Story questlines

The Main Story section of /quests holds four one-time questlines. They pay well, they tour you through Bucketry’s systems, and three of them are required to rank up, so you will play all of them eventually.

Questline	Steps	Opens at	Total reward	Needed to rank up to
Trials of the Shallows	18	Your first days	$201,000 and 810 coins	Guppy
Path of the Deep	36	Guppy	$5,396,000 and 15,420 coins	Reefkeeper
Tidecaller’s Trials	27	Reefkeeper	$12,660,000 and 19,400 coins	Wavebreaker
Captain’s Orders	7	Wavebreaker	$6,750,000, 1,250 coins and the [Captain] title

Every step also pays XP, and many hand out gear, saplings or keys along the way. Each step card has a Tips block that tells you where to go (often with the fastest /warp).

Trials of the Shallows

The harbor’s welcome story, told in four acts by the captain and the Pailhaven guildmasters. Several steps ask you to join a guild by finishing its first commission, so by the end you know your way around the town.

Act	Steps
I: Castaway	1 to 4
II: Tidewater Homestead	5 to 9
III: The Reefs	10 to 14
IV: Stormbreak	15 to 18

The finale sends you after the pirate captain Eyepatch Bones. Finishing all 18 steps is the requirement to rank up from Minnow to Guppy.

Path of the Deep

Bones left a logbook, and every page points down. The Deep takes you from the Quarry to the Nether, drowned temples, the End and finally the Wreck Lagoon. Some acts open only once you reach a rank.

Act	Steps	Rank gates
I: The Logbook	1 to 9	Guppy at step 1
II: The Burning Deep	10 to 18	Koi at step 10
III: Drowned Places	19 to 27	Salmon at step 19
IV: The Wreck Lagoon	28 to 36	Mariner at step 28, Diver at step 34

Steps pay from $16,000 early on up to $500,000 for the finale, sinking the Wreckroot. Completing the Deep is the requirement to rank up from Diver to Reefkeeper.

Tidecaller’s Trials

The hard one. Tidecaller’s Trials is built to test veterans: fishing in storms, monuments, Trial Chambers, the Deep Dark, raids and the frozen north. Steps pay $240,000 to $900,000 each.

Act	Steps	Rank gates
I: Salt and Storm	1 to 7	Reefkeeper at step 1
II: Ominous Waters	8 to 14	Swordfish at step 8
III: The Deep Dark	15 to 21	Manta at step 15
IV: The Cold North	22 to 27	Barracuda at step 22, Tidecaller at step 27

The last step is Rimeback, the Floe That Walks. Finishing the Trials is the requirement to rank up from Tidecaller to Wavebreaker.

Captain’s Orders

Reaching Wavebreaker earns a commission from the Harbormaster: five Orders, each a part of the sea most sailors never see. Do them in any order. Open the board with /q c captainsorders.

Order	Objective	Reward
1: Below the Lagoon	Help sink the Heart of the Root Delve	$750,000, 150 coins, 5,000 XP, 1 Abyssal Crate key
2: High Water	Clear the Root Delve on High Tide	$750,000, 150 coins, 5,000 XP, 1 Abyssal Crate key
3: Storm the Cove	Help defeat Eyepatch Bones in a Stormbreak raid	$750,000, 150 coins, 5,000 XP, 1 Abyssal Crate key
4: Starfall Watch	Defeat a Starfall guardian	$750,000, 150 coins, 5,000 XP, 1 Abyssal Crate key
5: Down the Shaft	Break a Fathom Vein Warden	$750,000, 150 coins, 5,000 XP, 1 Abyssal Crate key
Commission Complete	Finish all five	$3,000,000, 500 coins, the [Captain] title, a Barnacle Plate kit (2 upgrade templates, 8 Barnacle Crust), a harbor announcement

For Order 3 you do not have to wait for a scheduled raid: draw a free Powder Charge from /rankpowers and fire the Signal Cannon at Pailhaven Departures. For Order 5, mine deep in Fathom and summon the Warden with a Rumbling Vein.

During the Harvestwake (until November 30) there is also a Bonus Order: help sink the Hollow Captain, who rises nightly at 7 PM at /warp hollowfield. It pays $500,000, 100 coins and a Harvestwake key, and is not needed to finish the commission.