Since I’ve been playing SoT, I’ve noticed that the oceans are quite bare to say the least. I’ve wondered where the aquatic creatures are and where skeley ships go when their submerge. So I’ve came up with an update that can add new features to the game along with new items, missions, pets, and tall tales. This is going to be pretty long as I have gotten many ideas during my time playing this game. I will list my ideas for the update in segments down below.

Environment

I’ve always wondered why the only things in the ocean were fish, mythical monsters for boss battles, and some coral near islands. I want the oceans to be lively, so I feel their should be a overhaul to the oceans, starting with the plants and coral. Each region should have different biomes, with the shores of plenty having lush corals reefs, the ancient isles having kelp forests to swim in, the wilds having shipwrecks, and the devils roar having underwater volcanoes and fissures. It would also be nice to see animals in these biomes, like octopuses and sea turtles in the shores of plenty and ancient isles, saltwater crocodiles and barracudas in the wilds, and deep sea animals in the devils roar like siphonophores and yeti crabs.

New pets!

With the update being focused on overhauling the oceans, we should get some aquatic pets. I’ve came up with 3 ideas which I will list.

Crabs-the crab will hang out on your arm just like the parrot. If you pet your crab, they will try and snip at your fingers. If you play music for them, they will dance side to side. The species of crabs would be yeti crabs, hermit crabs, and regular crabs with no shell (I don’t know what their called). When the crabs are shot at they will hunker down and the hermit crab will go into its shell.

Whales-these pets would probably be hard to add. Whales would come in 3 species. Dolphins, orcas, and blue whales. When spawned in, they will follow your ship and also do something really cool. They will “become” a mermaid. They will basically be a reskin of the mermaid. So when you fall off your boat, instead of a mermaid taking you a back, a blue whale will blow out water from its blowhole and take you back to the ship. You can also do tricks with them like a humpback breaching for you, orcas leaping out of the water, and dolphins splashing you.

Jelly’s-basically a jelly in a clear rum bottle. The 3 kinds would be a box jelly, a immortal jelly (a jelly which can revert to a younger stage of life when threatened, therefore being somewhat immortal), and a bioluminescent jelly (a glow in the dark jelly). Interacting with them would be feeding them bits of fish and worms, and playing music for them would make them do something cool, like the glow in the dark jelly starts changing colors or the box jelly and the immortal jelly dance around and move their tentacles. When the rum bottle with the jelly inside is shot at, the immortal jelly will become small and loose it’s tentacles which means it’s restarting it’s life again and will eventually turn back into a adult jelly after some time, the box jelly will bunch up and try and hide, and the glow in the dark jelly will stop producing light and sink to the bottom of the bottle. It would also be cool that when you buy the bioluminescent jelly, you could also get a lantern that has the jelly inside of it producing light and when you get a lantern color from the well of fates it will change to that color.

Voyages

Tall tales

On all the outposts in the sea, their will be a old man wearing a sea dogs hat on the dock near the Shipwright. Their will be a barrel next to him that has the tall tale book on it. When activated, the old man will tell you a story of how he was the captain of a galleon in the sea dogs arena. He was in the final tournament that would give him the title of a sea dog legend if he won. When he was about to sink the last ship, a skeleton ship rose from the waves and sank him. He then swore revenge on it as it costed him first place. He tells you how he spent years trying to figure out where the ships went when they submerged and how they did it. He found out that the crew were bound to the ship and that the curse give the ship extraordinary power. He then put a controlled version of the curse on a artifact, but to make sure it was not stolen, he threw the chest to the bottom of the sea between two islands. He then instructs you to find it as it comes with notes that will instruct you what to do next. Once you swim and find it, you will get the artifact and notes which tell you to go to a certain location out at sea. It will also tell you to put the artifact on the ships largest mast. Once you get to the location, your ship will begin to sink, but will have a protective air bubble around it allowing you to breathe. You will sink very far down and eventually hit the sea floor. Their will be a cave next to the spot where you settle which you must go into. You will swim through it until you find a little air pocket. The next part of the tale is similar to the Heart of Fire tall tale. You must navigate traps that are water themed until you find an exit out of the cave. You will then find an abandoned vessel next to it with a protective air bubble around it. Once you board the ship, a boss battle will begin and you must fight Captain Daniel the Drowned, the skeleton lord that sank the old man’s ship during the tournament and he has the ability to command the ocean with his powerful trident. He has a knockback attack, a “ground pound” attack, a teleport ability, can summon coral and algae skeletons, and has a blunderbuss. Once defeated, you must pick up his skull and take it with you to the captains quarters of the ship, where you will teleport back to your ship which will then raise to the surface. You must then return to the old man who will reward you and as a reward for completing the tale, you will get a trident, which is basically a reskined sword. If you complete all commendations, it will give you the curse of the depths, a curse which makes your character have coral and algae grow on them and make them look like a crewmate from the Flying Dutchman from PotC.

Missions/Faction

On every outpost, their will now be a shack on the dock next to the merchant alliance that is titled “Explorers of the Abyss”. This faction specializes in underwater exploration. They will give you missions that involve going down to the sea floor to loot shipwrecks or ancient ruins and then selling the goodies to them. When first starting out, they will only give you simple missions like finding a captains log in a shipwreck, but as you progress you will get lucrative, but harder quests. When you reach level 10 you can get a mission to go to the ancient isles to loot lots of artifacts, which will requires lots of time underwater. When you reach level 25, you will get the ability to put a diving bell on your ship. The diving bell takes up the space where a rowboat would be so you can’t have one. The diving bell would submerge and act as an air pocket where you can put some objects. You can also buy cosmetic items for the diving bell too. When you reach level 30, you could start getting missions where you must travel to a shipwreck on the sea floor. You MUST use the diving bell otherwise you cannot reach it without dying, even if you eat food. It would be very time extensive but would pay off very well.

New Locations

As with the update being ocean themed, their would be a new location that would be added. The new location would be an underwater tavern. Their would be underwater taverns all over the map, but all have the same purpose. Their would be a buoy signifying that the tavern is below it. You can either use the diving bell or swim down to it to get their. Their will be everything a normal outpost has except this one is well, underwater. This could be used to sell your loot quicker as they are scattered around the map but selling without a diving bell on is going to be hard. This will hopefully prevent underwater taverns becoming “safe zones” for selling loot so it’s still very easy to steal someone’s booty.

Hopefully you liked something in this update idea. Let me know if theirs something you want added or changed.