Your main money. Pirates grab them from chests on each isle and carry them back to the ship. You also get a bonus when an isle is fully looted, and from the gold ship and kraken fights. Spend them in the Ship tab on ship size, crew and fleet upgrades.

Earned when you reach a new isle and as you level up, from kraken wins and achievements. Spend them in the Skills tab on permanent skills like Pirate's Fortune and Away Time.

Rare. You find a few when you loot an isle (more on later isles), from kraken fights and achievements, or buy packs in the Shop. Spend them on ship skins, island skins and decorations in the Skins tab, or to finish a ship build early.

Every isle you loot gives 1 to 5 card packs. Open them in the Captains tab. Duplicate cards level up a captain. Your equipped captain boosts loot speed, crew health and damage, and rarer captains have more abilities. Maxed captains can earn stars after you prestige. Each star resets the card to level 1 but multiplies its power, and common cards gain the most from stars, so a 5-star common can match a fresh Red Shiny.

You level up by earning XP: mostly from reaching new isles, plus achievements, upgrades, new ships and beating bosses. Early levels come quickly, and each level after takes a little longer. Each level makes your doubloons worth more, gives emeralds, and unlocks better card odds and new fleet ships. Check the Skills tab to see what the next level brings.

Bigger ships carry more crew and cannons. A new size unlocks at certain isles and takes real time to build, even while the game is closed. You can finish a build early with pearls.

Found only by beating the kraken. Each win finds 1 relic. Each find raises a relic one level, up to 50, and relics are kept forever.

Every 12 to 20 minutes a kraken appears near the island. Tap it to fight. Aim cannon shots at its glowing eye and blast tentacles before they grab your ship. Win to earn doubloons, a pearl, emeralds, a card pack and a relic.

Sometimes a golden ship sails past. Tap it before it leaves for a big doubloon bonus.

While the game is closed you keep earning a share of your doubloons for a limited time. Raise the time and amount with the Away Time and Away Earnings skills. Pirates don't move to new isles while you're away.

Once you reach level 30 you can prestige from the Skills tab. You restart at Isle 1 and earn Renown equal to your level minus 15 (15 at the max level, level 30), plus 1 for every 3 isles you push past the max-level isle, so pushing further pays more. Each Renown point gives +10% doubloons and +5% emeralds and pearls forever. You keep captains, skills, relics, emeralds, pearls, skins and achievements; doubloons, ship upgrades, weapons and fleet reset.

Tap the trophy at the top to see goals and claim rewards like emeralds, pearls and card packs.