Sailing on the open seas is a magical experience that offers a mix of peace, adventure, and discovery. The vast ocean provides a chance to enjoy nature's maritime beauty, as well as meet the people that call the islands scattered around their home.

The feeling of accomplishment from successfully navigating the sea and mastering new skills, such as sea monster hunting and bartering, can be said to be equivalent to discovering a new territory, or defeating a powerful boss you had never seen before. Whether you're a seasoned sailor or a beginner, the wonders of sailing on the open seas await your discovery.

◈ Ocean Wind

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Ocean wind affects sailing in all parts of the world of Black Desert.
It will not affect your ship as much when near the coastline, but will become a lot stronger as you venture further from the coast and out into the sea.
When you board your ship, you will be provided with information on the strength and direction of the wind in the area you are in. It updates automatically as you travel.

 

 

The top bar indicates the speed of the ship. Below you are given the option to toggle the continuous use of the skill Breezy Sail (from sailing level skilled 1 onward). Please be careful when enabling this option, as it consumes rations like when you manually use it.

 

Below that, you can find the durability (in red) and rations (in yellow) bars. The ship's durability is its health. If it reaches zero, the ship is destroyed. The ship's rations are consumed when moving, when using skills, and when doing certain activities. When they reach zero all skills that require them will not be usable, and the ship will move at a considerably slower speed than normal.

 

To the right, you will see the wind information. It will tell you how strong the wind is and in which direction it goes. Going against the wind with your ship's sails unfolded will slow your ship's movement. However, going in the direction of the wind with the ship's sails unfolded will increase its movement speed at a rate relative to the strength of the wind.

 

The cannon icons on both sides show you information on the firing cooldown and the number of cannonballs you have left.

 

 

◈ Fold & Unfold the Sails

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On large ships, you can fold and unfold the sails by pressing the button in the ship's speed bar.
When the sails are opened up, the ship is affected by the ocean winds. However, when the sails are folded, the ship will not be affected by the ocean winds. Therefore, you can sail more quickly by folding or unfolding the sails depending on the ocean winds of the area you are in.

 

 

However, please note there is a cooldown of 5 seconds when folding / unfolding the sails.

◈ Anchor

While on a ship, the Anchor UI will be activated whenever you approach a Papu or Otter Barterer NPC around the islands of the Great Ocean.

Note that you must be holding onto the steering wheel of the ship in order for the Anchor UI to appear.

It offers the following options:

- Anchor: Activates features available on islands and other specific locations such as certain shipwrecked ships out in Margoria.

- Explore / Supply: Sends sailor(s) to islands to explore or get supplies. You can supply the rations you have loaded on your ship with Supply and find treasures with Explore. In order to use Explore or Supply, you need to have at least 100,000 rations loaded on your ship. Once you begin exploring or supplying at any island, you can restart them only after 20 minutes.

- Barter: You can engage in bartering activities with a nearby Barterer NPC.

Please note that the ship will stop if you press the Anchor button, and it will not move until you press the Depart button.

◈ Board & Disembark

Any Adventurer atop a ship can see the Board and Disembark buttons appear on their screen. 
Pressing the Disembark button will instantly teleport them to land, as long as there's a wharf manager nearby. Note that, if you're on the wheel, you will need to press the Disembark button once to take you off the wheel, and press it again to move to the wharf manager. This function has a 5-second cooldown, and it can be set to a hotkey via Settings → Interface Settings → UI Hotkeys.

Like with the disembark function, remember that you can likewise instantly teleport to your nearby ship from shore by left-clicking the ship's icon (anchor-shaped) beneath your character's HP bar, or by pressing the Board button that appears above the Disembark one. Pressing the Board button again while aboard your ship will take you to the ship's wheel.

◈ Sailors

You will find various kinds of sailors around Velia, Port Epheria, and Iliya Island. If you have a sailor contract certificate item on you, you can hire them.
These certificates can be purchased for 3,000,000 silver from Philaberto Falasi at Port Epheria, and Islin Bartali at Velia's Lunar Halo Inn and Proix at the Dancing Marlin Tavern, both in Velia.

The health of sailors, called their condition, can be recovered by offering them chowder and raisin bread.
- Chowder can be obtained via cooking with a cooking utensil at a residence with the following ingredients: Dried Pearl Oyster Flesh x1 or Dried Shellfish x5, Pepper x2, Pork x2, Milk x1, Teff Bread x1
- Raisin Bread can be purchased from Islin Bartali in Velia, and from the different wharf managers.

If ill, a sailor can be cured with an Elixir of Regeneration.
This elixir can be obtained through simple alchemy (hotkey: L) with the following materials: Mandragora Essence x1, Essence of Nature x1, Oil of Regeneration x1, Troll Blood x2, Grape x4.

You can check the status of the sailors assigned to your ship in the Sailor Info tab of the Ship Info window, opened automatically when accessing your character's profile while steering a ship (hotkey: P).

To cure an ill sailor or recover its condition, check in your ship in a wharf, and then select the Manage Sailors option.

After this, select the sailor you want to help and offer them the necessary items.

Once they're recovered, the Board option in the bottom right side of the window will be enabled, allowing you to attach the sailors once more to your ship.

If you ask yourself how many sailors you can have at any moment in your ship, it depends on the capacity of the ship, your maximum number of sailors, and how many cabins each sailor occupies. For example, an Epheria sailboat only has 10 cabins, while an Epheria carrack has 100. Using the example above, sailor Arkahn may only use 3 cabins when assigned to a ship, but his stats are worse than sailor Icaron who uses 10 cabins.

To increase the maximum number of sailors you can have, you will need the item Sailor's Oath. These oaths are obtained from quest rewards during Oquilla's Eye's questline [The Great Expedition] First Sailboat into Oquilla's Eye and from the quest Chulong's Gift, unlocked after doing the previous questline, in Nampo's Moodle Village at the other side of the ocean. You can check it in the Suggested tab of the Quests window (hotkey: O). Please make sure to not delete these before using them, as they cannot be obtained again.

Sailors receive EXP and grow from defeating sea monsters and doing regular and special barters.

[First Mate] Proix	[First Mate] Cleia	[First Mate] Tranan Underfoe

 

[First Mate] Proix

How to Hire Complete the [The Great Expedition] In Search of Khan, the Eye of the Moon quest and then complete the questline available via NPC Proix in Velia to obtain First Mate Contract: Proix - [First Mate] Reunion on the Horizon - [First Mate] Tides of Conversation - [First Mate] Call of the Sea * You can find [The Great Expedition] In Search of Khan, the Eye of the Moon under Quests (O) - Suggested - [The Great Expedition] First Sail Boat to Oquilla's Eye.   Trait - Improves your BreezySail duration while boarded

 

[First Mate] Cleia

How to Hire Obtain the Golden Pocket Watch via Special Barter according to a set probability, then complete the questline with the item in possession to obtain First Mate Contract: Cleia - [First Mate] Memento of the Past - [First Mate] Moment of Resolve - [First Mate] Set Sail for New Horizons   Trait - Decreases Parley required for Bartering by 10% while boarded - The reduced Parley can be checked through the Barter Information window while steering the ship.

 

[First Mate] Tranan Underfoe

How to Hire Obtain the Fancy Figurehead from the Sea Monster Habitat - Saltwater Crocodile according to a set probability. Complete the questline with the item in possession to obtain First Mate Contract: Tranan Underfoe - [First Mate] A Certain Adventurer's Sea-journ - [First Mate] Dream of the Open Sea - [First Mate] A Sea of Conviction   Trait - The following function becomes available while boarded - This function becomes available as the "Ship Auto Repair" button while steering the ship. - To use the "Ship Auto Repair" function, you must have one of the following items in the ship's inventory. * Ship Repair Material, Ship Repair Kit, Emergency Ship Repair Kit

 

You can arrange your sailors to see who has the highest stats in each category.

- You can filter sailors by type to see only the ones you need.

- You can switch back to view all sailors whenever you like.

 

There is also an auto-assign sailors function.

 

 

Auto assign is applied in the following order:

 

First Mate → Sail → Wheel → Cannon → Mess → Deck → Cabin

 

Sailors in the list are sorted in the following order:

 

Sailors who can board the current ship → Sailors already on the ship → Sailors on other ships

 

 

◈ Sailor Preset

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Added the Sailor Preset feature.

 

 

The Sailor Preset can only be applied to the ships listed below that can board sailors.

 

Bartali Sailboat	Epheria Sailboat	Epheria Frigate
Improved Epheria Sailboat	Improved Epheria Frigate	Epheria Caravel
Epheria Galleass	Epheria Carrack: Advance	Epheria Carrack: Balance
Epheria Carrack: Volante	Epheria Carrack: Valor	Panokseon

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The Sailor Preset is applied differently for each type of ship. For example, a Sailor Preset saved in Epheria Carrack: Advance Preset 1 will not be saved in Epheria Carrack: Volante Preset 1, so you will need to set it up separately.

When applying the Sailor Preset, only sailors who are not sick or currently on another ship will be assigned.

How to Use Sailor Preset

- Talk to the Wharf Manager NPC to access "Manage Sailors" for your ship.
- In the Manage Sailors UI, assign sailors as you wish.
- Once you are done, press the Save Preset button to save your settings.

◈ Sailor Fishing

A special sailor slot lets you automatically fish while sailing the ocean on a Carrack. To activate this feature, you'll first need to acquire the Oceanbound Otter Fishing Rod and a fishing sailor. Here's how you can do that:

Oceanbound Otter Fishing Rod

How to Obtain

Complete the Suggested "[The Great Expedition] Otter Barterer" quest and then complete the "[Sailor Fishing] An Otterly Good Friend" quest via [Fish Vendor] Crio in Velia.   * The quest objective is to hand over Crow Coin Coupon x 200 to Crio. * If you have completed [Sailor Fishing] An Otterly Good Friend, you can exchange additional rods with Crio. * The Prize Catch group consists of Prize Fish and Ancient Relic Crystal Shard.

Be sure to assign a sailor to the Fishing slot to enable automatic fishing while sailing.

Carrack Sailor Fishing Rules
* Carrack Sailor Fishing occurs once every 180 seconds. (The sailing UI gauge on the right charges the fishing progresses.)

Auto Sailor Fishing Gauge

Once the gauge is full, the UI lights up and fish is caught.

* Fishing progresses only while the Carrack is sailing, and does not progress when stationary. (Fishing continues during Ram, Power Accel., BreezySail, QuickRetreat, AbruptTurn, and SmoothTurn.)
* Fishing gauge does not reset even if you release and then re-engage the Carrack's controls.
* Fish caught through Carrack Sailor Fishing are obtained in the character's inventory. If a fish tank is present, they are obtained in the tank.
* Only the Prize Catch Fish Rate from the fishing rod's effects is applied. The Prize Catch Fish Rate does not increase with Fishing Mastery.
- The Prize Catch Fish Rate is fixed at 3% when using the Oceanbound Otter Fishing Rod for Carrack Sailor Fishing.
- The Prize Catch group consists of Prize Fish and Ancient Relic Crystal Shard.
* Fish caught through Carrack Sailor Fishing are subject to both the Weekly Fishing Contest and Fish Guide.
* Catching fish through Carrack Sailor Fishing affects the fishing resource of the respective sea area.

 

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Fishing gauge resets in the following situations:
- When the fishing rod is unequipped or replaced in the Carrack equipment slot.
- When the ship is checked into the wharf or destroyed.
- When moving to the character selection screen or exiting the game.

Fishing is paused in the following situations:
- When the Durability of the Oceanbound Otter Fishing Rod is fully consumed.
- When the sailor placed in the fishing slot in the Manage Sailors UI is sick.
- When the ship is stationary.

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Fish Discard:
Just like in regular fishing, you can have sailors automatically toss out any fish below the grade you choose

◈ Emergency Ration Supply

If you find yourself with low rations in the middle of the high seas, don't worry. You can supply food you have in your inventory to the ship as emergency rations.
Foods of different quality restore different amounts of rations:

- White Grade: 80
- Green Grade: 100
- Blue Grade: 240
- Yellow Grade: 4000
- Orange Grade: 22000

Note that food items used to restore stamina of land workers and those that cannot be registered on the Central Market cannot be used as emergency rations.

◈ Ship Skills

Starting with improved Epheria sailboats and frigates, a large variety of skills can be used when sailing with your ship. These skills are unlocked the higher your character's sailing life skill level is.

The following are the skills you can use on a ship, and the key commands required for activating them.

BreeztSail and Power Accel can be used in succession to improve the navigation in the sea. Other skills, like Ram, Focus Fire, Volley, or Bull's-Eye improve your naval combat capabilities

◈ Sailing Log

These adventurer's tomes increase your ship's speed for various situations.
Srulk and Loggia sailing logs are available for purchase from certain town vendors, while the Manos sailing log needs to be crafted or purchased from the Central Market.
You can craft the Manos sailing log with siren song auras, a guaranteed item drop from Hollow Maretta, a siren-like monster found in Margoria.

Barter items will be destroyed when large ships are destroyed, or when remotely collected to a wharf.

The barter window, seen above, will give you all the necessary details about the exchange at that location. What item you have, how many you have of that item, what you will receive in return, how many exchanges are allowed, your current ship's weight capacity, how much weight will be gained or lost when doing a single exchange, and how much parley will be consumed per barter. It also lets you exchange all the items you have at once, instead of exchanging them one by one.

The following barters can happen in island nodes in the ocean.

Some barters will offer you materials that are needed for upgrading to better ships, or ship equipment enhancement materials.

Level 5 barter goods, and occasionally level 4 ones, can be exchanged for crow coins.
You can check the crow coins that you have obtained up to that point below the weight bar in your inventory (hotkey: I).

Level 3 barter goods and above can also be sold for silver. The higher the level of the trade good is, the higher the price will be.

The storage keepers from each territory became interested in bartering, and thus started to buy trade goods. You can sell Lv. 3–5 trade goods at the existing shops as well. You can only sell Lv. 5 trade goods at a town storage's currency exchange.

The bartering item list can be reset by pressing the Barter Refresh button in the upper right of the Barter Information window. This will reset both the items offered for bartering, and the amount of parley required to barter them with.

At first, bartering will be offered to you from only a small number of islands, but as you do more bartering, you will get offerings from more papus and otters from many more islands.

When you click on a trade good from the Barter window, the window will move to the trade good that is required to obtain it.

Everyday at 06:00 UTC, your barter refresh points will be reset to 100. If you have an active value pack, you can recover 50 extra barter refresh points (i.e. Your points will be reset to 150 instead of 100).
The number of barter refresh points consumed when using the Barter Refresh function depends on the number of barters you have left for that day. Using instant refresh will consume an additional 30 points.

Additionally, if you have some Lv. 1 trade goods you do not need, you can visit Gerio and Tidio, in Beiruwa Island and Barater Island respectively, to exchange them up to four times for a Lost Trade Box. Opening this box will give you a barter trade good from Lv. 1 to Lv. 5, at random.

◈ Ship Material Barter

Due to the increasing demand for materials to upgrade ships, the Crow Merchants Guild now provides separate bartering opportunities for them, called "Ship material barter".
However, there will be some exceptions for certain ship upgrade materials.

You can use the Ship Material Refresh function from the Refresh Barter window twice a day. When you use the Ship Material Refresh function, there is a small chance that you will uncover all the possible barters you can make for crow coins at every island. You can use crow coins to barter any Level 2 to 5 sea trade goods when this happens.

During ship material barter, you will get materials for upgrading a ship. You may also get materials to enhance ships, as well as treasure-related items.

The accumulated number of exchanges needed to barter for the following items will drastically decrease when using ship material barter.

- Brilliant Pearl Shard
- Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot

The ship materials you can obtain by doing ship material barter are as follows.

◈ Special Barter

As you proceed with bartering, you can be offered a special barter from the bartering NPCs of each island, at a low chance.
Special barters are barters that randomly occur by chance while using regular bartering. Though they do not happen often, you can obtain a very expensive item or a large number of crow coins through these special barters. You can get either crow coins or expensive goods you cannot get from a regular barter by using gold bars at a special barter.
The more you barter, the more chance a special barter may occur.

You will see the items you can exchange through special barter only when you have reached the relevant island. The islands where special barters can be carried out are displayed with a gold badge icon in the World Map (hotkey: M) Barter Information UI.
You can see the information about the areas where Special Barters are available in the Barter Information window.

Whenever a special barter is made available, a system message will be displayed.

Once you are on an island with a special barter available, you can select either the Normal Barter or Special Barter options from the Bartering window.

Please note that the item information does not change every 2 hours for special barter opportunities. If you do not make the exchange when special barter is available, it will no longer appear.

 

– List of Items Sold by Ravinia & Livenia

 

◈ Rebinia's Shop

On different places you will encounter Rebinia, one of Ravinia's sisters, who has opened up a crow coin shop there and sells useful common items, as well as rare Manos accessories.
She can be found in Lema Island, Iliya Island, Port Epheria & Velia.

You can purchase the following items from Rebinia's shop. Remember that you can only purchase the special, limited boxes containing the items below from Rebinia.

– List of Items Sold by Rebinia

It can be obtained in two ways:

– When a special barter appears during barter, there is a low chance for the item "Epheria's Star" to be obtainable.

– The guild victorious in a conquest war in the territories of Calpheon, Mediah, and Valencia is rewarded the item "Epheria's Star".

Please note you will find it in the guild's storage. Only the guild master can move Epheria's star from the guild storage, and award a deserving guild member via the Present button found at the bottom of the guild's storage window.

With this item in your inventory, you can accept a special quest from Philaberto Falasi in Port Epheria. Complete this quest to obtain the ship license for an Epheria galleon, and the Captain Epheria title, which is a temporary title that lasts for 7 days.

You can only ride and control an Epheria galleon for the duration of the title Epheria Captain, and you can only access other features if you do not have the title or if it has expired.

Please note that the fire rate and max range of an Epheria galleon's cannons is identical to an Epheria carrack's cannons, that Epheria galleons cannot equip ship equipment, and that the cost of repairs for an Epheria galleon is 10 million silver per 10% of damage. (Damage increases upon remote collection or ship destruction)

Like with Epheria carracks, Epheria galleons need to be supplied upon initial registration.

However, as the vessel is made with considerably high technological expertise relative to its era, the construction process is not an easy task. It requires significant assistance from the people of Moodle Village, thus it is crucial to maintain strong relations with them through activities such as eliminating the Goldmont Pirates that threaten the village, exchanging currencies or crow coins, and more.

◈ How to Craft

The panokseon can be crafted at the house Moodle Village 4 Shipyard Lv. 1.

➤ For more information about the different features that make use of the sailing and bartering life skills, please check the [The Great Expedition] page.

* The content of the game guide may differ from the actual game content, depending on the update and content changes.