Here is a guide to help you to go through the campaign & 100% achievements.
Getting Started
These 2 will happen at the very beginning of the game.
No tips needed.
I’d recommend to do this rather early. The 4 slot starting ship just doesn’t cut it.
The next cheapest ship with 8 slots for ~700 gold is a massive improvement, which you shouldn’t miss out on for too long.
Exploring the Map | Unique Islands
“The Giants” is located in the far south-west corner of the map.
It’s used to spend your level ups, and for other stuff which I will come back to in the last chapter of this guide.
You’ll know, when you find him. The Fish God, called Sam, has pretty much exactly the same map icon, as the one shown just above.
In order to unlock this achievement, you need to feed him with 800 units of water.
In order to store water, you first need to visit a ship workshop, and equip the “Water Barrel” for 2000 gold.
Note, that the amount of water units you can store per barrel, depends on the ship you’re currently using.
After that, you need to find 1 out of the 2 “Lake” islands in the south-east corner of the world map.
(That’s where they were located for me, please let me know, if it’s random.)
They’ll look like this:
“The Bank” is a unique, stand-alone island somewhere on the map. It was located in the south-east corner in my case.
Once discovered, you can either spend 10% or 50% of your money. Just go with 10% and you’re done.
Now let me tell you about something interesting: This game actually has a permadeath mechanic.
If you should run out of money on the world map – if your weekly crewmans’ pay exceeds the amount of money you’re currently holding – you lose the game.
The only way to avoid that, it to the pay the bank.
Even if you haven’t discovered the bank yet, they will give you a small loan the first time you run out of money. If you run out again, before you’ve paid them back, it’s game over.
Don’t worry though, I had no idea what I had to do the first ~2h and never ran into any problems.
Just don’t buy too big of a ship too fast.
Now, if you’re already endgame and own tens or even hundreds of thousand coins, you can still trigger the 2nd achievement, by just despositing all your current money in the bank (spam that 50% button) and than wait for the week to end.
Managing your Islands
You can buy every uninhabited island on the world map, which allowed you to loot something on the first visit. Just press the buy button in the lower right corner and pay a little fee.
I’ll tell you what you need to buy and build in the achievement below.
Now, don’t get your hopes up. You can’t built a lighthouse in this game. You can only rebuilt a broken down one. Why do I point this out? Because you first need to find the island, which houses the lighthouse’s ruins. Once you’ve done so, you’ll receive a letter on one of the post islands, asking you to rebuilt it.
The required materials are:
Level 1: 15 Wood / 30 Sand
Level 2: 20 Stone
Level 3: 10 Bricks** / 30 Lumber**
Level 4: 25 Bricks** / 25 Glass**
Level 5: 10 Gems / 10 Dye Powder / 20 Gears**
And **those are the materials, which you can only craft yourself.
To do so, you need to buy:
Forest island
- Initial cost: 425 Gold
- Storage 1
- 50 Gold | 2 Wood
- Storage 2 (recommended)
- 100 Gold | 4 Wood
- Lumberjack’s Hut
- 5 Wood | 2 Stone | 2 Workers
- Sawmill
- 10 Wood | 2 Stone | 2 Workers
- PRODUCES LUMBER – by itself (wood)
Stone Mine Island
- Initial cost: 600 Gold
- Storage 1 or higher
- Stone Mine Depot
- 75 Gold | 3 Wood | 2 Workers
- Oven
- 15 Wood | 15 Stone | 2 Workers
- PRODUCES BRICKS – You need to put 2 Sand into the storage per wanted Brick, though (+ stone)
Iron Mine Island
- Initial cost: 1050 Gold
- Storage 1 or higher
- Iron Mining Depot
- 350 Gold | 3 Lumber** | 3 Bricks** | 3 Workers
- Forge
- 5 Bricks** | 3 Iron Ore | 2 Workers
- PRODUCES IRON BARS – by itself (iron ore)
- Tool Workshop
- 20 Lumber** | 10 Bricks** | 3 Workers
- PRODUCES GEARS – by itself (iron bars)
Sand Island
- Initial cost: 250 Gold
- Storage 1 or higher
- Sand Mining Depot
- 200 Gold | 3 Wood | 3 Stone | 2 Workers
- Forge
- 5 Bricks** | 3 Iron Ore | 2 Workers
- PRODUCES GLASS – by itself (sand)
- Tool Workshop
- 20 Lumber** | 10 Bricks** | 3 Workers
- PRODUCES BOTTLES – by itself (glass)
-> You may also use the Tool Workshop of the Iron Mine’s island. See above island
-> Required for the next achievement
Don’t even waste time looking at this achievement, if you haven’t completed the one above, yet.
There are 4 inns on the map. Each one is roughly located at one of the map’s corners.
In order to unlock this achievement, all 4 of them need to have a good quantity of Bread and Apple Juice at the same time. First of all, get 2 new islands and build the following:
Apple Grove
- Initial cost: 500 Gold
- Storage 1 or higher
- Apple Gatherers’ Hut
- 150 Gold | 5 Wood | 2 Workers
- Alchemist
- 8 Lumber** | 8 Bricks** | 16 Glass** | 1 Worker
- PRODUCES APPLE JUICE – You need to put 1 Bottle into the storage per wanted Apple Juice, though (+ apples)
Wheat Field
- Initial cost: 725 Gold
- Storage 1 or higher
- Wheat Farm
- 300 Gold | 5 Wood | 5 Stone | 5 Workers
- Windmill
- 250 Gold | 10 Lumber** | 10 Bricks** | 3 Workers
- PRODUCES FLOUR – by itself (wheat)
- Oven
- 15 Wood | 15 Stone | 2 Workers
- PRODUCES BREAD – by itself (flour)
Now, the next requirement kicks in:
Did you already restore the Mysterious Hands? If not, check the next chapter of the guide for the Second Seed.
If you have, you are now able to grab one of your islands, with at least 2 open building slots, and build yourself one of these fancy lightning towers and after that, a caravan on level 2 – since you’ll be needing 4 ships.. All required materials should be available to you by now.
After you’ve got yourself a caravan to level 2, go buy 4 ships. Even the cheapest kind will do; they only need 4 item slots for what we are doing as part of this guide.
Now, load all 4 of them with 30 bread and 25 apple juice each.
(Might be overkill, but this is how it worked for me.)
After all your ships have the required cargo, send each one to one of the inns and use the commands on the right.
Your ships will hug those inns and the inns’ trust will boost immediately.
This will unlock you the achievement
Seconds later, a package will be send to the post office in your starting island.
Go grab it, since you’ll be needing it for later.
This refers to the 15.000 gold goal, which you’ll receive pretty much within the first 20min of the game.
Nothing too fancy and no tips from my side; those 15k should be easy enough. Especially once you’ve aquired all the islands and items above.
Campaign | Botanical Garden
I’m telling y’all, this achievement wants you to do quite a lot.
So let’s get to it.
The Baobab Seed is awarded for supplying all 4 inns with bread and apple juice.
Check out the chapter above, to get further instructions.
- Visit the closest island to the starting island, which has a ship workshop and consult the workshop to accept the quest of Yvo and Ora
- Fly to the indicated island and build a workshop.
- Iirc, you’ll need to bring ~20 wood & 8 stone
- After successfully building the workshop, you’ll receive your first of 3 scrolls
- Visit Turtlewise and ask about the scroll
- Visit the Giants and ask for the scroll to be deciphered – Cost: 10 gems
- Visit & Restore the Mysterious Hands
- Claim your reward – the seed – at Turtlewise
- Find the Travelling Artist and accept his quest
- For me, he was located in the house at “Kingsplace”
- Visit the 3 statues of Griette at the given order
- questmarker will reveal the islands’ locations on the map
- Return to Kingsplace and claim your reward.
Visit the Majestic Carrot and agree to “sing” with him, until your friendship has leveled up twice.
- Visit any island with a guild’s house (the ones, which gave you letter quests)
- Accept to establish your first “supply chain”
- It’s really just a singular delivery, don’t worry
- In my case, I had to deliver 10 glass, though you might need to deliver another
non-buyable good. Just check the building upgrade path in the chapter above
and find the item you need - After you’ve delivered the requested item, you’ll receive the second scroll
- Let it be deciphered at the giants for 20 gems
- Play the song at the 3 statues
- Visit the new island “Griette The Musician” and play the long song
- The new island was located at the southern border of the map, for me
Well, feed Sam, the Fish God, 800 units of water.
Refer to the second chapter of this guide for a few more information.
- Buy a ship, which can hold more than 20 persons
- Leave 20 slots empty
- Make sure, that you have LESS than 4 active quests
- Once you bought a big enough ship, you’ll receive a letter at the post office, telling you, where you can find a shipwreck.
- Go to the shipwreck
- An island named “Brightisle” in my case; located near the west border of the map
- Accecpt the quest: “Shipwreck Relief”
- Carry the poor souls to their destination
- Receive the Egg as your reward
- Gather up on 100 wheat
- Return to the shipwreck with the wheat & the egg
- Wait 15 ingame days
- Start collecting Golden Eggs, if you want some money =)
- Only available, once you have at least aquired the fifth seed. Maybe more conditions
- Visit your uncle at the starting island
- Go to the post office and accept the quest: “Mailbox Installation”
- Visit the indicated islands in the south-east followed by the north-east corners of the map and install the post boxes
- You’ll need 15 Lumber & 15 Iron Bars
- Return to your uncle
- Accept the follow-up quest: “An article about Griette”
- Make the grand tour with Ira
- You’ll be rewarded with the 3rd and last scroll
- Visit the Giants one last time, so that they decode the scroll for 80! gems
- Visit Turtlewise and accept “The Final Task”
- Gather:
- 15.000 Gold
- 200 Lumber
- 40 Rainbow Flowers
- 40 Herbs
- 40 Wheat
- Visit the Botanical Garden, restore it, and complete the game =)
Spoiler of the Restored Garden:
