Player's guide

• Build the palace one stage at a time with driftwood (see Fishing and coins). The first stage brings a dog. Tap him to pet him; he barks when the pirate's coming.
• The otter: with fish in your hold, sail close and tap him. After three fish he's yours.
• Something big lives under the far end of the Ten Cent Bridge, at dusk, night and dawn. See The snook in Side quests.
• After the tree platform, an aquarium plot appears south of the palace tree.

• Buy a spear and spear the parrotfish from the sand. They come back.
• The monkey camp has five monkeys in skull masks. Three run at you and two throw coconuts: a shadow shows where each will land. Two hits each, or one with the barbed spear. Beat all five and the chest opens for 400 coins. The first time, you also free someone from a bamboo cage.
• Climb the tower: two floors of monkeys, then the boss on the roof (see Bosses).
• Build a base here: a hut (30 driftwood, 1,500 coins) makes it a home port, and a gear shed (50 driftwood, 3,000 coins) gives you the seine.

• Climb the tower: two floors of monkeys, then a familiar face on the roof. The prize is the scuba gear, and a warning that something is down below.
• With the scuba gear, walk round the tower's foot to a gap in the seaweed and tap Dive. The swordsman is waiting, and then something stranger (see Bosses).
• Build a base: a hut (30 driftwood, 1,500 coins), and a crab shed (50 driftwood, 3,000 coins) for crab pots.
• Groupers swim on the far side from the town.

• Once you free the prisoner under island 3, a scene plays the next time you're aboard, and island 4 turns to tar.
• No boat can sail into its black water. Buy the chemistry suit (5,000) from the shipwright, sail up to the tar, almost stop, and tap Into the tar. You swim slowly through it and walk on its sand.
• The Tar Anchorer rises the moment you step ashore (see Bosses). Beat him and the far deep opens.

• Treasure, once each, glinting in the dark: an old spyglass (200) and a ship's bell (250) on the right wall, a gold crown (500) and a glowing gem (400) on the left, and a treasure chest (600) on the floor.
• A giant clam on the floor opens on a pearl worth 150 that grows back every dawn.
• With a spear: glow squid (45), neon dragonfish (65) and lanternfish (22).
• Something hunts the midnight water at the bottom. See The lurker in Bosses.

Beat the Tar Anchorer on island 4 and the chain sinks for good. The far deep has marlin at its four corners, islands 5 to 10, the ice floe, and some very big creatures.

• Come near the reef and the Skeleton Shark King comes for you (see Bosses). Sail far enough away and he gives up.
• With scuba gear, stop near the wreck and tap Dive to the wreck. The chest in its hold holds 1,200 coins, the most of any treasure. Bone sharks cruise outside: when a jaw opens, get out of the way, or sting one off with your spear. Inside the hold they can't reach you.

• Six treasure chests are hidden around the island, 300 coins each.
• The Deep One sleeps at sea off the temple. Beat it and you'll find out what's under the temple. If you're bonked out down there, tap Into the temple at the temple door to go back.
• Star, a flying meteor serpent, hunts flagships near the island.
• The Reaper on land sleeps with his egg in a cove on the north-west side, behind the hill from the pier.
• Build a base: a hut, and a charter office for taking passengers sightseeing (see Side quests).

• The Reaper at sea spits out the ice fishing kit the first time you drive him off. Then stop alongside the floe and tap Ice fish (see Side quests).
• Build an igloo (30 driftwood, 1,500 coins): a home port, and a bed to sleep till morning.
• A seal lies at the edge. See Friends.
• With scuba gear, tap Dive under the ice. Buy the white scuba suit (6,000), or the cold pulls you up after 15 seconds. Five frozen treasures to chip out: a spyglass by the hole (200), a chest at the back of the cave (800), a blue gem on the left ridge (400), a gold crown in the tunnel roof (500), and a ship's bell on the right ridge (250).

• The monkey camp has six monkeys and a chest of 800 coins.
• Climb the tower: two floors, then the sorcerer for the third time (see Bosses).
• Beat it and the ring lights up green: it's a portal. Walk into it and tap Into the portal.

• Skeletons: 4 hits. The sword goes up just before they slash, and the shield blocks your first spear.
• Archers stay back and shoot where you're going. Change direction when an arrow flies.
• Zombies: 8 hits, and slow. Their arms go up before they swing.
• Ghosts: 3 hits. Their slow wisps drift after you: just walk away from them.
• Necromancers: 6 hits. They raise skeletons from cracks in the floor, and the skeletons fall when they do. Spear them first.
• The rooms go: the courtyard, the first hall, the second hall, then the throne room and the Forgotten One (see Bosses).
• After him, try the chained door behind the throne with his bones beside you. Behind it are the ruins. In the ruins, a skull door needs a key from somewhere far away.

• The hired boats: outrun them (the flagship is faster), or harpoon one 3 times for 60 coins. They go home for good once the Heron is beaten.
• Camps of hired men on both islands: 3 hits each, 25 coins each, and 300 for clearing a camp.
• Island 8's tower: two floors, then the Heron on the roof. He flees to island 9, and its tower opens.
• Island 9's tower: two more floors, then his nest (see Bosses).

• Tap the old man for his store: snacks, bug spray, honey, the treasure finder, badges and the treasure submarine.
• The pond: Cast into the pond for peaceful fishing.
• The swamp: gators in the bigger pools, a giant spider's web between two cypress trees, and a friendly swamp monster. The spider can't be speared, so bring bug spray.
• The forest: gorillas, and a beehive with one free jar of honey a day.
• The tower in the middle goes straight up to the giant pelican. Beat it for a loaf of bread.
• Put the bread in the birdfeeder past the old man's porch, and three crows come, each with a question (see Side quests).

Win a crow at island 10's birdfeeder by answering its science question. Sail out to the white buoys with it aboard, tap Let a crow go, and follow it. It flies to island 11. After that the far far sea is always open.

• In the clearing on the left waits the Heron's brother (see Bosses). Afterwards Caterman comes out of his workshop and joins you.
• With scuba gear, tap Dive into the lagoon: murky water, ten lagoon creatures, and a skull key in the deepest part.
• The stone portal on the far side stays dark until something in Gigantis's ruins is beaten. Then it takes you straight there.

• On the way down, giants swim past and slam the bars. Nothing is lost in the cage.
• At the floor the door opens. Your air only runs outside the cage. Tap Ride the cage up whenever you like.
• Spear the ten deep fish (91 coins each), the silver Remoro (190 coins, three spears, one a day) and the attack nibbler (150 coins, three spears, one a day).
• A gulper hunts over the floor: swim aside when it gapes, or get back in the cage.
• A full hold of abyss fish sells for about 10,000 coins.

• Inside: a bunk and a mirror, the scientist (he buys tar fish and hands out missions), the tar dock, the missions room and the tar news.
• Start mission 1, the stealth mission (see Side quests). Win it for the chemistry boat, which sails on tar.
• Go up the ladder to the roof and put your hand in the orb. It shows your boats, every boss you've beaten, and what to do next.

• Tar fish: stop by a school and tap Cast for tar fish. Only the scientist buys them: 250 coins each, 12 a day.
• Red tentacles rise in your way while you sail (see Bosses).
• Step ashore at the end of the tar island's jetty. Tar humans walk the shore, tar beasts the hill, the tar leader stands by the tower, and a tar dragon circles the south-east slope. The tower door stays barred, for now.
• Mission 2 at the bridge is the tar eel. Beat it, and something under the middle of the tar wakes up.

• Skrill's men in bone armour, and displacer beasts, are everywhere (see Bosses).
• Climb the tower: four floors, with your hearts filled after each. Then Through Skrill's door.

• Captain Cappy waits at the pirates' pier (Talk to Captain Cappy), and Master Sensei at the ninjas' (Bow to Master Sensei). Ask them why they're fighting.
• Join either side, or both. The pirates give you Jacks Parrow, and the ninjas give you Bun-San (see Friends).
• Once you've joined a side, its leader offers two battles, Fight: Capture the Flag and Fight: Hold the Forts, then asks where you'll fight. Be the tank (Quartermaster or Stone Guard, 14 hearts and armour, so every hit on it is a heart less), the damage (Swashbuckler or Shadow, 8 hearts) or the healer (Ship's Cook or Blossom Monk, 7 hearts, who throws a sparkly magic fish or pink mochi from up to 220 away, so stay back behind your tank). It's five a side: you and four bots against five bots. Your armour, spear and other friends sit it out, but your side's minion fights with you. Your basic attack is on the round button at the right: a blade for the tank and the damage, 2 a hit, and a throw for the healer, 1 a hit. You have armour too, in any place: every hit on you is a heart less, but never less than half a heart.
• Each place comes with its Badge I ability, on the round button above the blade (or E). It aims itself, then takes a few seconds to be ready again. The tank's shout (Oi! Over here! or Mountain Shout) makes every enemy close by come at you for 4 seconds. The damage's shot (Flintlock or Shuriken) hits the nearest enemy up to 300 away for 4, after a red aim line. The healer's Sea Biscuit or Green Tea gives 4 hearts back to the most hurt teammate near you, or to you. The bots have theirs too.
• Every battle gives marks to the place you fought in, on that side: 2 for a win, 1 for a draw or a loss. At 3 marks that place has Badge II, and at 8 Badge III, each with one more ability on its own button (R, then F). The badge card shows each place's badge and how many marks the next one takes. The bots in your battle have as many badges as you have in your place.
• Badge II: the tank's Batten the Hatches or Iron Skin halves the hits on you for 6 seconds. The damage's Swing In or Shadow Step jumps you to an enemy up to 220 away and strikes for 3. The healer's Lime Ration or Cherry Blossom gives a heart a second for 6 seconds to the most hurt teammate near you, or to you.
• Badge III: the tank's Drop Anchor or Earthquake Stomp shows a red ring round you, then every enemy in it takes 2 and is stunned for a second and a half. The damage's Powder Keg or Firework Bomb is thrown at an enemy and shows a red ring where it lands, then bursts for 5 on everyone still in it. If you see a red ring that isn't yours, get out of it! The pirate healer's Sea Shanty gives every teammate near you a heart a second for 6 seconds while you sing, at half speed. The ninja healer's Lotus Circle leaves a glowing ring on the ground that does the same for everyone in it.
• A new badge stops the battle's end for a moment: your medal spins in, your leader is proud of you, and the new ability plays once on the card. Tap it to see it again.
• Your badges for each side add up across its three places, nine in all. At 3 pirate badges you win the captain's coat and tricorn, and at 3 ninja badges the ninja garb and mask. You put it on straight away, and the leader's card says how many badges the next one takes.
• At 6 badges for a side you win its flag for your boat: the pirates' Jolly Roger or the ninjas' banner. Fly it from Your flag in the shop, where its skull and crossbones or throwing star joins the emblems for any flag you design. At all 9 you win a hull paint: Pirate Lord, black and red, or Grand Master, midnight blue and silver.
• All 9 also make you a Pirate Lord or a Grand Master: your title shows under your name on Your character, and your leader greets you by it. Captain Cappy's cutlass or Master Sensei's katana goes on a stand in your trophy hall at Gigantis. All 9 badges on both sides make you the Master of the Endless Isle, and win the golden mirror for the hall.
• Keep going: at 20 marks a place's Badge III turns gold. There's no new power, but it gets its own ceremony, your ability buttons glow gold in that place, and you win a title, like Golden Swashbuckler or Golden Blossom Monk.
• Everyone waits behind their fort's gate for ten seconds. Then take their flag from the middle of their fort and carry it to yours. It only scores while your own flag is at home, so get yours back first if they have it. First to three wins, and when the clock runs out, whoever has scored more wins.
• Beaten, you get up at your graveyard six seconds later. A dropped flag goes home after ten seconds, or straight away if one of its own side touches it. Arrows at the edge of the screen point to the flags.
• Hold the Forts has three bases: the pirates' Cannon Battery, the ninjas' Bell Tower, and the Shipwreck on the sandbar in the middle, reached by wading. Nobody holds them at the start. Stand in a base's ring for 5 seconds with no enemy in it to take it. If both sides are in the ring, nobody gets anywhere, so clear them out. The ring fills with the colour of whoever is taking it, and turns their colour once it's theirs.
• Every second, your side scores 1 for holding one base, 3 for two, and 10 for all three. First to 400 wins, or whoever has more when the 6-minute clock runs out. The three chips under the score show who holds which, and the arrows at the screen's edge point to the bases you don't hold.
• A win pays 500 coins, and a draw or a loss 200, in either battle, with the same marks toward your badges. To leave early, tap Leave the battle under the score, then again to be sure: it pays nothing.
• On the ninjas' half, a chairlift runs up the snow peak from its foot. Anyone who has landed can ride it (Ride the chairlift) to the top of the Bunny Slope for the Ninja Slalom, seen from just behind you as you ski down.
• Steer with your thumb, or the arrow keys, through each pair of flags. Going round a gate instead adds 2 seconds. Push up to tuck down for speed, and pull back to slow down. Ice slides you sideways, and moguls slow you.
• Miss the pines, rocks and snowmen. Hit one and you tumble in a ball of snow, losing about two seconds, then off you go again: you can't fail.
• Off a jump, tap Trick! (or Space) for a flip, or a spin if you're steering as you tap. Tap it as you take off: land it for a second off your time, but if you're still turning when you land, you tumble.
• Pass close to a paper lantern and your sword slices it: 10 coins each. Your best time is kept. Stop the run, top left, takes you back down to the chairlift.
• Each run has a gold, a silver and a bronze time, shown under the clock as you go. Get down under one for its medal. On the Bunny Slope, gold means tucking nearly all the way down.
• Ski the Bunny Slope to the end and the Fox Run opens: a blue run, longer and steeper, with narrower gates swinging further apart, through the late afternoon. After that, Ride the chairlift asks which run, with your best time and medal on each.
• Ski the Fox Run to the end and the Doom Drop opens: the black run, the longest and steepest, at dusk. A yeti comes down after you! It roars at the start and sets off. Its face peeking up from the bottom of the screen, and the number under your lanterns, show how close it is. Keep going and you pull away from it, but it gains whenever you slow down or tumble. If it catches you, it swipes you into a tumble and stops to roar, then comes after you again. It can't get you in the air.
• Get gold on all three runs and you win the snow ninja's whites: a white suit and hood with an ice-blue sash and headband, for skiing down in.
• On the pirates' half, a rope ladder hangs down the front of the great tree. Anyone who has landed can climb it (Climb the great tree) for the Treehouse Climb. The view turns side on, like an old arcade game, and the first stage is the Barrel Planks.
• Walk with the arrows at the bottom left, or the arrow keys, and press up or down at a rope ladder to climb it. Hold up and right (or left) to walk on and climb the ladder as you reach it. The big Jump button, or Space, jumps. Walking off the end of a plank just drops you onto the one below.
• The gorilla at the top rolls barrels down the planks, and now and then one comes down a ladder. Jump over a barrel for 5 coins. A barrel that hits you costs one of your three hearts. Lose all three and you start again from the bottom, but you keep your coins.
• Two belaying pins float a jump up from the planks. Jump up to grab one, and for 8 seconds you smash every barrel you touch, 10 coins each. You can't climb or jump while you hold it.
• Get up to the hut at the top for 100 coins and your best time, then in at its door and on up to the next stage. Climb down, top left, takes you back to the foot of the tree with every coin you've made on the way up.
• The second stage is the Rope Swings. Some planks have gaps too wide to jump, with a rope swinging over each one. Jump at a rope to grab it (5 coins, the first time), slide up and down it with the arrows, and tap Jump again to let go: you fly on the way it's swinging, so let go as it reaches the other side. Miss, and you only drop to the level below.
• The rope bridges sag under you, and coconuts hang under the planks above them. One wobbles for a moment before it drops, so watch for the wobble and wait. A coconut on the head costs a heart.
• The third stage is the Bucket Lifts. Buckets go round on two ropes, up on the left and down on the right. Stand where a bucket comes up out of the ground and it scoops you up, or step into one from the end of a ledge as it goes by. Walk off its edge onto a ledge to get out. Stay in to the end of the ride and it tips you out.
• Two bridges are pulled up. Walk into a lever to pull it (10 coins), and its bridge comes down. You need both bridges down to get to the door at the top, so work out which lever to pull first. Coconuts drop here too.
• The fourth stage, at the very top, is the Crow's Nest. Walk over a peg to knock it out (10 coins). Each one leaves a hole, so jump over it, or drop through to the deck below.
• The gorilla up in the crow's nest throws monkeys down. Jump over one for 5 coins; land on its head and you just bounce off. Walk into one and it costs a heart. A belaying pin bonks them right off the tree.
• Knock out all eight pegs and the crow's nest gives way: the gorilla tumbles into the sea with a splash, and the pirates' treasure chest drops down beside you. It's 1,000 coins the first time and 250 every time after.
• Once you've climbed a stage, Climb the great tree asks where to start: at the bottom, or at any stage you've reached.

• Tie up at the end of its pier to sell your catch, then Step ashore.
• At the seed stall, Look at the seeds and buy some. Some crops are picked once, like carrots; others keep fruiting once they've grown, like strawberries.
• New seeds come in at every dawn. Carrots, strawberries, blueberries and tomatoes are always there. The rarer a seed, the less often it's in, and the more it's worth: check every morning for a legendary, mythic or divine one.
• Your seeds show in the tray above the big button. Tap one to choose it, stand on one of the dug beds by the pier and Plant it.
• It grows even while the game is closed. Over a growing bed you can see how long it has left, and a ripe one twinkles (and has a little light at night). Stand on it and Pick: the fruit goes in your basket (50 at most).
• Every fruit has its own size, and bigger ones sell for more. Once in a while one grows into a giant, three or four times the size, worth ten times as much or more.
• Watch for a fruit that shines: about one in 100 grows Gold (worth 20 times as much), and one in 1,000 grows Rainbow (50 times).
• The weather helps, while you're playing. Fruit that ripens at night can come out Moonlit (twice as much), and at dawn or dusk Twilight (three times).
• Out in a storm near the isle? Its rain makes ripe fruit Wet (twice as much), and lightning can strike one and make it Shocked (ten times). Sail round your island when a storm comes.
• Sell the whole basket at the sell stand.
• The gear shed, by the windmill, has new gear every dawn. Gear you hold shows in your tray: tap it to take it in hand, and tap it again (or a seed) to put it away. Ripe fruit always gets picked first.
• A watering can has ten waterings. Each one takes 30 seconds off a bed's wait.
• A sprinkler goes down wherever you stand in your plot and waters the beds round it for five minutes, so they grow faster. A gold sprinkler lasts ten minutes, grows them twice as fast, and can make fruit Wet. Sprinklers are best on big crops you pick once, like a pineapple.
• The shovel digs a plant up so you can plant something better. Tap twice: whatever was in the bed is gone.
• There's a lily pond on the grass by the plot. Stand at its edge and Cast: carp will take any fruit, so each cast uses the cheapest fruit in your basket. Wait for the float to go under, then Reel in! Most are common carp; one in four is a mirror carp, worth much more.
• After dark, something big and pale circles under the lily pads: the Moonkoi. It only rises to a fruit the moon has touched, a Moonlit coconut, dragon fruit, lantern gourd, kraken squash or moonpetal, and only once a night. With one in your basket, cast it at night.
• When it bites, hold the button to pull while it sulks, and let go when it shakes its head and splashes, or the line will snap. Don't let it reach the reeds on the far side.
• Land it and it's worth 5,000. It goes up on the gear shed's wall, and it leaves you a moonpetal vine seed, the best crop in the garden. The stall never sells those.
• By the pier is a compost bin. In its card, choose which fish it keeps: common fish, dawn and dusk rares, deep fish, or legendary fish (the Remoro, the attack nibbler and the Moonkoi). Next time you tie up here, it takes those from your hold (ten at most) before the crates buy them.
• Pick a fish from your tray and plant a seed: the fish is buried under it and feeds its first harvest. A common fish makes it grow faster, a rare one makes Gold fruit likelier, and a deep fish makes the fruit bigger.
• Once in a long while the seed stall has a starfall melon seed, the best in the garden. It only sprouts over a legendary fish from the compost bin, and it takes one by itself when you plant it. Ripe in an hour, it sells for about 80,000.
• While you work the beds, your companions (and any leggy muffins) wait on the lawn below the plot, out of your way. Step out of the plot and they come back to you.
• Step into your plot and the camera comes in closer, so the beds are easier to see. Step out and it goes back.
• Want more room? Stand on one of the staked-out beds and dig six more: 2,000 coins for the first six, then 5,000, then 10,000 for the whole plot of 24. The gear shed also sells a bigger basket that carries 100 fruit.
• Three animals keep the stalls: Capy Barrow the capybara sells seeds (take your time: he does), Penny Platypus buys your fruit (and has something to say about every basket, especially a shiny one), and Toolcayo the Tilcayo keeps the gear shed (he tests everything on himself first).
• The field guide has a garden journal after the fish: a page for every crop, filled in as you pick it, with your biggest and how many Gold and Rainbow you've grown.

Turn away or stop. It sinks after a couple of seconds and won't rise again for 20 seconds: cross then. Or harpoon it 3 times while it stands. If you touch it, a third of your hold goes overboard. Prize: its spine.

Sail past slowly and it dreams on. Awake, steer off the boiling water. Harpoon 3 tentacles and it goes back to sleep. Prize: a piece of its dome.

It's a lure. Sail at it and the jaws open: the bulb flickers red and something creaks. Turn away right then. Or harpoon the light 3 times. If it gets you, it swallows the boat and spits you out at home without your fish. Prize: its lure.

Keep moving and never sit still. Harpoon its head 4 times; each hit makes it flinch and slow down. It gives up after a while, or once you're far enough away. Prize: its blinking tail light.

Steer off the red line. Circling won't save you, because the line already knows you're turning. He leaps out at the end of every charge: harpoon him then. Harpoon him too while the trident is raised, and steer out of the gold rings. 6 hits. Prize: 3,000 coins, his jaws, and a secret he tells you as he dies.

Circle outside its reach. Turn hard just after a log's ring shows. Harpoon the eye only while it's open: 10 hits. If a tentacle grabs you, harpoon the tentacle to get free. Beaten, it doesn't die. It drags you under…

Swerve hard out of the ring. After a dive it thrashes in the water for a moment: harpoon it then. 4 hits. It's scared of anything bigger than itself, so when the Deep One rises, Star flies off to space. Prize: a piece of Star.

Turn hard out of the fan; don't keep going through it. Then he rears up on his legs and roars: harpoon him then. 5 hits. Honey makes him flee, but then there's no prize. The first time, he spits out an ice fishing kit. Prize: his tooth.

Keep moving round the roof (the bolts go where you were) and throw when it swoops in. 8 hits. A longer spear makes it much easier. Prize: 2,000 coins and its staff.

Step into a gap in the ring. Otherwise, the same as before: 8 hits. Prize: 1,000 coins and the scuba gear.

Step aside when the sword glints, then hit him while he's open. 12 hits. Prize: 1,500 coins and a key. Then he pulls you somewhere else…

4 hits each. The barbed spear is close to a must here. Prize: 1,500 coins, and the key opens a cage. The prisoner inside becomes your friend.

Stand and throw. Step out of each red ring as it shows (you have about a second), and don't get close or it swings the anchor round itself. A bar shows how much is left. Prize: 2,000 coins, a friend made of tar, the anchor, and the far deep opens.

It's Cthulhu. Spear each tentacle as it comes (one hit each) and keep moving. Then spear him: 10 hits. Prize: a rare fish worth 1,000 coins, and a healer cat and a little Cthulhu warrior who join you.

As before, and spear the monkeys. A healer cat makes it easy. Prize: 2,000 coins, its spellbook, and the portal wakes up.

Spear the three necromancers first. Find a gap in the skull fan, step off the orange line, and step back when the sword goes up. 36 hits. Prize: 5,000 coins, his crown, and his bones get up and join you.

If you wake one, it draws its lance back before it thrusts (2 hearts). Hit it right after. 10 hits.

Keep moving off the rings, and clear the creatures (2 hits each). 50 hits. As it rises you're given soul armour, which gives you a heart back every third hit: that carries the fight. Prize: 8,000 coins, its black pearl, and island 11's portal wakes.

Step off the pink line. The one that shoots is the real one: spear that one. The copies just pop. 14 hits. Then he flies off to island 9.

Spear the chained necromancer first (8 hits). His chain snaps and the shield drops. Then fight the Heron as before: 14 hits, but each zap costs 2 hearts. Prize: 4,000 coins, his feather, and the necromancer joins you.

Step off the line or out of the fan. Throw only while he's reared up: that's the only time a spear hurts him. 30 hits. Walk far enough away and he goes back to sleep. Honey makes him run, but then there's no egg. Prize: 1,000 coins, his claw, and the egg (walk up to it).

Back off when the jaws open, then hit. 10 hits, 30 coins. Walk away and it slides back into its pool.

Step out of the ring, because the slam costs 3 hearts. Hit it right after. 7 hits, 40 coins each.

Only bug spray works (the old man sells it). With spray in your bag, a green spray button shows when he's close: 3 sprays. Don't walk into the web. Prize: 100 coins.

Step out of the ring when it turns solid red. The pelican dives bill first and gets stuck in the floor: spear it then. 15 hits. Prize: 1,500 coins, its golden egg, and a loaf of bread for the birdfeeder.

The same as the Heron: step off the pink line and hit the real one. 14 hits stops him. He can never really be beaten; he just flies off. Then Caterman comes out to thank you.

It's the Forgotten One again, with skeletons, zombies and ghosts. He has the same moves as in the throne room, but every hit is 4 hearts, so dodge everything and wear your best armour. After 9 hits he gives up. Prize: 6,000 coins and his sword. Then walk up to him and tap Go with him.

Keep a little way off, dodge each ring or lane, and throw. Tar humans: 15 hits, 3 hearts a slam, 60 coins. Tar beasts: 18 hits, 4 hearts a lunge, 90 coins. Corner a beast against the tar and it stops running.

Keep moving round him, because he's slow to turn. Dodge, then throw while he's open after a sweep or a landing. At half he calls up two tar humans. 25 hits, and 4 hearts a blow. Prize: 3,000 coins and his sword.

Dodge the three tar balls (red rings) and the swoop (a red lane). After it lands it pants on the ground: spear it then. 18 hits. Prize: 500 coins.

Its arms rise out of the tar by the shore, two at a time, each over a red ring where you stood: step out (3 hearts a slam). A spear chops an arm in one. Chop 6 and its eye rises off the shore. Throw only while the eye is open: 9 hits. Prize: 900 coins and its eye.

Step straight back out of the fan, then hit. They're slow. 18 hits, 2 hearts a sweep, 70 coins.

What you see is a picture, off to one side of where it really is. Watch its shadow and the shimmer: that's the real one. Right after it lashes, the picture snaps onto it for a moment: hit it then. 4 hits (the survival knife kills one in a single hit). Prize: 60 coins.

Hit him only when he's low: on foot, or just landed from a swoop. When one of the hired men grabs him, that's a free hit. Beat the monkeys. 20 hits. Prize: 8,000 coins and his horn.

Keep moving. Get out of the bite ring, and sail out through the coil ring before it shuts, or you're pulled under. Harpoon its head while it's up: 6 hits. Prize: 4,000 coins, and a cage comes up with someone in it. Do NOT let it out.

Sail round it, or harpoon it twice for 50 coins. None rise for a boat that's sitting still.

Keep sailing out of the rings. One harpoon chops an arm. Chop 10 and the giant eye rises. Harpoon the eye only while it's open: 9 hits. Prize: 900 coins and an arm. And then…

When its eyes flare orange and its jaw drops, swim across its path and it shoots past. A spear past its head stings it, and it flees.

Swim away, or spear them: 2 hits each, or 1 with the barbed spear. Your swimming friends help.

When the gulper gapes, swim aside or get back in the cage. A spear stings it off for a while. The attack nibbler only bites you if you're in front of its charge: three spears land it, for 150 coins.

Freed from a cage under island 3, after the swordsman and the demons.

Your prize for beating the Tar Anchorer on island 4.

Under island 6, along with the Cthulhu warrior.

Under island 6, along with the healer cat.

Beat island 2's monkey camp for the first time: he's in the bamboo cage.

The Forgotten One's bones, after the throne room in Gigantis.

The Heron's prisoner in the nest on island 9.

Take the Reaper on land's egg aboard. It hatches at the next dawn, while you're out at sea with nothing dangerous around.

Stop the Heron's brother in island 11's clearing.

Join the pirates on the Endless Isle.

Join the ninjas on the Endless Isle.

He arrives when you build the tree platform.

With fish in your hold, sail close and tap him. He's tossed a fish each time; on the third he's yours.

From the boat, tap him to toss him an ice fish (arctic char, polar cod or icefish). On the third he's yours.

Answer their science questions at island 10's birdfeeder (see Side quests).

Hold to pull while it sulks. Just before it runs, it shakes its head and the word turns to Let go: let go right then. Pull through a run and the line breaks; pull too little and it reaches the piling. Most you land are too short and go back. A keeper (28 to 32 inches) gets mounted on the hut.

With the fishing rod, stop close and tap Cast for lionfish. Wait. When the float goes under, the button pulses gold: tap Reel in! (not too soon, not too late). 40 coins each. The lionfish net sweeps them up as you tow.

Tap the crab button to drop a pot behind you (not near the island or another pot). Crabs climb in faster the further out it is. A full pot has a crab on its float. Sail past it to collect the crabs; stop beside it to lift it back aboard.

Tap the seine button to drop its buoy, then circle a school. Once the buoy pulses, bring your stern back to it to close the loop, and every fish inside comes aboard. A tight loop keeps them all; circle tight at full speed.

Each passenger wants to see something: whales at the surface, a manta leap, a turtle swimming with you, a dolphin escort, or the Cthuluviathan asleep. Tie up at any dock to get paid, with a bonus if every wish came true. A fright halves the pay.

Tap Drop the line. It sinks by itself; on the way up, steer it through the fish (up to 5 at once) and keep away from the pale jellies, which knock a fish off. Steer down onto a snow crab just as the line turns.

Tap Cast into the pond. When the float nibbles and goes under, tap Reel in!. Bluegill bite most, then yellow perch, largemouth bass, and the rare channel catfish.

Get one right and tap Pet the crow: it flies to your boat. A wrong answer just shows the right one, and you can try another question. Win all three. You need a crow to get past the white buoys.

Wait for heads to turn. Use the invisibility potion to cross lit floor (it lasts 5 seconds, then needs 12 to recharge). Get close behind a guard who can't see you: Backstab! At the top, sneak up behind the sorcerer while he's looking out, and Kick him off! Prize: the chemistry boat, and the sorcerer's hat.

With the treasure finder fitted to your radar, eight treasures show as gold diamonds: three in home water, three in the deep and two in the far deep. Tow your net over one. Clunk!

Stop anywhere in the far deep and tap Dive in the submarine. Every patch of seabed has its own three treasures a day, and deep fish to spear.

On foot: pick a size of barge and up to ten enemies or bosses, then Fight!. At sea (with the harpoon): pick a sea boss, and make your own map with islands to hide behind, tar to slow you, and bridges. On the tar, once you have the chemistry boat. A win pays 1 coin.

• Aquarium (25 driftwood and 1,000 coins, after the tree platform): every kind of fish you've caught swims inside. Tap the water to feed them, hold a finger in the tank and they follow it, and tap the pufferfish.
• The muffin man on the home pier loops his song forever. With junk aboard, he bakes you fish muffins (up to 6). Leave one uneaten for a whole day and it grows legs and follows you about, under a cloud of stink.
• The field guide (in the shop) has a page for every fish and creature you've met.
• Your flag: pick colours, a pattern and an emblem. It flies on your boat, your palace and every tower you take. Flags won on the Endless Isle are there too, ready to fly with a tap.
• Your character: Skipper, Finn, Coral or Hank, or make your own. Outfits you win on the Endless Isle go on over it, and you can take them off again here.

Gigantis is your headquarters: no enemies, every door open, your flag over the courtyard. You also get the portable scanner. Get there through island 7's portal, island 11's portal, or your own dock once you've built it.

• The telescope shows where every big sea creature is right now, and from then on the sea map does too.
• The bed: sleep till morning, with every heart back.
• The roll-call board: choose which friends come with you and which stay at the castle.
• The trophy hall: a stand for every boss you beat (25 in all), and a mound of your treasure.
• The fish board: a frame for every kind of fish, dark until you catch it.
• The armoury: every armour and weapon you own, on show.
• The scanner: a blue button under Throw. Scan a creature to see how to beat it and what it's afraid of. The more kinds you scan, the further it reaches, and later it shows hit points too.