89 Fun Facts About Pirate101

Pirate101 was developed and published by which studio?

KingsIsle Entertainment made it under creative director J. Todd Coleman, whose earlier game, Shadowbane, was an open player-versus-player MMO a world away from family-friendly piracy.

Which Pirate101 class is built around healing and rallying the rest of the crew?

Privateer: once trained, its Reinforce power heals every companion at once. Buccaneers soak up the hits instead, while Musketeers and Swashbucklers deal the damage.

What is the name of the shared fictional universe in which Pirate101 is set?

The Spiral is shared with Wizard101, which is why worlds such as Marleybone and Aquila can be visited in both games.

Which platform did Pirate101 reach a year after launch?

Mac support arrived on September 19, 2013, Talk Like a Pirate Day. The studio joked that its pirates had threatened mutiny unless they got the Mac version Wizard101 players already had.

At the start of Pirate101, the player is rescued from what?

A prison ship called the Erebus holds the young orphan in its brig. Two veteran pirates stage the breakout, and the player frees a first crewmate from the cell opposite.

The player's map in Pirate101 leads to which mythical lost world?

El Dorado can't simply be sailed to: the storm portal that leads there was cut loose on purpose, so it never stays in one place, and that is why the map matters.

Who is the main antagonist racing the player to the treasure in Pirate101's first story arc?

Kane, a superintelligent clockwork, wants more than treasure: he plans to make himself immortal, then grind every world to dust and rebuild them all to his own design.

Pirate101's turn-based combat is compared to which kind of game?

Board games such as Stratego and Risk were an early preview's comparison: a fight switches to a grid of squares, the crew's moves are planned in turn, and then they all play out at once.

What is the first world players visit in Pirate101?

Skull Island's jungle ruins are its most dangerous corners and its most tempting: their temples are adorned with solid gold, and the gold pried out of them turned backwater Monquista into a great power.

What are the open skies between islands called in Pirate101?

Skyways are sailed like seas. Slip into one of their Windlanes and the current steers the ship by itself, and no enemy ship or sky creature can attack it there.

Pirate101's story content is divided into what units?

Books and Chapters: the Introduction and the first Prologue part are free, and any later chapter a player buys stays unlocked for every pirate on that account.

What is the premium currency in Pirate101?

Crowns are bought in bundles for real money. A pay-as-you-go player spends them area by area, while a member skips them and gets every world for as long as the subscription runs.

Which two characters act as the player's voiceover guides in Pirate101's prologue?

Boochbeard and Mr Gandry lead the tutorial rescue and stay on as the voices of the game's tips. Far from vanishing afterwards, Mr Gandry later hands out the quest that opens the second story arc.

What is the name of the clockwork army invading the worlds in Pirate101?

The Armada started out as the saviours: Valencia unleashed its clockwork soldiers to turn the tide of a great war, and only after winning it did they begin attacking the other worlds.

Which wealthy retired pirate hands the player their first quests in Pirate101?

Captain Avery won his realm from its Marleybonian governor in a bet, then turned the former colony into the greatest pirate haven in the skies.

In Pirate101, Marleybone pays tribute for free use of which world's Stormgates?

MooShu: its Emperor also grants Marleybone the tea trade, a treaty that has turned a famously secretive realm into a hub of someone else's empire.

In Pirate101, who are Cool Ranch's original natives besides the Bison?

The Toads and the Bison were there first. The Chickens, Cranes and other Birds came later with locomotives and steam engines, and will say only that they are from 'Back East'.

Whose map sends Pirate101 players hunting from world to world?

Marco Pollo made the map and came to regret it: what he found at its end alarmed him so much that he vowed to spend the rest of his life hiding the secret, and the map ended up in seven scattered pieces.

Which member of the villain's clockwork court survives the end of Pirate101's first arc?

Queen slips away while the rest of the court lies in pieces, and the story picks her up again: a 2025 update has players sneaking into her palace in Valencia.

After defeating Kane, the player receives a message from whom?

A later arc reveals the message telling them to abandon the quest was a forgery.

Which legendary sailor does the player rescue at the start of Pirate101's second arc?

Sinbad, captain of the Chimera, has to be pulled out of Devilfish Hollow. He then joins the crew, and the hunt for the fabled Belt of Champions begins.

Choosing the Witchdoctor class in Pirate101 gives the player Mormo and which other companion?

Kan Po, a goat, is the Witchdoctor's starting crewmate, picked up during the tutorial. Mormo, a water mole who shares the class's hoodoo, signs on later at a tavern.

In Pirate101, the 'shipwrecked' orphan backstory unlocks which companion?

Lucky Jack Russell is found during the raid on a dungeon called the Presidio. Each answer to how the player was orphaned, from mutiny to a squid attack, frees a different crewmate there.

Which sharpshooter joins every Pirate101 crew soon after the tutorial?

Bonnie Anne joins once the early quest Troggy Trouble is done, and she has never left the story: the main questline of the 2025 update begins by talking to her.

Completing a companion's "promotion quest" in Pirate101 typically earns them what?

A new title or outfit, and more besides: when the fencer Sarah Steele is promoted from Mouse Fencer to Mouse Swashbuckler, her Epic Strike becomes a harder-hitting Mega Strike.

Pirate101's open PvP arenas are the Brawlin' Hall and which other?

The Spar Chamber stands with the Brawlin' Hall in the game's first town. A single fight holds at most four pirates, so a duel there tops out at two against two.

Which coin-named items do Pirate101 players use as battle powers, not money?

Doubloons turn up in Group Plunder chests and booster packs as attacks, heals and boosts. Each works once in a battle, and an unwanted one can be discarded to draw another.

How is loot from end-of-battle chests divided in Pirate101?

Equally among the winners, so nobody squabbles over spoils. The catch is the Group Plunder chest: every pirate in the group has to unlock it before a timer runs out, or it vanishes.

Which Pirate101 chat can a parent's permission unlock for under-13s?

Text Chat lets a player type freely within the game's dictionary. No permission slip opens the looser Open Chat, though: that takes an adult member with a credit card on file.

What replaces a typed word missing from Pirate101's chat dictionary?

Three dots stand in for the word. Typed messages only pass words that the dictionary allows, so a slip such as a phone number or a surname never reaches the other player.

The ESRB's summary of Pirate101 notes that the Scareakeet attacks players from the air with what?

Bird droppings, or in the raters' words 'projectiles that resemble bird droppings'. A game where nothing bleeds and beaten foes simply vanish still carries a Crude Humor label on its E10+ rating.

What do the guns in Pirate101 shoot instead of bullets?

Electricity, fired as sparks: the game takes care to say so from its opening scenes, because the guns were toned down for an audience of preteens.

How are character names chosen in Pirate101?

From a preselected list, or rather three: an optional adjective, a first name and an optional last name combine into thousands of names, none of which can reveal who the child at the keyboard really is.

Which animals run Pirate101's Marleybone, and which turn to crime there?

Dogs and Cats: wealthy Dogs fill the mansions and Parliament, while Cats, shut out of politics and left the most menial jobs, turn to crime as the war squeezes the city.

About how many registered players did Pirate101 report on its first birthday in October 2013?

5 million, by the studio's own count, which it said matched Wizard101's first year. It marked the day by giving every player a free birthday hat.

Pirate101 won MMORPG.com's 2012 Player's Choice Game of the Year by edging out which game?

Guild Wars 2 lost by just 0.5% of the vote, which the site called a 'fantastic upset' for a family game. It got its own back in the same awards, pipping Pirate101 to Most Innovative.

In Pirate101, which crime boss offers to help players track down Ratbeard, at a price?

The Frogfather trades in favours from an office in the belly of the Jonah Town whale, which is why the game's own newsletter warned players to be very careful about any deal he offers.

MMORPG.com reviewer Suzie Ford felt Pirate101's unit micromanagement was too much for whom?

Kids, she wrote, face 'much too much' in picking skills, companions and targets every turn. She still guaranteed that anyone who got over that hurdle would be addicted.

Pirate101 stages its character creation and many story scenes in what form?

A puppet show: the opening one asks how the recruit was orphaned and why they were arrested, and the answers decide the pirate's class and first crewmates.

What must a Pirate101 ship carry to pass through a Stormgate to another world?

A windstone of the right colour opens each route, violet for Monquista, for one. They are earned only by following the main story, so nobody can sail ahead to a later world.

Where is a solo Pirate101 player sent after losing a battle?

A life fountain, the last one the pirate visited, is where a beaten pirate wakes up. The fountains also revive downed companions, and a keyboard shortcut teleports straight back to one.

English Bill, a villain of Pirate101's frontier story, goes by which nickname?

The Duck of Death sold his soul for vengeance, and nothing but blessed silver can harm him now. Hence the warning in the game's official story summary: 'Be sure to bring silver bullets.'

Which player marketplace arrived in Pirate101's 2013 update alongside the worlds of Marleybone and Aquila?

The Bazaar lets pirates buy and sell items for gold, and the more copies of an item pile up there, the cheaper it gets. The studio called that update larger than any it had done before.

Pirate101 recasts Napoleon as a jailed military genius whom players help break out; what animal is he?

A penguin: Napoleguin, once emperor of icy Polaris, was beaten in the Polarian Wars and locked up by Marleybone. Players spring him so that he can lend his military genius to a revolution in Monquista.

Which masked hero of Pirate101's frontier ends up joining every player's crew?

El Toro is a mantle, not one man: the bull Don Rodrigo took over the mask from the horse who adopted him, Don Rafael de la Vega, after first helping him bring a band of outlaw toads to justice.

In Pirate101, what must players gather five of to reach the sage Cao Tzu?

Turtleballs come first: only with all five can the pirate reach the sage and have the writing on the treasure map translated, and getting the first means striking a deal with the trickster Monkey King.

Pirate101 retells the Trojan War in one of its worlds; which birds must players help to win it?

Eagles: an oracle will not find the Cyclops who holds a piece of the treasure map until their war against the snake-like Ophidians is won. Their world, Aquila, is named with the Latin word for eagle.

Which band of lawmen must Pirate101 players reunite to save the town of Tumbleweed?

The Magnificent Seven ride again to face the Wild Bunch, and one of them stays on afterwards: which lawman joins the crew depends on the pirate's class.

What do new Pirate101 players design right after choosing their pirate's look?

A personal flag: its icon and colours are picked on the spot, and the finished design later flies from the sails of every ship the pirate owns.

Which Titan did Zeus order to move Bestia, Pirate101's pet arena island, from world to world?

Atlas carries Bestia on his shoulders wherever the Aquilan emperor commands, which is how a Roman-style coliseum suddenly appeared in the pirates' home skies.

How does a Pirate101 pirate carry several spare ships around at once, ready to launch at any dock?

In bottles: every ship a pirate owns is stored like a ship-in-a-bottle model, and choosing one from the ship menu unbottles it at the next dock.

Which animal was the festive mount Pirate101 sold to raise money for Texas children's charities?

A llama: the Fa-La-La-La Llama mount went on sale in two of the studio's games, and players' purchases funded a $100,000 donation to two charities.

Which flying red fruit do Pirate101 pirates walk into after a battle to win back lost health?

Yum Yum fruit buzz around every Pirate101 world, and simply walking up to a red one collects it and returns some health.

Which sea captain from classic fiction lends his name to Pirate101's customer support persona?

Ahab is the name players are told to contact about connection troubles and character transfers, with the warning that all of Captain Ahab's decisions are final.

Pirate101's player guide says Buccaneers usually prefer which playfully named type of weapon?

Smashy weapons suit Buccaneers because the class boosts Strength, and the guide labels every class's favourites in the same joking style, from Shooty to Spooky.

What are the flowing sky currents called where Pirate101 ships travel faster and cannot be attacked?

Windlanes each wind a different path between the islands and steer a ship automatically in the direction they flow, safe from enemy vessels and dangerous wildlife.

Which small rodents share Valencia's hard-working middle class with the Crabs in Pirate101?

Guinea Pigs are the pragmatic craftsmen and labourers of Valencia, and their guilds and merchant houses have grown very powerful driving its commerce.

What does Pirate101 call the mercenaries a player can hire mid-battle who leave when the fight ends?

Henchmen are paid for a single combat only, and hiring one resets the planning timer so there is time to rethink the attack.

What is the Pirate101 term for merging one item's appearance with a second item's stats?

Stitching destroys both original items to create one new piece that can never be auctioned, a service the seamstress Eloise Merriweather offers on each world.

Which Pirate101 rewards for great feats each add a line like 'Sky Traveler' beneath a pirate's name?

Badges come from deeds like defeating powerful bosses or discovering new skies, and some also hand out furniture or pets when earned.

Which free starter home does every new Pirate101 pirate receive to decorate and hide treasure in?

A bunkhouse is where the teleport-home button sends any pirate who has not equipped one of the up to three houses a player may buy.

What does Pirate101 call the identical parallel copies of its world that players can hop between?

Realms are all identical, so players switch to a busier one to find adventuring partners or agree on one to meet a friend, though never in the middle of a duel.

Which Pirate101 companion order sends a crew member off to earn gold for the pirate?

Plunderin' keeps that companion out of combat until the task is done, and high-level crew bring back bigger rewards but take longer over it.

The ESRB rated Pirate101 Everyone 10+ for cartoon violence and which other content descriptor?

Crude Humor joins Cartoon Violence on the label, which covers only the game's own content because online interactions between players are not rated.

Which world's emperor waged the great war that gave rise to Pirate101's first pirates?

Polaris nearly brought the other great powers to their knees before Marleybone's staunch resolve and Valencia's new clockwork fleet finally turned the war.

What glowing markers do Pirate101 players stand on to enter a quest location after a short countdown?

Sigils sit in a semicircle with one player per marker, and one keeps glowing until its quest goal is done, though the adventure inside can still be repeated afterwards.

Sinking enemy ships in Pirate101 earns which kind of experience, tracked apart from a pirate's level?

Nautical XP starts every pirate at rank zero until a first kill, and gaining rank unlocks better ship equipment but is never needed to finish the main story.

What does Pirate101 call the cannon duel between two ships that comes before any boarding action?

Broadside combat slows a ship to a fraction of its normal speed and sharpens its turning, with cannons firing automatically while the captain waits to use special powers.

A Pirate101 enemy ship can be boarded once its health bar turns which colour at half strength?

Yellow is the signal at 50% health, and it cuts both ways: once a player's own ship is that damaged, the enemy can board it too.

Which potion, kept in a blue bottle beside the health globe, fully heals a Pirate101 pirate and ship?

Mojo potion is refilled by catching blue flying fruit, the counterpart of the red kind that restores health directly.

What does Pirate101 call the exclamation mark floating above a character who has a quest to offer?

A Wizbang first greets new players over the pirate lord in his office, where the adventure properly begins once the tutorial ends.

Which clockwork spymaster sets Battle Angels on the escaping player in Pirate101's tutorial?

Deacon slips away from the tutorial by shooting an explosive barrel, then hunts the player as the chief villain of the early story.

Which hammerhead swordsman, the last of his clan, trains new Buccaneers in Pirate101?

Mordekai was freed from a Monquistan prison more than twenty years ago and has served ever since as chief bodyguard to the pirate lord who rescued him.

Morgan LaFitte, the Pirate101 class trainer who once lived a double life as a countess, is which animal?

A raccoon suits her other career: in Valencia the renowned countess was also a legendary burglar, and she fled when the secret came out.

Which crime must a new Pirate101 pirate have been arrested for in order to start as a Buccaneer?

Brawling makes a Buccaneer because the rescuers' question about the crime is really the class choice, and the answer can never be changed.

How did the retired pirate who runs Pirate101's main pirate haven win it from its Marleybonian governor?

In a bet is how he took the stewardship, and he has since turned the former Marleybonian colony into the greatest pirate haven anywhere.

What must a Pirate101 pirate spend to learn a talent from another class's trainer instead of their own?

Practice Points arrive at levels 8, 12, 16 and 20 and then every five levels, with extras for finishing Prospector Zeke's quests.

Which items, sold by tavern professors in Pirate101 or found hidden in the world, help level up companions?

Training Tomes can only be bought ten at a time at a price that climbs with level, and each sparkling one found lying in the world works just once.

Pirate101 pets rely on three stats when cheered on in sparring: Guts, Grit and which other?

Guile pays off when a pet's health is in the middle, while Guts rewards cheering at high health and Grit at low.

In which arena on Bestia do Pirate101 players morph their pets and enter them in sparring matches?

Circus Maximus houses the morphing tent and Decius Duelmaster, who signs pets up for practice matches or contests against other players.

Which Pirate101 class specializes in laying traps and obstacles to slow enemies down before striking?

Musketeer pirates slow foes with traps so they can snipe from a safe distance, and their signature Rain of Mortarshells blankets a whole area with explosive ones.

Which humble vessel is a Pirate101 pirate's very first ship?

A raft is handed over as soon as the first job for the haven's pirate lord is done, long before any skiff or frigate comes within reach.

Which screen appears before Pirate101's toughest fights to let players pick which companions join?

Battle Stations runs on a countdown like the planning phase, and when it hits zero the game fills any empty slots with randomly chosen crew.

In which Pirate101 mini-game do players defend a tower against attacking monsters and Redcoats?

Powder Keg is one of six mini-games offered at game stalls and tavern tables, each paying out potions, gold or gear across twelve scoring tiers.

A Best of E3 write-up said Pirate101's crew battles felt like which strategy RPG on the high seas?

Final Fantasy Tactics was RTSGuru's comparison when it named Pirate101 Best Hybrid Strategy of the show, praising its turn-based grid combat.

When Pirate101 launched in 2012, the studio behind it was headquartered in which Texas city?

Plano housed the head office while a separate development studio worked in Austin, and the company later moved to Round Rock.

The bird settlers of Pirate101's Cool Ranch rarely discuss their homeland, describing it only as what?

Back East is all they will say, though the newcomers brought locomotives and steam engines with them and left a string of boom towns that went bust.

Madame Vadima, the fortune teller who trains Pirate101's Witchdoctors, came from which far-off homeland?

Darkmoor is a past she steadfastly refuses to talk about, and rumour says she was expelled from Pigswick Academy for researching black magic.

Being raised in which world makes a new Pirate101 pirate 'Naturally Spooky' at character creation?

Krokotopia upbringings grant a permanent 5% boost to spell power, one of five childhood homes that each give a pirate a different lifelong talent.