Special Items

Oceanica has several special items for use. Most can be purchased by a vendor.

### Coins / Coinage

This game wouldn't be much of anything if there were no profit involved. Coins (coinage) are the primary currency in the game, and are denominated as such:

* 10 copper = 1 silver
* 10 silver = 1 gold
* 10 gold = 1 platinum
* 50 platinum = 1 etherium

Coinage can be obtained either from trading with villagers, on the commodity exchange, through completing quests, by #pick-ing, from looting treasure chests, or even from crafting it from smelted ores. Also, some particular crafting items (such as coal and iron) can be traded with blacksmiths for silver coins or from special exchange agents (not commodity agents) in "undiscovered" villages...just look for the villagers with the bright yellow robes.

"Old school" economy can be found in a lot of villages that do not have an established bank. Villagers with yellow robes will make many of the following exchanges, and vanilla villagers will use the same table for trades:

* 10 coal = 8-10 silver coins (this will also be found with non-vanilla blacksmiths in towns and cities)
* 3-4 coal = 1 iron bar
* 1 iron bar = 3 silver coins
* 3-4 iron bars = 1 gold bar
* 1 gold bar = 1 gold coin
* 8-10 gold bars = 1 emerald

### Greater Totem of Undying

Much like the vanilla Totem of Undying, the Greater Totem can save your life if your health reaches 0. However, there are several differences:

* The Greater Totem restores 4 points of health while the regular Totem restores only 1.
* Regeneration II for 60 seconds as opposed to 45 seconds
* Fire Resistance II for 60 seconds as opposed to 40 seconds
* Absorption II for 20 seconds as opposed to 5 seconds
* Resistance II for 60 seconds
* The Greater Totem can be in ANY slot and not just in the offhand or mainhand slot

### Token of Healing

There are currently three flavors of Tokens of Healing:

* Token of Health - A single-use item that restores at least 5 health points (2 1/2 hearts). If a player already is close to full health, any extra healing points go towards a temporary boost to the player's maximum health. This effect lasts 2 minutes.
* Reusable Token of Healing - Behaves just like a regular Token of Healing, but has 10 total uses.
* Greater Token of Health - Also a single-use item, but the Greater Token restores at least 8 health points (4 hearts). Any extra healing remaining is converted into an increase in maximum health.

### Captain's Log

This is a special block that can be spawned only by the captains of crews when they use the #recruit command. It can either be mined/destroyed, or it will go away on its own after a certain amount of time.

### Commodity Item

The commodity exchange system adds special data to these commodity items that let the trading system know what those items represent, whether it be "coal," "ink," "silk," etc. These items can be dropped, either manually or upon death. If another player picks up one of these items, and they did not buy it at an exchange, it will turn red, indicating that it's an illegal item. Illicit items can be purchased at shadow exchanges that also are colored red. If a player is caught by a town guard or roaming ranger with one of these items, they may end up ...well... dead.

### Township Item

Players can "own" a piece of Oceanica one of two ways: either purchasing a plot of land within a town via a real estate agent, or by buying a township item from a land claims agent.

### Message Block

Scattered throughout Oceanica are "message blocks." They have a texture similar to a furnace but with a set of yellow quotation marks on top. Upon right-clicking one, a player will receive important information. Some have to be used to complete a quest, such as the starting quest in the Starting Area.

### Treasure Chests

Specially-constructed treasure chests also litter the landscape. They look almost exactly like a vanilla single-size chest. Right-clicking one will yield treasures, but only once. You cannot store anything inside a treasure chest. Also, the site owner may place one of these treasure chests in already-explored areas. You just never know when or where you'll find one!

### Wands

Many different wands exist. Some will knock back an opponent. Others can be used to heal other players. Each wand requires Magic Charge to use. One use of a wand uses one Magic Charge. Wands and Magic Charge can usually be purchased at mage towers.

### Food

Oceanica has various other food items available that will (mostly) give you beneficial potion effects.

### Experience Token

Vendors in places known as "gyms" sell special tokens that work similarly to Bottles O Enchanting. Gold tokens give a player an additional 2 experience points, platinum yields 20 experience, and etherium yields 100 experience.

### Mystic's Lodestone

Usually only found on bosses as loot. Lodestones can either be used in crafting *very* advanced weaponry or traded at specialized vendors for rare items.

### Cannons and Cannon Charge

Cannons and cannon charge can be bought from boatwrights and occasionally other vendors. Cannons are placed using a special placement tool (which is what the vendor sells). Cannons can only be used as long as you have some Cannon Charge in your inventory. Cannons can only be placed on "activated" (infused) ships, and will place 1 meter in front of you in the cardinal direction you're facing (i.e., north, east, etc). To place a cannon, right-click the cannon-placing tool on the deck of your ship. To use the cannon, right-click the cannon. The commands are:

* w - Raise azimuth (max angle is 75 degrees)
* x - Lower azimuth (min angle is 5 degrees)
* a - Rotate left 15 degrees
* d - Rotate right 15 degrees
* g - Fire cannon
* s - Stop using cannon

Cannons can be destroyed in combat, including by other cannons (refunds aren't guaranteed). Should a cannon fall overboard, the purchaser of the cannon will receive a partial refund of the cost of the cannon. This is done considering that the physics of the ships in this game can glitch if the ship is moving too quickly.

If you decide you do not like where you've placed one of your cannons, you can right-click that cannon with a pickaxe and the Cannon Placer will be returned to you, if you're that cannon's owner.