Player-owned port/Upgrades

Buildings and decorations can be built or upgraded to offer bonuses to different areas of the port's operations.

Bar
The bar is owned by Surula, and is used to attract captains and adventurers. On Thursdays, players can talk to Surula for more gossip.

Office
Duncan and John Strum can be found in here, after the tutorial. A better office unlocks more ship slots, which can be used to send out more voyages simultaneously.

Workshop
This is unlockable by exploring more of the Eastern Lands. (it is worth noting the 5% exp boost is only applicable to player-owned port specific items.)

Lodgings
Better lodgings attract better crew members.

Shipwright
The shipwright improves the performance of your ships. The bonuses from the upgrades do not stack; i.e., upgrading from Refitted shipwright to Renovated shipwright gives an additional 1% bonus to all of the stats of the ship, not an additional 3%. The bonus is given on the ship's total stats (including those added by the crew and captain), not just the stats of the ship itself.

Warehouse
The warehouse, in the north-west corner of the port, holds your goods. Bigger warehouses give greater bonuses to voyage rewards.

The warehouse also is home to Felix The Black Marketeer, who allows players to spend gold coins on items such as Bamboo and Chimes. He can also repair ships instantly, negating the normal waiting period. A lightly damaged ship may take approximately 20,000 gold coins, a more heavily damaged one can take 40,000 or more. However, if a player is finished with the port for the day or is going to be away for the repair time, it is less expensive to allow the normal repair time to progress, which may be anywhere from one hour to five or more hours of real time, depending on the amount of damage.

It is worth noting that with the exception of The Black Marketeer, the only currency in player-owned ports is a type of coin called a "Chime".

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

Icon hotspots
The three icon hotspots, at the south ends of the three piers, increase the chance of attracting different adventurers to the port. Each icon costs 1000 chimes to build. The player may build more than one of the same kind of icon (limited, of course, to the total of three). However, it is unknown at this time if the bonus chance stacks for more than one.

Portal hotspot
Portal upgrades are cosmetic only and have no effect on the performance of the port. Note that by buying a certain cosmetic style of portal, it does 'not' unlock it for your leisurely use. That is, if you purchase the Ornate Portal for 250 bamboo and then switch back to the Standard Portal design, it will cost you 250 bamboo once again to switch back to the Ornate Portal design.

Trivia

 * There are many modeling problems with the Renovated Bar. The windows seen inside the bar are not in the same locations as the windows on the outside of the bar; they are placed far too low on the inside to match up with the outside windows. One of the outside windows does not have a corresponding inside window. They are also the wrong size, shape, and style. The entrance door and the door onto the balcony have large ornamental keystones in the arches that extend well into the doorway opening and extend past the front of the door frame, meaning that neither door could possibly be closed. The fireplace in the downstairs bar has no chimney when viewed from outside the bar.
 * The Renovated Office has the correct windows inside, and at the correct height, but has one on the front wall that is behind the bulletin board outside, and is missing the window on the back wall that would correspond to the widow outside. There should be a window on the blank wall next to the shelves above the chest