Chart your course
Every ship you can own, every recipe, item, skill and port in Pirates of the Burning Sea — plus plain-English guides to get you from your first sloop to your first port battle.
Guides Plain-English guides to careers, combat, the economy and conquest. Start here Game mechanics Accuracy, damage and boarding explained, plus a hit chance calculator. With calculator What is changing Everything that is different on the new Steam server. For returning players Ships Stats, gun layouts and how to get every ship you can own. 45 ships Recipes What it takes to build, brew, forge or pack anything. 321 recipes Items Trade goods, outfitting, weapons, consumables and ammunition. 3,133 items Structures Workshops and harvesters, their costs and where they can be built. 33 structures Skills Every trainable skill by career, with cooldowns and effects. 540 skills Ports Who holds each port, what it produces, and what can be built there. 86 ports Cannons Damage, range and reload for every gun pattern. 93 cannons World map The Caribbean with every port pinned by nation. Interactive
New to the Burning Sea?
Section titled “New to the Burning Sea?”Start with these and you will know your way around in ten minutes:
- Getting started — nations, careers and your first ship.
- Choosing a career — what each career is good at.
- Understanding ships and Ship combat — read a ship’s stats, then win a fight with it.
- The economy and Crafting — how players build nearly everything in the game.
- Port battles and PvP — fight for the map.
How the game really works
Section titled “How the game really works”The numbers behind the cannon smoke, explained without the maths degree:
- Cannon accuracy — why you hit, why you miss, and the hit chance calculator to test any gun against any ship.
- How damage works — armor, structure, masts and crew.
- Grappling and boarding — why speed and heading decide everything.
- What is changing on the Steam server — played before? Start here.
How to use this wiki
Section titled “How to use this wiki”- Search (top of the page, or press /) finds any ship, item, recipe, skill or port by name.
- Every list page has filters and sorting. Your filters are kept in the address bar, so you can bookmark or share a view such as “ships I can buy” or “Freetrader ship skills”.
- Every item page shows how to get it — the recipe that makes it, the vendor or exchange that sells it, the missions and plunder it comes from — and what it is used for. Follow the links to walk a whole production chain.
- Every ship page shows its stats, its gun layout, and every way to get its deed.
Stuck on a word? Check the glossary.