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What do you do after your captain sails you to the Far East, goes insane, and leaves you and your crew with the impossible task of building a kingdom?

That is the predicament I put my friends in during our first venture into the table top roleplaying. Sunless sea makes a phenomenal setting to immerse yourself into personal storytelling and adapting the official Skyfarer rpg is easy. They have never played sunless sea but the world fascinates them. It has been a long time since our last session so I spent way too long detailing our story through a set of logs, port reports, diaries, and images.

You can read that here (if the link works). It should be entertaining but I am not a fantastic writer.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aObIRA4VPPWRPXpxruIupgAabfEPbfRy/view?usp=sharing

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If you are my crew, please leave

Everything up this point has just been laying the groundwork and I want Port Carnelian and the surrounding area to be where everything ramps up. I have ideas on where the story should go from here but I would love your ideas. Below are the plot threads and ideas I have.

• The Captain- Fought as a naval commander in the War with hell. Afterwards he had a fallout with the London admiralty despite working on some secret project. This shook him up enough to assemble the crew and attempt to sail east (it went horribly obviously). Also he always wears sunglasses despite it being so dark (y'all know what's up).
• Sunlight - My crew is fascinated with the concept of Sunlight as a deadly substance. My gunner accidently opened a mirror catch box and has been fighting constantly for more sun. When my crew saw Aestival they immediately went "nope" and tried to leave. I had to bring the captain back from his coma to give vague instructions to go there.
• Red Symbols- They saw it on the Lorn-Fluke, Door to the Irem dreamscape, and on Aestival with science documents and a strange black orb.
• Hunted - Before the campaign starts, the ship is being hunted by an unknown armada. This is kept intentionally vague because... I did not know who they would be. Maybe a secret underwater fleet or a remnant of the old Royal Navy.
• Distrust and Bloodlust - My crew distrusts everything, probably because they should. They also have a knack for escalating to combat and has left a blood trail across the zee from Irem to the south.
• Judgements - What is happening?

My current ideas: I want Carnelian to be the major port of the Campaign as opposed to London. I feel like the power struggle and danger fits more with the themes established than Fallen London. The Grand Geode is a location I want to be required but it be filled with lots of distrust. Maybe the crew does a job for them in exchange for information to protect from sunlight (maybe even make the >!Momenta Mori!<. More than likely The Captain used to work on/with/for >!The Dawn Machine!< or something related to it. The Carnelian Exile would make for a fantastic major NPC. I also need to figure out how to handle >!THE SUN!<.

This story needs a real overarching antagonist. It was fun to cause havoc across the neath but I can only do so much with a villain of the week. My crew is learning and growing more powerful. I need to lay out the groundwork for an event to put them on their back foot once again. Whether that comes from the Dawn Supremacists, London, a faction in Carnelian (one of my crew is former Anarchist), or an original faction (underwater maybe)?

It was fun to be able to lay out my thoughts like this and help me think. Anyway, thanks for reading.

Only picked up the game last week from steam's summer sale. To date, I've lost 3 captains to stupidity, and 5 to carelessness. All easily avoidable deaths, none worthy of memory.

The ninth would be... different.

On the way home from a mad dash east to the Chelonate, having picked up the Blind Bruiser's package from Khan's Heart, and a few mirrorcatch boxes from Khan's Shadow with dreams of abundant echoes in my mind and a glint in my eye.

It was a gruelling journey, crawling back to London with both half hull strength, "half" crew (4/7), and only having 7 or so fuel left, running on the default engine no less.

With clever management and the sacrificing of some supplies, I get to home waters, finally. A breath of relief washes over me. That relief is soon shattered as the ship goes into battle mode as the crew spots a Crack Pirate Frigate on the horizon, just east of Quaker's Haven.

It spots me, procedurally firing a torpedo.

I stress the engines, labouring it to full power.

It's a hit; 8 damage.

It fires another as I crawl further.

Another hit; 8 damage, with the penalty of 1 crew lost. Down to 3 crew it seems.

I say an anxious filled prayer to the Gods of the Zee. "Salt, Storm, Stone, anyone!" I cried out to myself. As the engine laboured, inching further towards Quaker's Haven-

Relief once more. I reach the quay safely, docking to port. The pirate backs off, seems Salt has answered my call for a quick farewell. Stepping out my captain to the docks, he noticed something was off. Lights dimmed, it was quiet. Not a sound but the waves and the wind. He heads to town, not a sight of anyone. Not a sound on the island, bar the off-key singing of 'The Man In The Well' at The Cock and Magpie.

I walk in for a visit. After all; I've been here countless times, the people of Quaker's are a welcoming sort.. There was a feast. The main course; something unspeakable on the table. It seems that Quaker's "Haven", isn't much of a haven right now. I made a run for it, through the streets, the villagers carrying candles and clad in white in close pursuit. I was losing what was left of my battered crew one by one. Soon after, I was next.

How disgraceful; A death at land as a zee-captain. It seems Salt lended me too much of a farewell.

Never much of a modder, don't know how to do it on games without the workshop.

I've tried going to /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/SunlessSea and looking at the package contents but it's all numbers and mumbo jumbo.

can someone point me in the direction of a guide or something?

EDIT: Found out how: I kept on going to the wrong folder in Application Support. There’s another folder in Application Support with the ‘Failbetter Games’ in the title. That’s where I needed to be looking

I'm going to cheat one of them to be unlimited via WeMod. I'm assuming it should be fuel because if you run out of supplies you eat your crew, which is a fun consequence. But is there a fun consequence to running out of fuel too? Basically, which resource is more fun to keep in play?

I'm cheating it because I want to play the game without dealing with as much resource management, which I don't personally like.

Hi, I've got a little bit of experience modding Sunless Sea, and I wanted to ask if anyone on here knew if the range of the glim lamp on your ship is hardcoded, and if not, where it can be altered? I've modded a few weapons to have a greater range, but now these weapons max ranges lie outside the range of my ships lamp. Is there a way to alter this?

I used to be really into this game and got really good at it. I opened it again recently and was puzzled by the main interface. I wanted to try something in the game but it appeared I had no saves. I eventually figured out that I was in Merciless Mode and there is just one save, the auto-save. I launched the game - my ship is in port at Mount Palmerston - and found I have a crazy amount of stuff. 54K echoes, a sub, Invictus Token, A Dream of Red, The Boke of Sharpes, The Horizon Codex, A Manual of Miracles, A Traveling Light...if I recall correctly these are all trophies from former Captains who finished the game and passed stuff to their heir. Also all kinds of weird and powerful sounding Cargo, equipment, and Curiosities on my heavily armed Frigate. The Accomplishments won't fit on the page without scrolling. An Impossible Restaurant Bill, Those Final Mountains, An Autographed Copy of the Zong of the Zee, A Shattered Coral Knife, A Folded Flag, A Family Portait, A Family Bible, A Dagguerreotype of a Memorial.

The problem is I don't remember how to play the game! If I started playing I am sure I would get killed and likely waste a lot of the stuff I have built up. I think my current captain is an heir (Scion?) but if he died, I would lose a lot of stuff and the next captain would likely lose even more of it as I fumbled around.

Oddly when I click on the tabs for Officers, Shop etc the Tutorial pane pops up. That seems odd doesn't it? Maybe because I transferred the files for this game from my old computer to my (then new) one when I built it in 2019?

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If I start a new game am I right in thinking it will trash this one and I can never go back to it?

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Wondering if I need to find the files on my comp and back them up manually somewhere. I'd like to play around in the game, but I don't want to risk this particular Captain. Feel like I built a Maserati by hand but have since forgotten how to drive. Not the car I want to re-learn on.

I think I did all of these things before in an earlier, non-Merciless mode game, before Zubmariner came out, and then restarted in Merciless to see if I could do them all again, which I did. Doing all that in Merciless was a bit stressful as I recall. I think there is still some stuff for me to do in this one because Zubmariner came out and I don't think I ever did all the content in it. So I don't want to risk this game, I was likely in the middle of doing the zub content when I stopped.

If only I could remember...that irrigo light...

As the title says, I finally upgraded my ship to the merchant cruiser. I know a lot of people debate between the Merchant Cruiser and the Frigate, but I was getting so annoyed with the minimal 40 Hold and 75 hull that the starter ship had that I went for the Merchant Cruiser basically the second I could afford it. Now I don't know what to do to make money. I didn't really think about how much money I would have left, and after selling an heirloom and dropping a bunch of stories and stuff to the scholar, I'm sitting at a mere 1400 echos. I still only have the starter engine as well. This has been by far my best run ever, and now I'm too scared to leave port since I know the merchant ship guzzles supplies and fuel (I have 23 fuel from port reports but only 3 supplies left over), and I don't even know what to do next in terms of money making. I know selling sunlight is profitable but I never got into that yet, I don't have mirrorcatchers and don't know if I have the money to get into that atm. Any help?

Edit: I don't know if it helps or not, but I did just get the Mirrorcatcher box full of very angry Dream-Snakes, unsure what to do with this

I'm not too new to the game I've put in a few hours but for whatever reason I just can't ever earn enough echos to keep up. I always begin running out. Any tips to help a new captain out.

I cannot speak to the people anymore, (i even had a longbox and gave it to them but nothing happened).So, when am i able to speak to them

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Got the vanilla version from Steam, with latest patches in Windows 10 Pro, worked well.

Tried to install Sunless Stories, and the game froze on the loading screen.

Uninstalled the game, erased all archives, reinstalled it.... ...still doesn't run.

Help!

What is the story behind the Fading Haruspex? Why does she hang at the Gant Pole and asks me to send specific dying beasts like Behemoustaches and Thalattes that way?

Also, if I decide to loot one of these beasts instead of sending them to Gant Pole, will there be an impact to it?

Here’s a collection of good retro synth playlists with NO VOCALS. If you also have a playlist, post yours!

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Probably asked before, but does the mod alter the game mechanics, making it easier, for example?

Are the original storylines altered much?

Cheers

I would especially like a mod that enables me to take an officer as a sweetheart or has multiple "tryst" story options with romanceable officers. I've done a bit of searching but honestly haven't modded any game in years and I wasn't even sure if this game had a modding community or many options to choose from. Nexus Mods didn't have anything quite what I was looking for. Thank you for any help :)

I got Sunless Sea for free, because of an offer on the Epic Games Launcher and i fell in Love with it. So i would like to play it with the Sunless Stories mod, but im not sure if that even works there. Do i have to buy the game on Steam after all?

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Hi Zailors!

I got curious about how 'worth it' upgrading my ship and engine from the starter setup was in my current playthrough and decided to find a google spreadsheet to compare each factor and help me decide which upgrades/purchases were really worth it from a financial point of view.

I browsed the subreddit a bit to see if anyone had done this before and didn't find something specifically about this topic, so I decided to do it myself and to share my findings for anyone also interested.

My method was to empirically compare contrasting factors (such as Hold and Fuel Consumption which is basically profit vs. fuel costs) including Weight, Speed, Hull, Crew, and Engine Power for the most commonly recommended ships, and available engines in the Unterzee shops. And all of these as factors compared to the starter setup (so an option that holds 120 units instead of 40 from the starter ship has three times the storage - a factor of 3.00 - as the starter ship). These then get added and subtracted (depending on whether the factor is good or bad for profit) to give a final verdict of the setup/purchase/upgrade.

Contrary to my suspicion when I started this, and the first round of results, there are more financially efficient options other than the starter ship. Disclaimer though, everyone has their own tastes and perspectives, and this is just a financial approach. Those who prefer the Steam Launch can prefer the Steam Launch, no some curious questions asked.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13VZkRWtz3bW7WeJKDEZC_AVVbPvveFI_oCNBiU9dYHU/edit?usp=sharing, or click here.

Started playing in 2019 and racked up around 50 hours, returned very recently and got another 40 hours in the past week or two. For those veterans out there, I'm curious to see if there are any other factors worth considering. I might look into other options and setups I didn't consider, as well as fill the tables in with all the available ships.

Final notes:

This spreadsheet is technically a work in progress, but works well enough for now I think.

Since it's a work in progress, the thumbnail is now outdated, but the content you see in it is retrievable in the "Original" sheet.

The Sunless Sea fandom was particularly useful for finding information and equations.

Might have to see the document in 50-75% if you want to see all the tables without scrolling, I forgot about different screen dimensions when creating the spreadsheet. With the new revision, scrolling (vertical) is likely.

Edit (17th Feb.): New note about outdated thumbnail, the strikethrough above, and a second comment about the Steam Launch.

Edit (18th Feb.): I updated the main post content to reflect the more accurate, revised, results.

Are there any quests only available when one has certain items in cargo?

I don't mean quests like the first vial of red honey that has to be given to the Venturer for example, where one only has the option to give him the red honey after one has already talked with one of the beekeepers(?). Because these are catalogued in your journal. I'm asking about common items in cargo like zzoup or devilbone dices for example.

I know that there are certain scenarios of having a special officer, who lets you have more choices in a situation (like the wretched mog vs the rats). I kinda hate the fact that there are some situations that one wouldn't even know that there is a solution, but it isn't listed there due to not having the required officer.

I cant talk to him even though it says blind bruiser attends to business on the docks.Will I be able to sell sunlight to him.He doesnt give me any quests for delivering souls because i chose the alternate quest.My question is, I currently cant talk to him but would i be talk to him when i sell sunlight to him

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I did her quest line but after that i dont really get who she is and her motives.

Yeah, I'm aware is not smart to ask something like this in a subredit full of people who love said game lol but I played dredge not lomg ago and it made me want to try something similar and the two closest games I found were Dave the diver and sunless sea/sky. Both look interesting! But everytime I look for a reviewer of this game they can't recommend it becuase it is more of a book than a game according to them. What you all have to say about this? Also I mostly play on the steam deck so it would be to play even when I'm not at home.

This is just me ranting but as the title says fuck Salt. I ran out fuel one inch away from a dock so I has to make sacrifices to gods or something. I make a sacrifice to Salt I get nothing I make another sacrifice to Salt again I get nothing I make one more and succeed and I thought I was going to get fuel so I can move that one extra inch but then suddenly I'm teleported to the corner of the map.

For context this is how much of the map I have done:

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So anyways fuck you Salt, Stone is better because at least I got a diamond when I stabbed myself

I desire him carnally

Sorry i just really had to say that somewhere publically. I haven't even finished a run of this game yet but i'm currently trying to spam make monstorous almanacs so i can have an affair wuth him