Player-owned port

The Player-owned port 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 minigame involves players building their own port in order to manage a fleet of ships, staffed by recruited crew members. These ships explore the Eastern Lands on the player's behalf and return with exotic items and supplies that are otherwise unavailable.

Level requirements
Access to player-owned ports requires level 90+ in at least one of the following skills: Fishing, Slayer, Runecrafting, Herblore, Prayer, or Thieving. More content is available for each of the requirements met.

Location
Players can start by heading to Port Sarim. Southwest of the pub is a portal that players can use to enter their port.

Tutorial
Starting the tutorial requires level 90+ in either Fishing, Slayer, Runecrafting, Herblore, Prayer, or Thieving. Upon entering the port for the first time you will see a cutscene followed by a brief interactive tutorial. It is recommended to play through the tutorial, since it teaches you all the mechanics of hiring crew, equipping your ships, sending them out on voyages, upgrading your port, and collecting rewards.

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+ Slayer, The Human Skull increases your chance to attract the Assassin

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.

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 receiving scroll missions.

Parrot: Increases the chance of receiving XP missions.

Cherry Tree: Increases the ammount of resources received 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 received 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.

The second upgrade provides +4% boost to chime rewards, +10% boost to bamboo rewards and +5% boost to gunpowder rewards. This upgrade costs 500 gunpowder and 1,200 chimes.

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

Voyages
The voyages interface shows the current available voyages.

Crew Roster
The Crew Roster contains information about each crew member and allows you to hire new crew members. Crew members may be hired from the Crew Roster screen. The screen shows three potential crew members and their costs and stats at a time. Clicking on the arrows next to one of the three potential crew member's title will "reroll" a random crew member for that slot. The player has a limited number of rerolls for random crewmembers/type shown at the bottom of the screen. Additional rerolls may be purchased using rewards from Random Events within the Player Owned Port system, as also shown at the bottom of the screen. The available crew and rerolls reset at 00:00 UTC each day.

Upgrade Building
Bamboo allows you to upgrade buildings.

Upgrading the bar gives you a better chance at recruiting a better crew.

Upgrading the office gives you better voyage prospects.

Port Management
The Port Management interface allows the player to focus on an area of the map and suggest which scrolls they would prefer to find first.

It also allows the player to choose which area their captains should focus voyages on. This allows you to specialise in certain resources. If you are finding a new area particularly difficult, you can continue working at an older area untill you feel able to tackle the tougher voyages.

Archipelago Map
The archipelago map shows the information of currently unlocked island that your voyages can reach.

Ship Name Editor
The Ship Name Editor interface allows you to alter the three parts of your ships' names. This is accessed by clicking the pen icon next to your ships. This can be done regardless of if your ship is docked or away on a voyage. You can alter the prefix, as well as the two main body sections of your ship's name. Names have no effect on the performance of your ships, and are purely cosmetic.

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 the amount of time that it takes for each voyage.

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 young girl and aspiring adventurer who can be found in your Player-owned port in the southwest corner. Once each week (the week resets on Wednesday) she will ask for your advice on how to deal with several situations that she has encountered on her adventures. After advising her, she will teleport out to her adventures. At the end of a day she will give you a Treasure chest, with a reward that depends on the quality of the advice she was given. See the main article for strategies and reward information.

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.

Possible Rewards

 * Crew Reroll
 * Captain Reroll
 * Voyage Reroll
 * Resources

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. It is worth noting that with the exception of the shop, the main currency in player-owned ports is a type of coin called a "Chime."

Crew
There are many types of crew members which are broken down into sections below.

Traits
Crew members may have a "trait" which provides extra bonuses to the ships when the crew member is part of a crew on a voyage. These traits are attached to the crew member when bought and thus cannot be changed. Captains and first mates have a high chance of having these traits. Explanations of the traits can be seen when hovering over the trait. The possible traits are listed below:
 * No trait - No bonuses
 * Solidarity - Gives +25 to all stats per unique crew member aboard (does not stack)
 * Eagle-Eyed - Improved seafaring

Captains
Every crew must have one and only one captain. In addition to their standard stats, each captain has a given "personality" listed under their trait. It is unknown how these affect gameplay. They are listed below:
 * Exuberant
 * Vicious
 * Abrasive
 * Plucky
 * Cowardly

Humans

 * Catherby Fisherman


 * Smuggler


 * Varrock Chef


 * Travelling Drunk


 * Brimhaven Pirate


 * Stowaway


 * Ardougne Storekeeper


 * First Mate


 * Eastern Musketeer


 * Eastern Overseer


 * Eastern Guide


 * Fireworks Enthusiast

Golems

 * Bamboo Golem
 * Exploding Golem

Dwarven

 * Dwarven Engineer

Cyclopes

 * Cyclops

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.

Rewards
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.

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.
 * The Chinese word in the bottom left of the Archipalego map is "指南針" (zhǐnánzhēn), meaning compass.