looting materials

DeadMetal

Dockworker
Hi all my friends and I are new to the game and were hoping u could help us. We read somewhere that to get materials for ship building you have to loot bounty hunters. But we only ever see them when were full on cargo Do we still get the materials if we kill them or do we need to dock first & rush back out?
 
Hi DeadMetal :)

Materials and rare materials from bounty hunters and warships will replace all your loot except loot chests and loot skulls chests. You still get to keep the gold from those that you replace, though.
 
Heya Michael, you can only loot for materials from Bounty Hunters yes. There are the 'normal' Bounty Hunters (Scorned Siren, Vengeance, Killyaded, Century Hawk, Flying Storm, Red Dervish, Cutter Shark) and the Warships (Tally-ho, En-Garde, Battle Royal).
The normal Hunters give you Ship Materials and the Warships Rare Ship Materials.
You can check out these links for more and the hyperlinks in them :

http://piratesonline.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Bounty_Hunters

http://piratesonline.wikia.com/wiki/Materials_Pouch

http://piratesonline.wikia.com/wiki/Rogue_on_the_Run

When you have plundered enough you will see your ship's flag to change (left corner of your screen) to a skull with cross bones and after you have sunk enough hunters the flag will change again to a skull with cross bones, a hat and an eye patch.
Hope that helped :)
 
On Rare occasion you can get lucky and find materials from smaller ships. Hunters give common materials used for early upgrades and War Ships give rare materials for larger upgrades. Keep in mind that hunters and war ships go out after a specific pirate ship. If you sink hunters or war ships that go after you, there will always be materials from Hunters and rare materials from War ships. If you sink someone else's hunter or war ship, you may not get materials.

"Material" or "Mat Runs" that go after the war ships can take a long time even with a good crew. Try a larger public ship and ask if the captain is going on a Mat Run.
 
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