Upon dying during PVP, the defeated player will lose 50% of the items in their Ships Hold. The Ship's Hold is the in-game inventory of your ship, where the player must deposit their inventory items before setting sail. These items are chosen at random by an algorithm but more valuable items have a higher chance of being looted (removed from your inventory). The 50% of items lost will be the victorious party's loot prize.

Upon dying to AI opponents at sea (having your Port raided successfully by AI Raiders doesn’t apply,) you will have to pay a price of 50% of your Hold's loot to the Ferryman of the Damned. In exchange, he will spare your captured soul and return you to the Sanctuary Islands with your ship.

Upon dying at sea, as well as losing 50% of your Hold's goods, the resources the player survives with will have a ‘Waterlogged’ effect for a period of time. This means that your resources will sell for far less at the Marketplace (the reduction in sale price will vary). This is to deter players from dying purposefully to AI or PVP to reach the Sanctuary Islands faster.

Land Management

After connecting their wallet in browser, the player will have the opportunity to buy a plot of land with Dubloon Tokens which they can use to farm and mine resources. Land can be improved and expanded with additional Dubloon Tokens once certain land improvement criteria have been met.

• Upon logging in for the first time the player will be given a quest item to allow them to claim a plot of land for free.

• Each island will have randomly-generated defining geographical features and naturally spawning resources.

• Players can cut down trees, mine rocks/minerals, fish and grow crops on their land.

• Players can build defensive and utility structures on their land.

• Once players have improved their current land a certain amount, they can then expand to claim surrounding tiles.

• Players use tools to interact with tiles in order to chop wood, mine, farm etc.

PvP & PvE

The player can choose to raid other players' land by attacking their port with their ship for a prize of their loot. Players can upgrade their ships with Dubloon Tokens as long as they have enough pirate NFTs to fill necessary crew slots. Players can build defensive structures on their land with Dubloon Tokens to deter raiders.

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Looting & Trading

Any loot that players hold in their inventory, such as treasure or resources, can be sold at the in-game marketplace on the hub island for Dubloon Tokens, or traded between players for an agreed price. Players can also opt to withdraw their collected loot and items as NFTs, allowing them to trade items they've collected in-game as NFTs on third-party NFT marketplaces like Opensea.

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Our first pet battle NFT collection (coming soon!) will feature in the Polyparrots gamemode, within our Plodding Isles main game. These NFTs will be essential for taking part in pet battles. Each parrot will be assigned a primary element, such as Fire, Water, Poison etc.

Battles

To participate in the battles you will need a team of three parrots. Combat is turn-based.

Some abilities of certain classes will have multiple round cooldowns, while others can do extra damage when circumstances in the battle are met.

Each parrot will have a total of 3 active spell slots that it can use during a battle, but a total of 6 to choose from in total. Players will need to determine what will be the best spells to use before entering a fight. More powerful spells will only unlock after reaching higher levels and may even be traded as NFTs. The loser will be the first player to have their final Parrot faint.

Stats & Traits

Each parrot that is minted will be assigned 4 randomly generated stats, these can be increased with experience points and speaking to a trainer.

Each parrot that is minted will be assigned one of 4 randomly generated traits: Heart, Velocity, Savvy, Mettle. This will affect the base stats of the Parrot. In addition to that, each parrot will have a base ability according to its type:

Players can raid/loot an opponent's land by sailing within firing range of the opponent's port and choosing to engage. After defeating the other player's land defenses, your player can loot.

Players can equip as crew members to give their ship combat and passive buffs. These buffs can make a ship faster, stealthier, or have greater health pools, for example. Bigger ships require more crewmembers to operate.

There are multiple ships that players can obtain in-game. Ships become progressively more expensive with better stats for combat.

Ships

You’re not required to hold a to obtain your first ship but any of the subsequent ships will require a crew to operate, because of their size.

Ships will have a number of Crew slots where Pirate NFTs can be placed. Placing a Pirate NFT in a slot makes him part of your Crew granting specific buffs to your Ship depending on which NFTs you have selected as your Crew.

Bigger ships can be purchased which allow for increased health and firepower, at the expense of speed usually.

Ship stockpile

Each ship will have a Hold where players can store items. There are specific items that a player will always need to keep in their Hold if they are to be effective in PVP or simply to travel with a crew:

Wood

Allows your crew to make repairs to your ship, refilling your HP gradually while out of combat.

Crew

The more crew you have, the faster your food store depletes. Once it has fallen below a certain level, debuffs will be added to your ship that drastically hinder PvP (Health Points, Speed etc.)

Gunpowder

You will need to keep sufficient stores of gunpowder on board so that your weapons can operate at full effectiveness.

Upgrading

Players begin with simple wooden tools which can be upgraded to improve efficiency. This does not include the fishing rod which has its own unique upgrade system.

Tools can be brought to the Blacksmith once you have collected enough of the resources needed to upgrade your tool to the next level. The Blacksmith will charge a fee of Dubloon Tokens to upgrade your tools.

Efficiency multipliers for tools of different materials.

An example resource mining table for the Pickaxe.

Axe

Can be used to cut down trees and gain wood.

Fishing Rod

Can be used to catch fish. Fishing Rod upgrades can be purchased at the Sanctuary Islands for $DUB to improve your chances of catching rare fish.

Hoe

Can be used to till soil to prepare land for farming.

Pickaxes

Can be used to mine rocks and gain their resources. The tables at the top of this page outline the benefits of each pickaxe upgrade.

Fish

There will be different kinds of fish with different rarities that players can catch on their personal plot of land, or at communal fishing areas on the Sanctuary Islands. They can be used as food or displayed in-game, inside fish tanks, or withdrawn at the in-game marketplace into the player's crypto-wallet as NFTs.

Produce

There will be a variety of vegetables and fruits that can be farmed on the player’s plot of land. These items can be crafted into foods that will be needed to keep your crew fed while embarked on your ship.

Wood

Can be harvested from trees on your land or from communal forestry areas. Wood can be used to upgrade your ship, your buildings and to craft.

Coal

Can be collected from breaking Black Rocks. Used to power furnaces.

Copper

Can be collected from breaking Speckled Red Rocks. Will need to be smelted from its raw form to it’s pure copper bar form. Can be used for crafting, upgrading and trading.

Stone

Can be collected from breaking rocks on your land or at communal mining areas and used for crafting, construction and upgrading.

Sulphur

Can be collected from breaking Yellow Rocks. Used to craft Gunpowder, which is needed to fuel Cannons, either on your ship or installed as defensive structures on your land.

Iron

Can be obtained from breaking Brown Rocks. Will need to be smelted from its raw form to it’s pure bar form. Can be used for crafting, upgrading and trading.

Gold (resource, not currency)

Can be obtained from breaking Speckled Yellow Rocks. Will need to be smelted from its raw form to its smelted bar form. Can be used to craft more valuable and ornate items and upgrades to be sold on the market or shown off at your base, on your ship, on your player character or withdrawn at the in-game marketplace into the player's crypto-wallet as NFTs.

Rare resources

Gemstones

Can be Green (rare), Blue (rarer) and Red (rarest). Obtained from breaking Shiny Stones. A rare resource that can be used to craft rare and valuable upgrades and high-stat items. Like gold, but rarer. Can be traded or sold for Dubloon Token.

Crystalite

The rarest resource available. Can only be found as treasure, or rare loot drops upon beating difficult AI opponents. Used to craft the most valuable and the rarest upgrades and high stat items. Can also be traded or sold for Dubloon Token.

The player will come across a variety of AI enemies and strongholds while travelling. The player can choose to avoid these with caution, or engage with the hope of pilfering valuable treasure from their defeated foes.

Marauders

Patrolling AI ships that seek to attack player ships on sight. They patrol random areas of the ocean between the Far Isles and the Sanctuary Islands and they range in strength and speed.

AI Raiders

Will attack your ports and strongholds while you are online. They vary in strength and drop loot when defeated.

Strongholds

AI island encampments that can be attacked the same way as if a player was raiding another player’s Port. These protect a treasure that can be obtained by the player once the Stronghold has been cleared.

Farming

Players can acquire fruits, vegetables and other crop items by farming on their land. All crops can be traded into NFTs (to be sold on third-party marketplaces or stored in your cryptoasset wallet) or exchanged for Dubloon Tokens at the in-game marketplace.

There is a rare chance for players to find buried treasure while farming. This treasure can be in the form of Dubloon or NFTs

Other farmable materials like wood and minerals can be also traded into NFTs or exchanged for Dubloon Tokens at the in-game marketplace.

PvP & PvE

Defeating an AI or player ship will grant the user player a portion of the opponent's loot. This can be NFTs or Dubloon Tokens.

Upon defeating AI strongholds players will be rewarded with NFT or Dubloon rewards.

Players will be awarded a portion of loot after successfully raiding an enemy Port.

Players can win rewards in PVP and PVE competitions, through prize pools funded by the Community Incentives fund.

Marketplace

Players can sell all earned in-game items at the in-game Marketplace for Dubloon Tokens. Similarly, players can buy NFTs at the in-game Marketplace for Dubloon Tokens. Players can also bring Plodding Isles item NFTs into the game from third-party marketplaces to be exchanged into in-game items.

Players can sell their Dubloon Tokens and NFTs on third-party exchanges and marketplaces, such as Quickswap, Uniswap and Opensea.