WIKI
Whale Hunting and Whale Blubber
Whale sizes, harpoons, the boat, getting meat and blubber, BRUCE's rendering house, the "Whale Strength" buff.
Whales live in the open ocean. You hunt them from a boat with a harpoon on a rope. It's a dangerous team activity for high-level players.
What you need
- Seafarer license (Lv. 23, reputation 25, 4,500 ASD): without it you can't get into a boat.
- Whaler license (Lv. 33, reputation 40, 10,000 ASD; requires Seafarer and Hunter): without it you can't butcher the carcass (you can still throw a harpoon without it).
- Boat: small (2 seats) or large (6 seats), see Boats.
- Harpoon (3 kg) or whaling harpoon (4 kg, forged only by HECTOR; requires rendered whale blubber).
How the hunt goes, step by step
- Get the Seafarer and Whaler licenses, take a boat (your own via a deed, or a rental) and harpoons, preferably several.
- Head out into the open ocean and find a whale (spouts are visible from far away, up to 600 m).
- Throw the harpoon like a spear (LMB); the line is attached to the boat. The wounded whale drags the boat, swerving and diving.
- A sharp turn can capsize the boat. Watch the whale's stamina: a tired whale is more vulnerable.
- A killed whale floats to the surface, with blood in the water around it. Pull up right next to it and butcher the carcass (requires the Whaler license): the meat and raw blubber go into your backpack. The carcass stays afloat for 15–25 minutes.
- Bring the raw blubber to BRUCE at the rendering house by the pier: he renders the blubber into barrels and cooks the whale meat.
Harpoon damage against whales: regular 45→65 (as its level goes 1→10), whaling 90→130. The blowhole, exposed for 3 seconds when the whale spouts, takes double damage.
Whale sizes
| Size | Length, m | Health | Meat (0.5 kg pieces) | Raw blubber, kg | Carcass time afloat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calf | 6–9 | 400 | 4–6 | 3–5 | 15 min |
| Young | 10–16 | 1,500 | 10–14 | 10–14 | 15 min |
| Adult | 17–25 | 4,500 | 20–28 | 25–35 | 15 min |
| Old | 26–34 | 9,000 | 36–48 | 50–70 | 25 min |
| Giant | 35–40 | 15,000 | 60–80 | 90–120 | 25 min |
The bigger the whale, the higher its armor (up to −30% penetration) and the slower it reacts. Whales come in different temperaments: calm (30%), skittish (30%), stubborn (25%) and fierce (15%). A calf may appear next to its mother (25%). Old and Giant whales have a chance of a relic in the stomach (3% and 15%), for example ambergris (sold to players on the Auction).
Products
- Raw whale meat: goes rancid after 2 hours if not cooked.
- Cooked whale meat (cooked by BRUCE): health +45–55, satiety +60–70 and the "Whale Strength" buff for 30 minutes: stamina +15%, regeneration +25%, energy drains 20% slower. A second piece doesn't stack the buff, it refreshes the timer (no more than once every 10 minutes).
- Raw whale blubber: "the island's oil". Rendered at the rendering house (50% yield); one slot holds a barrel of up to 20,000 g of rendered blubber.
- Blubber is used to forge harpoons and PMK gas masks, FPK filters, for repairs, and for BRUCE's "Vankli Lanterns" (2 kg gives +1 reputation).
BRUCE, the "Fat Boss"
Owner of the rendering house at the pier next to LUI, the Fisherman. He builds empty barrels (planks ×12, metal ×4, rope ×1, 15 ASD), renders blubber and cooks meat. RIK, the buyer, accepts whale meat (about 5 ASD per piece, no more than 20 pieces per day) and blubber (about 0.04 ASD per gram, no more than 2,500 g per day) within the overall daily income cap (prices TBD, check with the NPC).
Other
Ambergris is a collectible item for the Auction only.