Stronghold Guide

In this tab, you can research a variety of different recipes and quality of life Stronghold functions. The more items you Research, the more items your Stronghold is able to craft and produce.

Important: You can Research Honing improvements for your other characters under Roster Help (bottom of the Research list). With this you are able to reduce the XP costs needed and increase their Honing chances for the researched tier.

This is the tab you can craft Battle Items, Food, Profession related tools, Honing Materials (only Fusion Materials), and Maps. Prime Oreha Fusion Material is a great item to craft for additional gold and upgrading.

Tip: North Vern Archaeological Site Map, Yorn Archaeological Site Map and Punika Archaeological Site Map are great Maps to craft for your respective tier if you are looking to boost your Honing chances. These maps have a chance to provide valuable upgrading materials like Moon's Breath (Bound) and Star's Breath (Bound). Unlock these Maps by researching them in the Lab.

Check the Gear Honing System for more details.

This is where you start Missions that your sailors, pets, and boats can complete. There are two types of Missions, Normal and Special.

• Normal Missions provide the rewards listed in exchange for Pirate Coins, Action Energy and Ship Durabiltiy.
• Special Missions require the same materials needed in Normal Missions, but also need Daily Entry Requirements. You essentially send a crew to do dailies for you, whilst also consuming your own daily run. Rewards received depend on the crew's performance.

Important: It's almost never worth it to do Special Missions, however, you can dispatch for content you don't want to do if you want to save time.

This is where you can equip structures like the Structure: Model SMT-01 and costumes to gain passives to your Stronghold Actions.

• Structures are found from crafting, the Adventurer's Tome, or cash shop.
• Costumes can be unlocked from having maximum Rapport with specific NPCs, or with Blue Crystals.

Legendary training can be unlocked after completing Legendary Monster Slayer from Adventurer Erwin in your Stronghold, followed by The Magic Society's Amazing Skill quest (to complete this quest, you have a character at level 52).

Once unlocked, you can select one to two characters to gain passive EXP (they cannot exceed your highest level character level however). Additionally they will gain 0 EXP past the maximum level minus one, for example if 60 is your maximum it will cap at 59 and delete all EXP after 59.

To unlock, you'll need to have Stronghold level 15, unlock the Stronghold Farm, the Cave, and have a Pet. After that, you can complete the Stronghold quest "Yay, Pet Ranch!!" given by Butler Adeline.

Once unlocked, you can have access to all things related to upgrading pets and the ranch. Please refer to the Pet Ranch Guide for more info.

The Knowledge Transfer machine is unlocked after reaching Stronghold level 5 and completing all quests in North Vern (Awakening as well). After that, you'll be able to take the Nothing Is Impossible For Cykins quest from Atheline. Finish it to unlock.

To set up your Knowledge Transfer, you must bring another character to your Stronghold to access the machine. Requirements below:

• Create a new character and go to your Stronghold after receiving access to your Sheet Music in Prideholme.
• Access the machine and pay 600 Gold.

Note: To Knowledge Transfer the next tier, you need a character to have finished the story for said continent. After the first 600 Gold boost, the subsequent Knowledge Transfers cost more Gold and the required item level to skip the story. For example if you want to boost past Rohendel, the character you would want to boost will need to be item level 460 and have the Gold required.

Check the Alts Guide for more details.

Reaching Stronghold level 15, you can unlock your Farm through the Land of Life quest from Felix and The Cave Where Time Stands Still from All-around Lifeman Nature NPC for the Cave.

These areas are life skilling areas that grant different bound materials compared to normal life skilling. This is mainly for people who don't enjoy life skilling.

Note: You gain less Profession EXP when life skilling in your Stronghold. World Tree Leaves do not drop here as well. Materials are also bound, so you cannot sell them for Gold.

Merchants occasionally visit your Stronghold to sell you items for Raid Seal. You can unlock different Merchants through Adventure Tome rewards Vern Royal Merchant Guild's Invitation or Una's Task rewards. There are many notable items you can find through Merchants:

• High Tier Sailors
• Runes
• Collectibles

Note: Other players may visit your Stronghold, but only have access to your Open Sale tab. Sales are limited in the Open Sale tab.