Mission

From Puzzle Pirates

Missions are short tasks that can be taken by pirates from the Notice Board. The missions available depend on a pirate's experience and whether the pirate is carrying PoE.

Missions are completely optional and, in most cases, it is quite possible to do the activity of the mission without using the mission board. (E.g., one does not need a "Win while playing hearts" mission to play Hearts.)

However, navy missions can be quite useful:

"Navigate and Defeat Brigands" missions allow one to memorize routes one may not have charts for.

"Defeat brigands" missions are the only place where one can practice Sea Battle while having the game pay for all of the rum and cannon balls. (Alas, only one human player is allowed per brigand mission and the navy keeps most of the booty.)

In some cases, navy missions can be used as a crude and slow taxi service, allowing the player to get to islands that they've never been to before. The navy can sometimes also be used to travel an uninhabited island or an island in another archipelago without the use of a whisking potion.

[edit] At the inn

Win while playing hearts.
Win while playing spades.
Win while playing Treasure Drop.
Win a swordfighting brawl.
Win a drinking party.
Win the first round of a sword fighting tournament.
Win the first round of a drinking tournament.

[edit] At the palace or fort

Win a swordfighting match against a teacher. (There are ten difficulty levels.)
Win a drinking match against a teacher. (There are ten difficulty levels.)

[edit] Crafting

On a doubloon ocean, a pirate must have a labor badge for these missions to appear.

Go to an apothecary and help them by alchemizing.
Go to a distillery and help them by distilling.
Go to a shipyard and help them by shipwrighting.

[edit] Shopping

A pirate must have PoE on hand for the following missions:

Go to an iron monger and buy a new sword.
Go to a tailor and buy some new clothes.

[edit] Aboard the navy

A pirate must have less than broad experience in one of bilging, sailing, carpentry, or gunnery for the following missions:

Bilging on a voyage.
Carpenting on a voyage.
Gunning on a voyage.
Sailing on a voyage.

Note that by taking one of the missions above, and then canceling it once aboard, you can practice any of the other duty stations above, without restrictions.

A pirate must have at least broad experience in bilge, sail, carp, and gunnery for the following missions:

Navigating on a voyage.
Bilging, sailing, carpenting, or gunning on a voyage.

A pirate must have narrow experience in navigation for the following mission:

Defeating brigands on a voyage.

[edit] Miscellaneous

Defeat the skellies.
Job for a crew
Claim your inheritance. (This is only available for purchasers of the box edition of the game.)