Example Monkey Pirate raid rework + other things

[Jakepeng99]

I had this idea for awhile. What if you could encounter different kinds of pirate ships which will need different strategies to counter? They will have structures on their boat, and have unique loot. This will add some variety to them, and try fix their core issues.

Focus will be on the pirate raids. Trinkets or anything else are for another day, however if i do discuss trinkets i will link the post at the bottom.

I want to make the loot worth the downside of the curse. There will be better ways to cure the curse like a new monkey shrine structure which is a portable monkey queen essentially that can be a mast upgrade.

 

Pirate Raid Tweaks

This will apply to all the different ships unless mentioned otherwise. The price to bribe the pirates have been reworked. They will demand one banana for each monkey on board, instead of just one. The price will slowly increase as you bribe more monkeys in a row, and as the days increase. Giving them one banana will make them neutral for 10 seconds and start demanding more bananas. During that time they will give you a chance to give the rest of the required bananas. If you don't, they are aggressive again and wont try again.

The monkeys no longer come on the boat all at once. The primate will always be the last to go on offence. He will send one or two monkey at a time while the rest of the monkeys stay on defence and focus on maintaining the boat. This will depend on how many days the player has survived. Pirate raids now can happen anywhere in the ocean that is not too near land. They have a much longer warning time now.

Only some types of pirate ships will run when getting shot by a cannon (None in the chosen concepts). Some will have unique reactions.

 

New Pirate Ships:

Each of these have a chance of spawning on any pirate raid. Any and all pirate ships can also have some generated decoration presets on them, like tables or seats for variety in non intrusive spots. They will have some barrels too that can be broken for minor loot.

Plunder Ships

These are the default pirate ships you will expect, and are all about looting. They are very similar to the current pirate raids (besides from the previous changes done to them). They also have a pinch winch on board for treasure hunting, which have a 15% chance to have a treasure chest, 30% chance of a shell cluster, 35% chance for ocean debris, or 20% chance for nothing. The unique feature is Polly Rogers' evil sibling, Regonald Blackclaw. They will sit on the primates hat, and will be a threat to the player. They will fly onto the player's vessel, stealing any loot from the ground and returning it to the primate captain. Regonald will also play offence and attack the player, making them drop their hand item. Though, they only do this once.

Regonald is a threat the player will need to deal with, but they only have 75hp. This is overall the easiest of the raids to deal with as an inexperienced player as it is the easiest to learn.

Summary of loot: Same as the current loot for pirate raids with extra quantity and the pinch winch. Polly Roger blueprint is only obtained from this ships treasure now. 

The Hunting Ship

These will first start spawning at day 12.

These monkeys hunt gnarwhales and other sea beasts. However, they wont mind trying to plunder a ship or two. The ship has a moon-quay styled fridge with some fish in it, and features a drying rack with some jerky. However, the unique thing about this ship is that they have a harpoon attached to their boat. A monkey will operate the harpoon and will attach it to your boat, making these the hardest monkeys to escape from. Some Monkeys will climb across the rope onto your boat if they cant get the boat close. However, This harpoon can be countered by slowly cutting it or setting it ablaze, though they will shoot at you again to reattach after some time. The permanent solution to the harpoon is destroying it with a cannon or something else. The harpoon has 150hp. See if you can get some monkeys to fall into the ocean by timing when you will cut the rope.

These boats tend to have less monkeys than normal, so a prepared player may find this the easiest raid of them all if they play defence.

Summary of loot: A few gears from destroying the harpoon/fridge, some morsels of food from the drying rack and fridge like fish. Jerky, sometimes barnacles. Sometimes dried kelp.

the burried treasure from their treasure map can contain gnarwhale horns, food, and rarely malbatross feathers and a malbatross bill. It could also contain a harpoon kit/blueprint.

Trap Ships

These will start spawning at day 24. They are a rare find.

These are the most dangerous ships of them all, but it is stationary. At first glance there are no monkeys on this ship. Some may notice some small, suspicious straws poking out from the water, and see the odd barrel shake. There is alot of loot on this ship, some chests filled with gold and other elusive items, and one large guarinteed sunken treasure. However, once you jump onto this boat you are in for a surprise. Some Monkeys will burst out of barrels, and some scuba monkeys with make-ship scuba masks will jump out the water and join the battle soon later. If you can defend yourself from this surprise attack, you are in for a treats since it has the most loot of them all. There is no pirate captain or treasure map on this boat. If you dare try to shoot the ship with a cannon, don't be surprised to see some scuba monkeys on board your ship.

Summary of loot: Nothing specific. Not sure what they could give.

 

Summary

Those are my take on a concept of what i believe would make pirate raids better. I believe there should be one or two more types of ships since having just two offencive types is too small, but i did not want to overbloat the post. I had ideas of monkey tooth traps, boomerang monkeys, and other things.

 

Remade this post since it is archived and currently relevant. I added a few things like new ideas in the summary.