King of Seas Trophy Guide

Game: King of Seas
Peripherals: –
Time to Platinum: x hours – Please see disclaimer
Difficulty: 7/10
Missable trophies: None
Trophies: 1, 6 , 11, 12
Author: The Trophy Platypus


Welcome to the trophy guide for King of Seas. This can also be considered a walkthrough and may be used for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam. Achievements for Steam and Xbox are in almost all cases the same as the PlayStation 4 Trophies. A roadmap is provided in the stages below.

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Stage 1 – 1st playthrough


Disclaimer! An update means that difficulty-related trophies now scale down, make sure you are playing on the latest version of the game. The RNG drop rate of Treasure Maps is still very low and the game will require a few playthroughs to get enough to unlock “King of treasures”

Before you start here are some tips and tricks

  1. Use the bank, your ship can only carry so much cargo which will quickly fill up. Use the bank and you can access that cargo at any port to trade it later on and carry on picking up loot along the way.
  2. Head to the Golden Crab as soon as you can. The chef there will give you a side mission but also a fishing rod. After completing the mission he will give you an expert fishing rod and another quest complete this mission for the Legendary fishing rod. Fishing is a good way to gain extra XP and also gold. But you also need to find all 30 fish types for the trophy King of Fishing. Some of the fish are extremely rare. I spent 5 hours hunting down the last fish.
  3. If you do find fish that require the legendary fishing rod, make a note of where they are as they will have a fixed spawn this will save a lot of time later on.
  4. Head to Star Temple early on as you will get a Voodoo idol which will allow you to fight ghost ships. Ghost ships are very rare and only spawn at night, but they drop a lot of good loot and gold.
  5. Pee on those cannons! Get this ability as soon as you can. It reduces the cooldown greatly and you will be able to spam L2 R2 and take down ships or forts even at a much higher level than your ship.
  6. Other useful abilities include Ethereal navigation, Man-o-war and Shark attack
  7. XP you can farm XP early on before the mission Power to the pirates. Place your ship in front of any fort and use pee on those cannons to obliterate the fort. As you don’t have the ability to take over forts yet the forts will come back and you can repeat the process.
  8. Sell, Sell, Sell any equipment you don’t need. The game is a bit weird as equipment that is level 39 can have better stats than a level 50 rarer item for some reason. Offload anything you’re not going to use to get more money.
  9. Whilst the game has a market system where you can get more money for your resources at different ports depending on supply and demand. Any loot that you’ve scavenged or looted is free money any way. So don’t stress about making two extra gold coins by sailing to a port halfway across the map.
  10. You get free repairs at the Eagle’s Nest so return here to repair if you are nearby.
  11. The grind to level 60 for the trophy gets very slow late on, it’s recommended to use your ability points to upgrade XP gain early on. You can focus on which ever talents you feel you need for your build. I focused on dmg and health mostly. I didn’t focus on money acquisition as this is a bit slow at the beginning by the end you will have a lot more money than you can do anything with.

I would suggest playing the first run on the easiest difficulty as the game takes a little while to get used to but also because it is already long enough.

In addition to finishing the main story you should Collect all 30 fish, fish 50 times, conquer 30 settlements, sink 100 ships, Earn 100,000 gold from trades, sink all 8 sovereign pirates, complete the map, fully upgrade any settlement and trade each resource at least once. You should also find 30 Sunken treasures but as mentioned the RNG is very low and you can earn this trophy across playthroughs so grab as many as you can in this playthrough, continue working on it in the second playthrough and then return to this save afterwards for the final few you will need.

Stage 2 – King of the Seas difficulty


No comes the hardest part, King of Seas difficulty and permadeath. Make sure you are saving at every port. I would also recommend using a cloud or USB save as good practice. Avoid conflict early on as your ship will be weak. The Frigate is a good ship to unlock as soon as possible as it is a good mixture of speed and power. p Focus on looting, fishing and blowing up red barrels, until you get pee on those canons. Please also make note of which missions force you to fight and prepare accordingly.

Missions

Please note: The port names will change for you. It depends on the loadout of your map.

Intro

Become a pirate Sink the Royal Navy ship LVL 1

Shopping List Reach Eagle’s Den port Enter the market and buy wood /10 Reach the Merchant Company port

Pirate Birthday Return to Eagle’s Den

Prohibited Goods Escort the ship to Roxanne’s Bay

Prey Sink 3 Merchant Company Ships

The Cartographer Reach Baadle

Corrupter bartender Take the rum to Guillotine Pier

Top Secret orders Defeat the Royal Navy CommanderTop Secret orders recover the orders and take them to Captain D. Morgen

New Ship new life buy a flute

Exchange of favours obtain medicines 160 take them to Toruga Madam Grace

Common enemies Sink Sir Brig, Sir Frigate and Sir Galleon

Clarke the Carpenter Reach Clarke

Rich carpenter Obtain gold 100000

Old defeats Defeat Captain Henry

Pirates Meeting Return to Eagle’s Den

Power to the pirates Conquer 3 ports, return to eagle den

Defensive stratergy Increase military force by 2 levels

The Sovereign Pirates Defeat Captain Bushybeard

Royal Blood Join the guards at Skull Strand

Allied Pirates Jane The Honest, Treehood The Lover, Tau the Cruel, Mako the Seer, Rudy The Dreamer, Perry the Colourful, Lou the Beautiful. (Trophy but optional)

Family Rescue Defeat the prisoners ship

At the Shaman’s Reach the Shaman King

Amphora of chaos Reach the ancient island

Showdown Defeat Captain Henry

The Ritual Reach the Shaman King

Last Voyage Reach King’s Fortress

Fire and Flames Destroy King’s Fortress Defence’s Towers 8 Forts 2, reach King’s Fortress port

Last fight Defeat Bartholomew Byrne

If you still haven’t got 30 sunken treasures return to your first save and continue sinking ships for maps and getting the treasures.

King of Kings
Unlock all the trophies

ahrrrr Good job matey.


King of treasures
Find 30 sunken treasures

Sinking Plunder Ships, Ghost Ships, Royal Commander ships and treasure ships will sometimes drop treasure maps. You access the treasure maps the same way you access the world map and press R1. The map will be one of the islands and you will have to look at the world map to match it. Then head to that island and navigate to where the X is and when you get close a small white circle (see picture 2) will emerge. At the moment the RNG is very low but the developers have mentioned they will be increasing the drop rate in a future update.


And a bunch of cuttlefish for me!
Fish successfully 50 times

Head to the Golden Fish and Chef Gustav will give you a fishing rod now you can start fishing. Now find fish anywhere in the ocean and stop next to them and press X to begin fishing. Please note you will need to upgrade your fishing rod two times by completing Chef Gustav’s two quests to catch certain fish.


King of commerce
Earn 100 000 gold coins from trade

This may sound like a lot but will actually come pretty early. At every port you can buy or sell goods. Each port has one commodity that is in abundance and you can buy cheap to sell at a different port for a better price. Each port also has one commodity in scarcity which you can trade for a high price. Additionally selling ship parts to the carpenter will also count towards this and parts after around level 15 will all sell for a 1000 upwards.

Carpenter

Ah, clear sailing now
Conquer 30 enemy settlements

During the mission Power to the pirates you will be introduced to taking over enemy settlements. Conquer 30 of them to unlock this trophy. An easy way to take over settlements is to park the ship in front of a settlement similar level to your ship activate the pee on the canons ability and spam the canons. It’s worth noting that taking over settlements will reduce the number of ships you can attack so if you are looking for treasure maps for King of Treasures it is worth waiting until you have that trophy before conquering all enemy settlements. Additionally you will get missions where you have to defend your settlements if you ignore these they will switch back allegiances and you can reconquer them.


King of Seas
Complete the game in King of Seas difficulty

This is the hardest difficulty. The main features of this difficulty are Bounty calculation bonus: 300% and Permanent death.


Scourge of the seas
Sink 100 ships

Sinking ships may seem hard early on as your ship is very weak. Later on though you will be able to purchase stronger ships with more canons and will have better upgrades. This should come very naturally during your first playthrough especially if you are hunting treasure maps. It is recommended getting the ability pee on those cannons stopping your ship and letting the other ship come into range. Then activate the ability and spam L2R2 until the enemy ship is destroyed.


Now swab that boat!
Fish successfully 30 times

Please refer to And a bunch of cuttlefish for me! for more details.


Gold for my chest
Earn 10 000 gold coins from trade

Please refer to King of commerce for more details.


That’s how it’s done!
Conquer 10 enemy settlements

Please refer to Ah, clear sailing now


I am the Legend
Sink every Sovereign Pirate

After you upgrade the eagles den for the first time you will be introduced to the sovereign pirates. In total there are 8 to sink, the first one is Captain Bushybeard who you will have to defeat as a story mission. The other 7 are also story missions but do not have to be sunk to complete the game. The seven are Jane The Honest, Treehood The Lover, Tau the Cruel, Mako the Seer, Rudy The Dreamer, Perry the Colourful, Lou the Beautiful and are defeated in this order.


King of Gold
Earn 500 000 gold coins

This should come naturally as you play through the game. Trade in any ship parts with the carpenter that you don’t need. Always check the marketplace to see which resource has a high demand and therefore a high price. Remember that any resources you pick loot is all profit so trade these in whenever.


Blow the men down!
Sink 50 ships

Please refer to Scourge of the seas


King of Fishing
Find every kind of fish for the first time

In total their are 30 kinds of fish you will need to upgrade your fishing rod to the expert fishing rod to be able to catch all fish. To upgrade your fishing rod you have to complete the side quest rookie fisherman. To upgrade to legendary

Hubfish

Firefish

Deepsea Fish

Butterfish

Green Gills

Rudder Fish

Rock Fish

Sea musician

Cartografish

Silver fish

Sea Shaman

Grogfish

Winged fish

Carpet fish

Brawl Fish

Gong Fish

Admiral fish

Celestial fish

Galaxy fish

Yellow fins

Lady fish

Ancestral fish

Oceanic musician

Armed fish

Red Hug

Whip Fish

Armour fish

Purple fishbone

Black Sea

Golden Crab


In the hold!
Find 10 sunken treasures

Please refer to King of treasures.


King of role-playing
Reach maximum level

The maximum level is 60. This gets a little grindy near the end. Just destroy any ships, loot anything, fish especially rarer fish. complete side quests and conquer settlements. You can also upgrade your XP acquisition rate with perk points.


We’re all in the same boat
Complete 30 side quests

Side quests can be found by visiting the tavern in any port. You can select up to 10 at any time and side quests come in three different difficulty settings. For the most part they are fetch quests or destroy a certain type of ship. Compete any 30 and you will unlock this trophy.

Tavern Notice Board

Corsair of the fleet
Complete the game in Corsair difficulty

The fourth level of difficulty. Bounty calculation bonus: 250%, You lose the ship if it was bought, you’ll have to recover the equipment.


Aye aye, Sir!
Complete the game in Gunner difficulty

The second level of difficulty Bounty calculation bonus: 150% I fyour ship sinks, your inventory won’t be lost.


This is the life for me
Complete the game once

Please note: The port names will change for you. It depends on the loadout of your map.

Intro

Become a pirate Sink the Royal Navy ship LVL 1

Shopping List Reach Eagle’s Den port Enter the market and buy wood /10 Reach the Merchant Company port

Pirate Birthday Return to Eagle’s Den

Prohibited Goods Escort the ship to Roxanne’s Bay

Prey Sink 3 Merchant Company Ships

The Cartographer Reach Baadle

Corrupter bartender Take the rum to Guillotine Pier

Top Secret orders Defeat the Royal Navy CommanderTop Secret orders recover the orders and take them to Captain D. Morgen

New Ship new life buy a flute

Exchange of favours obtain medicines 160 take them to Toruga Madam Grace

Common enemies Sink Sir Brig, Sir Frigate and Sir Galleon

Clarke the Carpenter Reach Clarke

Rich carpenter Obtain gold 100000

Old defeats Defeat Captain Henry

Pirates Meeting Return to Eagle’s Den

Power to the pirates Conquer 3 ports, return to eagle den

Defensive stratergy Increase military force by 2 levels

The Sovereign Pirates Defeat Captain Bushybeard

Royal Blood Join the guards at Skull Strand

Allied Pirates Jane The Honest, Treehood The Lover, Tau the Cruel, Mako the Seer, Rudy The Dreamer, Perry the Colourful, Lou the Beautiful. (Trophy but optional)

Family Rescue Defeat the prisoners ship

At the Shaman’s Reach the Shaman King

Amphora of chaos Reach the ancient island

Showdown Defeat Captain Henry

The Ritual Reach the Shaman King

Last Voyage Reach King’s Fortress

Fire and Flames Destroy King’s Fortress Defence’s Towers 8 Forts 2, reach King’s Fortress port

Last fight Defeat Bartholomew Byrne


Easy as pie
Complete the game in Ship’s boy difficulty

The first level of difficulty, Bonus for cannon damage and abilities. Health points bonus, Bounty calculation bonus: 100%. If your ship sinks, your inventory won’t be lost.


Calm waters
Fish successfully 10 times

Please refer to And a bunch of cuttlefish for me!


It’ time to loot
Commerce every kind of resource for the first time

If you want to get this trophy quickly head to any port and buy 1 of each resource and then sell it back to the store. But this trophy will come very naturally as you play through the game plundering. Fish do not count towards this trophy. The following resources are the ones you need to sell.

Repair Kits

Pelican eggs

Chicken legs

Rum

Candies

wood

Medicines


King of lands
Complete the world’s map for the first time

As you are sailing you will come across outposts where cartographers work as seen in the picture below. Dock at the outpost and buy a map from the cartographer for 500-2500 gold. You will have to do this more than forty times as the cartographers only reveal a small portion of the map.

Cartographer Outpost

Caribbean seadog
Complete the game in Captain difficulty

The third level of difficulty. Bounty calculation bonus: 200%, You lose the ship if it was bought, you’ll have to recover the equipment.


Monkey jacket
Earn 1000 gold coins from trade

Please refer to King of commerce for more details.


I’m far from done killing
Sink 10 ships

Please refer to Scourge of the seas.


Matey!
Conquer 5 enemy settlements

Please refer to Ah, clear sailing now for more details.


Shiver me timbers!
Find 5 sunken treasures

Please refer to King of treasures.


For my hearties
Boost completely a settlement

During the mission Defensive stratergy you will be introduced to the settlement boosting mechanic. At Eagle’s Den this is found under the cove but other settlements under the governor. There are 3 traits (Population, Military Force, Wealth) that can be upgraded 5 times each. The first tier costs 10,000 and each tier costs an additional 10,000. In total you will need 450,000

Upgrade System

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