Essential Guide

A quick start guide to help with getting into the groove of pirate souls. many notes, updated as of february 2023.

Starting out

Video Here ---> https://www.youtube.com/live/HVClxAiBhHA?si=rZurKfsFvGKlfJsw Level 1-15
Easy controls to start and understand, avoid mapping on gamepad at this time, i find it too difficult.

W - up
S - Down
A - Left
R - RIght
Space - Dodge
Tab - Target and rotate targe (alternatively you can manually click)
Q - Punch/Fire/Swing Weapon/Interact
E - Kick/fire/swing weapon/Interact
Z - Pickup
I - Inventory
~~ in the inventory left click will equip or use items, right click will drop items..

1-10 and F1-F10 = Hotkeys, we will use these for usable items if we cook, or techniques.

You will load into the formation center, Himawari palace.
Immediatly in your northwest upper left, talk to this NPC Q or E.
use your 3 tickets to go pick out pants,shirt,boots. Use Q or E on the clothing racks and shelves.
make your way south, talk to MR muscles with Q or E.
Beat up some dummies q- q-e or e-e-q. Pickup the loot Z
Talk to MR musclebound after 3 broken dummy pieces.
Break 7 more dummies.
Head out follow the golden arrows on the ground, should be west, sw,w,nw,w.
Talk to the lady and equip the slingshot, break some more dummies. pickup the rabble.
Talk to the lady near the chalkboard. something about a map and what you should do next.
lets focus on the next.

NOTE:
i have around 300 hours into the game at tihs point of february 2023.
I would almost reccomend sniper for your first play through, as Swordsman and Fighter will require a higher skill level to kite with effectively.
I also implore you to play all 3 of the main classes, they are very unique in their abilities to do combat.
As a cautionary tale to you, this game is a GRIND. Don't expect to be handed everything easily, but also do not be afraid to ask for help. Thank you for reading the guide this far and I hope to see you online!
NOTE: the map is on the chalkboard, gives you a rough idea of the layout.

First town and a few quests.

Head due south and talk to Jeto He is in green! He will offer you to do a race for some berry (money) do it.
After making your way through his maze if you talk to him again he will mention something about a bat and a kid.
Northwest there is a fenced in area with a child in it, talk to him to start the Bat quest.
Go south of town until you find a bridge, cross the bridge, go west until the screen stops moving. Head due North until you find the Bat. interact with the bat for some funny dialogue.
NOTE: on your way back through attack the bushes and grab 20 seeds total. This will help speed up another quest. Grab some wood from trees as well, there is an achievement for breaking trees!

Return the bat to the child in the park, LEVEL UP.

NOTE: if you plan on using the sliingshot or guns in the future, start grabbing AIM now. 10 AIM is required to use the beginners slingshot which you can make from wood... gathered from punching trees.
UPDATE: blowgun was added for AIM and throwing knives for AGILITY. This will help you speed up your leveling, the knives can be added to a hotkey like a skill!

NOTE2: if you are going to be a fighter or swordsman, put some points into agility for a few levels.

NOTE3: as you are progressing through here, the highest requirement currently for a weapon/fruit technique or weapon is 60.

NOTE4: DO NOT USE WILLPOWER WE WILL COVER THAT MUCH MUCH LATER.

NOTE 5: you should be getting a pop-up about visiting the weapon clerk. get your free throwing knives or blowgun there.
Afterwords make your way to the sick child and mother in the southeast part of the city near the weapon shop. The kid is green you cannot miss it!
Interact with the mother and child, make your way north past the hospital and look for a door with writing on it, this is the DR's house. Talk to him.
NOTE: you may already have the seeds!
He will make the medicine and be disgusted by the taste of it, he will tell you to take the medicine to the cook, the cook is west of Jeto one house!
The cook is going to tell you he needs some raw meat, lets go south out of town.
Boars Plain:
Find the NPC here and start the quest before you go ham killing boars. Melias
NOTE: we want the boar quests done at some point when we are bored to be able to advance a later questline. You could work toward level 10 here and get the 3x 100 boar kills and 10 savage boar achievement. East of here is Pirates, South is lonely road.
Get the meat, kill the boars ect. return to the cook. Make the new seed meat soup up with the Cook and return it to the mother and child.
Quest complete.

Get Level 8: then go see Trombo to the east of the Execution Stand
Trombo will give you some money to get his sword upgraded with the blacksmith.
near where the weapon shop and mother and child are located will be the blacksmith. its another small door with writing.
Pick your dialogue, rob the blacksmith 30 berry by being that way.
Return the sword to trombone.
NOTE: you get more EXP if you DONT rob Trombo/Crafter.

Get level 10: after returnning to town at level 10, make your way to the Skill shop. pick your pathway.
NOTE: this can only be done once, it will result in a free skill (3 soul essence) you cannot undo this without restarting or buying a reset fruit, and even then you are out the Soul essence.
At level 10: we have a skill, we can go to the bar "Mission" is above the door.
And start doing daily quests, you get 3 a day.
When the boar quests are done eventually you will get a hint from melias. After this it should open up the questline in the east village.

There is a quest asking you to talk to the Mysterious Litorio. He is to the east of the bridge and north up on the cliffs.

NOTE: The quests in east village will start around level 15.

The Village, and fleshing out your character.

After you have finished up the quests in Hajiwari City, its time to move onto the village.
The first quest we are up against is:
STEAL THE T-SHIRT.
tallk to the shirtless man on the edge of town, he will ask you to steal him a t-shirt.
go to the center of the village and enter the store, steal the t-shirt!!!!!
you are now going to jail....
talk to Django, he will give you a tooth to use as a key. open the door, and ask Django to distract the guards.
Go to the little watchouse and talk to the guy who saw you... take the berries....
Now we find ourselves back in the village. talk to mr shirtless again....
Now talk to the girl on the left, she will inform you that you should help her find.
THE LOST BERRY BAG.
its on the west-most edge of the bandit mountains south of the village.
while here, you should farm your very own bandit gear that comes with stat boosts up to +5 total!!!
after obtaining the bag, i highly reccomend returning them to the lady, as if you dont the next quest will give you nothing.
Shibi will give you the next quest and ask you to
KICK SOMBATSU'S ASS
so go east and kick his ass. this monster drops a chest, they can have note sheets for blacksmiths!

there is another quest here by the ruined house. the man here is very pissed off and will ask you to
KICK THE MOUNTAIN BANDIT BOSS' ASS!
so make your way back down through the mountains and fight the bandit boss! he will drop a chest as well. it can roll note sheets!!

Level 15 will open up your profession, which is a 1 time ordeal.

Some reccomendations from players would be

Fighter - Doctor.

Swordsman/Sniper - Blacksmith

Sniper - cook.

Cook - this profession fits in anywhere very well. I personally made another account on another steam on another computer to handle cooking for me. If you can great! If not offer some money to a cook! The buff foods only work for level 30 cooks. These boost Aim (bat meal) by 10%. Agi (blessed meat) 10% and (Life) Mantis Delice, and (Energy) other mantis plate.

Level 20: You can join a pirate crew or the marines.
If you are interested in farming for fire or light fruit, the pirate base is closer.
If you are interested in farming for the ice fruit, the marine base is closer.
the marine base is a little closer to rum island.
the pirate base is closer to Hajiwari.
Pirates have to form their own alliances.
Marines are all an alliance.
The marine base is a very busy place, and can be a dangerous spawn ground. It is closer to some mid level grinding zones, and saves about 4 screens getting to Rhum Island.

NOTE: if you do not pick a faction, both the marines and pirate mobs will aggro you instead of one or the other LOL!
UPDATE: With the territory war, you can control Rhum Island and spawn into Rhum Island, Pirate and Marines fight for control daily.
You can also control Hajiwari, this will allow you to combine keys to higher tier keys.
Pirates base is located East of Boar plains.
Marine base is located west of Lonely road.
Lonely road isnlocated south of boar plains.
Level 25 quest - Trouble Marine.

There is a secret location on Lonesome Road in the northwest, behind a tree. The hermits cave.
At the end of the cave. is a side quest that is required to advance the 2nd part of the Troubled marine quest. AT THIS TIME the bosses are on a 30 minute timer. Often being hoarded by other players, you will probably HAVE TO fight for it. GOOD LUCK.
UPDATE: the timer now jumps around between 15-30 minutes per boss.
After the boss has been killed you will have access to the hermits forest to extend this questline, to killing MORE bosses. GOOD LUCK.
NOTE: you can always try to join a bossing group, or berries for help getting the kills. Never forget about diplomacy!

Try not to get discouraged gentlemen, the game is young and high paced.
When you are infuriated and tired of grinding, take a break.

UPDATE: this quest seems really daunting, and it is. However if you take a pvp Daily quest fighting over the bosses will be beneficial.
UPDATE: many of the older players have ran through hours of boss cycles, if you need the quest reach out to us, we might be bored or mid rotation, we can help too.

Getting to Rhum Island.

You are going to head south from Hima, South from Boar PLain, West from Lonely Road, West from Marines, West from cliff road to the cave, West to broken coast, west to the ship, smack the wheel.

Now you are on Rhum island.
You are going to need a rope. the npc here to the west is going to tell you to head up the cliffs to the west and look in the box for a rope.
NOTE: you should check the other boxes too...


You will need to open your TECH and bind the rope to a skill hotkey.

Look for the posts in the center of this area (Think old Zelda hookshot posts)
activate the rope grapple.

Now we can move east to the ancient house (dry way)

The Ancient House: 3 doors up and left to lizards. (level 30 required)

After starting the Rhum Compass Quest at level 30 talk with the rope NPC again and get the key from those boxes. It will be an inventory Item. Talk with the ropes NPC again about finding a log compass.
This allows you to continue through the house for the log compass, go find kamel and talk to him about the log compass. NOTE THIS IS NOT THE ONLY TREASURE TO BE FOUND HERE!

Moving south from the ancient house puts you in the upper half of the cactus forest. Moving east of the ancient house takes you to three ways.

North of three ways is Eagles (Level 30ish) the greens aggro. And flicker/blink as a gap closer.
NOTE: currently we can move greens far away to make area safer.

NOTE: they have all the movement you could imagine.
NOTE 2: this is the best Exp in game.

South of Three ways is the Rhum village entrance.

Rhum Island Quests

Level 40 Required.
Doorman's request storyline; there is Bolan, he is guarding the entrance to Sir Loqs mansion. He is tired of his job. Figure out what he needs to get out!
Lows mansion is the southwestern most building.
Unlocking the Door.
1: gather 25 eagles feathers, and 20 Coyotes Furs.
2: find his pirate friend in Haji, the quest here is actually a bad description, it is the gentleman in the pirate tent with Lato. The pirate boss. He will give you a letter to return to Bolan. He will also ask you the name of the rich man "Loq"
NOTE: you need this quest done for crazy marcy.

Crazy Marcy.
Marcy lives in the second to last building in the southeast. You will know it's not the grey building full of traps and doom.

1: bring 10 cactus flower to the cook in haji and make cactus juice. return the juice to marcy.
2: talk to sir loq, get 3 mantis flowers for sir loq, he will give you an antidote for marcy.
3: marcy has vanished, find her (THousand Tombstones south of coyotes)
NOTE: the mantis cactus has a 1 hour respawn.
NOTE: after giving the antidote to marcy you need to let her rest for a few hours.

PLEASE NOTE
This section in need of update, doormans request has changed.

Marine Fortress and Achievements

so you got the log compass and you boarded the boat at rhum island docks.
NOTE: Rhum compass has a questline now.
Talk to the lady at the rhum island port. check the boxes for a box key. go into the maze, go up and talk to kamel. keep going to find the chest. go to rhum village and take the ship to the marine fortress.

UPDATE: EVENT SMO-KING INVASION.
every saturday the Smo-King invades marine fortress. dealing over 1000 damage will give you a reward for the event. land the killing blow to get a chest!
The smoke ghosts will give you a full heal after 10 kills!

Welcome to the marine fortress. THere is a bank here for you to store items from your inventory in.
There is a gambling den available bet on the level 100 marine ;)
There is also territory wars here, to the left is the marine objective, the pirate flag.
To the right is the pirate objective, the marine flag.
after destroying the flag you need to go into the glowing hole.
Currently whoever has the territory has the alliance building in Rhum Island Village, and can trade 5 achievements for 1 stat point.

A few achievements
100 brown boars
100 black boars
100 red boars
10 savage boars
300 Bats
300 bandits
500 leopards
1000 Leopards
1000 Chameleons
300 Eagles
1000 berry
10000 Berry
25000 Berry
1000 Coyotes
100 player kills

10 quests completed.
25 quests completed.

Building your character.

AS you level up and may have noticed from the guide, you have stat allocations.

Each point in Health gives 10 life.
Each point in Energy gives 5 Energy.
Each point in willpower grants fruit damage at 75%
Each point in AIM or AGILITY grants damage at 35%*
NOTE: skills with aim/agi may have %75 scaling. Will test soon.

you will need AIM/AGILITY/WILLPOWER stats for certain skills. Currently i believe the max requirement is 60.

DO not put points into willpower early on. Getting fruit can be difficult!
UPDATE: eating a fruit now resets all of your aim/agi?*
Many players will tell you to push for 1000HP 200Energy and 60 Agility or Aim and 60 willpower.
Do as you wish this is just a reccomended setup.

Weapons?
There is a weapon shop in Hima, it covers your first weapons for your class.
There is another weapon shop on Rhum Island, but these will require level 28 or higher.

Skills? skills 1-3 are available for soul essence in the skill shop in HIma, you need level 10 to take a class and thusly learn their skills.
Buyer beware, the blink step skill is not a combat art, it is a targeted blink/warp and is useful for sticking to a fast moving target or jumping to an ally, or moving to an enemy on another height.

Skills 4-6 are available at rhum island skill 4 starts at level 25.

Level 30 and soul fruit.
Once competing worthy fighter, the second part of the troubled marine quest, you will be rewarded with the rubber fruit. You can eat it with 30 willpower! You too can gum gum pistol!
Currently you can only eat one fruit, the bosses from the quest drop fruit. They also drop other neat items. Most fruits I would reccomend waiting until level 40 to eat. With exceptions in Fire being easily done at level 30, and Light/Ice feeling ok at 35 but better at 40.

Reccomended Build 1: High Life Swordsman/Fighter/Sniper
Health 160.
Energy 40.
Agility 60. (AIM for Sniper)
NOTE: I have personally pushed this build above 200 health stat points. Works great.

Reccomended Build 2: Normal Life Swordsman/Fighter/Sniper
Health 100.
Energy 40.
Agility 120 (AIM for Sniper)

Recommend Build 3: High Damage Swordsman/Fighter/Sniper
Health 70
Energy 40
Agility 160 (aim for sniper)

Reccomended Build 3: Fighter Medic.
Health 90.
Energy 70.
Agility 100.
*note* the roseo heal will benefit heavily from the energy, this will be a 140 health heal every 35 seconds. it will have 900 health, very tanky still. and with the extra 150 energy (350 total) you should be able to endlessly stun and run.

Reccomended Build 4: Fire Fighter - Medic or Crafter
Health 70
Energy 50
Willpower 100
Agility 40
*NOTE* with the new gears this agility number can be inflated by gearing. I would reccomend leveling to 30 as a high damage fighter. Best Practice would be eating fruit at level 35.

Reccomended build 5: Ice Swordsman/Fighter - Crafter
Health 80
Energy 40
Willpower 120
Agility 20
*NOTE* with the new gears this agility number can be inflated by gearing, I would reccomend leveling to 40 as a high damage swordsman. Best Practice would be eating this fruit at level 40.

Reccomended Build 6: Fighter Reindeer - Medic (crafter 2nd choice)
Health 90.
Energy 70.
Agility 50.
Willpower 50
*NOTE* with the new gears this agility number can be inflated by gearing. I would reccomend leveling to 30 as a medic-fighter. Best Practice would be eating fruit at level 40.
You can eat this fruit at level 30 without compromise because of the low willpower gating of the build itself. this fruit does the most work when engaging and disengaging combat. it is very well rounded but the damage is a little low.
Crafter or Medic?
Crafter if you want to be ridiculous with some extra cooldown reduction or lifesteal.. but overall the better choice is the low income threshold of medic. You will have everything you need at your disposal.

NOTES:
Health can be comfortable around 500 by level 40.
Agility/AIM should be your priority before level 10.
Around level 10 you are going to want to get some health/energy
You could level with 1 health 1 energy 3 agility/aim for the first 20 levels and be very comfortable moving out from there however you feel. (adjust for medic of course, or you wont be able to heal)

Grinding

What should you do between missions?

1-5 Boars in Boars Plain. Bullies in Hajiwari.
NOTE: get your achievement for 100 of each boar, 10 of savage boar. and 50 bullies!!
UPDATE 2/23: Make sure to get a necklace from the boars

6-10 Bats in the cave east of Boars plain. OR bats in cave west of Leopards Cliff.
UPDATE 2/23: Make sure to get a cloak from the bats! also achievement for 300 kills!

11-15 Bandits South of East Village *BE CAREFUL THEY DASH*
NOTE: they will also screenwide aggro you (1200x800 screen roughly)
NOTE: mountain bandit boss is no chump.
NOTE: east village is east on lonely road, south of boar plain.
UPDATE: make sure you get your bandana and outfit from the bandits!
Achievement for 300kills.

16-20 Pirates East of Boars Plain, Marines West of Lonely Road. Pirates and Marines at MarineHQ
TOO HARD???!!!! these may be a little tough, you can farm bandits quickly enough to get to 20.

21-25 Leopards West of Marines. Pirates, Marines.
NOTE: I like leopards even though they have a little less exp than pirates/marines. You get lots of fur and some raw meat. the meat can be traded to a cook and made into a healing item. Leopards also have a soul fruit drop: the leopard fruit! Make sure to get 1000 kills for achievement!

15*-50 Eagles in Rhum Island. North of 3-ways. East of Dry way, North of Port.
NOTE: you can pull all the green eagles to the upper end of the map, making for a KFC experience with the blue eagles. This allows level 20 characters to power grind.


30-50 Lizards in Ancient House. 3-ways into house. 3 north. west.

40-50 Coyotes. East of 3-ways.
NOTE: like leopards and eagles, but much MUCH worse.

ITEM GRIND (UPDATE 5/10/23)
Boars drop a necklace with 1 health. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 of another stat.
Bats drop a cape with 1 energy. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 of another stat.
Bandits drop a body with 2 agility. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Bandits drop a head with 2 health. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Bandit boss drops a cape with 2 willpower. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Leopards drop a body with 2 aim. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Leopards drop shoes with 2 energy. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Chameleons drop a helmet with 4 energy. it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Chameleons drop a belt with 1 health or energy or aim (pick 2?*) it can also have a random suffix giving 1 or 3 of another stat.
Shotas drops head with 4 aim
Lato drops head with 4 agi
Sokat drops pants with 4 agi 2 willpower
Ikera Drops boxing gloves with 5 agi
Tuco Drops sunglasses with 4 aim 2 willpower
Sauro Drops head with X/X

FRUIT GRIND

Leopards drop leopard fruit.
A uncommon chest has reindeer fruit (chest near ikera)
Shotas drops ice fruit
Lato drops fire fruit
Frio Po drops Light fruit
Smo-King RAID EVENT
SPECIAL GRIND
Sauro is a crew boss, anyone in your crew can help.
He can drop 1/2 and sometimes 3 note sheets.
He can drop rare keys.
Sokat/Ikera/Tuco/Sauro can all drop rare key

EVENT GRIND
Bank race - Event tickets
Battle royale - event tickets
Diamond Chest - Cash shop diamonds
Hidden spy - event tickets
Smo-King - event tickets, big chest to killer, smoke fruit

keep peeled for other community events

Bossing and Secrets

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COMING SOON
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Need more help???
https://discord.gg/Gm3R7svk
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Crafting and Rare Drops

Here is the I see you don't know ♥♥♥♥ about crafting list

drop based equipment and iters.
Tier 1: can only gain a +1 roll from drop.
Boar Necklace (1hp), Bat Cloak(1 energy)
Tier 2: can gain +1 roll and +3 roll
Bandit outfit(2 agi), Bandit Bandana(2 health), Lizard Belt(aim/health/energy), Lizard Helmet(energy), Leopard Boots(energy), Leopard outfit(aim)
Tier 3: can gain +1 roll and +3 roll and +5 roll
Coyote Helmet(health energy), Coyote Cloak(agility), Eagle Cloak(aim), Eagle Boots(energy health)

Boss items and their enchantment tiers.
Tier 2: can only gain a +1 or +3 roll from enchanting with notes
Somobatsu Scarf (2hp)
Bandit Boss Outfit (2wp)
Stolen Boots (4hp)
Tier 3: can gain a +1 or +3 or +5 roll from enchanting with notes
Lato Shoulder (4 agi)
Shotas Shoulder (4 aim)
Sokat Pants (2 wp 4 agi)
Frio Po Pants (4wp)
No Enhancement but probably tier 3 next update
Tuco Armor
Tuco Glasses
Sauro Hat

Weapons Enhancements
Prefix (Crafter Only) - ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ =Kinohono=
15% CDR
10% Lifesteal
5% experience
5 stat points
1-5% hp/mp regen

Suffix (anyone) = Kinohono = ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I-V
10% CDR
5% Lifesteal
5% Experience
1-5 stat points
1-5% hp/mp regen

Help - Community Content

TikTok - Skills and what they look like ect.
https://www.tiktok.com/@piratesouls

Discord - Community of players
https://discord.gg/SkPHnU3X

Thank you!...

Many other members of the community contributed to my experience in game. You are all the reason why I took time to start this guide, so you don't have to do as much work. Thank you for helping me get moving in Pirate Souls.

Special thanks to:

Eleven, for dealing with my frustration.

Dona and Shenmue for reading my idea spam.

Dead Coast, for skirmishes late at night. Ghost and the others really are hard to fight be careful out there!

Jun, Blue, Dareem, Rain, Esty and the Marines, Alot of helpful players. You are the pinnacle of justice!

ANOTHER THANKS: Dafter, you were an amazing fighter I could not have asked for more of a honorable fight in our Promotions! You won fair and square, get ya next promos ;)
Noblesse and Life: we have been having a great time we ran it today thanks!
Yuma, Agony, D. Mihawk for the most recent war. Phantom Vs Marine.
Barbossa for always pushing my liimts.

AND THANK YOU FOR READING :)

P.S.

I am graybeard, madnessdriver, chrimlight, Revenant, IlIlIlIlIlIl in game, if you see me.... We might talk or I might try to kill you. Depends on dailies nothing personal :)

Pirate Souls Discord
https://discord.gg/tuKXeFCR

Hajiwari Training Center -UPDATED PLACEHOLDER-

Hajiwari -UPDATED PLACEHOLDER-

Bat
Jeto
Sick Kid
Boars
Trombo
Mysterious Litorio

LATER
Trouble Marine

Hajiwari Eastern Village -UPDATED PLACEHOLDER-

Steal the T-Shirt
Recover The Berry Bag
Kick somabatsu's Ass
The Pirates Treasure

LATER
Troubled Marine II
Worthy Foe
The Giant and The Bag

Marine/Pirate Bass -UPDATED PLACEHOLDER-

Rhum Island - UPDATED PLACEHOLDER-

Excited Marcy
Doormans Request I/II/III
Sir Loq
Log Compass

LATER PLACEHOLDER

Marine Fortress -UPDATED PLACEHOLDER-

Bank
Race
Smo-King Invasion
Faction War

[CylindricKnight_YT]

following this and currently lvl 13. bandits seem too hard for me. i aggro 2-3 at a time as a swordsman, so i went back to bats to grind instead.

[Madmike]

thank you @tesshin

[Ruiskis]

really helpful guide to n00b like me!

[Madmike]

Thank you @silwinterwolf

[KTKSilwinterwolf]

When you don't rob the blacksmith Trombo gives you less experience...