The Ocean
There is a place that is not on the map.
The ordinary world map omits this hidden region. There is no signpost pointing at it, no gate, and nothing in the game will ever tell you it is there. It is the deepest thing in gluniverse and the only way to find it is to go looking.
Getting there
Two things stand between you and it, and neither can be talked around.
You need level 16. Deep water is a solid wall below that. Walk at it at level 15 and your soul simply refuses.
You need to swim east. The Shore has a river that runs out to the waterline on its eastern edge, and the deep core of that river keeps going. Follow it out far enough and the Shore ends and something else begins.
Take the swim seriously. Point and click will not path you through deep water, so you swim it on WASD, by hand.
It is all water
The Ocean is 80 tiles by 80 and every single tile is deep water. There is no shore inside it, no floor, no bench, no gather node, no vendor and no way home except the way you came. A few rock formations break the surface, and that is the only cover in the world out there.
You are also slow. Swimming moves you at half your walking speed, and swim-galloping only gets you to two thirds. Read the next section with that number in mind.
What lives there
Three kinds of fish, and something else.
| Health | Power | Speed | XP | Level | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nipper | 14 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 6 to 7 |
| Snapper | 22 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 8 to 9 |
| Gulper | 30 | 9 | 8 | 26 | 10 to 11 |
| Reef Shark | 70 | 13 | 9 | 55 | 11 |
Notice the speed column. Everything in the Ocean is faster than you are, and you are at half speed. There is no running away out here. If you pick a fight you finish it, and if it goes badly you have a long slow swim with something biting you the whole way.
There are exactly three reef sharks in the whole Ocean, spread far apart, each on a six minute respawn. At power 13 a shark hits as hard as a White Wolf, which is as hard as any ordinary animal in the world gets. The Knacker bosses and their adds are separate, harder encounters.
Fishbone
The fish drop fishbone, and nothing else in the world does. There is no fishbone node anywhere and there never will be: the Ocean holds 4,000 of it, total, forever.
Fishbone is worth 5 gloo at the vendor floor, but that is not what it is for. At the kiln, from level 6:
2 fishbone makes 1 bone.
That is the point of the whole zone. Bone is what good weapons, many charms and the best armour want, and the ground no longer gives it. Kills are one door; the sea, guarded by sharks, is the other. Fishbone is a rare material and does not rot; the bone you refine from it is a basic and does.
The Ocean Treasury
Every reef shark drops one, guaranteed. It is a sealed thing you carry home and open, and it pays in gloo.
You may open four treasuries a day, and the day turns at midnight UTC. The cap is shared with the Frozen Treasury off Lil Knacker, an exact copy of this one: four of any mix is the day. Holding them and trading them is uncapped, so treasuries pile up and sell on the Exchange like anything else. Only opening is rationed.
| Chance | Pays |
|---|---|
| 75% | 100 to 300 gloo |
| 20% | 300 to 1,000 |
| 4.5% | 1,000 to 5,000 |
| 0.49% | 5,000 to 50,000 |
| 0.01% | 500,000 flat |
An open is worth about 600 gloo on average, so a full four a day is worth around 2,400. That is a modest, honest trickle, with a one in ten thousand tail that pays half a million and tells the entire world it happened.
What it costs to die out there
Everything, and further away than usual.
Dying in the Ocean works like dying anywhere: you drop your whole bag and your worn gear where you fell, and you wake at a safe hub. The difference is where "where you fell" is. Your bag will be sitting on the open sea, in a zone with no map, that you have to cross the world and swim back out to reach, inside the 3 minutes it stays locked to you.
Realistically, what you drop in the Ocean is gone.
So carry nothing you are not willing to feed the fish. Bank your fishbone in a stash between trips. The souls who get rich out here are the ones who make short runs, not long ones.
Why bother
Because it is one of only two ways bone reaches the world, the other being a kill. Because the sharks pay a treasury every time. Because a shark's 55 XP is the richest base payout of any ordinary animal in the game, and there is nothing down there to share it with. And because almost nobody has been.