Settlers of Kalguur League Mechanic Guide Shipping
Shipping
Shipping allows you to exchange the Resources you’ve collected for currency and items! Simply load up a boat with Resources and a crew, then wait an amount of real time for the boat to return, laden with rewards.
Shipping has its risks, however, which will need to be managed if you don’t want to lose both your crew and your payout!
Shipments
Each boat you send out is loaded up with a shipment - a pile of Resources you want to trade away. Upon the boat’s successful return, each of those Resources is exchanged for regular PoE rewards - like currency, uniques, scarabs, etc.
As you upgrade the Harbour, you gain access to up to three boats, which can be sent on Shipments simultaneously.
Shipment Value
The quantity and quality of rewards you receive from a Shipment is based on the total “Shipment Value” of that shipment. Each Resource is worth a specific amount of Shipment Value, with rarer and more-refined Resources being worth more.
Dust - Shipment Wildcard
Thaumaturgic Dust acts as a “wildcard”, contributing towards your Shipment Value. Dust’s shipment value is split evenly across the non-Dust Resources you’re shipping - acting as a “wildcard” of more of any Resources you’re shipping.
When including Dust up to your non-Dust Shipment Value, Dust will contribute its full Shipment value. Once Dust’s Shipment Value exceeds your non-Dust Shipment value, its contribution has diminishing returns. Using Dust can massively boost your Shipment value… but sure not to include more Dust than non-Dust in your Shipments!
However, Tattoos and Runegrafts received do NOT scale off of Shipment Value contributed by Dust - only non-Dust Shipment value.
Ports
Each shipment is sent to trade with a specific port. Each port has different types of rewards that they will send back with each shipment, based on the types of Resource they were shipped.
Rewards
The types of Rewards you receieve are based upon what Resource you ship. Ore rewards Currency, and Crops reward Equipment.
All Ore rewards Currency, in amounts and qualities based on shipment value.
You can also get Runegrafts as additional rewards when shipping to Kalguuran Ports (Riben Fell, Pondium, Kalguur), and Tattoos when shipping to Karui Ports (Ngakanu, Te Onui)
Distance
Each Port is some distance away from Kingsmarch - this determines how long it takes to ship to that port.
Port Quotas
Each Port will have a list of in-demand Resources. When you fill their quota of Resources with a Shipment, those resources will have a random shipment value bonus applied to them from +20% to +100% (up to the total quota amount), resulting in even more rewards. The bonus to shipment value is listed next to each quota.
Bars count for 5 times Ore for the purposes of meeting quotas - don’t over-ship your smelted ingots!!
You can fulfill quotas over multiple shipments, but only the shipment that finished the quota will have the quota bonus applied to it.
Fulfilling a quota also add an additional item reward in that shipment - usually a Unique.
Quotas can be rerolled for 15,000 Gold.
Currency Rewards from Shipping
Currency Rewards from Shipping are subject to a number of bizarre and hidden mechanics, that have been determined by community testing.
Prior to 3.28, Crops had hidden “strength” values, and you needed to ensure that the ratio between your strongest and weakest crops did not exceed 1:1.68. With the changes in 3.28 so that currency comes from Ore, it is currently unknown what weighting (if any) is used.
Crew
In addition to Resources, you also load your boat up with Workers - forming the boat’s crew.
Crew members reduce the Risk meter by an amount relative to their trait tier. Higher tier Workers will allow you to ship higher Shipment Values at a time - with little to no Risk.
Crew members that are lost to Risks can be permanently killed - so be careful about who you send with each shipment!
Risks & Random Events
Bad things can happen to your shipments in transit - raids by pirates, bad weather…
As your Shipment Value increases, a “Risk” meter will fill up. This meter denotes a percentage chance of something going happening to your shipment, with higher percentages also causing more severe outcomes to be more likely if something does go wrong. These Risks always result in you losing a percentage of your shipment.
In addition to Negative Risks, there are also a number of Random Events that can occur, even at 0% Risk.
Negative Risk Outcomes
| Message | Outcome |
|---|---|
| A mysterious green light surrounded the ship on its voyage home. When it passed, everything was gone. | Lose 100% of rewards |
| Our ship was seized by a pirate fleet on the way to the port. The entire shipment has been lost. | Lose 100% of rewards |
| The King decided to institute a one-time tax of three-quarters of our entire outgoing shipment! | Lose 75% of rewards |
| Corrupt customs officials demanded half of our entire shipment! | Lose 50% of rewards |
| A Karui raiding party waiting outside Kingsmarch demand half of our entire shipment! | Lose 50% of rewards |
| A quarter of our entire shipment was somehow misplaced at port! | Lose 25% of rewards |
| The crew became stuck in a calm sea and had to eat our shipment of crops! | Lose 100% of rewards from Crops |
| A wasting disease destroyed half of our shipment of crops! | Lose 50% of rewards from Crops |
Random Event Outcomes
| Message | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Unfortunately, a crew member was killed in a tavern brawl. | Lose a random worker |
| One of our crew decided to stay at port and start a new life. | Lose a random worker |
| A storm knocked a crewmember overboard on the voyage out. | Lose a random worker |
| Pirates have commandeered the Ship! They will execute the Crew and steal the Shipment unless you Intervene. | Pirate Commandeer Boss |
Pirate Commandeering
When a Pirate boards your ship, they will take your entire crew - and your shipment - hostage. You have three options for what to do in this situation.
First, you can fight the Bandit, as a boss. If you win, in addition to valuable boss loot, your crew and shipment will be freed. You only get one portal, however, and if you lose, everything is lost.
Second, you can pay the Bandit a ransom - which will be an amount of Gold. If you pay the random you get your shipment and Crew back - but don’t get any of the loot from the boss fight.
Third, you can simply abandon them all. This is the same as failing the boss fight - you lose both your crew and your shipment.
Conclusion
Be sure to check out the other pages of this guide, covering even more topics related to Settlers of Kalguur! This guide will continue to be updated in the future - if you have any feedback, or find something cool you want to share, head on over to the PoE Vault Discord, and let me know!
Good luck, and have fun farming Settlers of Kalguur!
