Paper Pirates News

Through early November, we’re honouring the spirits of the dead with our most spiritual seasonal event, Día de Muertos running from 1st November - 14th November!



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Spiritualist[/h2]
Our new seasonal trait for Día de Muertos is The Spiritualist. On days when The Spiritualist does not play in, they may decorate a sugar skull offering using any pattern of their choice.



The pattern of the offering will then dictate how the spirits decide to reward The Spiritualist. Each different pattern leads to a different event, so the more times you're The Spiritualist and the more attention you pay, the more you can control the response of the spirits!

[h2]Make an Offering Every Day[/h2]
Play Paper Pirates during Día de Muertos and you can make an offering to the spirits once per day! Play a game each day, and after your voyage you'll receive a gift from the bounty board!



There are four candle-themed outfit pieces for you to collect from the daily quests, so make sure to play a game of Paper Pirates four times before the celebration ends on the 14th November!

[h2]Limited Time Costumes[/h2]
During Día de Muertos, 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 Día de Muertos, 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 Ship Shop items available during Día de Muertos is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]

• Faces - Calaveras (Cobwebs)
  
• Faces - Calaveras (Flowers)
  
• Faces - Calaveras (Horns)
  
• Faces - Calaveras (Toreador)
  
• Faces - Crystal Ball
  
• Faces - Boney
  
• Hands - Boney
  
• Shirt - Boney
  
• Feet - Boney
  
• Coats - Mariachi Jacket
  

[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]

• Hull - Day of the Dead Hull
  
• Sails - Sugar Skull Sails
  
• Masts - Day of the Dead Mast I
  
• Masts - Day of the Dead Mast II
  
• Masts - Day of the Dead Masts III
  
• Extras - Candles
  

Additionally, during Día de Muertos pirates will be able to wear either of two unique hats - La Calavera Catrina and Parrot (Skeleton) is available to everyone in voyages started during the event. Once the event’s over, the hats will disappear from your collection until next year!



[h2]Sacred Sugar Skulls[/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Día de Muertos, and your crew will have the chance to decorate an offering to honour the spirits that have passed! Three randomly chosen pirates will each choose a pattern for a region of the sugar skull, and depending on the particular design that's chosen, the spirits will reward you in a different way.



Every pattern will always lead to the same reward, so once you've found a good one if you convince your crew to recreate it, the same reward will happen again!

[h2]A Special Spiritual Bot[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during the Día de Muertos, and you may find one of the regular crew replaced with a special La Catrina-themed bot! She’ll only join your games during the Día de Muertos event, but she has her very own personality and appearance for you to enjoy.

Jump aboard Paper Pirates to explore the Berserker Update, featuring a new trait and some QoL improvements throughout!

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

The Berserker is the master of channelling their rage, but sometimes they just just have to let it all out! Each time The Berserker passes their vote, they will gain an additional one voting power. This keeps increasing each time they pass their vote! When they unleash their rage, their bonus voting power reduces to zero, and it can be built up again.

But beware, lest you be overcome by your rage! If The Berserker's normal voting power plus their bonus voting power is greater than or equal to the vote threshold, they will lose their ability to pass their vote. This means they must throw someone overboard - no questions asked!

Make sure that you manage your rage carefully, lest you accidentally end up throwing a human overboard all on your own and becoming a ghost...

[h2]More Animated Votes[/h2]
We've given the black spots used during a voting a little bit more energy! They've now got a nice animation that makes it clearer how many votes a pirate is casting, and also includes a better visual display of how many votes each pirate cast should a pirate go overboard.

It now feels much more exciting to vote for someone, but be careful who you vote for because you might be making more ghosts on the ship!

[h2]Outfit Shop Quality of Life Improvements[/h2]
Sam Sherbot is always hard at work to help make shopping at the Outfit Shop a dream. They've introduced two new features to help you browse, try on and shop with maximum comfort!



[h3]Buy Whole Sets[/h3]
Complimenting the Buy Whole Outfit button added in 3.5, Sam now advertises whole sets for sale. This might be all the parts to dress up as your favourite animal, or many other costumes where different outfit parts just all work together! Pick a whole outfit, and buy all the pieces in one go using the Buy Whole Outfit button. Spending your hard earn coins has never been so easy!

[h3]Try on Hats[/h3]
Sometimes, to complete the perfect outfit, you need the perfect hat. Sam's giving you the opportunity to browse your hat collection, and you can now try on hats in the Outfit Shop! You have to have unlocked a hat for it to appear in the list, but once you do, you can try it on with all the other outfit parts. It'll also be added to your outfit code, so you can dress a pirate up completely without ever even opening the lobby!

As always, don’t forget that you can join us every Saturday at 8pm BST 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!

Throughout October, celebrate Paper Pirates’ spookiest seasonal event by taking part in the Halloween-themed Haunted Seas event! Running from 1st October - 31st October, a whole host of spooky goings on are waiting for you.



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Werewolf[/h2]
Our new seasonal trait for Haunted Seas (replacing last year's seasonal trait, The Witch, which is now available all year round) is The Werewolf.



On odd numbered days, when the moon is in its crescent phase, The Werewolf is weakened. Any votes cast by The Werewolf on these days will only have a voting power of one, regardless of their rank on the ship.

However, on even numbered days, when the moon is full, The Werewolf is strengthened! Any votes cast by The Werewolf on these days will have double their usual voting power. Yikes! They might even start throwing people overboard all on their own...

Will you get hunted by The Werewolf?

[h2]No Tricks Here, only Treats![/h2]
To celebrate Haunted Seas, every day you'll receive a unique Treat bounty task! Complete the task to open a spooky treat, which contains some unique outfit customisation options you can't obtain anywhere else!



There's two outfits, for a combined total of eight items, to collect throughout Haunted Seas. Make sure to complete your tasks every day, and get ready to dress up!

[h2]Limited Time Customisation Options[/h2]
During Haunted Seas, 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 Haunted Seas, 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 Ship Shop items available during Haunted Seas is:

Outfit Shop

• Face - Pumpkin
  
• Face - Mummified
  
• Face - Frankenstein’s Monster
  
• Face - Witch
  
• Face - Face Paint (Bat)
  
• Face - Face Paint (Web)
  
• Top Hair - Bride of Frankenstein
  
• Top Hair - Widow’s Peak
  
• Top Hair - Flat Top
  
• Accessories - Fangs
  
• Headwear - Hairpin (Spider)
  
• Headwear - Hairpin (Bat)
  
• Headwear - Pendant (Pumpkin)
  
• Shirt - Skeletal
  
• Shirt - Tee (Webs)
  
• Shirt - Mummified
  
• Shirt - Jester
  
• Coat - Bat Wings
  
• Coat - Vampire Cloak
  
• Coat - Witch Cloak
  
• Coat - Banana
  
• Coat - Pumpkin
  
• Legs - Skeletal
  
• Legs - Mummified
  
• Legs - Witch’s Skirt
  
• Hands - Skeletal
  
• Hands - Patchwork
  
• Hands - Mummified
  
• Hands - Jester (Sceptre)
  
• Hands - Jester (Glove)
  
• Feet - Skeletal
  
• Feet - Mummified
  
• Feet - Witch’s Heels
  
• Feet - Jester
  

Ship Shop

• Sails - Haunted Sails
  
• Masts - Haunted Mast I
  
• Masts - Haunted Mast II
  
• Masts - Haunted Mast III
  
• Figurehead - Skeleton
  
• Hulls - Haunted Hull
  

Additionally, during Haunted Seas, pirates can wear the Witch Hat and the Pumpkin Stalk! These hats are available to everyone in voyages started during the event to help them magic up a plan to find the ghosts. 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]Trick or Treat?[/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during the Haunted Seas event, and the Halloween Spirits may appear to one of the crew. During the Event phase of the game, the Trick or Treat? event may activate for the duration of Haunted Seas, offering a randomly chosen pirate a choice. Will they take the easy option and choose a treat, or are they feeling brave and willing to risk a trick?



[h2]Haunted Seas Bots[/h2]
Invite some bots into your game during the Haunted Seas event, and you may find some of the regular crew replaced with new, super spooky Halloween-themed bots! They’ll only join your games during the Haunted Seas event, but each has their own dastardly personality and appearance for you to enjoy.

Jump aboard Paper Pirates to explore the Protection and Peril Update, full of new features to spice up your voyages!

[h2]New Trait: The Reaper[/h2]
Our first new trait for the Protection and Peril Update is The Reaper!



Whenever any other pirate goes overboard, The Reaper harvests a soul, collecting them for nefarious deeds. When The Reaper does not play in, they can spend the souls they've harvested to form one of several pacts, influencing the game in a powerful way.

Each voyage, the four pacts The Reaper can enact are chosen randomly, so it's never quite the same twice in a row! Will you use the power of The Reaper for good, or for evil?

[h2]New Trait: The Protector[/h2]
Our second new trait for the Protection and Peril Update is The Protector!

During Day One, The Protector must choose any other pirate to protect. No matter how many votes the protected pirate receives during voting, they will not be thrown overboard. The pirate they choose to protect is a secret until the point at which they would have gone overboard, when the pirate will display a shield and become immune to further votes that round!



On days when they don't play in, The Protector may choose to change which pirate they're protecting. Who will The Protector choose to protect, and will they make sure they change their mind in time?

[h2]Empowering the Audience![/h2]
Alongside the new traits, we're giving the audience more power! We've added over ten new events, which will only appear when you have an audience watching your game. Each event allows the audience to influence the game in some important way!



When the audience is empowered, they can do things like choose a new captain, turn someone into a ghost, swap two pirate's teams, and much more. Who's watching your game? Do you trust them to help the humans, or are they sneaky ghosties?

You can customise how often an empowered audience event happens in your games, including turning them off completely, in the custom game menu under the Events tab.

[h2]Two New Events: Disarray & Equality[/h2]
We're welcoming two new regular events to Paper Pirates - Disarray and Equality.



When the Disarray event happens, the crew become disoriented and confused, and an ongoing effect triggers which shuffles the order of voting randomly each day! This can really mess with the natural order of voting, so watch carefully who votes first!

When the Equality event happens, the crew commit to equality for all pirates. In terms of voting, this means that all pirates will have the same number of votes! This empowers the stowaway, and weakens the Captain, and can easily change up who votes for who.

Both Disarray and Equality last from when the event triggers until the next time a pirate is voted overboard.

[h2]Shop Enhancements[/h2]
Sam Sherbot and Nat O'Bother have invested in some upgrades for their shops, and added some new features and functionality!



The Outfit Shop has been upgraded with the following new features:

• Categories with newly added items now have a 'new' label, and individual items in categories will also tell you that they've recently been added to the shop.
  
• More accurately customise the model in the shop, including options to try on different left and right hands and feet.
  
• Create outfits in the Outfit Shop, and copy the Outfit Code directly from the shop ready for use in the in-game lobby! This also means you can create Outfit Codes using items you haven't bought yourself yet.
  
• Once you've finished dressing up the pirate model in the Outfit Shop, there's a new option to buy all the items you don't own in one go. Customise a whole look, and buy it in one fell swoop for the ultimate convenient shopping experience!
  

The Ship Shop has been upgraded, and Nat O'Bother will now offer regular sales on their ship parts. The items on sale change once every week, so if you see something on sale that you can't quite afford, there's still time to save up and buy, buy, buy!

[h2]More Customisation Options![/h2]
Sam Sherbot has been sailing far and wide to bring you the latest pirate fashions! Become a wolf or an elephant, turn your pirate into an orc, and more with a new range of outfit shop items available for purchase!



As always, don’t forget that you can join us every Saturday at 8pm BST 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!

[h2]Grab a sausage and celebrate Oktoberfest![/h2]
As we see out September, we’re celebrating the ninth Paper Pirates Seasonal Celebration, Oktoberfest on the Ocean! Running from 18th to 30th September, celebrate the end of the season with a shindig dedicated to pretzels, sausages, chicken dancing and more, with a whole host of seasonal goodies in Paper Pirates!



[h2]Seasonal Trait: The Brewmaster[/h2]
The Brewmaster is here, and they're ready to get the party started! When you have a Brewmaster aboard, they'll be asked to set the vibe of the ship during the first day. Whichever vibe they choose will mix up the Paper Pirates voting rules!

There are a total of four vibes The Brewmaster can pick for the ship:

• Aggressive Vibes - Grants each pirate one additional voting power
  
• Chaotic Vibes - Instead of voting from Stowaway to Captain, the crew will vote in a randomised order each day
  
• Determined Vibes - Removes the crew's ability to pass their vote
  
• Energetic Vibes - If nobody has gone overboard after the Captain has voted, a second round of voting begins. Votes from the previous round carry forward!
  

Whichever vibe they pick will stay in effect for the rest of the voyage. However, each day The Brewmaster doesn't play in, they can choose to change up the vibe, and bring a new mood to the party. How will having The Brewmaster aboard change the way your crew votes people over?

[h2]Grab Limited Time Customisation Options[/h2]
During Oktoberfest on the Ocean, 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 Oktoberfest on the Ocean, 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 Ship Shop items available during Oktoberfest on the Ocean is:

[h3]Outfit Shop[/h3]

• Face - Animal (Chicken)
  
• Facial Hair - Imperial
  
• Shirt - Check Shirt
  
• Shirt - Animal (Chicken)
  
• Shirt - Lace Bodice
  
• Shirt - Dirndl Bodice
  
• Coat - Hotdog
  
• Belt - Lederhosen Bracers
  
• Legs - Animal (Chicken)
  
• Legs - Lederhosen
  
• Legs - Dirndl Skirt
  
• Hands - Animal (Chicken)
  
• Hands - BBQ Hook
  
• Hands - Grill Tool
  
• Hands - Sausage
  
• Feet - Animal (Chicken)
  
• Feet - Haferlschuh
  
• Feet - SausageI
  

[h3]Ship Shop[/h3]

• Masts - Oktoberfest Tent
  
• Hulls - Barrel Hull
  
• Extras - Windmill
  

Additionally, during Oktoberfest on the Ocean, pirates can wear the Tyrolean Hat or the Deely Bobber (Pretzel)! They’re available to everyone in voyages started during the event to finish off their Oktoberfest outfits. 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 “Biggest Bratwurst” Event![/h2]
Go on a sailing adventure during Oktoberfest on the Ocean, and any day when there’s a successful job there is a chance you may encounter the “Biggest Bratwurst” event! The pirates stop for a cook-out, each grabbing a sausage from the grill. Some of the sausages are much bigger than the others though, and everyone knows a pirate needs a full stomach to carry out the most important duties on the ship. The bigger your meal, the higher your rank on the ship! So watch out, if you pull a chipolata, you might end up as Stowaway!



The Biggest Bratwurst event is sure to mix things up amongst the crew, changing who’s next to each other and therefore who’s playing in for different groups of jobs together. Not only that, but if you’re playing a trait game, you might want to be extra careful of who ends up next to The Sensitive!

[h2]Oktoberfest on the Ocean Bots[/h2]
Invite bots into your game during Oktoberfest on the Ocean, and you may encounter any of four unique bots! Look out for Chicken Bot, Hans Botmann, Ida Botmann and Bot Dog, all of whom are eager to board your ship and throw you overboard! These bots will only join your games during Oktoberfest on the Ocean, so take the chance to meet them now before they chicken dance away for the rest of the year!