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Steam Trading Cards now Available!

We're super thrilled that Paper Pirates now has a full set of Steam Trading Cards available to anyone who buys the game. Steam Trading Cards are granted randomly to players as they play. We've themed the Trading Cards around the bots, so look out for all of your favourite Paper Pirates characters and make sure to trade with your friends to get the ones you really love!

Collecting a full set of Steam Trading Cards awards a badge, which you can display on your Steam profile, and also grants you access to some Paper Pirates themed emotes you can use throughout Steam chat and Steam profile backgrounds you can use to fancy up your Steam profile. You can even collect additional sets to level up your badge, and earn even more goodies!

If you're super lucky, you might find a Foil card with a special frame. These are especially rare and definitely worth keeping an eye out for!

We hope everyone has fun collecting and trading Steam Trading Cards while playing Paper Pirates, and we'll see you all again soon out there on the ocean!

Spring Sailing!

[h2]Go Egg Hunting on the Seven Seas with Spring Sailing![/h2]
Across March and April, we’re celebrating with the Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Spring Sailing! Running from 15th March - 12th April, celebrate the season of spring with a festival of eggs, bunnies, and a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Spring Chicken[/h2]
Joining Paper Pirates for the duration of Spring Sailing is the seasonal trait, The Spring Chicken! Play a trait game, and one of the crew may find themselves with this happy-go-lucky, seasonal appropriate trait.

Each day, when The Spring Chicken is not the Captain, they will spring forward one rank of the crew at the start of the event phase! This happens even if there's no other event taking place! What seems like a blessing may be a curse - watch out if you're a ghostly Spring Chicken and you're almost next to The Sensitive...

[h2]The Grand Spring Egg Hunt[/h2]
Every day during Spring Sailing the crew will be challenged to an Egg Hunt by our very own Rabbot! They've hidden a number of eggs all throughout Paper Pirates for you to find - they could be in any of the menu screens, or even in-game! Find your quota each day, and you'll be able to open a special Spring Sailing surprise.



There's three outfits, two returning outfits and one brand new, for a combined total of sixteen items, to collect through The Grand Spring Egg Hunt. Make sure to check for eggs every day, and get ready to dress up!

[h2]Limited Time Costumes[/h2]
During Spring Sailing, Sam Sherbot and Nat O'Bother have some new customisation options available to unlock in the Shop Ship! If you buy a customisation option during Spring Sailing, you can use it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today!



The full list of outfit items available during Spring Sailing is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]
  • Faces - Animal (Bee)
  • Faces - Animal (Easter Bunny)
  • Faces - Face Paint (Egg)
  • Faces - Face Paint (Striped)
  • Faces - Face Paint (Spotted)
  • Faces - Face Paint (Bee)
  • Facial Hair - Leaf Beard
  • Hands - Animal (Bee)
  • Hands - Animal (Easter Bunny)
  • Hands - Spring
  • Hands - Umbrella
  • Accessories - Earrings (Bee)
  • Accessories - Earrings (Daisy)
  • Accessories - Earrings (Butterfly)
  • Headwear - Hairpin (Butterfly)
  • Headwear - Pendant (Butterfly)
  • Shirts - Animal (Bee)
  • Shirts - Animal (Easter Bunny)
  • Shirts - Forest Top
  • Shirts - Dress Top (Flowers)
  • Coats - Egg
  • Coats - Egg (Rainbow)
  • Coats - Raincoat
  • Jacket - Overalls (Upper)
  • Belts - Umbrella
  • Legs - Overalls (Lower)
  • Legs - Animal (Bee)
  • Legs - Animal (Easter Bunny)
  • Legs - Forest Skirt
  • Legs - Skirt (Flowers)
  • Feet - Animal (Bee)
  • Feet - Animal (Easter Bunny)
  • Feet - Slippers (Rabbit)
  • Feet - Spring

[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]
  • Sails - Egg Sails
  • Hull - Spring Hull

Additionally, during Spring Sailing, pirates have access to five unique hats, available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hats will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to wear them while you can!



[h2]The “Lucky Egg Hunt” Event![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Spring Sailing, and each day there is a chance you may encounter the “Lucky Egg Hunt” event. A random member of the crew gets to pick one egg out of a selection. The eggs all contain events, and whichever egg they choose will instantly trigger that event! All the other pirates on the boat will get a clue, showing them a picture of an egg, and a description of the event that will happen. Make sure you communicate to the egg hunter to let them know what might happen for each egg - but watch out for the ghosts, who might give you a bad description, or tell you fibs about the event squirreled away inside!



[h2]Spring Celebrations in the Photo Booth[/h2]
To celebrate Spring Sailing, there are two limited-time Foils available in the Photo Booth, in the Captain’s Log. Take the opportunity to snap your favourite pirate templates, and share any pics you take!

[h2]Spring Sailing Bot[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during Spring Sailing, and you may encounter Rabbot - our very own pirate-y Easter Bunny, out to help you uncover eggs at sea! Rabbot will only join your games during Spring Sailing, so take the chance to meet them now before they hop away to hibernate for the rest of the year!

All Together Update

Set Sail with Random Players with the All Together Update!

Jump aboard Paper Pirates to explore the All Together Update, featuring a new trait, public listing for games and more!

[h2]Public Games[/h2]
When creating a Paper Pirates lobby, you now have the option of advertising your game publicly. Tick the "Public Games" tick box from the game customisation screen, and your lobby will be advertised for anyone to join via Spectator mode. Players joining public games will still have to join via a web browser on a connected device, but public games offer a way to recruit a crew even when playing solo!



Remember, you can always mute or kick a pirate who joins your game and misbehaves to stop them contributing to the game any further. To do so, just click on a pirate in-game and choose the mute or kick option as appropriate. You can even do this from a lobby!

If you're looking to find more pirates to join your games, you're always welcome to join the Paper Pirates Discord server where you can advertise your games for anyone to join.

[h2]Mid-Game Spectating[/h2]
To enhance the spectating experience, we've tightened up a few screws and enabled spectating mid-game. Whenever you join, you will have to wait for the start of the next day, but then your spectated game will be perfectly in sync with the host! You'll still get all the coins for the whole voyage, but note that your Round History will only display days for which you were already spectating.

[h2]New Trait: The Legion[/h2]
Our new trait for the All Together Update is The Legion!



The Legion is a trait that is always assigned to a ghost at the start of a game, just like The Tainted. Whenever the Legion would become a ghost while a ghost, an extra ghost joins their collection. If they would become a human, one of the ghosts leaves their collection, but they remain a ghost. The only way to cleanse The Legion and return them to humanity is to clear their entire ghost collection!

The Legion always starts the game with one extra ghost in their collection, so at the very least you'll need to get them overboard twice, or give them two exorcisms, before they turn human. Never trust when you think someone is a human, because they could be The Legion!

[h2]New Trait: The Sleuth[/h2]
As a reward for finding clues during Steam Mystery Fest, the collective efforts of pirates across the entire ocean unlocked a new Trait, The Sleuth! Although The Sleuth has been in the game for a few weeks now, we haven't formally introduced them!



The Sleuth has the power to investigate a pirate to see whether they have ever disobeyed at any point in the voyage so far. They won't know when they disobeyed, but this is still a very useful ability! In order to investigate a pirate, The Sleuth must use up a lead. Leads are earned every day that there are at least two disobeys in a job - so the more ghosts you have, the more likely your Sleuth is to find leads!

Additionally, The Sleuth always starts the game with one lead, so even if the ghosts are being on their best behaviour, they might not be able to hide from The Sleuth for long!

[h2]New Event: Disagreement[/h2]
During a Disagreement event, two pirates from the centre of the ship have a falling out and decide to move away from each other. Each pirate will move as far away as they can, taking on the ranks of second-in-command and Cabin Boy.



[h2]New Event: Crew's Revenge[/h2]
During a Crew's Revenge event, the entire crew will have the opportunity to take revenge on the most bloodthirsty pirate. If you've successfully thrown the most pirates overboard, you might find yourself facing a very angry crew!



The Crew's Revenge event works like the Mutiny event, so if more than half of the crew vote to take revenge, the bloodthirstiest pirate will get thrown overboard. If they were a human, then any of the pirates that agreed to get revenge could become a ghost!

[h2]Join the Paper Pirates Community[/h2]
As always, don’t forget that you can join us every Saturday at 8pm GMT on Twitch for our weekly dev stream, or pop by our YouTube channel to see Let’s Plays of Paper Pirates, How To videos and more! Or if you’re looking for a crew to set sail with make sure to join our Discord!

Big Birthday Bash!

Happy birthday, Paper Pirates!

It's Paper Pirates' third birthday, and we’re celebrating with the return of The Big Birthday Bash! Running from 28th February - 14th March, celebrate the anniversary of the game's launch with a festival of partying, and a whole host of anniversary goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Magician[/h2]
Joining Paper Pirates for the duration of The Big Birthday Bash is the seasonal trait, The Magician! Play a trait game during The Big Birthday Bash, and one of the crew may find themselves playing as The Magician.



When the entire crew have finished voting, but no pirate has gone overboard, The Magician will have the opportunity to cast a magic vote. This magic vote has three voting power, and can be cast for any pirate (other than The Magician themselves). The crew won't know who The Magician is, unless they can figure it out through deductive reasoning!

The magic vote still counts as voting for a pirate to go overboard, so if The Magician throws a human overboard they run the risk of becoming a ghost. Question is... who are they?

[h2]The “Let Them Eat Cake” Event![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during The Big Birthday Bash, and each day there is a chance you may encounter the “Let Them Eat Cake” event. The crew will divide up a huge birthday cake, taking the chance to blow out the candles one by one. It's believed that the last person who blows out a candle will get to make a wish... what will they wish for, and will their wish come true?!



[h2]Birthday Gift Bounties[/h2]
Every day during The Big Birthday Bash the crew will receive a special birthday gift bounty! If you complete the assigned task, you can open a present, and inside you will find... a special cosmetic surprise! There are twelve different cosmetics in total to collect, so make sure to collect your birthday gifts during the seasonal celebration!



[h2]Limited Time Costumes and Ship Parts[/h2]
During The Big Birthday Bash, Sam Sherbot and Nat O'Bother have some new customisation options available to unlock in the Shop ship! If you buy a customisation option during The Big Birthday Bash, you can use it all year round - but the items will be disappearing from sale when the event is over, so don’t delay and buy today!



The full list of outfit items available during The Big Birthday Bash is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]
  • Faces - Balloon
  • Belt - Cutlass (Balloon)
  • Jackets - Waistcoat (Magician)
  • Headwear - Hairpin (Star)
  • Headwear - Pendant (Star)
  • Headwear - Pendant (Key)
  • Hands - Balloon
  • Hands - Wand
  • Shirts - Tie (Rainbow)
  • Shirts - Tee (Cake)
  • Shirts - Balloon
  • Legs - Tutu (Rainbow)
  • Legs - Balloon
  • Feet - Balloon


[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]
  • Hulls - Cake Hull
  • Masts - Cake


Additionally, during The Big Birthday Bash, pirates have access to a unique anniversary hat, available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hat will disappear from your collection until next year, so be sure to wear it while you can!

[h2]Developer Bots Jump Aboard[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during The Big Birthday Bash, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with one or three bots that mimic the Iteration Games crew! They’ll only join your games during The Big Birthday Bash, but these bots have their own personality and appearances modelled after the Paper Pirates developers.

It's the Steam Mystery Fest...

There's a thief in our midst!

It's time for the Steam Mystery Fest celebration, and it seems the Paper Pirates crew have a mystery of their very own to solve. Someone's swiped all the treasure, and we don't know who! Not to panic though, The Captain has been in touch with world-famous detective, Tabotha Tabs, and she's accepted the challenge of coming aboard and figuring out exactly whodunnit. The Steam Mystery Fest runs from Monday 20th - Monday 27th February, so we need to solve the mystery before it ends!



[h2]There's a mystery to be solved![/h2]
Set sail every day during the Steam Mystery Fest, and you'll find a clue. These clues will surely help you to track down the guilty party. Not only that, if all the Paper Pirate crews on the seven seas work together, there's bound to be a special reward for everyone!



[h2]Huge Paper Pirates discount![/h2]
During the Mystery Fest, we want everyone to get involved in finding clues and solving the mystery. If you've had your eye on Paper Pirates for a while, or you've got friends looking to jump aboard, you'll be able to pick the game up for 75% off during the entire celebration!