Uncovering a shipyard now pays — even if the answer arrives late
When we shipped shipyard pages yesterday, the yards were knowledge without a prize: your dex grew a golden shelf, the yard got a public page, and that was it. Flags paid XP the moment you caught a ship under a new one; yards paid nothing. That felt wrong — builder data is far rarer than flag data, so uncovering a yard is objectively the harder find.
The honest reason it wasn't rewarded is timing. A flag is known the instant you press the shutter — it's baked into the ship's MMSI. The builder is not: after your claim, the game quietly asks Wikidata about the hull, and the answer lands seconds or minutes later — sometimes only after a later data repair finally learns the ship's IMO number. By then your catch screen is long gone. There was nothing to attach a reward to.
Now there is. The reward simply arrives late, through the notification bell.
What you get
- First ship in your collection from a newly-learned yard: +40 XP. More
than a new flag pays, because yard coverage is sparse by design — a yard is a find, not a checklist entry.
- A new achievement, Pedigree Hunter 🏭 — one yard, five yards, fifteen
yards. Fifteen documented builders is a genuinely deep collection.
- World first: +60 XP and 10 Tridents 🔱. If no card in the entire game
referenced that yard before yours, you didn't just add to your collection — you put the yard on the map for everyone. That's a unique, unrepeatable event, so it pays prestige currency and gets announced in the community Discord and Telegram channels, same as legend world-firsts.
Whenever any of this lands, the bell rings: a row naming the yard, linking to its page, with the XP and Tridents attached. If you were offline when Wikidata answered, the reward is waiting when you come back. Nothing expires.
And the pages look the part now
One more thing shipped today: the flag and shipyard pages stopped looking like plain lists. A flag page now opens with the flag rendered as the holographic collectible card it is — rarity frame, foil and all — and a shipyard page opens with a golden card matching its shelf tile in your dex. Below, every vessel renders as the same card wall you know from your collection, photos included, instead of rows of text. An unlocked card should feel like an unlocked card, wherever you meet it.