Based on other AO trivia topics like Bio’s and Catean’s, this one focuses a bit more on gameplay, and consists of minor stuff I haven’t seen anyone else say, as well as niche bugs.
Semi-obvious facts
Sirens can’t follow you if that’ll get them too far away from their Rock.
Atlantean ships can’t cross the border between the Dark Sea and the War Seas.
You can’t unload your ship if you don’t have a crew equipped.
You can’t change equips while in combat on WoM, though you can in AO.
Lord Elius’s eyes are lavender on his second phase.
Less noticeable facts
Quartermaster’s low ship HP warnings only appear when your ship crosses the 50% HP threshold, they’ll also notify you for even scratch damage (this includes 3 damage large waves). Cooldown appears to be 1 second between messages.
The limit of fish your crew can catch is 4. You can’t wait for 3 hours and expect a good haul.
Dark Sea ghost ships receive audible sail tearing damage if they pass through a tornado (I assume same thing happens with lightning and waves)
Deckhands artifact items are counted as Trash when fished up.
Empty bottles do not display an exclamation mark nor a treasure bag if you’re fishing.
Server-wide messages are normally disabled while in the Dark Sea, except for successful Grand Navy execution/defeated by rival messages.
Lost Cargo counts towards chests opened for exploration task purposes.
Grand Navy faction cannot damage Kingdom (Sameria/Ravenna, not Keraxe) nor Merchant ships, but it can hurt the former’s crews (Bronze Legion can fight against Notoriety marines).
Bugs..?
Chests dug by a modified shovel are determined by the one used to dig it, to avoid situations where you use a Marking shovel to discover the treasure and then use a Rich/Fortune one to get extra luck on the chests.
However, you can circumvent this if the first chest dug is a Sealed Chest.
Magic M1s count towards the spells used stat.
Cannoneer Deckhands’s Orders skill does not affect hunting attachments.
Anglerfishing quest only counted regular Anglerfish until the Nimbus update, where all variants count.
You can only obtain clan infamy if there are at least 10 players on the server and two different clans. It’s not claiming infamy (according to the game), but infamy as a whole.
Niche area
You cannot change equips if you’re holding an item such as a gunpowder barrel/sealed chest/cargo.
You cannot deposit galleons into your clan’s bank while in combat.
On World of Magic, landing from a high height will play a sound effect and destroy terrain, this doesn’t exist in Arcane Odyssey.
Fish caught stat counts items caught, but “catch fish” quests do not.
If, for some reason, you don’t have the “Welcome to AO badge”, you’ll default as 3rd gen. (joined as an alt that never played AO before, somehow got 3rd gen, then when I rejoined I obtained the badge and changed to 5th gen).
The only way to obtain the Lamina username is by teleporting to another player as a WoM file (you won’t be able to re-choose magics).
if you have negative rep, you can shoot castaways with something like a bow (as long as it doesn’t do more than like 70ish damage), and it will aggro them
it’s a less risky way to interact with castaways compared to just jumping into the water and hoping there aren’t any sharks
probably means the chests are determined the moment the first chests is found, so if you dig up the first one with a goldsight the rest wont have their rarity increased ( unless its a sealed chest for some reasons…? ) even if you switch to a fortune one
more like a bug since you join the game irregularly, thus skipping the recreate characters that everyone was supposed to get
What shovel enchant is in play for a certain chest is decided by which one was used to dig it first. So if you use goldsight to find a chest and then fortune to dig it up you’re not going to get the luck from the fortune.
But if you dig a sealed first you can use the fortune for the rest and you get the luck for all of them.
Wait, but by “joining the game irregularly,” if you already have all of your AO files filled up and join from WoM, would you replace one of your existing files or force a new one to be made without paying Robux?
they were always there actually, the sky did in fact lit up shortly before lightning strikes
but unless you’re actively looking for them ( which isnt very ideal cause you need to look down/around to watch out for waves ) you can kinda predict where lightnings are gonna strike
Pretty cool facts, didn’t know a couple of these actually. Would like to point out an inaccuracy though.
I spent an hour and a half fishing with some friends and when I returned to my boat I got five fish. I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten higher when doing long DS expeditions on a friend’s boat too. I think it just largely depends on if you have fishhook artifacts on your deckhands, since those do make a difference in speeding up catch rate, as well as how long you wait. I’m not sure if there is a solid cap for crew catches.
