====== Pirate Dungeon ======

The **Pirate Dungeon** pits you against jungle creatures, cursed sailors, and pirates before a multi-stage captain battle that moves from **Mad Captain Forky** to **Captain Redbeard**.

===== Preparation =====

  * Expect melee bursts, projectiles, pulls, knockback, poison, and severe slowing effects.
  * [[dungeon_provisions|Antidotes]] help with Poison, not nausea, stuns, direct damage, or every curse.
  * Keep room for [[dungeon_loot|hotbar-restricted loot]] and avoid treating nearby water as automatically safe: some areas damage players standing in water.

===== Creature and Pirate Roster =====

Health below is base health and can increase with difficulty.

^ Enemy ^ Base health ^ Skills and hazards ^
| Lost Sailor | 100 | Short-range slash with a sweep sound. |
| Poisonous Frog | 40 | Close-range Poison or Nausea attacks also throw the player. |
| Ancient Worm | 30 | Burrows when wounded, leaving dirt/sound cues, then erupts with nearby damage and displacement. |
| Jungle Spider | 100 | Cobweb projectile applies Slowness. |
| Jungle Cave Spider | 100 | Its projectile applies Poison rather than the ordinary Jungle Spider's slow. |
| Cursed Spearman | 100 | Visible spear projectile with high direct damage and knockback. |
| Cursed Archer | 100 | Projectile attack with a ranged weapon sound. |
| Pirate Guard | 350 | Strong melee attacks with particle and sound cues. |
| Pirate | 100 | Two close-range slashes and a lunge toward distant targets. |
| Undead Pirate | 100 | Uses the pirate attack sequence; also summoned by the Dark Nymph. |
| Undead Quartermaster | 100 | Throws assorted object projectiles that deal damage and knock the target away/upward. |
| Pirate Lord | 250 | Announces a pull followed by a heavy sweep; its greed curse applies a strong slow. |
| Dark Nymph | 400 | Summons four Undead Pirates, initially stays still, and changes movement as summons die. Fires soul missiles at selected players. |
| Mermaid of Lagoon Island | 100 | Distance-based Slowness, Darkness, and Weakness; can briefly stun with a message. |

===== Regular Encounter Cues =====

  * Move away from the Ancient Worm's dirt trail and likely eruption point; the emergence has an area follow-up.
  * Avoid spear and web projectile lines rather than relying on Antidote to negate their direct damage or slow.
  * The Pirate Lord's pull message and particle line warn of a delayed heavy sweep. Its greed slow makes retreat harder.
  * Watch new Nymph summons and incoming soul missiles.
  * React to Mermaid debuff/stun messages. Antidote does not cover those effects.

===== Mad Captain Forky =====

**Mad Captain Forky** starts at **1,000 base health**. His attack set changes as his health falls.

^ Phase ^ What happens ^ Visible cues ^
| Opening | Cutlass combat, pirate summons, leap/lunge slash attacks. | Blue slash shapes and the captain's leaps. |
| Pull and multi-slash phase | Undead Pirate summons, a pull beam toward a far player, and multi-slash movement. | Cloud/beacon-like beam effects and the no-escape callout. |
| Renewed melee | Faster melee movement and continued pressure. | The change in movement and continued melee attacks. |
| Lifesteal phase | Returns toward his starting position and uses an aura/beam sequence that can drain player health and heal him. | Expanding detection rings, soul/electric-spark beams, and sounds. |
| Transition | Becomes damage-immune and performs a soul-tornado/levitation sequence, then summons Captain Redbeard. | The stopped combat movement, tornado effects, and dialogue. |

**Forky's transition is not the end of the battle.** Stay ready for Captain Redbeard rather than treating the tornado sequence as a victory.

===== Captain Redbeard =====

**Captain Redbeard** starts at **1,200 base health** and replaces Forky as the fight continues.

^ Phase ^ What happens ^ Visible cues and hazards ^
| Swordfighting | Multi-hit melee sequence with lunges and knockback. | Crit/sweep effects and weapon sounds; remaining in range exposes you to follow-ups. |
| Barrels | Throws explosive barrels toward selected players. | Smoking/flaming fuse; nearby blast damage and knockback when struck. The explosion can also damage the captain. |
| Wind and compass | A wind sequence with temporary invulnerability, slowing/knockback effects, then a compass-guided teleport strike. | Wind rings, fog and sounds, followed by compass direction callouts and a teleport hit. |
| Rum | Throws lingering bottles and creates normal or fire rum pools. | Pools slow nearby players and can spread ignition. They also remove Resistance, Fire Resistance, and Regeneration. |

Move out of lit barrel and rum-pool areas, avoid beam/slash paths, and use transition cues to reposition. **Do not rely on Fire Resistance remaining active inside rum pools.** Phase timings depend on the fight's progress, not a fixed stopwatch rotation.

===== Treasure =====

**Cursed Coin** is a Pirate material reward available from tier 2, with a dungeon stack limit of 4. Despite its name, it redeems into a material item rather than automatically paying money. Other treasure follows [[dungeon_loot|the shared loot rules]].

===== Related Pages =====

  * [[dungeons|Dungeons]]
  * [[dungeon_provisions|Provisions and Treasure Chests]]
  * [[dungeon_loot|Loot, Heirlooms, and Inventory]]
  * [[blood_dungeon|Blood Cult Encounters]]