Captain Avery’s dream is coming true – Skull Island is going to be a republic! For players, this means new adventures await those who have completed the quest “Gunn’s Gold.” Avery’s new quests will take you across Skull Island and always guide you back to Zeke’s Party Barge.

Once you earn your new badge from completing these quests, a new vendor will unlock on the Party Barge. Drop by the Party Barge often! You never know who or what you might see there!

We finally get to see what a real skyway showdown will look like. Test out your cannons vs your friends and see who truly rules the skyways!

Players have long requested a zone where they can faceoff in Broadside battle with other players’ ships. Consequently we’re happy to see this new form of “practice” ship PvP… with the hopes for more to come! For all those who are at least level three (and nautical level three), Mickey Dugan has a new quest titled “Broadside!” This quest will direct you to the Skipper and open the portal to a random location in our ship PvP zone. It’s sure to be a dangerous place!

Special Notes:

• You won’t be able to change your ship in the zone.
• You will spawn into the zone in a random location.
• The only way to exit is to use your shortcut teleportation keys (…or to get sent back to a life fountain from being defeated).
• There are new badges for both sinking ships and for being sunk in Practice Ship PvP.

Wizard101’s team-up kiosk has finally made its way over to Pirate101 as the team-up ledger. No more going around asking around for a team to do the Tower of Moo Manchu or Kane with, those pirates will now come to you! This is also great so that lower levels can get the assistance they need with that dungeon they can’t seem to solo. The only downside is that you’ll need to have a membership or spend crowns to have access the Tower of Moon Manchu now.

The Team Ledger will display a list of all teams that are waiting for additional members. However only the dungeons and worlds that your Pirate already has access to will be in the list. Press the “Refresh” button at the bottom right to update the list and look for additional teams.

Notes:

• If you leave an incomplete dungeon after using Team Up, you will have to wait 10 minutes before you can Team Up or use the Join a Team kiosk again.
• In minor dungeons, such as those with only one battle, the penalty is removed after a single battle.
• When you leave a dungeon after using the Team Up Ledger, you will return to Skull Island.
• Players won’t be able to play mini-games while waiting in a queue for Team Up!
• Four new badges for helping players using Join a Team have been added. Enjoy!

In addition, Pirate101 now has emojis! Click the skull face icon on the right hand side of your chat window, and this will open up a menu of emojis you can add to your conversation. Click on the emoji you want to use and you’ll notice that this adds a keyword shortcut to the chat window (For example, the Swashbuckler school emoji is “:Swashbuckler”.) When you press enter, the keyword shortcut becomes an emoji in chat. (NOTE: there is only a very basic set of emojis for now. They’re the same ones that can be found on the official message boards. Kingsisle has plans to add more in the future!)

If you’d rather not see emojis, there is a toggle now to turn these on and off from your options menu.

Showcased in the previous episode of KI Live, the Auto-Companions option is a neat new tool. If you’re not in the mood to plan out your companions attacks one by one, this new feature has got your back. This can be useful for farming, questing, or when you get a little lazy (it happens to all of us). Having units move on their own makes battles less complex which is ideal for newcomers who are still learning the game. It might not be everyone’s cup of tea but there will certainly be handfuls thankful pirates.

Now your companions have been given intelligence to act of their own accord! The “Automate Companions” option now defaults to “on,” but you can toggle this off through your options menu.

• Fixed a bug causing the Yule Trogg to not use the jump ability correctly.
• Added the Scrip Only icon to the Clock-o-gators.
• Fixed a bug causing some mount names to not be usable in chat.
• Increased the max-friends limit to 150 for subscribers.
• The Tower of Moo Manchu is no longer marked as a free to play zone and is now a part of the premium area for Book 12, Chapter 29.