A Full Detail Guide on Pixel Piracy (Ver. 4.4.0)

A Complete Guide of the Current Version. Includes profession, traits, etc. Everything you need!
Hope it helps! Correct me or even add new things by commenting! Favorite if you like the guide ^.^

Introduction

"Pixel Piracy is a side-scrolling 2d, real time strategy/sandbox/simulation game created by indie developer Vitali Kirpu and produced by Alexander Poysky. In the game, the player leads the life of a pirate captain. Recruit a crew, outfit and customize your ship and set sail on the open seas."
- General Info

Comment: It is a simulation game that you can play to past time with. It's similar to games made by KairoSoft. The difference in comparison is that you are able to build your ship, fighting for survival (against starvation, mutiny, morale, etc.), and the over-all challenging features that forces you to make choices to save or sacrifice your crew member in order to continue on the harsh journey of a pirate.

Current Features

-Hiring Crew
-Pirate Open World Sandbox Generator: It is generated always differently each time (Depends on you answers to the two beginning questions.)
-Loot system, a basic upgrade system (Only Weapons), and special items.
-A System of ALWAYS DYING!!! Only when you make bad choices, or get killed by spiders... Seriously spiders are OP in mass spawn!
-Training Point System for pirates, when pirate levels up he gains extra points that you can use.
-Events when sailing and arriving improved (faster)
-Pirates each have their own bios! :D

Game Control

KeyBoard:
-Movement keys to move the screen left or right: (AWSD) or Arrow Keys
-Space bar: Pauses game and activates the menu screen.
-Esc: Pauses game and activates the menu screen. It is also used when your captain dies.
Mouse:
-Left Click: To control your captain to move/attack and to select options.
(+Also needed to drag commands from the bottom icons to move your units/crew.)
Icons:
-To move or attack. (Drag the move icon on to a area to move your crew there; including
the use of grapples. To attack, drag icon on top of the objects/monsters you want to
attack)
-Interact: Move your captain to the an area, then click the interact icon to interact with objects (Currently only Banana trees and treasure boxes)
-Plunder: Plunders Enemy ship and gives you a 90 gold Coins.

-Capture: Use to capture enemy ship and gain no coins.
(Comment on capture: Make sure to take off any pieces you wish to keep and any valuables you do not want lost when docked. Any items on previous boat will not be transferred to the newly captured ship.)

Shops:
-Move your captain to the man with a green orb on top of his head. Select the options on top of their heads.
-To scroll up or down, Click and hold the left click and drag up or down to move the list.
-To sell is on the bottom right corner.
- You have to click exit on bottom right corner in order to leave the current shopping screen.

Ship-Buidling:
-Left click to place block.
-Left click again to rotate block.
-Right click to delete block, or to deselect the block you are holding.

How to use game menu

1) Your Crew:
-This is the option that gives a basic list of your crew, what they are quipped with, their morale, hunger, stats, and life.
+Always frequently check this to see your crews stats.
+pay salary: Click to pay salary. (I only pay salary if they are cheap in order to save my morale increasing items/ or when they get too low in morale that using item would be a waste.)
+Passive Equip: Use to equip special bonus items, boost items, or healing items.
+Melee Weapon: Use to equip melee weapons (Only melee!)
+Ranged weapon: Use to equip range weapons such as rocks and pistols.

2) Parrots - Currently Not in game. Even if you find a parrot, you can not capture it as of yet.
(Yup Sucks when you find one...)

3) World Map: This option allows you to see where you are on the map. Also use to travel/explore/plunder islands, ports, and pirates. (Hint: C boxes are where you have already completed/explored)
(+_+ You Can not Move when you are in a Ship battle, but you can only on islands and ports.)

4) Ship Set-up: This option allows you to build your ship. (Any dark spaces on a ship will spawn spider webs = spiders = HOLY SNAPS! HURRY AND GET LAMPS. So do not build any dark areas until you buy a lamp from the shipbuilder,)

5) Save & Exit : Auto-Save game and exits automatically to main screen.

Your Crew! (New System)

V 4.3.0

-Your Crew Screen:

+The new crew system gives a maximum amount of crew member you can have at one time base on your captain level. Every 2 level allows your captain to gain a new member.

+You captain automatically starts at level 2 with 300g now. Allowing you to higher a buddy of yours to travel with you.

-Crew- Member screen:

A) This is the Salary you pay when your pirates morale goes under 200. The amount changes per pirate. If you high low, you pay low and vice versa.

B) Information Section: Tp, Lvl, Exp, Hp, Morale, & Hunger:

- Tp: Training points - The usable extra points that are left for you to use. This bar keeps track on the amount of extra point you have. These points can be gained every level. tp gain is based on 4 + INT / 15

- Lvl: Level - The level of your pirate. Affects only the new hiring system,

- Exp: Experience - Gained when killing monsters, pirates, or when sailing. If pirates have dumb trait, they will not gain experience while sailing.

- Hp: Health Points - The maximum hp the pirate has and the total that is left.

- Hunger: The hunger level bar of the pirate. Full bar means the pirate is full and low bar means hungry. Can be filled up with consumable items and food.

-Morale: The morale bar of the pirate. Full bar means the pirate is happy and low bar means the pirate is about to ape sh*t on you. Hurry and pay salary if they are lower than 200, but if higher, try to conserve money by using consumable items.

C) Pirate Bios:

- This section contains the new bios log. It tells story of the pirate and from whence they came to become a pirate. Also their looks, too. O.O?

D) Stats of the Pirates:

- STR: Strength - Affects the damage of the pirates melee weapon. Every 10 strength points = +1 Damage.

- VIT: Vitality - Affects the health earned every level by the pirate.

- Int: Intelligence - Affects the amount of tp earned each level. Also plays a part in experience gain on ship during voyages, Every 15 int = 1 tp

- Dex: Dexterity - Affects the amount of damage range damage does. Every 20 dex points =
=1 range damage.

- AGI: Agility - Affects the attackspeed and dodge speed of your pirate.

- Luck: Luck - Affects cirtical damage chance. It can also affect the chance of catching fish for fisherman. Navigator,Cannoner & Fisherman get LUCK on levelup. Luck affects the chances of encounters of enemy pirate boats, cooking, catching fish, or being able to land the cannonball at a furthur range without missing. 20 Luk points = +1 crit chance.

E) The Pirate Equipment section:

+Passive Equip: Use to equip special bonus items, boost items, armor, or healing items.
+Melee Weapon: Use to equip melee weapons (Only melee!)
+Ranged weapon: Use to equip range weapons such as rocks and pistols.

New Game

First you start off by:
-Naming your crew
-Naming your world
-Princess mode: It is Peaceful Mode where pirates won't raid your boats at low level and other crazy mishaps. start with 600 g.
+Click again for Hardcore Mode: S**T Get's REAL FROM HERE! If you die, you will lose your save if you press esc. So do not press esc and just alt f4 or close window to load back your save.
+Click once more for Arena Mode: This is a fun option to choose. It is literally a pirate arena where you duke it out with AI Pirates. At the end of every fight, it gives you three options to choose from. Make your choices count!
(Chance to get 800 from both modes. Do not know if it is a bug, but there's a chance upon making a new game to get 800g)

(Game will auto save everytime before you go on a voyage to an encounter, etc.)

Second:
-First Set of Questions: What do you think about ___?

+1) It's Sickening, filled with pirates, monsters, and hardships. (Monsters) - Increases the amount of monster and pirates on the world map.

+2) Fascinating, an intriguing assortment of inhabitants roam the land. (Mystery) - Increases islands and the type of monsters that will spawn on each island. (Careful! It may spawn some strong ones)

+3) Unpleasant, a province filled with dire corners and unrelenting troubles. (Drama) - increases ports, thieves on each ports, and problematic crew members. (It really is a drama....)

-Second Set of Questions: What is the most recent event that ever happened in the land?

+1) A great war tore the populace apart. (More ship encounters) -Will get attacked by pirates more frequently during your travels.

+2) A plague that killed many innocents. (Plague) - Crew members are more prone to scurvy, etc. (Get a Doctor ASAP if chosen)

+3) A very rare comet flyby brought along bad omens. (Long Dangerous Nights) -Travel time to each place/ encounter will take longer than normal. Make sure to pack a lot of food and hire a sailor. Long nights causes lots of problems caused by drunkards, thieves, and greedy crew members.

-Third Set of Questions: How do you remember your father?

+1) He was a brave captain, his nickname was Curraaage. (Falcon Blade) - Your captain starts off with 300 g and a 4 damage sword. It does give a lot of benefits for easy clean up of level 1 ships.

+2) He was a lazy alcoholic known as Horke the flatulent. (Extra starting Pirate) - You start off with 300 g and a(n) extra crew mate named 'Horke" with lazy and alcoholic as his traits.


+3) He was a cowardly sailor that went by the name Peonpants. (50% more start items) - You start with 300 g and gain more building materials and food.

Traits/ Perks/Personality of Crew-member

WARNING: DO NOT BUY CREWMEMBERS WITH TRAITOR, SEASICK, OR OLD!

Pirate Bios Will tell you what perks/personality they have also. There's No more hero perk. Your captain can gain bad ones too.

- Alcoholic: The pirate may obtain a random rum during travel and will most likely keep it.

- Anorexia: The Pirate will eat little amount of food.

- Assassin: increase chances of landing critical hits.

-Avenger: If a crew mate dies, their attack speed will increase out of rage.

-Blind: All attacks miss

-Bad Vision: The pirate has more of a chance to miss an attack on an enemy

-Big Appetite: Eats 50% more food

-Careless: The Pirate may fall of the boat and die one day.

-Depressed: The Pirates loses 50% more morale than normal.

-Dumb: He will not learn anything while sailing.

-Fast: Pirate moves faster

-Fast Learner: Pirates gets 40% more exp when sailing..

-Fast Recovery: Recovers more hp than normal

-Greedy: The Crew may ask for random amounts of gold and salary increasing during trips.

-Gunslinger: Dexterity is incresed.

-Hairy: Might drop beard when killed, attackers attack speed decreases when attacking hairy pirate.

-Lazy: The pirate will slack off on his duties.

-Liar: He will blackmail player (for gold) to spread lies about him.

-Loyal: Loses 50% less morale

-Maniac: If the pirate attacks, they will gain faster attack speed at the cost of losing morale faster than nomral.

-Nimble: Increase dodging rate; meaning enemy will miss more.

-Old: HE WILL DIE AT ANY MOMENTS! DO NOT BUY HIM!

-Paralysis: Chances of them getting paralyzed

-Rich: When a first mate becomes Captain with this trait, you start with 1000 gold. But when you kill a crew member with rich, you can gain 100-500% more gold on Death.

-Seasick: The Pirate will lose hp constantly till he is dead/fed.

-Slow: Pirate moves Slower

-Strong: Melee Weapons have 50% more Knockback

-Swim: they will reported on your own ship when drowning for more than 3 seconds.

-Thief : Steals Gold from drops.

-Traitor: Higher Risk of being attacked by traitors during battle. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON.

-Weak: Attacks Cause 50% more Knockback on you

Events (Incomplete)

Events:

+Long nights: voyages at night will become slow.
+Clear waters: If water is clear of sharks and such obstacles, speed of ship dramatically increases.
+Sights of sharks: Ship will stop moving on sight of a shark, then it will slowly move with caution.

Beginning Strategy Guide

When I start the game, I would normally choose either monsters, or mystery for the battles and randomness. Then I would choose more pirate encounters and falcon blade. Horke may be another choice, but Horke is a handful to take care of. His morale decreases fast because he is a lazy drunk T.T! Why won't he clean up poo!

After I selected my options, I go and make sure I have a food vendor, a weapon, and a pub. This is so i can hire people, have a source of food, and be able to buy a fisherman rod later on. With the 400 g, I'd go look for either a Fighter, Sailor, or Gunslinger. If there is no sailor, I would go for gunslinger, then the latter. Afterwards, I would spend the rest on food.

Secondly, I would go search for crabs and oyster (if there is any). You are still low on cash, I would go bait the thieves towards the edge of the map with my captain, and then ambush him when he is alone to make the extra gold. WARNING: DO NOT KILL ALL THE PIRATES. They will not re-spawn and I assuming you won't be able to heal your captains' morale with out them giving you free drinks. (assuming)


Lastly, when I build my boat, I would only use three wood blocks and save the rest for when I capture a bunch of ships. Then I would palce 1 watermelon if I know my crew needed food before I reach a pirate ship. One captured boat is worth more than 100 g per plundered boat. So i rinse and repeat the captured pirate ships multiple times until I have collected enough materials to make my big boat.

I fight all level 1's till I have a good boat, and a well balance crew for long travels. I would suggest getting a sailor, fighter, gunslinger, cook, navigator, and a fisherman before fighting level 2's. It will become easier for you to save money and sustain the hunger problems of your crew.

If i am able to find a good cannoneer and have enough money for a basic cannon and cannon balls, I'd buy it because of its aoe damage that can help you in the long run. Careful of sinking ships :o

!!!!MAKE SURE NEVER TO HIRE PIRATES WITH USELESS TRAITS, ESP. if they do not balance with its job profession,!!

Ship-Building Guide

First: I build a three wood block hull.
Second: I go out and farm the rest of the blocks.
Third: I go buy steer wheel, barrels, and ladder.
Fourth: Build the ship in whichever way you want.
Lastly, make sure there are no dark spaces, if so get some lamps. Then everything else is decorating. Having an early bed, is helpful in the logn run because it saves you food and morale when they are sleeping.

-For those who wish to farm ship parts!-

Ship Parts (Complete)

Hull:

-Wood block

-Top Mast

-Mast

-Half Wood Block



Decoration:

-Wood Wall

-Wood Table

-Wood Ladder

-Wood Deck Wall

-Wood Cannon Window

-Deck Wood Cannon Window

-Bow Spirit Mid

-Bow Spirit Base

-Hanging Swords

-Picture Island

-Picture Blood



Misc:

-Wood Wheel
+Effects: +2 sailing speed + navigator steering ship

-Sail
+Effects: +1 sail speed

-Bomb
+Effects: 5 cannon ammo


-Bed and Pillow
+Effect: Pirates does not lose morale or lose hunger when sleeping.

-Barrel
+Effect: Store food from rotting; max 10 supply.


-Basic Cannon
+Effect: Allows you to shoot cannon balls; usable only by cannonneer.

Food & Drinks!! (Incomplete)

Food:


-Watermelon
+Info: Serving 2; Can be eaten twice.
+Prepare: Can be eaten unprepared.


-Sour Krout
+Info: 4 servings
+Prepare: Can be eaten unprepared.


-Sea Biscuits
+Info: 4 servings
+Prepare: Can be eaten unprepared.



-Meat
+Info: 7 Servings
+Prepare: Needs to be prepared by a cook.


-Fruits
+Info: 1 Serving
+Prepare: Can be eaten unprepared.


-Fish
+Info: 2 servings
+Prepare: Needs to be prepared by a cook.

Drinks:


-Rum
+Info: Serves 2. restores morale

Items!! (Incomplete)

Treasure box types:

-Bronze treasure box:
LVL 1 Pirate ships:
+Gold: 60g~
+Items: 1-3 Random items sometimes; rum and grindstone has the most chance of dropping.

-Silver Treasure box:
+Gold: 300- 550 g
+Items: 1~3 Random items

-Gold treasure box:
LVL 1 Pirate ship Drops:
+Gold: 90g ~ 140g
+Items: 1 Random items

-Crates:
+Drops 1~2: Random items or gold.


One-Time Use Items:


Morale Restoration Items:

-Bottle of Rum
+Effect: Restores 200 morale.


-Tobacco Leaves
+Effect: Restores 100 morale.



-Wolf Claw
+Effect: Gives 200xp




Hunger Restoration Item:

-Crab Meat
+Effect: Restores 100 hunger and +5hp


-Sour Cabbage
+Effect: Restores 150 hunger and +5hp


-Raw Boar Meat
+Effect: Needs to be cooked at a campfire. When cooked, restores 50% hunger.


-Banana
+Effect: +5 hp, +50 morale


Health restoration items:


-Elixir
+Effect: Restores 20 hp instantly.


-Auto-Elixir
+Effect: instantly heals 10 hp if hp is below 10 hp.

Permanent Stats Increase Items:


-Tetra Herbs
+Effect: Permanently increase 2 strength.




Ammo:


-Pistol Ammo
+Effect: Restores 4 ammo for pistol only.



Equip Items:


- Self-destruct Bomb
+Effect: On death, Explodes. Random damage to surrounding enemy,



-Rosary
+Effect: +5% Critical Chance


-Razor Vest
+Effect: Attacker has a 50% chance to take 1 damage.


-Plate Armor
+Effect: Take 1 less damage; -25% movement speed.


-Eye Patch
+Effect: Loses 40% less morale.


-Diapers;
+Effect: No More Poop!!


-Chefs Knife
+Effect: Cooks produce better food!!


-Boots of Mobility
+Effect: 25% Faster movement speed


-Black Cape
+Effect: 20% Dodge chance


-Bandage:
-Effect: Stops the Bleeding!! -faster recovery.



-Life buoy
+Effect: Consume itself and teleports drowning pirates on to a boat.



-Glasses
+Effect: 100% hit chance


-Brown Beard
+Effect: +3 vitality every time you level.


Upgrade stones:

-Grindstone M- 40% chance to upgrade a melee weapon.
Grindstone R- 40% chance to upgrade a ranged weapon.


Miscellaneous items:


-Pearls
+Effect: No effect. Valuable item that is worth 150 gold coins.

-Tortoise Claw
+Effect: +600xp

-Gold watch
+Effect: +1000xp or sell for large value.

-Boar Claw
+Effect: +600xp

Weapons (Incomplete)

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Book effects (Incomplete)

Books will range from common to rare, to costing from 200 to 2000 golds, exceedingly rare books have devestating effects when trained on the right crew.

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Monsters (Incomplete)

Danger lvl 1 Pirate boats:

+Lvl 1 pirates:
-Pirate per ship: 1~2
-Treasure boxes are spawned randomly.
- Hp: 15- 30
- Gold drop per pirate: 40 ~ 60g
- Drops: drops 1 ~2 random item sometimes; mostly rum and ammo. Pirates always has rum.... lol...
-Plundering lvl 1 ship gold gain: 90g

Animals:

-Crabs:
+Info: Neutral creature that does not attack unless provoked.
+Location: Can be found on islands and harbors.
+Hp: 4 ~ 30
+Knock-back: Small
+Damage: 1-2
+Status effect: None
+Difficulty: Easy
+Drops: Crab Meat

-Oysters:
+Info: Neutral Creature that can not attack, even when provoked,
+location: Can be found on islands and harbors.
+Hp: 10~46
+Knock-back: None
+Damage: 0
+Status Effect: None
+Difficulty: Easy
+Drops: Pearls & Oyster Shells

Insects:

-Spiders:
+Information: Very aggressive monsters that can be found in groups of 2 or more.
Their colors range from black(weakest) to gold (strongest).
+Location: Islands
+HP: 6 ~50
+Knock-back: None
+Damage: 1~8
+Status effect: Paralysis and Poison
+Difficulty: Easy - If small group of black and greens.
Medium - If group has more green than black and one or two has a lot of hp.
Hard - If a gold one is present, or if the island has too many spiders with lots of hp.
+Drops: Elixirs, auto-elixir, tetra herbs, rum, tobacco leaves, and gold coins. Drops are random and rates of drops depends on difficulty and color of spider.

Hints/FAQs/Secrets

- When I am versing a level 2 boat or attacking an island, I would always save before hand just in case I lose precious crew member or lose at all, and gain a reward not fitting the sacrifices made.
(I would go save at 90%). To reset the encounter in hopes of something easier or more befitting rewards.

-You can use the save when you are about to arrive at a port. It is to reset the port if it doesn't have what you want.

-Harvesting boat parts by capturing other ships, breaking them down into three blocks, and repeat till the needed amount.

-NEVER HIRE BAD TRAIT PEOPLE

-Always make sure to check your crew stats screen for hunger and morale loss.

-make sure everyone is holding a cutlass or greater.

-always make sure you have enough food on your boat if you are going on long journeys!!!

-You can always farm gold early by killing off thieves and pirates that follow you alone. But be warned that those pirates that you kill are ones that can be hired at the pub ( heh.)

-If you know you can not kill the monsters on the island, leave it for later. If you see a treasure box you can grab before monster gets to you before leaving, go and do a quick captain run to get it and grapple back on like Spider man. (being cowardly can still get you money and item)

Bugs/ Fixes

1) During a ship battle, enemy pirates are knocked down to 0 hp, but do not die and are glitched on spot.
-FIX: Move all your pirates on to your boat and click plunder. The enemy is dead already and the system already set them as dead, but you wont be able to pick up the coins from their dead bodies.
If it does not work and one of your pirates are stuck attacking, close the game without saving and exiting. Your save should still be there and you will be back on the sea travel screen to the destination once again. -MAKE SURE TO NOT SAVE & EXIT-

2) Units getting stuck when grappling, unable to jump up 1 block, or looks like they are glitch through boat.
-FIX: Use the move command to unstuck them if they are caught falling off boat, or unable to jump up. But if your unit is stuck, unable to grapple on to island due to the blocks on the right, make sure to only have two blocks from the tip of the boat to point of grapple. For some odd reason, having 3 blocks or more from the tip of the boat causes your pirates to become unable to grapple onto the land. (I.E. pirate - 1 block (any)- 1 block(normally a half block or any other tip) tip of boat.)

Updates & Personal comments

Friday 12/27/2013:
-Guide creation
-Added content:
Introduction, Current features, Game Control, Game menu, New Game, Profession, Perks, My beginning strategy guide, Ship building guide, Hints, and Secrets.
-Weapon, Armor, Monster, Items: To be continue
-Credited Profession guide to rofl

Saturday 12/28/2013:
-Added Images to each section.
-Corrected spelling and any odd areas.
-Updated and added more information to each section.
-Added Update & Author Comment section

Tuesday 12/31/2013
-Added Ship-building controls
-Added 3 monsters to monster section; added categories.
-Rewrote Hardcore mode
-Added 21 items to the item section
-Changed Weapon and Armor section to Weapon; added categories.
-Update bug fix
-Update Hint/Faqs/Secrets
-Added 7 food/drinks
-Added Ship blocks
-Added New Contents

Friday 1/3/2014
-Completed Ship-building Parts

Sunday 1/5/2014
-Added Yoru crew section with updated new system
-Updated information of guide to stay relevant to new update version.
-Updated monster section, item section, and New game.

Saturday 2/2/2014
-MAJOR UPDATE: Added Skill Books!!!
-Edited Contents of guides

Author Comment:
Thanks for reading my guide. Feel free to update or add any new piece of information or even correct me by commenting below. I will update as soon as possible!

[Forcive]

so I guess you are just one guy so I will try to take it easy on you. But I am really getting anoyed about trying to build a ship. First of all the way the screen pans out and darkens makes it very difficult to see what you are building and then The box @#$!$!!%!$^#!#%&@%$ that says incompatible (or what ever) crew can't reach here; is blocking what it is saying is incompatible! Can't see what is wrong because #$#$#@!$@#!$#%$ box is in the way! and every time you take a piece off the box just moves down and blocks more pieces. VERY ANNOYING. I don't like alot of video games but I do like this one and it really pisses me off when some game mechanic is stopping me from enjoying it. PLEASE fix this!!

[Conga Lyne]

typo in "Your Crew! (New System)", says 'higher' instead of 'hire'

[kadenfrfx]

\/ trueeeeeeee

[jag]

delete anime

[Shugotenshi Eckx]

needs a rewrite

[Alaskan Druid]

Interesting ... but there's no way to view crew stats/perks before you buy them ... that makes buying crew a crapshot at best.

[Willuke10]

good guide

[sirdraco9876]

Outdated...

[grafikal -[64]-]

I'm just trying to figure out if I can scroll down on my items list from the Ship Setup Menue with Decorations. I have a bunch of stuff I can't add since I can't scroll down... :c

[RainbowMustache]

can you catch an oyster?