Player-owned port

Player-owned ports is a high-leveled members minigame that was released on 11th December 2012, as announced in the December 2012 Behind the Scenes (BTS) post. Borrowing elements from Miscellania and player-owned houses, the minigames involve players building their own ports in order to manage a fleet of ships, staffed by recruited crewmembers. These ships explore the Eastern Lands on the player's behalf and return with exotic items and supplies that are otherwise unavailable. New voyages become available daily at midnight.



Access to player-owned ports requires level 90+ in at least one of the following skills: Fishing, Slayer, Runecrafting, Herblore, Prayer, or Thieving. The more of these requirements a player meets, the more content is available. Players have to visit Port Sarim and enter the portal to make their ports.

Among the range of rewards available from player-owned ports are degradable level 85 armours: Tetsu armour, which is melee class, Death Lotus armour, which is ranged class, and Seasinger's robes, which are magic class. These items can be created by players with 90 Smithing, Crafting, and Runecrafting respectively (non-assistable and the materials are untradeable). Players can create two versions of this armour: tradeable versions with slightly lower stats that crumble to dust when fully degraded, and untradeable versions with slightly higher stats that can be repaired either with coins or port resources. Other available rewards include the high level food rocktail soup and scrimshaws, items for the new pocket slot.

Mod Mark confirmed that high level Smithing would be expanded with player-owned ports.

Tutorial
'''Note that to receive the tutorial requires either level 90+ in Fishing, Slayer, Runecrafting, Herblore, Prayer, or Thieving. '''Upon entering the port for the first time you will see a cutscene followed by a brief tutorial to play through to teach you all the mechanics of hiring crew, equiping your ships, sending them out on voyages, collecting your rewards, and upgrading your port.

Buildings
The buildings offer bonuses to different areas of the port's operations.

Bar
This is home to Surula. Upgrading it is part of the tutorial. It attracts captains and adventurers. On Thursdays players can talk to Surula for more gossip.

Icon hotspots
The three icon hotspots attract different adventurers depending on what is built on them.

Each costs 1000 chimes to build,

At 90+ Fishing, The Whale skull Trophy increases your chance to attract the Whaler

At 90+ Prayer, The Saradominist symbol increases your chance to attract the Missionary

At 90+ Herblore, The Mammoth head increases your chance to attract the Biologist

At 90+ Runecrafting, The Occult artefact increases your chance to attract the Occultist

At 90+ Thieving, The Stocks increases your chance to attract the Convict

Others are available with the appropriate 90+ skills.

Lodgings
Better lodgings unlock better crew members.

The first upgrade provides a 2% boost to attracting higher quality crew, this upgrade costs 1500 gunpowder.

Office
Duncan and John Strum can be found in here, after the tutorial. Upgrading here is part of the tutorial. Better offices unlock more ship slots, the first upgrade past the tutorial, to unlock your third ship slot costs 4000 black slate and 3000 bamboo.

Portal hotspot
Portal upgrades are cosmetic only and have no effect on the performance of the port.

There are 5 options to decorate your Portal,

Ornate Portal costs 250 Bamboo.

Nautical Portal costs 1000 Gunpowder

Mystical Portal costs 2000 Black slate

Skeletal Portal costs 5000 Cherrywood

Jade portal costs 15,000 Jade.

Shipwright
The shipwright improves the performance of your ships.

The first upgrade boosts ship stats by 2% and costs 100 bamboo,

The second upgrade boosts ship stats by 3% and costs 2000 gunpowder.

Totem hotspots
The four totem hotspots have different effects depending on what totems are built.

All first tier Totems cost 3000 Jade and 2000 Cherrywood.

The first totems available are as follows;

Telescope: Increases the chance of recieving scroll missions.

Parrot: Increases the chance of recieving XP missions.

Cherry Tree: Increases the ammount of resources recieved from a mission by a small amount.

Pandora's Box: Increases the likelihood of receiving a random event in the port.

Jade Statue: Increases trade goods recieved from missions by a small amount.

Warehouse
The warehouse holds your goods. Better warehouses give greater bonuses to voyage rewards.

The first upgrade provides +3% boost to chime rewards and +5% boost to bamboo rewards, this upgrade costs 80 bamboo and 200 chimes.

Workshop
This is unlockable by exploring more of the Eastern Lands.

Playing the Game
All interaction with the ports is done through interfaces; your actual character is not involved, similarly to how Managing Miscellania works, although much more in-depth. To start using the port, once you have met the skill requirement, you will go through a tutorial that covers the basics of the ports.

Key Terms
Morale is a measurement of ______ A higher morale increases _______

Your Combat score affects __________

Your Seafaring level ___________

Your ship's Speed affects __________

Building a Ship
The first thing you will need is a ship.

There are 5 different hotspots to build items on the ship.

Rams/Figureheads, Deck items (2 of them), Rudders, and Hulls.

Each give specific stats and cost resources to buy, once purchased you can use them on any of your ships, of which there are basic starting options.

Meg the Adventurer
Meg is a wannabe adventurer who is in awe of you and your adventures. Once a day she will ask your advice on how to deal with several situations that she wishes to deal with herself. If she is given good advice, she will give you a piece of the good spoils she has reaped. If given bad advice, the spoils she shares will be rather more meagre.

Meg, ready for another adventure, returns from her adventuring the day after you send her with a chatbox message "You receive word that Meg has returned from her latest adventure.")

Note that the rewards depend on how good the advice you gave her was, although at this time, it is unknown what "good" advice is.

Possible Rewards
Main article: Meg/Rewards

Huge XP Lamp (Runecrafting)

Huge XP Lamp (Slayer)

Huge XP Lamp (Fishing)

Ninja Assassins
After a sucessful voyage upon completing the tutorial you may get to play a minigame that has you search for ninjas in 5 barrels around the dock then search out their targets through a series of clues. If you guess wrong you get another clue, finding all 5 targets will gain you a few small rewards. You can just guess the convict because there are no penalties for it.This random guessing can be made faster if you look for the gender hint, this will tell you if you are identifying the wrong gender target. Also if you dont find a Ninja there will be an arrow pointing to one.

Surula's bar
After a sucessful voyage, the player may get to play a minigame where they will control Surula and will have to serve beer to 20 clients in the bar area in 10 minutes. Surula can hold only 2 beer glasses and over the time she serves the clients, she will have to keep getting more from her bar in order to continue, as there are twenty clients to be served. It is quite simple seeing that you can serve all of them in about two minutes unhurriedly. The reward shares the same simplicity, it is not impressive but it is worth the time of the random event.

Shop
The Black Marketeer in the North West corner of the port allows players to spend RuneScape coins on items such as Bamboo. The NPC can also repair ships instantly negating the wait. However, if a player is finished with the port for the day or is going to be away for the repair time, it is likely better to just let it repair on its own.

Recruiting Captains
The bar will contain the captains for the special voyages. Only one is available upon completion of the tutorial but more may be unlocked by doing discovery voyages.

Voyages
Voyages provide resources for upgrading and recruiting inside the port, in addition to unlocking new features from zones to crew members. The chance of succeeding in a voyage depends on the points in certain skills that can be increased by choosing your captain, crew roster, and ship parts. Twelve standard and 3 special voyages are available each day.

Tetsu armour

 * Helm
 * Body
 * Legs

Sea singer's robes

 * Headband
 * Robe top
 * Robe bottom

Death Lotus armour

 * Hood
 * Chestplate
 * Chaps

Scrimshaws

 * Log-splitting Scrimshaw
 * Rock-crushing Scrimshaw
 * Tree-shaking Scrimshaw
 * Gem-finding Scrimshaw
 * Scrimshaw of Vampyrism
 * Scrimshaw of Strength
 * Scrimshaw of the Elements
 * Scrimshaw of Magic
 * Scrimshaw of Cruelty
 * Scrimshaw of Ranging

Other

 * Rocktail soup
 * Experience

Trivia

 * Before the release players received an in-game message saying "Avast mateys, the next Runescape game update will be in approximately 30 minutes".
 * The Chinese word in the top left of the Archipalego map is "端口" (duānkǒu) which is the wrong translation of port. Duānkǒu refers to a computer port or interface. The correct translation should be "港口" (gǎngkǒu), this may be one of Jagex's notorious play on words.