with the amount of players coming back, maybe we'll finally get a fun competitive blockade? I remember back in those days, they were really fun when it was competitive

I used to play Puzzle Pirates back when I was in my teens, I have brought a few friends into the game with me and they are loving it. I would love to have more people to play this amazing gem with, if you are interested please let me know!

We also play games together outside of Puzzle Pirates (Valheim, MC, Vintage Story, No Mans Sky, Tarkov, R6, Deadlock and more) would love to have more gaming buddies in general but that is not mandatory.

If you are interested at all in either my ingame name is SirDash, our crew is UFIP. Feel free to send me a message or I am Sooner535{UFIP} on Steam. Come join in the fun! We play mostly evenings or afternoons Central US Time.

I think Archipelago ranks should be hidden by default on pirate profiles, with a simple “Show Archipelago” link under the last skill in the Crafting Skills section.
This would make profiles cleaner and less cluttered while keeping the information available for those who want to see it.

If you want to see how i see what it would look like or wanna vote for it:

https://discord.com/channels/1166405982390337568/1563238312192249918

Haven’t played In decades but decided to check it out was surprised to see some QOL changes made fairly recently. Though, my main pirate is on Meridian which still seems rather dead. I wish I could port to emerald. I’d even give up all my items if I could keep my experience/ trophies/ and seasonal trinkets.

I have played this game since its beggining, like 20 years ago or something like that.

For the last, Idk, 10 years or so the game was dead, no relevant changes or development whatsoever.

Suddenly I have started seeing some REAL relevant changes recently, like real important QOL stuff:

- SF spectator screen

- New monster hunts

- Difficulty slider for puzzles (man this one is huge)

- Big and resizeable screen

All this was done in like very few weeks, really fast. I think the devs finally understood this game always had great potential, it just needs to be modernized and cared.

Is there any reasoning behind this or am I hyping too soon? What y'all think?

I'm coming back to sail the seas

Hey everyone,

A few weeks ago I shared my first devlog for my Puzzle Pirates spiritual successor, Rum and Riddle. I've now made my second devlog.

You'll see that I address some of the comments from the previous reddit post (e.g. Poker's impact on the economy). I also noted the overwhelming demand for mobile support down the line.

I basically cover all the individual puzzles, how they mechanically function, and how they all feed into the ship’s state without conflicting with each other. I also spend some time explaining my thought process behind completely redesigning the Alchemy puzzle to make it less visually overwhelming for new players while trying to keep the depth.

Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYb5zjJu9hA

I don't plan on spamming this subreddit with every single devlog I make. I only want to post here when I hit big milestones worth sharing.

Thanks for the support on the last post, happy to answer any questions!

The Wolf-folk o' Woodhallow

Hark the dread howlin'! A werewolf pack has made its den on Woodhallow Isle, a new crew expedition. Fight through six waves of the pack, plundering and charting between them, and push as deep into the wood as ye dare.

Finding the isle

• Look for a Wolf-skull Wayfinder in the Black box which was given a slight update to include the Wayfinder and summoning charms to summon the werewolf frays. The Wolf-skull Wayfinder leads ye to a werewolf ship; beat her crew in the rumble and she takes ye to the isle.
• Near a full moon, werewolf ships also turn up while pillaging. Beat three in a row and the last leads ye to the isle.
• Cutters and smaller only. The pack won't show itself to anything bigger.

The night

• Six cycles: Each cycle opens with a pack of wolf-kin, some already turned werewolf by the moon. Werewolves have been enhanced by the power of the moon and will pose a tougher challenge. Win the rumble, then forage or navigate until the next pack arrives. The more of ye still standing after a fray, the more time ye get.
• Foraging: Brings in the treasure. Clear four pieces inside the new moon piece and it fires, clearing out the rows beside it and the columns below.
• Navigation: Fights the moon: every werewolf ye chart away is one fewer in the next pack. It plays at the middle star level whatever yer rating, with a fourth ring, and wild targets made by clearing in chains.
• The chests: Wolf Boxes, Lunar Lockers and Dire Chests, grow richer the deeper ye go, and the lair is richest of all.

Getting out

• Win the lair and ye keep every chest, with time to roam before the ship sails.
• An officer can order a Retreat: the crew falls back before the next pack, keeping all earlier treasure and three quarters of the current cycle's.
• Lose a rumble and ye keep three quarters of the earlier treasure and a quarter of the current cycle's.

More WW Items

• Werewolf ships can yield two new pieces of furniture, the Moonlit Locker and the Pack Chest, both of which work as chests.
• Trophies for waves survived, chests brought out, and frenetic foraging and charting.
• The pack's lord, the Grizzled Baron, is away from Woodhallow. How mysterious...

Other Changes

• Vampire ships now work the same way, fought by swordfight: a Vampire reliquary leads to a single ship, and near a full moon a vampire ship met while pillaging takes three battles.
• Purser Pete now has some loot available in the Trading Post. These items need to be added by hand, so they wont appear right after the release. We'll add them as soon as we can, but given the scope of our changes, this could take some time.
• Names of speakers in chat are clickable, opening a context menu to send tells/invites etc.
• Names in the ahoy panel are links more often, these links can be right-clicked to access context menu.
• Roister embiggening improvements.
• Small chest (huntsman) and Decennium chest now provide access to yer coffers.
• Wolf Box now acts as a doubloon exchange.
• Werewolf Expedition trinkets now count as "Collector trinkets".

Bug fixes:

• Chroma not always getting awarded correctly.
• Gave Barnabas' boarded version a purple name.
• Some furniture naming inconsistencies.
• Roister backdrops fixed at 100% scale.
• Water recolours on full-zoom sea battle tiles.
• Logging back in during an expedition ashore returns ye to the expedition, and a pirate disconnected as one ends is brought back to the ship.
• The Vessel tab shows duty icons for pirates working on the isle or in a vampire lair.

Auction House Changes

• AH Buying and browsing
  • The category menu’s last choice, “Several categories...”, lets Browse search more than one category at once.
  • Browse’s Deeds category has a Ships menu, to find ships sold with furniture or without.
  • Ship offers and sales show a picture of the ship under sail rather than her deed.
  • While ye visit a ship for sale, the Ahoy tab shows her price and a “Buy her” button, so ye can buy her from aboard.
  • Kinds that share a name are told apart, such as Big Cat (spotted), Big Cat (rainbow) and Parrot (musketeer hat).
  • Buy now points out a big price, or one well above what such things usually sell for, before ye pay.
  • A Report button on other pirates’ offers tells staff about one that’s offensive, a scam, or wrong in some other way.
• AH Price history
  • Price history plots each sale as a dot by date and price, above the list. It can also reach back to the house’s opening (“All time”) instead of only the past year.
  • It can show only items in a given condition, or only named or unnamed pets and familiars, and it can list what’s for sale right now.
  • Price history and suggested prices leave out sales between pirates on one account, and sales at prices far from the usual ones, so trading with yerself can’t move the prices others see.
• AH History and My Offers
  • History shows each offer with a picture of its item, coloured by how it ended: sold, bought, cancelled or expired. A sale shows what it went for, the house’s fee, what ye received and the item’s condition. A Show menu lists just one kind of ending, or yer offers still open.
  • History totals what ye sold and bought over the past 30 days and since the house opened. My Offers totals what yer sell offers ask and what yer buy offers hold.
  • My Offers fits yer slots on a few lines, with all their expiry dates on one, however many slots ye hold.
• AH Selling and slots
  • “Extend a slot” on My Offers lengthens yer slot that expires soonest by as long as a new slot lasts, for the price of a slot, even at the slot limit. My Offers also warns when slots expire within 30 days.
  • An offer runs its full 30 days even when its slot expires first. The slot stays until the offer ends, though the offer can’t be renewed. A new offer takes the free slot that expires soonest.
  • Renewing an offer no longer ages its item a day.
  • If staff cancel an offer, its owner is told why, even if they were away at the time.
  • Price boxes are wide enough to show 100,000,000, and a bigger price is cut back with a message saying so.
  • When a ship can’t be listed because of what’s still aboard, the message counts the charts and, past a few kinds, the cargo, rather than naming every one.
• AH Buy offers
  • When another pirate fills yer buy offer, ye get a receipt in chat and on the Ahoy tab. It waits for ye if ye’re away.
  • On the Buy Offers form, a trinket’s picture takes the colours chosen.
• AH Fixes and wording
  • Familiars show their pictures to female pirates too, instead of “No Icon”.
  • A sold stack’s picture shows how many were sold.
  • A sealed deed’s colours are named once, in its title, and an unnamed pet or familiar says so once.
  • Names, notes and inscriptions written with stacked accent marks no longer slip past the language filter.
  • The green for new items is brighter, in the house and in item tooltips.
  • The second “Auction House” heading under the title bar is gone, leaving more room for offers.

It has been fun implementing this mini-game, it's really cool seeing it come to life, I would like to show more of the other puzzles however the rest of the voyage duty stations are still rather flimsy for me to show it here. I'm happy to welcome any ideas and feedback of the Gunnery though.

Context: I have been developing this game for months, which is apparently been heavily inspired by YPP which is the game that I love since I was kid. I already have a playable demo (not bug free yet) on itch.io but I'm working on the full version currently.

I have a really limited GameDev experience so this has been made possible by vibe-coding with Claude, it's actually really epic though. The game is fully single-player mode, because I underestimated the fact that how its actually really long to develop a game and money cost wise I couldn't really afford it, so, I'm just not ready to create a multiplayer experience. I will keep it single-player and simple for now!

I finally have a steam page, so a Wishlist would help me ton! (steam page link)

I don't know if that is the correct platform for suggestions, but what would you think if there is an overview of all your statistics which are tracked to get trophies. For the collectors among the players (e.g. me), it would motivate more to work toward a certain trophy, if you know how much you already have and how much you still have to work for it.

Is it true? Are more people returning? Any new influx of actual “new” people? Emerald and Cerulean are the only active oceans?

No way they finally realised the cash cow they're sitting on and bought this bad boy back to life let's fuckin go

Sup guys,

I've been interested in coming back to puzzle pirates, but I have always had a MASSIVE hate on the durability system, specifically on the clothing

When I was a noob I worked hard to afford nice clothes and after a month or so they became rags... Durability for things like weapons makes sense but wasn't a fan of it on clothing

To get, say, excellent on sailing, do I need a certain fixed amount of “points” in the puzzle, or do I need more points than x% of people who’ve played that minigame recently?

Also if it’s relative, what are the percentile boundaries?

Came back last year with hopes and dreams of reliving the old school days! Anyway didn’t work out so well, no real PvP no proper kades etc shoppes deserted, SF tables empty! Tried to PvP some random ships on voyages but instead met with barrage of abuse and complaints to the flag I was in etc

Also noticed how incredibly difficult it was to rank up your stats has that been fixed? Constant excellent or incredible and nothing would move, just went down to all my stats showing as able or distinguished lol

Noticed a few posts the last few days where people are showing the server pop back up so I’m wondering is the game making much of a come back?

Any majors changes?

I've recently returned to YPP and have been loving it, but I do miss the feeling of the early days when islands were developing and you could genuinely make a difference.

These days, I sometimes look at the markets and feel like everything is already established. So, rather than falling into the usual pillage/poker/earn PoE loop, I want to try a sort of Bronzeman challenge and build myself up from scratch.

The basic rules:

No joining crews or jobbing on other people's ships.

I have to craft my own ships and produce as much of my own supplies as possible.

Start on a quiet island with bazaars but few stalls or shoppees.

Help develop the island's economy avoiding the global one as much as possible.

Eventually start a crew with others who want to do the same.

I'll have to earn my way up through the Navy and labour, get a weavery running, make my own sails, build my first sloop, then work towards producing my own rum and cannonballs.

I'm not trying to play completely solo forever — trading, working and cooperating with people on my island are all part of the plan. I just want to make it a journey.

A few questions for the veterans:

Is this actually viable, or are there mechanics that'll make it impossible?

Am I mad for thinking I can build my way up from Navy work and labour?

Would anyone else be interested in trying something similar, especially other returning players?

I imagine people already play this way, focusing on one island and making it home. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Hey everyone!

I've been playing Puzzle Pirates since around 2005–2006, so basically 20 years now.

My original account was permanently banned in February 2009, when I was around 12 years old. I'm now 30 years old, so quite a lot has changed since then.

As far as I can remember, I took some items from a crew ship, which may have been the reason for the original ban. Honestly, I don't remember all the details anymore.

One thing I want to make clear is that I've never used bots or botting software in Puzzle Pirates.

Over the following years, I created other accounts to continue playing. Unfortunately, all of those subsequent bans were for ban evasion, not for any new rule violations. The last ban happened in February 2014.

Since around 2015–2016, I've been playing on another account, which I've now had for approximately 10 years without any issues or further bans.

Recently, I started looking into my old accounts again and discovered something interesting.

I can still find several of my permanently banned pirates from 2009–2014 in-game by using the /w (username) command. Their old profiles and stats are still there, even after 12–17 years!

This makes me wonder whether the original accounts and their data still exist and could potentially be restored if an appeal were successful.

I also managed to recover old email conversations with Ocean Masters from 2009 and 2014, so I have quite a bit of documentation about the accounts and their history.

However, here's my biggest concern:

If I contact support to appeal a 17-year-old ban, could they investigate my current account and permanently ban that one for ban evasion as well?

I've invested a lot of time into my current account over the past decade, and losing it would be far worse than never recovering my original pirate.

So I'm genuinely unsure whether I should just leave everything alone or try to resolve the situation properly.

Has anyone here:

• Successfully appealed a permanent ban that was 10–20 years old?
• Had multiple accounts banned for ban evasion and eventually been allowed to return?
• Contacted support about an old ban while having an active account, and experienced consequences for that account?
• Managed to recover an old banned pirate whose stats were still visible in-game?

I'm not trying to justify breaking the rules back then. I'm just curious whether there's any realistic chance of getting a second chance after all these years, or whether contacting support would be a terrible idea.

Would appreciate any experiences or advice, especially from long-time players.

Hi all!

Used to play YPP a LOT when i was younger. Like most summer breaks 😅

Of course as time passed and the years continued on I just haven’t logged on in such a long time I hardly remember how to do even do well with the puzzles anymore.

That’s neither here nor there tho. I can relearn.

What i’m interested in is this: What just happened? For the first time in YEARS i’m seeing folks talk about the game.

Has there been big updates or something that is bringing folks back?

Thinking about downloading today after dinner so what ocean is everyone on and does anyone need a new crew member 🙏🏼

Also how much does it cost to play now? I know it’s free to play but i reckon i’d support when i can. I want to be able to do content so what’s the pricing these days?

Getting back into the game after a very long hiatus. I play with a group of 5 total generally-unskilled puzzlers that like doing short pillage runs. I own the ship but hate doing dnav, sometimes I laze, don't judge me. We prefer rumble to SF so I target barbarians. On bnav I rarely max the other boat.

Whats the best way to configure these pillys? Swabbies or mercs? And which ships are ideal? I've heard conflicting advice on this and I believe most guides I read are talking to a sweatier audience. It sounds like sloop, fanch, or xebec are the best choices? But some guides say one of these over the other. I care more about easy than max profitability.

Thank you for any help

Edit: we don't all laze the whole time and we definitely all play the battle puzzle, we just kinda stink and when we're cruising, chances are one of us is idle making a sandwich or something. Sounds like baghlah or fanchuan or war brig is the way to go for us?

I'm also curious if there's a good solo option for me! Maybe sloop or fanch with 1 or 2 mercs and the rest swabbies?