Bartering Lifeskill Guide - BDFoundry (2024)

Introduction

Bartering is a great way to earn money in the game whilst being semi-afk. There are a lot of prerequisites though and you will need to invest a lot of silver (1 billion +) and time to really get the most out of bartering, as well as completing a week’s worth of daily quests. This guide will go over the basics and set you up with an Epheria Caravel at the end. You can choose to go for the Galleass boat instead but the Caravel is a better boat for bartering because of its increased weight.

To get started, you will need a character with level 50 or higher and Skilled 1 in sailing, as well as an Epheria Sailboat.

• You can buy an Epheria sailboat from the central market
  • Sailboats are generally used if you would like to do Bartering, and the Epheria Frigate is for if you want to do sea monster hunting or other naval combat.
• To achieve skilled 1 in sailing, complete the questline [The Great Expedition] First Sailboat into Oquilla’s Eye!
  • This questline starts with the quest“Vigorous Velia“ and is available from your Black Spirit or Quest Log (O) under the Suggested tab
    
  • Sometimes players automatically complete the quest or start the questline without knowing, so check under your quest log if the quest is missing.
  • The questline can be done on all characters.

The questline takes a couple of hours to complete and you will need the Epheria Sailboat, but the questline is very important to give you an introduction to bartering and will give you some free sailor slots. It is mostly running around and will introduce you to the Oquilla’s Eye Island. You will need to kill a few sea monsters, which won’t take too long.

Basics of Bartering

Bartering Routes and Chains

To begin, you must place “land goods” into your ship’s inventory at a Wharf Manager.

Land goods can be items such as Vinegar, Beer, Fleece, Powder of Time, etc. All current land goods can be found below:

*You can also trade Level 4 barter items for fewer Crow Coins.

• Level 1 items cannot be sold to an NPC and weigh 100LT.
• Level 2 items cannot be sold to an NPC and weight 800LT.
• Level 3 items can be sold to an NPC for 1 million silver and weigh 900LT.
  
• Level 4 items can be sold to an NPC for 2 million silver and weigh 1000LT.
• Level 5 items can be sold to an NPC for either 7.5 million silver or 15 million silver depending on the item and weigh 1000LT.

Bartering Menu

You can open the bartering menu by pressing ESC then going to Life and selecting Barter.

There are a few important things to note in this window:

Unlocking all Bartering Routes

As you complete more barters, the amount of bartering routes you unlock is increased. You will need a minimum of 70 barters to unlock the main bartering routes.

**Once you reach around 140 barters, you will unlock Special Bartering

• Brilliant Rock Salt Ingots and Brilliant Pearl Shards unlock at 1000 for Ship Material refreshes.
• Brilliant Rock Salt Ingots and Brilliant Pearl Shards unlock at 1500 for Trade Item refreshes

Weight Limit Gear for Bartering Characters

You can purchase the Root Treant’s Accessories at the Armor Vendor NPC Grandus in Calpheon City.

For the Manos Golden Coral Belt, the weight limit increases the higher it is enhanced and it is the best for weight limit. You can find alternative belts in our Weight Limit Guide.

In total, this recommended gear will give you an additional +1090LT.

Best crystal setup for a total of 490 LT:

• Ancient Magic Crystal – Hystria x4 (or x6 with Fiery Weapon equipped)
• HAN Magic Crystal – Gervish x4
• WON Magic Crsytal- Cobelinus x2
• BON Magic Crystal – Hystria x2

Other Bartering/Sailing Gear

Bartering does not have a Mastery benefits, so it is best to use sailing gear and buffs where possible, but generally is not needed. Sailing Mastery is also not really worth investing heavily into, but you can wear Silver Embroidered Sailor’s Clothes for extra Sailing EXP.

Below is a list of specific gear and buffs to use for Sailing/Bartering. You should also aim to use as many Life EXP buffs as possible if you would like to level your sailing.

Storing Barter Items

Your goal is to slowly build your bartering storage and increase your total barters while you collect the items required for the Epheria Caravel.

For the best efficiency you can store items in the following storages:

• Port Epheria:Land Goods, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4
• Iliya Island: Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, Level 5
• Ancado Inner Harbor: Level 5

Try to keep an even balance and a good amount of each item in both Port Epheria and Illiya Island so you don’t have to go across the map multiple times to collect the items needed

I recommend using 19 contribution points to get the maximum amount of storage in Iliya Island once you start to build up your stockpile of barter items. This will give you 59 additional storage slots in Illiya. You can also buy a residence on Lema and use a container to access the Iliya storage and save yourself a trip, this will cost an additional 11 contribution points.

I also highly recommend using this spreadsheet to keep track of your storage. It also has lots of other useful information for bartering.

Below are all the materials you will need to collect by exchanging bartering goods.

These items occasionally pop up in Trade Item Refreshes, so watch for them after every refresh.

The materials can also be obtained when using the Ship Material Refresh.

Items to Store for Epheria Carrack

Below are all the materials you will need to collect by exchanging bartering goods.

These items occasionally pop up in Trade Item Refreshes, so watch for them after every refresh.

• Level 2 Materials show after 10 total barters
• Level 3 Materials show after 30 total barters
• Level 4 materials can show after 70 total barters
• Level 5 materials can show after 5110 total barters (3000 barters for ship material refresh)

The materials can also be obtained when using the Ship Material Refresh. The rest of the items for the Carrack can be obtained by completing the Sailing Daily quests

Carrack Recipe Item	Items to Keep
Bright Reef Piece x180	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x10 Bright Reef Piece [Level 3] Pirates’ Supply Box [Level 3] Weasel Leather Coat [Level 3] Lopters Fishnet
Brilliant Pearl Shard x35 (Advance) x30 (Balance, Volante and Valor)	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x1 Brilliant Pearl Shard [Level 5] Elixir of Youth [Level 5] Mysterious Rock [Level 5] Golden Fish Scale [Level 5] Faded Gold Dragon Figurine
Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot x35 (Advance) x30 (Balance, Volante and Valor)	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x1 Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot [Level 5] Portrait of the Ancient [Level 5] Luxury Patterned Fabric [Level 5] 102 Year Old Golden Herb [Level 5] Taxidermied White Caterpillar
Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Parley Beginner) x60	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x1 Cox Pirates’ Artifact [Level 2] Opulent Marble [Level 2] Big Stone Slab [Level 2] Monster Tentacle
Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Parley Expert) x30	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x1 Cox Pirates’ Artifact [Level 4] Amethyst Fragment [Level 4] Headless Dragon Figurine
Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood x300	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x10 Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood [Level 4] Stolen Pirate Dagger [Level 4] Marine Knights’ Spear [Level 4] Bronze Candlestick
Fiery Black Stone x40	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x3 Fiery Black Stones [Level 3] Gooey Monster Blood [Level 3] Skull Symbol Carpet [Level 3] Stalactite Fragment [Level 3] Pirates’ Supply Box
Frosted Black Stone x40	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x3 Frosted Black Stones [Level 4] Boatman’s Manual [Level 4] Green Salt Lump [Level 4] Seashell Deco
Great Ocean Dark Iron x150	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x5 Great Ocean Dark Iron [Level 4] Opulent Thread Spool [Level 4] Green Salt Lump [Level 4] Panacea
Luminous Cobalt Ingot x30	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x1 Luminous Cobalt Ingot [Level 4] Stolen Pirate Dagger [Level 4] Solidified Lava [Level 4] Pirate’s Key
Pure Pearl Crystal x45	Barter x1 Sea Trade Good for x1 Pure Pearl Crystal [Level 3] Torn Pirate Treasure Map [Level 3] Scout Binoculars [Level 3] Skull Symbol Carpet [Level 3] Ancient Orders

Bartering Dailies

Once you have completed the questline, you can begin to get dailies that will give you materials for your Epheria Caravel.

The most important dailies to do are the Ravinia’s Ship Upgrade Log dailies from Ravinia on Crow’s Nest (location shown in the next section of the guide). There are 7 in total, so it should take you a week to complete them.

It’s also worth noting that the quests are family-wide so you can complete the talking quests with an alt to save time.

Crow’s Nest (Crow Coin Shop)

Crow’s Nest is located northeast of Oquilla’s Eye and is hidden on the map because it is in the Ross Sea. You can use an Explorer’s compass to view the hidden island and your location on the map. The easiest way to find it without one is to go north from Tinberra Island.

There is a small dock on the southwest of the island and this is where you can find the wharf manager. Once you get to the dock, just follow the pathway around the island to get to Ravinia. She gives daily quests and also sells items at the Crow Coin shop. All items in the Crow Coin shop are not worth buying unless you need them desperately for upgrading your ship. It is much more profitable to trade your Crow Coins for the Caphras stone bundle and then sell these.

You can also swap any Level 1 Barter items for a Voucher at Revinia on Illiya Island, and then use the voucher to exchange for a Verdant Black Stone.

Upgrading to the Epheria Caravel

Upgrading to the Caravel requires the following materials

Upgrading an Epheria Sailboat to an Epheria Caravel
Materials needed	How to obtain
Ship Upgrade Permit: Epheria Caravel x1	Purchase from Philaberto Falasi in Port Epheria for 400 million silver
+10 Epheria: Old Prow x1	Purchase from Philaberto Falasi in Port Epheria for 3.5 million silver then enhance (see ship gear section)
+10 Epheria: Old Plating x1	Purchase from Philaberto Falasi in Port Epheria for 4 million silver then enhance (see ship gear section)
+10 Epheria: Old Cannon x1	Purchase from Philaberto Falasi in Port Epheria for 3.5 million silver then enhance (see ship gear section)
+10 Epheria: Old Sails x1	Purchase from Philaberto Falasi in Port Epheria for 3 million silver then enhance (see ship gear section)
Graphite Ingot for Upgrade x100	Processing (L) > Heating Zinc Ingot x100 and Sea Monster’s Ooze x1 (Sea Monster’s Ooze is obtained by killing sea monsters)
Timber for Upgrade x100	Processing (L) > Chopping Old Tree Bark x100, Red Tree Lump x100 and Sea Monster’s Ooze x1 (Sea Monster’s Ooze is obtained by killing sea monsters)
Adhesive for Upgrade x100	Processing (L) > Heating Recipe #1: Sea Monster’s Ooze x1, White Cedar Sap x100, Acacia Sap x100, and Elder Tree Sap x100 Recipe #2: Sea Monster’s Ooze x1 and White Cedar Sap x300 Recipe #3: Sea Monster’s Ooze x1 and Acacia Sap x300 Recipe #4: Sea Monster’s Ooze x1 and Elder Tree Sap x300 (Sea Monster’s Ooze is obtained by killing sea monsters)
Island Tree Coated Plywood x100	Obtain x100 by swapping Barter Materials (Trade Item Barter): Filtered Drinking Water, Narvo Sea Cucumber, Pirate Gold Coin Obtain x100 by swapping Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Filtered Drinking Water, Pirate Ship Mast, Supreme Oyster Box, Sea Survival Kit, Urchin Spine, Islanders’ Lunchbox, Monster Tentacle
Rock Salt Ingot x100	Obtain x100 by swapping [Level 2] Barter Materials (Trade Item Barter): Conch Shell Ornament, Balanced Stone Pagoda, Urchin Spine Obtain x100 by swapping [Level 2] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Balanced Stone Pagoda, Cron Castle Gold Coin, Sea Survival Kit, Supreme Oyster Box, Opulent Marble, Narvo Sea Cucumber
Deep Sea Memory Filled Glue x4	Obtain x4 by swapping [Level 3] Barter Materials (Trade Item Barter): Torn Pirate Treasure Map, Gooey Monster Blood, Rare Herb Pile, Blue Candle Bundle Obtain x4 by swapping [Level 3] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Blue Candle Bundle, Skull Decorated Teacup, Weasel Leather Coat, Old Hourglass, Round Knife Purchase for 140 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Obtain x16 by completing Daily Sailing Quests and exchanging Oquilla Coins x150 Obtain x8 by completing the [Daily] Ravikel’s Test quest from the Daily Sailing Quests
Seaweed Stalk x4	Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 4] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Bronze Candlestick, Stolen Pirate Dagger, Pirate’s Key, Marine Knights’ Helm, Marine Knights’ Spear, Green Salt Lump, Boatman’s Manual, Panacea Purchase for 600 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Obtain x8 by completing Daily Sailing Quests and exchanging Oquilla Coins x150 Obtain x4 by completing the [Daily] Precious Coral Piece quest from the Daily Sailing Quests Obtain x1 by exchanging Iridescent Coral at the Otter Merchant on Oquilla’s Eye

To craft the remaining items, you will need 150 Sea Monster’s Ooze. You should have obtained this from the first questline but if you don’t have this then you can kill sea monsters to get them. Ask a friend to help you out if you are struggling. You should only need to kill ~8 monsters for the full amount. Use the Sea Monster’s Ooze to craft the remaining amount of Graphite Ingot for Upgrade, Timber for Upgrade and Adhesive for Upgrade.

That means you will have to either buy or gather the remaining materials needed to craft them:

• Zinc Ingot x5000
• Old Tree Bark x5000
• Red Tree Lump x5000
• White Cedar Sap x5000
• Acacia Sap x5000
• Elder Tree Sap x5000

You should also have Level 2 bartering items to exchange for the Island Tree Coated Plywood and Rock Salt Ingot. Next, you will need to buy the Ship Upgrade Permit from Falasi in Epheria for 400 million silver and then craft the equipment and enchant it with the Verdant stones. The gear doesn’t downgrade and doesn’t require failstacks so it shouldn’t be too hard. You can get the Blackstones required by exchanging Level 1 goods for a voucher on Iliya Island, then take the voucher to Crow’s Nest (location is shown in the Crow’s Nest section of the guide). You will need a total of 220 Verdant stones to get all 4 items to +10.

Once you have all of this, go to a wharf manager, check in your Sailboat and click on Upgrade. Select the Caravel option and upgrade your ship!

Head over toCrow’s Nest and use the Crow Coins to buy Fiery Blackstones x40and FrostyBlackstones x60 from Ravina. It will cost a total of 1,600 coins.

Go back to Falasi and buy theEpheria Caravel Green Gear. Then, use Fiery blackstones until +5 and then Frosty blackstones until +10. I recommend having +10 green grade gear at a minimum because they give a lot of extra stats which greatly increase your weight limit and movement speed, making bartering much more efficient and increasing your profit for time spent.

Check out our Epheria Sailboat and Caravel guide for information about ship gear

Upgrading from the Caravel to the Carrack

After obtaining your Caravel and full +10 green-grade gear, the next step is working towards your Carrack.

The best Carrack for Bartering is the Carrack: Advance ship, since it has a high amount of weight limit and inventory slots.

If you are interested in other Carrack ships, check our Epheria Carrack guide for their upgrading materials.

• Your first goal is to start doing the Sailing Daily quests for the majority of the materials.
• You then want to push your total barters up to at least 1000, so that you can start getting exchange options for the Brilliant materials through Ship Material Refreshes.
  • Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot and Brilliant Pearl Shards unlock at 1000 for Ship Material refreshes.
  • Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot and Brilliant Pearl Shards unlock at 1500 for Trade Item refreshes.
  • Use our “Items to store for Carrack” to see which barter items to keep spare for which materials.
• If you are desperate to push for the carrack as quickly as possible, you can also do Sea Monster hunting and purchase items from the Crow Coin shop.

Materials needed	Advance	How to obtain
+10 Epheria Caravel: Black Dragon Prow	x1	Craft at the level 4 Ship Part Workshop in Epheria (2nd Floor, 1-4, Epheria) then enhance +10 Epheria Caravel: Brass Prow x1 Ruddy Manganese Nodule x50 Enhanced Island Tree Coated Plywood x300 Seaweed Stalk x125 Great Ocean Dark Iron x150 Check our Epheria Caravel Guide for details about the materials needed
+10 Epheria Caravel: Upgraded Plating	x1	Craft at the level 4 Ship Part Workshop in Epheria (2nd Floor, 1-4, Epheria) then enhance +10 Epheria Caravel: Upgraded Plating x1 Pure Pearl Crystal x45 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Combat) x60 Moon Scale Plywood x200 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Parley Beginner) x60 Check our Epheria Caravel Guide for details about the materials needed
+10 Epheria Caravel: Mayna Cannon	x1	Craft at the level 4 Ship Part Workshop in Epheria (2nd Floor, 1-4, Epheria) then enhance +10 Epheria Caravel: Verisha Cannon x1 Tide-Dyed Standardized Timber Square x180 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Combat) x60 Moon Scale Plywood x200 Bright Reef Piece x180 Check our Epheria Caravel Guide for details about the materials needed
+10 Epheria Caravel: Stratus Wind Sail	x1	Craft at the level 4 Ship Part Workshop in Epheria (2nd Floor, 1-4, Epheria) then enhance +10 Epheria Caravel: White Wind Sail x1 Ruddy Manganese Nodule x40 Cox Pirates’ Artifact (Parley Expert) x30 Seaweed Stalk x80 Luminous Cobalt Ingot x30 Check our Epheria Caravel Guide for details about the materials needed
Moon Vein Flax Fabric	x180	Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Taxidermied White Caterpillar, Faded Gold Dragon Figurine, 37 Year Old Herbal Wine Obtain x3 or x1 by completing the [Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Nineshark Hunter quest Purchase for 600 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Obtain x6 by completing Daily Sailing Quests and exchanging Oquilla Coins x150 Obtain x10 by using Drying on Khan’s Tendon x1 from the Khan guild boss
Deep Tide-Dyed Standardized Timber Square	x144	Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Golden Fish Scale, Azure Quartz, Taxidermied Morpho Butterfly, Octagonal Box, Supreme Gold Candlestick, Mysterious Rock, Elixir of Youth, Faded Gold Dragon Figurine, Portrait of the Ancient, Luxury Patterned Fabric, 37 Year Old Herbal Wine, 102 Year Old Golden Herb Obtain x3 by completing the [Daily] Win-win Situation quest Purchase for 1000 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Obtain x6 by completing Daily Sailing Quests and exchanging Oquilla Coins x150 Obtain x1 by Chopping Usable Pirate Ship’s Remains x1
Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot	x35	Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Trade Item Refresh): Portrait of the Ancient, Luxury Patterned Fabric, 102 Year Old Golden Herb, Taxidermied White Caterpillar, Azure Quartz Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Portrait of the Ancient, 102 Year Old Golden Herb, Taxidermied White Caterpillar, Taxidermied Morpho Butterfly, Supreme Gold Candlestick Purchase for 1600 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Rare drop from the Black Rust and Candidum sea monsters Obtain x1 by completing the [Ship Upgrade] Ravinia’s Favor II quest (requires exchanging Brilliant Pearl Shard x1 and Crow Coin Coupon x20)
Tear of the Ocean	x42	Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Supreme Gold Candlestick, Statue’s Tear, Taxidermied Morpho Butterfly, Azure Quartz, Faded Gold Dragon Figurine, Taxidermied White Caterpillar, Golden Fish Scale, 102 Year Old Golden Herb, Portrait of the Ancient Obtain x1 by completing the [Daily] Old Moon Guild’s Black Rust Hunter quest Obtain x2 by completing Daily Sailing Quests and exchanging Oquilla Coins x150 Purchase for 3900 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Obtain x1 by exchanging Iridescent Coral x180 – x240 at the Otter Merchant on Oquilla’s Eye Obtain x1 by using Simple Alchemy with Abyssal Gem x2 Rare drop when fishing at Papua Crinea Rare drop from Oquilla’s Eye Chests
Brilliant Pearl Shard	x35	Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Trade Item Refresh): Elixir of Youth, Mysterious Rock, Golden Fish Scale, Faded Gold Dragon Figurine, Azure Quartz Obtain x1 by swapping [Level 5] Barter Materials (Ship Material Refresh): Elixir of Youth, Mysterious Rock, Golden Fish Scale, Portrait of the Ancient, Luxury Patterned Fabric, Octagonal Box Purchase for 1600 Crow Coins at Ravinia’s Crow Coin Shop Rare drop from the Nineshark and Candidum sea monsters Obtain x1 by completing the [Ship Upgrade] Ravinia’s Favor I quest (requires exchanging Brilliant Rock Salt Ingot x1 and Crow Coin Coupon x20)

Bartering for Profit

Once you have a Caravel or Galleass ship, you can begin to barter for profit. It is really hard and frustrating to try and make a profit before then because of the lack of weight on your ship. I also recommend having +10 green grade gear for your Caravel/Galleass at a minimum because they give a lot of extra stats which greatly increase your weight limit and movement speed, making bartering much more efficient and increasing your profit for time spent.

You want to have a good stockpile of different item levels to start really making money and then either sell the Level 5 goods for silver or exchange them for Crow Coins.

• Begin by doing all the Level 5 trades around Lema, Iliya and Velia, and do any of the 1:3 material trades available.
• Try to find the most optimal route so you can collect as many items as possible before going back to storage and overstack items on your character to save you some trips.
• You should always keep 3 or 4 of each Level 5 item to use for coin trades and then sell the rest for 7.5 million silver each at the Wharf manager. Send the spares you kept to Ancado Inner Harbor using the storage transport. Once you’ve done this, complete the Level 4 trades and 1:3 trades around Altinova, Lema, and Port Epheria and continue to work your way backward, only doing the trades that are convenient to you.
• Afterward, reset your barter and repeat.

Use the crow’s coins to buy the weekly and daily Caphras bundle on Lema Island to convert your Crow coins into silver. You can use an alt to do this so you don’t have to travel there because the Crow coins are a family-wide currency (like loyalty). You can also buy the Khan’s Heart there for 80k Crow Coins if you save up enough. The main way to make silver with your Crow coins is to trade 2,500 for a Manos box (which contains a life skill mastery accessory) and sell the accessory on the market for over 200 million silver.

Margoria Bartering Trades

If you have accumulated a high amount of total barters then you will unlock the Margoria routes which give either Crow Coins or Level 5 items worth 15 million silver. These usually take a bit more time because you have to travel quite far, so only do them if there are 3 or more Margoria trades available and if you are going for Blue Carrack gear since you need a lot of Crow Coins for this. If you struggle to find where you are going, open the Barter Menu in the Map and then click the arrow next to the name to take you directly to the Barter NPC. This requires a compass. You can find a map for the Margoria Trades in the tips section at the end of the guide.

Hakoven Island Coin Runs

Hakoven Island has the best exchanges for Crow Coins, but it is hard to get to and can take you a long time to sail all the way over there. To speed this up you can transport your Level 5 items to Ancado Inner Harbor and then take them to Hakoven Island from there.

Ideally, you will have a second character with Skilled Sailing. You can do the [The Great Expedition] Oquilla’s Eye questline on an alt to achieve this. You will need a second ship as well, preferably an Epheria Frigate with speed gear so that you can complete it quickly. It should only take around 10 minutes this way. If you don’t have a second ship, you can transport your ship to Ancado Inner Harbor (takes 10 minutes and costs 100k silver).

Remove your sailors and put the Level 5 items in your boat at Ancado Inner Harbor. Sail to Hakoven Island and trade the items for Crow Coins (only make trades that are 250+ coins for the best profits). You can either use a Traveller’s Map to teleport back to town, or go to the spot shown on the screenshot below and jump off the cliff to suicide and respawn back in town. Remote collect your ship and repair it, then transport it back to Iliya Island.

Special Bartering

Special Bartering is unlocked once you reach around 140 total barters. Whilst bartering you can randomly obtain a special barter (approx every 250 barters). The Special Barter appears at the top of the Barter Information window and you can click it to view the offer. If you have a value pack running you can view the offer remotely, otherwise, you will have to go to the island.

The offer will not disappear if you reset your barters. You must either go to the island and exchange the item needed, or skip the Special Barter if you’re not interested.

Some special barters are not worth doing so make sure to check the prices of the items offered. There are many different offers you can get and it is completely random. Some examples are shown below of Special barters that can appear. You can also view a full list on BDOCodex

You should also keep at least one of each of these Level 5 items listed below, in case any of these special barters are available because they give a lot of Crow Coins.

Chance of appearing	Special Barter Item Required	Special Barter Reward
9.0977%	[Level 5] Supreme Gold Candlestick	900 – 1100 Crow Coins
10.9146%	[Level 5] Faded Gold Dragon Figurine	900 – 1100 Crow Coins
13.4083%	[Level 5] 102 Year Old Golden Herb	900 – 1100 Crow Coins
17.102%	[Level 5] Golden Fish Scale	900 – 1100 Crow Coins

Epheria Galleon

The Epheria Galleon is the greatest ship available in BDO. However, it is currently only obtainable through limited ways, and once obtained, it is only available to the owner for 7 days.

• When a Special Barter occurs during a Barter, there is a low chance for “Epheria’s Star” to appear.
• With Epheria’s Star in your inventory, you accept a special quest from “Philaberto Falasi” in Port Epheria. Complete this quest to obtain “Ship License: Epheria Galleon” and the [Captain Epheria] title, which is a temporary title that lasts for 7 days.

※ You can only ride and control an Epheria Galleon if you have the [Captain Epheria] title, but you can access other features even if you do not have the title or if it has expired.

※ The fire rate and max range of Epheria Galleon’s cannons are identical to Epheria Carrack’s cannons.
※ Epheria Galleons cannot equip ship equipment.
※ The cost of repairs for an Epheria Galleon is 10 million Silver per 10% damage. (Damage increases upon remote collection or ship destruction)
※ Like Epheria Carracks, Epheria Galleons need to be supplied upon initial registration.

Tips and Tricks

• Make sure to check the box that says “Continuously use Breezy Sails”. This skill doesn’t work if your boat is overweight or has less than 50% HP.
• You can press LMB on the ship icon in the top left, to teleport to the wheel of your ship if you are within 40m. You can then press it again to go onto the wheel of your ship. This is useful in crowded areas such as velia.
• If your boat gets stuck, you can press RMB on the ship icon in the top left, to call the ship to you (you must be within 40m).
• You can instantly stop your boat without the awkward animation by pressing [T] > [S] > [R]
• You can use a tagged alt (use this guide) with weight-limit gear to carry more items and overstack your weight.
• If you are swimming whilst overweight, continuously tapping W will make your character move faster in the water
• Place a storage container in a house on Lema Island. This will cost you 11 contribution points (10 for the container, 1 for the house) but the storage is linked to Iliya so you can save yourself a trip.
• Keep various Level 1 to Level 4 items in both Iliya and Epheria to save you time so you don’t have to go across the map to complete routes
• You can use storage maids to transport land goods to your boat directly but you can’t use them to remove items from your boat. Keep land goods in your Velia storage or Epheria storage so you can access them easily with a storage maid
• Always Explore islands when you arrive at them if you can. You can recover sailors’ stamina this way or it may give you a barter supply box that provides you with land goods. Don’t use explore if your boat has less than 60% durability though, because you can get the event where you find a Putin’s Pet Bear and this can destroy your boat.
• Use Innocent Goblin Sailors because these have the highest speed on them. You can level them quickly by doing the daily quests. You want them to get at least 3.0 speed at level 8, if you don’t get this then reroll your sailor.
• Transport Level 5 items between storages using the transport. It takes around 4 hours to transport them and you can only transport 5 items at once.
• Use this spreadsheet to keep track of your storage. It also has a helpful checklist for your Caravel Upgrade, a Barter Calculator, and lots of other really useful information. It may be a little overwhelming at first so make sure you read the instructions clearly on the sheet.
• Use this map route if you are planning to do Margoria Barter trades. It has the fastest routes and instructions if you don’t have a compass.