King’s Choice Uncharted Water (UW) event guide

The King’s Choice Uncharted Water event lets you experience medieval colonial trade. You’ll buy goods at a low price in one town and then transport them to another town to sell for a profit. Your alliance’s combined earnings from these trades determine your ranking on the event leaderboard. Unlike other events, Uncharted Water is only for alliances. It’s also a cross-server event, offering free-to-play players a good opportunity to earn the prestigious Duke title by becoming the top-performing alliance.

This article highlights two key strategies to help you make smart choices during the event. If you’re new to the game, be sure to check out our Beginner’s Guide and Mount Food Guide to learn the basics. You’ll also find helpful information in our guides on winning the Knights Parade, unlocking Pet bloodlines, and using them effectively in the Pets Race event.

King’s Choice Uncharted Water Event Overview

You can participate in this event in one of two ways: either as a Merchant, buying low and selling high, or as a Pirate, attacking other ships and taking their loot.

The Map

To succeed in the Uncharted Waters event, it’s important to learn the map. It shows a historical world with 40 important ancient ports. Traveling between these ports costs 1 Supply Barrel each. At each port, you can trade goods – buying items you need and selling what you have. Look for a small icon next to each port to find where a special item is sold at a discounted price.

Voyage Wealth and Initial Coins

Okay, so in this event, Voyager Wealth is everything. Seriously, it’s what decides where you end up on the leaderboard. For our alliance, they’re adding up all our Voyager Wealth to see how we rank. And my Voyager Wealth? It comes from two things: how many Voyager Coins I’ve collected, and the value of all the cargo I’m carrying on my ship. Gotta keep both of those numbers high!

The initial voyage coin is decided based on your lord title or rank. Follow the table

Title	Coins
No Rank	20,000
Baron	21,000
Earl	24,000
Duke	28,000

Supply Barrels

Traveling between cities or raiding another ship uses 1 supply barrel. You begin with 6 barrels, which slowly refill – one every 30 minutes – up to a maximum of 10. You can also buy more barrels with gold, diamonds, or with real money.

Upgrading The Ship

You can upgrade five different parts of your ship, and each upgrade will help you during the event in a unique way. Focus your upgrades based on how you want to play – trying to improve everything equally isn’t effective.

Once you’ve collected 5 supply barrels, you’ll receive a free ship upgrade – you can choose from three different options. You can also spend 100 gold to increase your ship’s level by one. Ships can be upgraded to a maximum level of 70, and skills can be improved to a maximum of 20.

Ships Skills

Ship Skills	Description
Capasity Expansion	Increases loot after winning a battle – needed to maximise the rewards from a plundering strategy.
Profit %	Increased profit from selling goods – a nice little extra for a trading strategy.
Battle Lv	Increases your chances of winning a battle – needed for plundering and defending against attacks.
Loot Lv	Increases loot after winning a battle – needed to maximize the rewards from a plundering strategy.
Intel Lv	Reduces the gold cost of refreshing nearby targets – useful for plundering strategy.

Selection of Strategy

Okay, so I’ve been figuring out the best way to play, and here’s what I’ve learned. If I go for a Merchant build, I really need to concentrate on boosting how much stuff I can carry and maximizing my profits, while still keeping my Battle Level decent. But if I want to be a Pirate, it’s all about leveling up my Battle, Loot, and Intel stats. Basically, Merchants focus on trade, Pirates focus on fighting and raiding!

The Merchant

The best way to increase your wealth in Voyager is by trading goods. It’s simple: buy items when they’re cheap at one port and sell them for a profit at another. Look for goods priced below 95% at each port – these are usually the best deals. Then, travel to a different port where you can sell that same item for a higher price, ideally around 107% or more.

Each port focuses on selling a specific item at a lower price than usual. However, each port only has a limited amount of that item. If it’s sold out, you’ll have to buy the next cheapest item available. Remember that traveling between ports costs 1 Supply Barrel each time.

Pro Tips

If you have enough gold, then upgrade your ship 10 levels (profit%, Capacity, Battle level) at the start of the event using 1000 gold coins. It will give you an edge from the beginning of the event
Try to play as soon as the stock resets, else the cheapest goods will be sold out and you won’t be able to make maximum profit from trade.
If you want to buy supply chest or if you have some in your bag, try to use them on day 1 and as early as possible.

The Pirate

If you enjoy player-versus-player combat and want to potentially earn a lot of in-game wealth (though it does come with some risk), piracy is a good option. It lets you attack other players and take their resources.

When you win a battle, you’ll earn Voyager Coins and potentially take some items from your opponent. Each attack uses one Supply Barrel, and improving your ship’s Battle Level will increase your odds of winning.

To start raiding other players, use the “Nearby Players” feature to see a list of five potential targets. This list updates automatically every three hours, along with the available ports. If you want to see a new list immediately, you can refresh it for 120 Gold – and you can do this as often as you like. You can also reduce the cost of refreshing by upgrading your “Intel Level”.

I love that you can hunt down specific players, but it does take War Flags to do it. You really have to think about who you’re going after though, because you can only attack each player once every hour!