Once you get your map pieces in Poptropica Skullduggery Island, your next major goal is to earn the mighty warship and assemble your crew so that you can fight Captain Crawfish and then go on to find the secret buried treasure. But getting your warship isn’t easy and it’s very expensive. You’ll need a lot of doubloons to upgrade your ship and hire all of your crewmembers. Fortunately, it won’t take very long at all to earn enough doubloons through trade. I explained this briefly in my Skullduggery Island walkthrough video, but since a lot of people are asking questions in the comments about how to earn doubloons quickly, I thought I’d explain it in a lot more detail here.
The Basics
To earn money through trade, just remember one thing: buy low, sell high. You want to purchase goods from the ports at their lowest possible price and then sell them at different ports at their highest possible price. This gives you the most profit and seriously speeds up the process. Fortunately, the different ports have pretty stable prices and each port has a specific good that you can buy at a very low price and another good that you can sell at a very high price. Even better, the ports line up in a nice circular pattern. Here’s how it works:
| Port | Sell this Item | Buy this Item |
|---|---|---|
| Bouffant Bay | Silk | Medicine |
| Parrot Port | Medicine | Spice or Silk |
| Golden Harbor | Spice or Silk | Grain |
| Pirate Outpost | Grain | Spice |
| Dragon Cove | Spice | Silk |
So you can start in Bouffant Bay and just keep sailing clockwise in a big circle from port to port. Always buy the maximum amount of the low priced cargo you can at each port and then sell the maximum at the next port. That’s really all there is to it! Here’s a simple diagram that shows the pattern:
Trade in the ports in this order in Poptropica Skullduggery Island to get the highest profits.
Upgrade Your Ship
You’ll start off your trading on your rinky dink raft that the returning villager from Fort Ridley gives to you. You’ll want to trade up to the next ship as soon as you can because this tiny little boat doesn’t carry much cargo. If you’ve got the Cargo Master, then you’ll probably be able to earn enough profits each loop around the ports that you make. Sometimes you’ll need to do two loops. But each time you have enough money for a new ship, stop inside the ship builder’s shop in Dragon Cove and upgrade. The difference in cargo capacity between the different ships is huge, and always sailing the biggest ship you can will lead to the most profits. Here’s what each of the ships cost. Note that the actual cost is a little bit lower because you can trade in your existing ship for a small discount each time.
| Ship | Cost | Cargo Space |
|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Rigger | 3,000 | 60 |
| Carabelle | 9,000 | 200 |
| Sea Sultan | 30,000 | 600 |
| The Koi | 90,000 | 1,800 |
| Steaming Fury | 300,000 | 5,000 |
| Phoenix Warbird | 1,000,000 | 6,000 |
Get the Cargo Master Soon
One of the crew members is the Cargo Master. When he’s on board your ship, you can carry 50% more cargo than before and that means much faster profits. You can find him inside Willard’s Warehouse in Bouffant Bay. It only costs 15,000 doubloons to hire him, so hire him early on. It makes sense to hire him right after you upgrade to the Carabelle or Sea Sultan ship.
The Cargo Master is in Willard's Warehouse in Bouffant Bay.
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Can I beat captain Crawfish with the cannon guy on pirate outpost?
i almost beat captin crawfish with my sea sultin but every time he has like one life the life goes halfway up!
William, you can only beat Captain Crawfish with ALL of the crew (pay money to do this) and with the last ship, the Phoneix Warbird. You purchase ships at Dragon Cove, in case you don’t know where to buy ships.
I GOT A BETTER WAY FOR $$$
first have the koi and a full crew
than kill pirates and sea mosters
it will give u lots of cargo !!!
TJHAN SELL IT ALL
plus NEVER BUY CARGO!
goose to get more money DISORY PIRATES AND SEA MOSTERS!
U WILL SEE Y!
when i got the phoenix warbird i kick captin crawfishs butt!
Somtimes this stuff doesn’t work, how would you pay of the loan from the bank on Golden harbor if your paying for every thing else!!!!!! =(
i got the navgaitor and my friend whiteprincess has a steaming fury and i have a warbird ship
i beated captin crawfish in a the koi
do ya have a jimmy ringer
i have a phonix warbird
i have my crew now defeat captin crawfish
william you cant do that you defeat him in a ship
i wanna get rid of that sea sultan and get a steaming fury
with a phonix warbird you can defeat captin crawfish easliy
i used to have a carabelle and got up to a koi so easliy
i have to hire the cargo master and the guy from dragon cove then i will defeat captin crawfish
you were right!the battle with crawfish is fun!
thanks Venom8899:)
I almost beat the crab with jimmy rigger!
I trade for many days already. this island is so difficult!!!!!!!!!!!
if i had enough $$$$$$$$$$$ i would hire the guy from dragon cove
who has a little raft with no cannons
i am making no money with trading only looseing i have only about 3000 dollers on this island so i still have the have not paid back the loan and keep geting attacked by the crawfish i need help pleeeeeeeeeeeeeese does anyone have a idea.
i am making some money but not very fast i still need all the help i can get
just bought a better ship but still need help
How do you beat Crawfish?????
plus i not laughing if you have a little raft
i can help you get a bigger raft
i can help you get a bigger ship go down even more to learn more
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1. if has less coins look for salvage and coins
2.go to bouffant bay and go to the/ps: tradeing posts is on every island
3.then go to parrot port and go to the tradeing post there
4.next is golden harbor go to the tradeing post and go to the bank there too
5.next pirate outpost go to the tradeing post there
6.then dragon cove go to the trading post if has lots of money go to shipyard
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island trade buy
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bouffant bay silk medicine
parrot port medicine spice or silk
golden harbor spice or silk grain
pirate outpost grain spice
dragon cove spice silk
ps:do it over and over again till you have a lot of money
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shipyard at dragon cove
_____name________price_____cargo space____
jimmy ringer 3,000 60
carabelle 9,000 200
sea sutlian 30,000 600
the koi 90,000 1,800
ps: this is not all
now im doing another page
steaming fury 300,000 price 5,ooo cargo
phoenix warbird 1,000,000 price 6,ooo cargo
I really need doubloons faster!
I am in Europe right now.I bought Avatar because it cost all most 10$ less!I am on vacation.
Oops I mean almost.
I BEAT CAPTAIN CRAWFISH WITH THE CARABELLE!!!!!!!!!!
AHHHHH!
Dont forget to save ALL THE TIME!!!!
Phew as i was going to Dragon cove i was ambushed by 2 ships!
THIS IS SO FRIGGIN DIFFICULT!!!!!!!!!!! ITS TAKEN ME FOREVER TO GET ENOUGH $$$$$$$$$$$$ TO BUY ANYBODY!!!!! WHAT THE HECK!!!! HOW LONG DO THEY EXPECT US TO TRADE FOR?? A CENTURY????????!!!!!!!!
Im stuckstuckstuck. Helpppp
it never says how much to sell or trade though!! someone lz help!
u no the there r milions of monster in the corner at dragon cove thats where i get all my $
thanks i needed that but i still can’t make much money but i have a full crew and sea sulitian
I got the ship with 4 cannon!
i have done all islands, skullduggery i think was the funnest, i agree that an easy way to make doubloons is to kill the sea creatures, but its easier to do with better , bigger and ofcourse expencive ships. i hav’nt tried ” buy and sell” way that many people do, i guess. i got the huge warship in less than 20 mins using my way, but i bet the “buy and sell” way is very good aswell o.o
I meant as a crew member Cutequeen.
I asked because after I hired him the cannons acted like there was infinite cannon balls flying.It must of been a glitch.It wore off and happens rarely.
Actually, you don’t need the Phoneix Warbird to beat Captain Crawfish (with little chance MAYBE you can beat him with a Screaming Fury.
I meant Steaming Fury.
to get 1000000000,00000,0000 gold first you need to go to gloden harbour then go to the bank then loan 0 gold but you can buy anaything!!!!! thats how i got the pheonix warbard
I NEVER buy anything, I simpily trade to get more dubloons.
OMIGOD U HELPED ME SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!! I LUV THIS WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!1 IM GONNA RECOMEND IT TO EVERYONE I KNOW!
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