Getting Started

## What is Stream Pirates?

Stream Pirates is a community-centered game to be played by a streamer and their community. It is free to play and can be accessed at https://streampirates.com. The streamer, also known as the Pirate Captain, can choose from a variety of islands to plunder. Once you land on the island, there will be a circled area with a large X inside of it—this is the treasure zone. Fighting monsters and clearing other tiles within the circle have a chance to reveal the hidden treasure, which completes the quest for that run.

Outside of the main quest, fighting and clearing anything on an island will provide a variety of resources dependent on what it was. Some enemy units even provide opportunities to find extra treasure chests outside of the treasure zone. Resources are used to unlock and upgrade a player's pirate units, as well as for trading at the Trading Post.

Due to the nature of game-play Alphas, everything has the potential to change. Through the thorough communication with the developers and the active community, the wiki will be kept up-to-date as much as possible, but may contain outdated information around major releases.

## How to Play

There are two ways to play Stream Pirates, as a captain and as a viewer. Currently, playing as a Captain is limited to a small group of streamers as the game progresses through its Alpha stages. Anyone can play as a viewer.

### Captains

The Pirate Captain (the streamer) takes their ship and their crew (their community and viewers) to various islands across a massive ocean in search of buried treasure of resources. The treasures and resources found can be used to unlock and upgrade units, as well for spending and exchanging at the Trading Post.

Islands are initially covered in a black mist which hides a majority of the resources, monsters, and most importantly, the treasure! The main objective whenever you land on a new island is to find a special treasure hidden within the red circle marked with an "X". The Captain and their crew have a time limit, counting down from 30 minutes, in order to find the treasure by, which can be seen in the upper left corner of the screen.

The Captain can place up to six bombs to help clear the mist and clear a path to help the crew find the objective. Each bomb has a different attack pattern and different strengths—these correspond with the patterns and strengths of the units holding the bomb. The bombs will only damage the tiles within the pattern, while doing bonus damage to tiles they are strong against.

The plundering can and will continue until the Captain fires their last shot, 30 minutes have transpired, and the Captain goes to end the raid. Both the Captain and the viewers can locate chests and achieve the quest objective.

After the raid, resources from all of the chests are split amongst the crew in the Community Pool. The Captain gains ship plans for each chest found, with more being found for higher tier chests. These can be used for purchasing different cosmetics for the Captain's ship. After all loot is handed out, the Captain can return to the same island, or move to another island and repeat the process.

### Viewers

Playing as a viewer is as straightforward as picking an active captain and placing down units. At first you will will have a limited amount of pirate units to select from, but will quickly begin to gather the resources needed to unlock additional ones.

As a viewer, you can have a maximum of two pirates placed at any one time. They will continue to attack as long as they have a target within their attack spaces or they are defeated. Once their unit timer has expired, you can click to collect any loot that they gathered. If they discovered a chest, it will show up in the "Chests Obtained" panel.

When a captain first starts an island, there is a set time to try and find the main treasure within the treasure zone—this is indicated on the question info panel. If the main treasure is not found within that time-frame, the quest will be marked as failed and there will be no main treasure to share loot from.

## Unlocking & Upgrading Units

Everyone wants to be the greatest pirate of all time, and sadly that comes at a cost. Each pirate has unique requirements to unlock as well as an incrementally increasing upgrade cost. Most upgrade costs consist of Doubloons and an additional resource. As the units continue to level up, they may require higher tiered resources. At certain milestones, such as upgrading to level 10, can have a special cost like requiring a gemstone.

## Trading Post

The Trading Post was added in Alpha 4 as a way to exchange resources and doubloons. This can be utilized as an item sink if you end up with too many of a specific resource, as well as a way to acquire materials you may be short of. Currently there is a max of eight offers at a time. Once an offer is used, it disappears. If all offers are exhausted—or there are none you are interested in—you may wait until the timer resets and new offers arrive. Additionally, players may use gold to refresh the store immediately.

## Plunder Pass

The battle pass currently only has a free track during the Alpha stages. By completing quests players can progress further on the pass—unlocking an array of resources and doubloons. Additionally, players can occasionally find a unique skin available on the battle passes. During the Alpha, these skins are the one item from the battle pass that will persist on your account.

## Pearls

Pearls are a special currency that is acquired at the end of a season. The amount of pearls received depends on a player's pirate levels and leftover currency not in their lockbox. These pearls can be used to buy skins and other items that will persist through events.