Diving

**Diving** is the player’s ability to go underwater to clean up the trash and gain valuables from the sea. When diving, the player can find kelp, chests, pearls and other underwater scavenge items.

Diving is unlocked on the 8th day of Spring when the player receives a letter instructing to meet at the dock.

## Diving mastery

The Diving mastery pertains to all things having to do with navigating, cleaning trash, and harvesting resources on the sea floor. The efficiency of the player's diving tools is increased as they gain proficiency in their diving mastery. Gaining levels also allows them to obtain new crafting recipes or points to spend for new skill.

### Experience

The player can increase their diving mastery level by regularly spending their time on underwater activities like cleaning up trash in the ocean and gathering items on the ocean floor. Using Vortexanator to clear the debris will still provide points.

 Clearing debris with a scythe (20m)
 Cutting kelp with a scythe
 Breaking sandstone with a pickaxe
 Gathering a regular quality item
 Gathering a bronze quality item
 Gathering a silver quality item
 Gathering a gold quality item
 Gathering an osmium quality item

### Levels

Reaching a new level in diving mastery grants the player new crafting recipes when they go to sleep to end their day.

### Skills

Every other level of diving mastery gained allows the player to unlock one skill. The player will be able to unlock up to five skills total. The last skill can be unlocked by purchasing diving elixir.

  Rare Trash
  Treasure Finder
  Double Artifacts
  Artifact Price
  Ocean Loot

## Tools

The main tool used while diving is the scythe, used for breaking up piles of trash and cutting patches of kelp and seaweed. The scythe consume 3 energy per successful hit of a breakable or harvestable object.

Vacuums can also be used to quickly destroy trash found underwater, but lack the chance of activating mining skills. A pickaxe is required to destroy sandstone deposits on the ocean floor, but doesn't affect the Diving skill.

### Tool efficiency

The higher the player's diving level is, the less energy it costs to use the scythe. Eating consumables that grant a Diving Proficiency buff can further reduce the stamina cost. The pickaxe is not affected.

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## Diving process

Once diving is unlocked, the player can start their dive anytime between 6:00 and 23:00 by interacting with the boat at the Diving Pier. The player will have a choice to return to the location they have left the anchor last time they dived or reset the start location.

When underwater, the player will need to clear trash and debris on the ocean floor with their scythe to obtain resources and collect solar orbs. They can also catch underwater critters with their critter net, cut seaweed, or collect items that spawn on the ground.

When the player unearths a solar orb, they will need to activate it by picking it up and when clearing the way towards a pylon to heal nearby corals. Healing corals earns the player town rank points, improves the quality of fish caught, and progresses one of the main quests of the game. It can also open previously inaccessible underwater areas by cleaning the oil from the environment.

The player can leave the underwater area by interacting with the anchor. The anchor can be moved by pressing X and waiting until it drops.

### Trash and debris

Every trash or debris pile can drop items when destroyed (up to a maximum of 3 items per pile).

### Puzzles

As the player explores the underwater areas, they may encounter various puzzles that need to be completed in order to progress.

Only one of these puzzles is currently implemented.

## Ocean scavengables

Items found in the ocean stay the same regardless of the season, and instead change according to how deep underwater the player is. Unlike land forageable items, they give diving experience when picked up.

* Amber pen shell
* Arame
* Bay scallop
* Belon oyster
* Black sea urchin
* Blood clam
* Blue mussel
* Blue oyster
* Calico scallop
* Cherrystone clam
* Duck mussel
* Eastern oyster
* Geoduck
* Giant clam
* Gooseneck barnacle
* Green lipped mussel
* Green sea urchin
* Heart urchin
* Horse mussel
* Jackknife clam
* King scallop
* Kombu
* Kumamoto oyster
* Mediterranean scallop
* Olympia oyster
* Pacific oyster
* Patagonian scallop
* Purple urchin
* Quahog
* Queen scallop
* Razor clam
* Red sea urchin
* Sea grapes
* Sea lettuce
* Sea mushroom
* Sea salt
* Seaweed
* Steamer clam
* Wakame weed
* Zebra mussel

## Gallery

Diving in Game PromoEarly diving concept artDiving Map with locations by ~Bee~ on Coral Island discordMap by Wyverness on Coral Island discordDiving Map with Spawn Zones by ~Bee~ from Coral Island Discord server