materials

Gear for the new ships will use new enhancement materials.

Enhancement at +0~5 for normal green/blue equipment uses item 온기를 품은 블랙스톤. This item can also be obtained from Khan (guild boss).

Enhancement at +6~10 uses item 한기가 서린 블랙스톤.

Enhancement items can be purchased using the new ocean currency obtained through barter and can also be obtained through material barters..

Note:

• The enhancement material used for upgrading the “old” gear involved in the upgrade of Sailboat/Frigate to Caravel/Galleass uses 신록을 머금은 블랙스톤 instead of the above two items. To obtain this enhancement item:
  1. Obtain stage-1 barter items from bartering.
  2. Exchange these items with NPCs located at Velia/Epheria near the Wharf manager for a certificate.
  3. Exchange the certificates with Ravina located at Crow’s Nest.

1.3. Cog

The Cog can be crafted at the shipyard in Port Epheria. Unlike the other big ships, this mount cannot be repaired (similar to fishing boat). You can receive a free Cog from the sailing main quest. You can use the breezy sail skill on this ship.

There are two variants of the cog, both have identical stats.

Variant 1: 에페리아 고속정 (칼리스 의회 공인)

• 선박 제작 허가증 : 에페리아 고속정 x1 (purchase from Falasi)
• Standardized Timber Square x25
• Zinc Ingot x50
• Flax Fabric x60
• Palm Plywood x50

Variant 2: 에페리아 고속정 (몰락한 벨 해적단의 유물)

• 섬나무 증착합판 x100 (Island trade tier 2)
• 암염 주괴 x100 (Island trade tier 2)
• 심해초 줄기 x1
• 파도빛이 감도는 규격 각목 x2 (Drop from sea monsters)

Notes:

• You cannot assign sailors to this ship as it has no cabins.
• You can use a harpoon on this ship.
• Lifespan and durability of the Cog was increased in 30 August KR update.
• The speed/acceleration and lifespan of the Cog was increased in 4 September KR update.

1.4. Batali Sailboat

The Batali Sailboat (바탈리 범선) is a budget ship that can be purchased at the Dancing Marlin tavern in Velia for 10mil silvers. This ship can be repaired, unlike the old Bartali sailboat.

You can purchase ship parts for this budget ship from Falasi in Epheria. The parts can be enhanced the same way as regular Epheria Sailboat/Frigate equipment (i.e. with black stones).

The boat can be upgraded to an Epheria Sailboat or Frigate.

Materials to upgrade the Batali Sailboat to a regular Epheria Sailboat.

Materials to upgrade the Batali Sailboat to a regular Epheria Frigate. Materials marked in blue are different from sailboat.

Note:

• It appears you can also use regular Epheria sailboat gear on this ship.
• You cannot use ship skills on this ship (i.e. no ramming).
• Previously on global-lab this boat was called the “Dancing Marlin”. On KR release the boat was renamed to Batali Sailboat.
• All stats for these ships are identical to their parent ships, except for the addition of the cannons and cannon reload time.
• It is cheaper to build the Epheria Sailboat/Frigate at the shipyard compared to upgrading from the Bartali Sailboat, however the Bartali Sailboat upgrade is likely faster if you have the materials ready.

1.5. Epheria Carrack

The carrack is a new ship that has 18 cannons (9 per side).

There are four variants of the Carrack.

Carrack variants 점진 and 균형 are upgraded from Epheria Caravel.

Carrack variants 비상 and 용맹 are upgraded from Epheria Galleass.

Note:

• The Carrack: 비상 variant stats was shown in a GM live stream event.
• The “inventory slot” stat is off by 2 on global lab on 26 September.

Note: The materials below are obtained from global-lab and may be different from release.

Carrack Upgrade from Epheria Caravel:

Carrack Upgrade from Epheria Galleass:

Notes:

• According to Korea patch notes, the ship variants derived from the Frigate will have shorter cannon cooldowns.

1.6. Improved Sailboat/Frigate

The regular Epheria sailboat/frigate can be upgraded to an “improved” ship which also supports captain controlled cannons. This ship could also be upgraded to the Epheria Caravel/Galleass.

The improved Epheria Sailboat adds 2 cannons to each side that is captain controlled (120 cannonballs), while the improved Epheria Frigate adds 4 cannons to each side (150 cannonballs).

Materials to upgrade Epheria Sailboat to Improved Epheria Sailboat.

Materials to upgrade Epheria Frigate to Improved Epheria Frigate. Materials marked in blue are different from the Sailboat.

Notes:

• The new ships were added in an off-the-norm maintenance on 30 August.
• Materials for upgrading these ships to the Epheria Caravel/Galleass is not known yet.
• The improved sailboat has a cannonball limit of 120, while the improved frigate has a cannonball limit of 150.
• You can use the regular Epheria Sailboat/Frigate ship parts on these boats.
• You can use Epheria Sailboat/Frigate boatman for these ships.
• There was a glitch in the past where the on deck cannons are visible on these boats. The cannons are actually not mountable.

2. New Ship system

When using a big ship, you’ll notice there are some additional new UI elements:

2.1. Ship Rations

Ship rations replaces ship power, and is consumed whenever you move the ship, use ship skills, or interact with the island trade/barter system. Ship rations should not be confused with sailor food, which is a separate system involving food items.

Similar to when your ship has no power, if you run out of rations, the ship will move very slowly, or if against the current/wind, it may not move at all. You’ll also be unable to use ship skills when you are out of rations.

To restore ship rations, you need to visit a wharf manager, take out your ship, and request to refuel the ship.

You can also restore rations using ordinary food items if you are out in the seas. Food items with higher rarity will restore a larger amount of rations. Worker/sailor food cannot be used to restore ship rations.

Notes:

• It is observed that rations consumes at the same rate as the existing ship power.
• You can have your sailors gather rations from islands to replenish a small amount of rations.
• Rations will no longer be restored by breezy crystals. Instead these items restore cannonballs.

2.2. Cannons

If your ship comes with cannons that can be directly controlled by the captain (upgraded Sailboat/Frigate, or Carrack), you’ll be able to fire cannons via LMB/RMB. Unlike the old system, you do not need to purchase cannonballs, after ship refuel your ship will automatically have 300 cannonballs if it’s a sailboat, 600 if it’s a frigate.

If your ship has 2 cannons per side (upgraded sailboat), you’ll fire 2 cannonballs per volley. If you have 4 cannons (upgraded frigate), you’ll fire 4 cannonballs at once, i.e. maximum 25 volleys after refill. Cannon cooldown is shared by both left and right cannons, so you cannot fire left and right cannons in quick succession.

When out in the seas, you’ll be able to restore cannonballs using Breezy Crystals (2 cannonballs) and Origin of Winds (8 cannonballs).

Note:

• Cannon max range is around 4~5 grid squares in the 3d minimap.
• Cannons are observed to shoot “lower” compared to Sailboat/Frigate cannons. This may impact the maximum range or probability of collision if there are other objects (e.g. player’s ships) nearby.
• You will be unable to dismount from ship while the cannon is in cooldown.
• You cannot restore more cannonballs than the ship’s rated capacity using Origin of Winds.

2.3. Current/Wind

The ocean current and wind are additional environment effects that affect your ship’s speed. If you sail along the current/wind your ship will move faster, on the other hand, if you sail against them, your ship may barely move or even move backwards.

Wind is stronger further away from the continent. Current applies when you are a certain distance away from land/islands, i.e. there will be no current if you are near land. Current and wind direction are shown as small arrows, ideally you’d want the arrow to be at the bottom.

Among the two, current has the strongest effect on the ship speed, however strong winds will also have the ability to push back your ship if your ship isn’t moving fast enough and you are sailing against them.

Notes:

• Current appears to be unchanging and depends on position (e.g. on the west of Velia the currents will typically flow away from the port, while in the east, the currents usually flow towards the port).
• Wind can change more variably.
• If the wind speed exceeds a certain amount, the icon color will change from white to a different color:

2.4. Inventory management

Inventory can be managed at the wharf manager. You can also directly manage inventory of your ship for non-barter items.

Inventory

Notes:

• You can transfer directly from town storage to your ship in inventory management.
• In the past equipment was also managed at the Wharf manager, however this was removed in the 4 September update in favor of allowing players to directly change ship equipment without visiting a wharf.

2.5. Stamina

Using ship skills now consume stamina. Stamina is gradually restored over time.

When stamina is depleted, you’ll be unable to use ship skills, functioning as a global skill cooldown.

2.6. Folding/Unfolding Sails

The sail can be folded/unfolded by pressing a button on the ship’s speed meter.

A folded sail will cause the ship to be unaffected by wind which will be useful for sailing against the wind.

Notes:

• You can also fold/unfold the sail while moving. Your ship do not need to be stationary.
• There is a 5 second cooldown between folding/unfolding.

2.7. Other changes

• Ram skill while now deal damage to your ship proportional to the amount of hits that landed.
• You can use breezy sailing while auto-pathing.
• The “ship call” function will now teleport the ship to you if you are a certain distance away.
• Ghost ships no longer prevent you from controlling the ship immediately.
• The sea monster loot has been adjusted, and no longer reward as much guild funds as before.
  • Regular sea monsters (e.g. Heraku, Ocean Stalker, Nine Shark, Candidum) have the normal Sea monster neidans and their exclusive drops (e.g. Heraku’s Spike) replaced with items that are equivalent in value to the Young Sea Monster’s counterpart.
    • E.g. before: 1x Sea Monster’s Neidan (100k guild funds), after: New Sea Monster’s Neidan (10k silver).
    • 10x of each items can be heated to yield the normal version, similar to young sea monster drops.
  • 100mil items observed to be unchanged for now.
  • Pirate ships have the number of pirate coins reduced to around 10% of its original value.

3. Sailors

Before you can hire sailors, you’ll need to complete a quest chain from black spirit that introduces you to the new sailing system.

There is a limit on the number of sailors you can recruit, which can be increased by using an item awarded from quests. The main tutorial questline rewards a few of these, and also gives a free sailor.

Recruiting sailors requires a contract, which costs 3mil. The contract can be purchased at both inns in Velia (from the innkeeper) or from Falasi at Port Epheria.

Recruitable sailors can be found in Velia (most are in the old inn) and around Port Epheria (near the beached whale).

Each hiring attempt can fail, and if you fail to hire a sailor, the contract will still be consumed and the sailor will walk out, which prevents you from re-attempting to hire that sailor.

Sailors you have recruited can be assigned to the ship via sailor management at the wharf manager. A sailor may demand a certain amount of cabins, which limits how many sailors you can assign on a ship. Additionally, you can feed sailors through the sailor management window to recover loyalty.

You cannot use worker food (e.g. beer) to feed sailors. You’ll need to use Chowder (차우더) instead. Recipe for chowder:

There is also an alternative sailor food 건포도 빵 (Raisin Bread) which can be bought from Islin Bartali. This food recovers 1 sailor condition point instead of 10 from Chowder.

When a sailor runs out of food, the sailor may get sick. If the sailor is sick, the stats provided by the sailor will no longer be applied. You’ll need to use a Potion of Regeneration (재생의 묘약) to recover the sailor’s health.

Notes:

• You cannot re-assign sailors if the boat is on a different wharf.
• The sailors that previously rejected your recruitment offer may not necessarily appear the following day.
• It seems the available sailors varies between the time of the day.
• Sailors gain EXP when you defeat sea monsters.

4. Island Interactions

You can perform interactions with islanders while on your ship. Simply approach the NPC and a button will appear which you can click to show additional actions.

4.1. Barter

If you have items the islander is interested in, you’ll be allowed to perform a trade. You can only trade items present in the ship’s inventory. The trade information resets every 4 hours. There is a limit of 100 trades per reset.

You can view barter information from the world map.

Each trade route begins with a mainland item. These are possible items that may be selected:

• Bag of muddy water
• Red tree lump
• Bloody tree knot
• Rough mud crystal
• Rough red crystal
• Rough green crystal
• Rough black crystal
• Rough blue crystal
• Noc ore
• Lead ore
• Old Tree Bark
• Monk’s branch
• Spirit’s Leaf
• Powder of Time
• Powder of Earth
• Powder of Crevice
• Powder of Flame
• Powder of Darkness
• Log
• Rough stone
• Fruit of Magic Power
• Fruit of Abundance
• Cloud Mushroom
• Elder Tree Sap
• Acacia Sap
• White Cedar Sap
• Grilled Bird Meat
• Beer
• Vinegar
• Sinner’s Blood
• Aloe
• Pistachio
• Star anise
• Essence of liquor
• Knitting Yarn
• Flax Thread
• Wool
• Wolf Hide
• Feather Wolf Hide
• Wild Grass

Note: The above are color coded by which box they are obtained on global-lab.

Exchanging a mainland item yields a Stage-1 barter item, which can be exchanged for a Stage-2 barter item and so on. At the end of the trade route is typically sea coins.

A sample trade route (the routes will not be as neatly presented in-game)

You can perform the same exchange repeatedly at the same islander provided you have sufficient materials, your ship has sufficient inventory space/weight, and you have not exceeded your trade limit. Some trades may have additional restrictions.

Barter items tend to be heavy (e.g. 800~1000 LT), so keeping track of your ship’s inventory is particularly important. Stage-5 items do not stack so take note of your inventory slots when exchanging at this stage.

The most important reward from bartering is the sea coins, which can be obtained by exchanging a stage-5 barter item. This exchange can only be performed once per trade route until barter window resets (i.e. every 4 hours). sea coins can be used to purchase materials for ship upgrades or ship parts. Barter window resets at a fixed time similar to regular trade resets.

There are different types of trades involved.

Barter items at stage-3 and above can be sold for silvers.

Additional trade routes are unlocked with more trades. The new routes will be available upon the next barter reset.

• At the beginning, one trade route, and the Old Moon Guild Carrack trade will be available.
• Second trade route and stage-2 material barter unlocks after 10 trades. Land trade will also begin appearing.
• Third trade route and stage-3 material barter unlocks after 40~50 trades.
• Fourth trade route and stage-4 material barter unlocks after 70~110 trades.
• Fifth trade route unlocks after 150+ trades.
• Special barter offers may begin appearing after 140 trades.
• Note: The maximum number of routes is not yet known. The exact requirements for unlocking a trade route is not known, but appears to be influenced by the type of trades made in the past.

Special trades will allow you to obtain items with a high silver value (typically worth 100mil silvers).

Notes:

• The quantity of sea coins that can be obtained is random, however some sea coin barters reward substantially more coins than others:
  • Hakoven island is noted to have the most sea coins rewarded.
  • Islands in Margoria tend to reward more coins than those near mainland.
• You will typically end up with left-over items when bartering. You can either sell them for silvers (if stage-3 or higher) or save them for the next barter window.
• Some barters may not necessarily be part of any trade route. E.g. the old moon carrack barter which exchanges Stage-5 items for another is typically not part of a trade route.
• Barter does not require a sailor.
• You no longer need to complete the sailing main questline to barter.
• Stage-5 items cannot be stacked unlike the other barter items, and thus will occupy more inventory space.
• When your ship is destroyed or remote-collected all barter items on it will be lost.
• Each player may see different available trade routes.

4.2. Explore/Supply

Island explore/supply actions requires at least one sailor, and the ship must have sufficient rations.

• Explore: Find items on the island
• Supply: Find food on the island (restore ship rations)

After an action is performed, you will be unable to perform any explore/supply actions for 20 minutes. There is a probability that the exploration/search may fail, and will still consume ship rations without any yield.

Note:

• You must be steering the ship to perform island trade. You cannot perform island trade if you are not on a ship, so you cannot merely swim to an island and trade.
• The trade item must be in ship inventory, not on your personal inventory. If you forgot to put it into your ship, you’ll need to return to a wharf manager.
• Ship remote collection may destroy items in the ship’s inventory.
• You cannot explore/supply if your ship’s rations is below 100.

5. Bosses

5.1. Khan (Guild Boss)

5.1.1. The Fight

Khan is a new guild boss introduced in the great ocean update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgPVGpLcCA&feature=youtu.be

Khan is summoned in the Eye of Oquilla, an island located north of Lema (in Ross sea). Special cannons ([길드] 괴수잡이 대포 조립 세트) will be needed in this boss fight, which can be bought from guild manager for 1mil guild funds. Cannonballs cost 100k guild funds each. There is a guild manager conveniently located on the island.

You can also exchange Old Moon Combat/Life Seals for the cannon and cannonballs.

The cannons behave similar to most other cannons, but with some additional unique features.

The cannon has the following firing modes:

• Regular shot (fire using RMB)
• Rapid fire (switch to this mode by pressing “X”)
• Overcharged shot (fire using RMB)

When firing regular shots, you’ll build up a charge counter, which influences the damage of rapid fire and overcharged shots. The counter is depleted upon using overcharged shot or rapid fire.

For overcharged shots, near shots (where the cannon’s barrel is lowered to its lowest) do more damage than long-distance shots at the maximum charge. The damage is influenced by the charge counter. After overcharged shot is used, the cannon will enter cooldown for a longer period of time than regular shots.

Rapid fire can only be used if you have charge counter of 2 or more.

Notes:

• Khan periodically spawns towers that can recover its health, you should destroy those towers as quickly as possible.
• If the cannon is destroyed, all the cannonballs on it will be lost.
• The cannon can be moved.
• You can dismount from cannon even if the cannon is not yet reloaded.
• Like Well, Khan spawns Lopter-like monsters. You can kill these with normal combat skills.
• Like Well, Khan has an instant-kill attack which you need to dodge. The attack is choreographed as a large red circle.
• You do not need ships to attack Khan, however you do need them to reach the island (unless you use skills that can teleport people such as “Command to gather”).
• Other players not in the guild can be damaged by Khan.
• Khan will disappear after 30 minutes after summoning.

5.1.2. Summoning Khan

To get the Khan summon scroll you need to:

1. Complete quest “달의 눈, 칸의 심장을 찾아” (last quest in sailing main quest-line) so that NPC 카닐라 델카스 will allow you to exchange items.
2. Collect 10 Blue Wave Crystals (푸른빛 파도의 결정), and exchange for a piece of the summon scroll.
3. Collect 9 scrolls and arrange it in a square pattern. You will obtain an item “미완성된 레아나르의 천체도”
4. Exchange this item to obtain [길드] 레아나르의 천체도 (pick the corresponding size). This scroll will summon Khan.

푸른빛 파도의 결정 can be obtained from guild missions.

NPC 카닐라 델카스 is located in Eye of Oquilla (at the top of the island).

Recommended amount of players:

• Small summon: 20
• Medium: 30
• Large: 40
• Extra Large: 50

Note:

• The Ghost ship 콕스 해적단의 그림자 망령 (Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost) also drops pieces of the scroll (you need to assemble 5 of them to make a summon scroll) used to summon another boss which drop a piece of the item used in step 3.
• The amount of blue wave crystals required was reduced in 4 September KR patch.
• Blue wave crystals are awarded in gathering-type guild missions in 10 September KR patch.

5.1.3. Drops

The material to make Khan’s heart (응축된 칸의 마력) is a possible drop from the guild boss. There are 3 variants of Khan’s heart.

Other notable drops:

• 해양 괴수의 진액 (Material used in crafting materials for upgrading ships.)
• 칸의 비늘 (Material used when upgrading ships to Caravel/Galleass. Also used for blue ship parts.)
• 칸의 힘줄 (Material used when upgrading ships to Carrack)
• 온기를 품은 블랙스톤 (Enhancement material for ship parts)

Notes:

• You can also purchase 응축된 칸의 마력 using sea coins from Ravinia at Crow’s Nest.
• In the 10 September KR update, two additional variants of Khan’s Heart were added. The original one is renamed to 칸의 심장 : 파괴.

5.2. Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost

The Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost is a random encounter. This monster can be solo-ed, however it’s best to fight it using a boat with captain-controlled cannons, such as an Epheria Caravel/Galleass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl9PojCSbV0

Battle tips:

• The Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost is non-aggressive, and will only retaliate if you attack it.
• You should only attack the ghost ship once it starts moving the first time it appears, because for the first few seconds after it spawns it is invulnerable to damage until it begins moving.
• It’s better to circle around the ghost ship to bait it to chase you to avoid taking damage, because it can do fairly large amounts of damage if you are unprepared. The ghost ship will not fire its cannons while its moving.
• If you are a substantial distance away from the ghost ship, charging the cannon for a few seconds will allow your cannonballs to hit the ship.

Notes:

• If you are hunting the ghost ship (e.g. to collect ship materials), you’d want to have audio enabled. A few seconds before the ship appears, the background music will change abruptly, and you should stop your boat immediately to avoid accidentally moving your ship too far away (and causing it to despawn).

The following items are known to drop from Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost:

5.3. Cox Pirate’s Ghost

This boss is summoned by using the scroll obtained from combining 5x 콕스해적단의 망령 소환서 조각 (dropped from Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GAFDalnCZg

Notes:

• The same tactics can be used as with Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost.
• This boss has a lot of HP, however it can be solo-ed if you have enough firepower. Ships with at least 2 cannons per side such as Epheria Caravel/Galleass strongly recommended.
• Boss despawns 30 minutes after summon.

The following items are known to drop from Cox Pirate’s Shadow Ghost:

Additionally, the black spirit quest award from defeating the boss will give an item used in assembling of the summon scroll for Khan.

6. Sailing Dailies

6.1. Mainland

These dailies are from the mainland and mainly focus on sailing EXP.

6.2. Eye of Oquilla

These dailies are from Eye of Oquilla (an island in the Ross sea), which rewards materials used for upgrading ships or crafting blue ship parts. You must be sailing beginner lv 3 or above to access these quests. You may need to complete the sailing main questline before you can do some dailies.

7. Eye of Oquilla

This is a new island located in the Ross Sea, north of Lema island.

7.1. Treasure Chests

Note: This information is derived from KR patch notes.

Every 3 hours, chests will appear in the beach area of the island. These chests can be opened with silver keys.

During the environment change where the chests appear, explosions will appear in the vicinity and any adventurers on the beach at that time will be instantly killed (there will be no EXP penalty when this happens).

According to KR patch notes, the chests drop the following:

7.2. Otter Traders

Note: This information is derived from KR patch notes.

These traders will appear in the Eye of Oquilla, in 1 hour rotations. All of them trade for the same set of items, but may request for different amounts.

You can obtain 오색빛 산호 from island exploration.

7.3. Misc

Khan is summoned at this island.

This island has a number of dailies useful for obtaining materials for upgrading your ships or for crafting blue ship parts.

8. Crow’s Nest

8.1. Sea Coins

Sea coins can be obtained at stage 5 barter. These coins can be exchanged with Ravinia (라비니아) for materials used in ship upgrade or ship parts. Ravinia is located in Crow’s Nest island.

You may need to complete the sailing main questline before Ravinia will trade any items for sea coins.

Ravinia will also exchange the certificates for the enhancement material used for enhancing “Old” equipment used for the upgrade process from Sailboat/Frigate to Caravel/Galleass.

These certificates can be obtained by exchanging stage-1 barter items with NPCs located in Port Epheria and Velia.

Notes:

• You can sell items for Sea coins (1% of its purchase value).
• At the moment none of the items that are exchanged with Sea coins can be placed in the marketplace.

8.2. Ravinia ’s Ship Expansion Journal

Ravinia provides a questline (라비니아의 선박 증축 일지) which consists of 7 parts. Each part can only be done in a day, you’ll need to wait for the following day to resume on the next part. Each quest starts and ends at Ravinia , and are simple quests that require to go to a certain NPC and return.

Using the item awarded from the above quest will give another quest with the same name as the item.

By doing 라비니아의 선박 증축 일지 I and IV, you’d have a substantial amount of the materials needed for upgrading the Epheria Sailboat/Frigate to Caravel/Galleass.

Note:

• This content was introduced in 30 August KR patch.
• The quest started by an item cannot be retaken if you abandon them.
• The quest selected by the item is random, however the rewards will be the same for the quests selected by that item.
• You do not need to actually complete the quest provided by the item to receive the next day’s quest.

9. Patch Updates

16 August (Global-Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=en-US&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=621

• Great Ocean update was added.

22 August (Global-Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=en-US&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=633

• Upgraded Sailboat and Frigate can now be upgraded to Carrack.
• Ship Rations have been increased.
• Materials needed to upgrade Sailboat/Frigate has been changed.
• Cannonball limit has been increased for upgraded Sailboat and Frigate to 300 and 600 respectively.
• Power accel can now be used while the ship is moving.
• Ships will be destroyed if too close to reefs in Velia port.
• Additional barter routes were added.

28 August (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=ko-KR&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&currentPage=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=589

• Ocean update is released
• Materials for ship upgrade and ship parts are updated.
• Values for current/wind are multiplied so they look bigger.
• Item ocean coin costs has been updated.
• Stamina system introduced.
• New sailing dailies introduced.

29 August (Global-Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=en-US&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=639

• Most additional changes in 28 August update.

30 August (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=ko-KR&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&currentPage=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=606

• New sailor food item (건포도 빵) was added. This item restores 1 unit of condition instead of 10 from Chowder.
• Improved Epheria Sailboat/Frigate were added
• Cog stats revised
• NPCs for exchanging the green enhancement stones (신록을 머금은 블랙스톤) are added to Port Epheria and Velia. As a result, the NPC at Crow’s island will no longer trade stage-1 barter items for the stones.
• Success rate of hiring sailors has been increased.
• 신록을 머금은 블랙스톤 was added to several sea monsters loot tables.
• New quests added to Crow’s Nest island. The quests 라비니아의 선박 증축 일지(I ~ VII) will greatly help in upgrading to Epheria Caravel/Galleass.

4 September (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=ko-KR&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&currentPage=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=620

• Ration consumption on big ships were adjusted.
• Cog stats were adjusted.
• The Cog will now be placed nearer to the Wharf.
• Cannon damage for improved Epheria Sailboat/Frigate has been reduced.
• Non-barter inventory items now can be managed without visiting a Wharf.
• Equipment can now be managed directly without visiting a Wharf. As such, equipment management at Wharf manager is removed.
• Emergency ration system is added. Amount of rations recovered is influenced by the rarity of the food item. You may use items that are not used for worker food that can be placed in the marketplace. (Only applies to personal ships.)
• Origin of winds and related items can now restore cannonballs.
• Newly hired sailors now start at 100% health (except for the first sailor you get from quest).
• Sea monster drops were adjusted. Rare items will now drop more frequently.
• Non-barter items in ship inventory will no longer be lost when the ship is remote collected or destroyed.
• Some barters were adjusted.
• Amount of blue wave crystals needed for items involved in Khan summon scroll was halved.
• “Ship Call” function will now teleport the ship to you if you are a certain distance away and near enough, similar to calling a horse. If you are very near the ship you’ll teleport to the ship’s helm as before.

10 September (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=ko-KR&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&currentPage=1&BoardType=0&boardNo=642

• New Khan Hearts were added.
• Currents in certain areas were adjusted.
• Sealed Compass (7 days) added to Ocean coin vendor.
• Iliya Island houses 2-2 and 3 can now be expanded to level 4 storage (from level 3).
• Small boats such as Fishing Boats can now use the “Ship Call” function to teleport to the helm.

20 September (Global Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=en-US&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&BoardType=0&boardNo=657

• Sailor EXP was adjusted.
• Ship refuel costs were adjusted.

25 September (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=ko-KR&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&currentPage=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=676

• Ration silver costs were reduced.
• Rewards from special barter have been increased.
• The strength of some currents have been reduced.
• You can now recruit sailors in Illiya Island.
• New game control settings related to ship/barter.
• Origin of winds and breezy crystals were renamed. The amount of cannonballs provided have been increased to 10 and 5 respectively.
• Raisin bread (sailor food) can now also be purchased in Velia, Port Epheria and Iliya Island.
• Epheria Sailboat/Frigate Sailor contracts were merged to a single contract. This change was applied to NA/SEA as well.

26 September (Global-Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=en-US&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=663

• Ram skill will now only deal damage to the ship on successful hits.
• The area between Eye of Oquilla and Lema Island has been renamed. Auto-path now works between Eye of Oquilla and other areas.
• The safe area on Eye of Oquilla has been expanded.
• Sailors can be recruited in Iliya island.

1 October (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?boardNo=698&countryType=ko-KR

• Changes in global-lab applied on KR.
• Contract renewals now apply to the old contract. This change was applied to NA/SEA as well.

4 October (Global Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?BoardMasterNo=1&CountryType=en-US&SearchType=&SearchText=&progressType=1&BoardType=2&boardNo=669

• Added the ability to fold/unfold sails, which can influence how winds affect your ship.

8 October (KR)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?boardNo=721&countryType=ko-KR

• Changes in global-lab applied on KR.
• Added new items “Celerity Draught” and “Unbridled Celerity Draught” which boosts sailing EXP by 20% for 3 and 6 hours respectively. This change was added to NA/SEA as well.

11 October (Global Lab)

https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?boardType=2&boardNo=681

• New sailing dailies were added.

16 October (Korea)

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?boardNo=735&countryType=ko-KR

• All wharf managers now sell Raisin bread.
• Carrack green gears were added to sea coin shop.
• New enhancement materials added for carrack gears.
• Several land items were added to barter trade.

10. Credit

Special thanks to the following:

The unbelievable creator of all of this

BDO family name: Airie (SEA), Akiri (Global-Lab)

Discord: Kiri Airie#6217

• Sheen, and everyone from sailing Discord (https://discord.gg/HxqFgwh):
  • Providing confirmation that sailor boatman can be used with certain new big ships.
  • Providing additional details on Carrack
  • Providing additional details on Barter
• Official:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UURDtfn2ZcQ&feature=youtu.be

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