Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide)

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Diving for Zee Treasures Summary
Activity
Setup				Progress				End
0 A				5 A				2 A
Progress Details			Raise to between 5 and 11. Then go diving.
Items Inputs/Outputs Outputs
Raw EPA			5.01			Raw SPA			-

This content is only available during Fruits of the Zee Festival! For the history of this holiday see Fruits of the Zee Festival (historical)

Wiki note: Fruits of the Zee was completely reworked in 2023 (1899 (3)). For the version of the festival in previous years, see Fruits of the Zee Festival (Guide) (Old).

The Fruits of the Zee is an annual festival taking place in the first weeks of September on Mutton Island. The main focus is diving for treasures and exchanging those for rewards, but it's also an opportunity to see some sights, obtain unique items, and discover your Destiny.

Getting to the Festival

First head to . If you do not have Wolfstack unlocked, you can Pay the urchin in secrets with s on Visit the Fruits of the Zee festival! to take you there.

From Wolfstack Docks, if you do not yet have a ship of your own, you may Catch a ferry to the Fruits of the Zee festival for and 5 Actions to get to Mutton Island. From Mutton Island you can Catch the ferry back to London to return at any time.

If you have a Ship already, the ferry will not take you. Fortunately taking your own ship is faster.

Upon arrival, play through the options on Mutton Island, Barren to find out why the festival is not underway. This unlocks the festival storylets, including A Fruits of the Zee Primer.

Going Diving (Week 1)

The main activity of the first week is building up , which lets you dive for treasure to trade in the next week.

Supplication on the Shore

Before you can dive for treasure you first need to build up . A minimum of 5 is required in order to go diving, but more lets you dive deeper and longer, obtaining better treasures. The maximum Devotion you can have 11, which is enough to guarantee you can reach the very bottom.

Each option on Supplication on the Shore gives 3 CP of Devotion, and some economy resources which scale off Base Watchful, paying between 0.5 and 4.0 Echoes worth per action. As is a pyramidal quality, reaching the minimum level of 5 takes 15 CP and 5 actions, and reaching the maximum level of 11 takes 66 CP and 22 actions.

Wreck-Diving

After obtaining at least 5 you can dive from The Fishing Boats, Empty. When diving you draw from a deck of cards, which let you either pick a treasure, or if nothing strikes your fancy, attempt to dive deeper. Succeed and you'll descend a level, while failure will end your dive and provide some Menace increases. Diving itself only takes 2 actions, 1 to leave the boat, and 1 to claim your treasure. Diving deeper is free.

On average, the lower you go, the more valuable the treasure you can obtain. Reaching the bottom reveals a special storylet, Her Fivefold Symmetry, which foregoes an item reward for the Accomplishment . The Bride can be visited up to five times, each time raising the hidden quality which affects the text for each visit. No other uses for any level of have been discovered yet, but the Discovered quality opens the opportunity for unique text and a unique item from the King-in-Coral during Week 2.

Treasures comes in three types:

1. Pure economy treasure, which can only be traded for
2. Items from Fruits past, duplicates of which can also be traded for
3. Treasures that you can trade for new items in the second week

You can only claim an item reward from one card per dive. Diving deeper gives a greater reward when claiming , which appears to be obtained most efficiently by diving deeper with more . When diving for equipment items or coral for equipment trades, it is likely best to begin with 5 until you have obtained all desired items at the starting depth, as diving deeper may not help you to obtain these.

Strategy

As a note, players who get 4 EPA grinding devotion will have a marginally higher EPA (5.01 vs 5.00}} by raising to 11 and diving to the bottom, at a cost of a slightly lower gain. All other players should use the strategy detailed below for an EPA of between 1.87 and 4.78.

As analyzed in the table below, the optimal strategy is to build up your to 9 and then dive deeper until you see a 300 Favour option, which first appear at Depths 3. At Depths 5, just take the best card available.

• 1 - Just dive deeper.
• 2 - Just dive deeper.
• 3 - Take:
  • Well-Disguised Trinkets
  • Otherwise Dive Deeper.
• 4 - Take any of:
  • A Cabin-Fragment
  • Easy Pickings
  • Well-Disguised Trinkets
  • Otherwise Dive Deeper
• 5 - Take in this order:
  • A Shattered Prow or A Cabin-Fragment (400 Favour)
  • Easy Pickings or Well-Disguised Trinkets (300 Favour)
  • Tangled in the Rigging (200 Favour)
  • Unlucky Prisoner (175 Favour)

Optimum Diving Depths

Depth	Level
-	5 (7 Act)		6 (9 Act)		7 (12 Act)		8 (14 Act)		9 (17 Act)		10 (21 Act)		11 (24 Ac)
	EV	EV/A	EV	EV/A	EV	EV/A	EV	EV/A	EV	EV/A	EV	EV/A	EV	EV/A
1	84.3	12.04	84.3	9.37	84.3	7.02	84.3	6.02	84.3	4.96	84.3	4.01	84.3	3.51
2	64.0	9.14	89.6	9.95	115.2	9.60	128.0	9.14	128.0	7.53	128.0	6.09	128.0	5.33
3	23.8	3.41	55.6	6.18	100.1	8.34	143.0	10.22	158.9	9.35	158.9	7.57	158.9	6.62
4	4.0	0.57	28.1	3.12	84.3	7.02	168.6	12.04	240.8	14.16	267.6	12.74	267.6	11.15
5	0.0	0.00	3.6	0.40	32.4	2.70	108.1	7.72	216.2	12.72	308.8	14.71	343.2	14.30
Take 200	24.2	3.46	61.8	6.87	125.3	10.44	200.2	14.30	247.4	14.55	262.1	12.48	263.8	10.99
Take 300	16.3	2.33	51.6	5.73	116.1	9.68	203.2	14.51	271.5	15.97	301.4	14.35	306.8	12.79

List of Treasures

For a full breakdown of items, see the Item comparison guide.

New Items

Each of the three corals can be found at any depth level (1-5). Once acquired, the coral can be traded for one of three possible items, that all have the same stats. All three items can be obtained if you collect three of the same coral.

Name	Card	Tradeable Item	Effect
	Old Wounds		Boots: Watchful +5 Mithridacy +1
	Among the Deep-Fish		Hat: Persuasive +5 Reduces Troubled Waters build up.?
	A Reef of Wrecks		Gloves: Shadowy +10 Bizarre +1

Economy Treasures

Name	Card	Depth	Effect	Thalassic Favour
	Easy Pickings	1-5		100
	A Cabin-Fragment	1-5		10
	A Cabin-Fragment	4-5		20
	A Cabin-Fragment	4-5		200
	Unlucky Prisoner Easy Pickings	1-5		50
	Unlucky Prisoner	4-5	Can be used on skeletons.	125

Items from Previous Years

Name	Card	Depth	Effect	Thalassic Favour
	Well-Disguised Trinkets	1-2	Dangerous +6 Watchful +4 Persuasive -1	100
	Tangled in the Rigging	2-3	Dangerous +4 Shadowy +6 Persuasive -1	100
	A Shattered Prow	2-4	Shadowy +6 Respectable +2	150
	Well-Disguised Trinkets	3-5	Shadowy +5 Watchful +3 Dangerous -1	300
	Tangled in the Rigging	4-5	Dangerous +4 Bizarre +3	200
	A Shattered Prow	5	Watchful +3 Persuasive +2 Dangerous -1	400

Non-Stat Uses

• unlocks a powerful option on What do the Drownies Sing? while Zailing, reducing with a check.
• allows you to Carve away some evidence of age, removing

Week 2 (Trading)

The main activity in the second week of is trading in your treasures to buy items.

First, you'll have to progress through the story for the Festival to properly begin in game. Once your A Fruitless Harvest quality is high enough, three storylets will initially unlock: The Fruits of the Zee Festival, Restored!, The Fruit Market, and Fruits for the Starved.

An Audience with the King-in-Coral

While attending the restored festival, you can Seek out the King-in-Coral to meet the Fathomking, unlocking an additional festival storylet. In An Audience with the King-in-Coral you can trade in the various corals available while diving, breaking them open to get a random variant of the corresponding item. If you visited the Pentamerous Bride, you can also get the , a new Transport item.

Here you can also spend FATE for the various items available at the Festival over the years. Many of these items are also available for free via diving, trading , or breaking open coral. Others, primarily older items with fewer uses, are only available here. See the Item Comparison page for item analysis.

The Fruit Market

In the Fruit Market, you can trade in your treasures gained from diving for with the locals. You can then spend the on a variety of equipment items. See the Item Comparison page for item analysis.

Treasure-Trading

Trading treasures will give you , used to buy items from the other stalls. You cannot trade away your final piece of each equipment, but saving items is not recommended: Treasures and duplicate equipment items will vanish once the event ends.

The tables below show how much Favour each piece of treasure and equipment is worth.

Treasure
	10
	20
	50
	100
	125
	200

Equipment
	100
	100
	150
	200
	300
	400

Perusing the Island Stalls

In the Island Stalls, you can buy various equipment from previous Fruits of the Zee years. You can also Claim a wrecked shipment for 95 to randomly receive a variety of saleable items.

Equipment	Cost
	50
	50
	75
	100
	100
	150
	150
	150
	200
	200
	250
	250

Wrecked Shipment

If you claim a wrecked shipment, you will get a random item based on below. As the changes upon purchasing, you cannot manipulate the results by doing other festival activities. Without considering rare successes, on average this should get you 9.4 for 95 favour, or ~0.10 /Favour, double what you will get if you let them expire.

Wrecked Shipment

	Storylet	Reward	Value	Rare Reward	Value
1-12	A waterlogged log book		4		7.5
13-23	A small jewellery box		5.2		12.5
24-34	A trunk of soggy letters		8.05		8.05
35-45	A consignment of wines		7.8		8.75
46-56	A forgotten dossier		10		15
57-67	A crate of glorious fabrics		11.25		17.5
68-78	An Uncanny Incunabulum		14	-	-
79-89	Perusing the Island Stalls		17.26	-	-
90-100	A Clay Man		7.5	-	-

The Green-Gilled Shipwright's Lot

If you have a Ship, you can purchase any of the Festival Ships here in exchange for your current ship and . Players with must first store it in dock for their other ship.

The exact cost varies from 500 - 1920 , depending on what class of ship you owned before and what class of ship you are trying to purchase. The is least valuable and receives the smallest discount, while the receives a moderate discount. The , , and all Festival ships receive the highest discount, bringing every Festival ship's price down to 500 Favour.

The table below lists the ships available for purchase and their closest Non-Festival counterparts.

Festival Ship	Effect	Non Festival Ship	Effect
	Dangerous +5 Dreaded +2 Zailing Speed +55 Greatly reduces Troubled Waters build up.?		Zailing Speed +45
	Dangerous +5 Dreaded +2 Zailing Speed +75		Zailing Speed +75
	Shadowy +5 Zailing Speed +55 Zubmersibility +1 Dreaded +2		Bizarre +1 Zailing Speed +55 Zubmersibility +1
	Persuasive +5 Respectable +2 Zailing Speed +55 Luxurious +1		Respectable +2 Zailing Speed +55 Luxurious +1

Destiny

As with most festivals, you have the opportunity to reset your current destiny for free. You can only do it for free once per festival, otherwise it will cost fate. The storylet for this is Accept an invitation from the Drownies: Reprise

Sights of the Festival

Outside of spending , you can also take the time to see the sights of the festival. The rewards of these items scale with your modified stats. This likely never exceeds 4 EPA.

Sights of the Festival

	Storylet	Cost/Chal	Reward	Alt Reward
1-25	Escape the attentions of the Mary Lloyd (Restored)	-	+1-2 CP	-
1-25	Listen to the Drownies' songs (Restored)	-	+2 CP	+2 CP
26-50	Dance with a Drownie (Restored)	-	+1 CP	+1 CP
26-50	Spy on a delivery for the Custodial Chef (Restored)	40	+1-2 CP	+1-2 CP
51-75	Accompany a passing crowd of drunken revellers (Restored)	-	+1 CP	+1-2 CP
51-75	Follow them to the well (Restored)		+1-2 CP	+1-2 CP
76-100	Drink with a Hooded Lady of Mysterious Provenance (Restored)	-	+1-2 CP	+1-2 CP
76-100	Drink with a Hooded Lady of Mysterious Provenance (Restored)	-	+1-2 CP	-

Menaces

While on Mutton Island, and will not send you to , , or . These storylets will autofire as soon as you return to London. In the second week, 8 and 8 instead trigger Over-Indulgence and An Unusual Interlude respectively. These drop your + and + respectively, by CP equal to their base level, and send you back to London.

How much Thalassic Favour do I need?

Ships cost no more than , less if you have a ship to trade in. Items previously available for free in previous years of the festival will not cost more than in total.

Several new items do not require any . The three types of coral found while diving can be traded for unique items; each type trades for one of three equivalent equipment items. In addition, diving to the bottom and gaining the Accomplishment unlocks a special item in the second week.

Alternative Source of Thalassic Favour

An alternative source of Favour is , where you can cruise the canals (Guide) in order to get Skulls in Coral to trade in for Favour.

For 37.5 of items and 3.5 actions, you can visit the Persephone for an average of 1.5 x  Skulls in Coral, plus 21.25 of s and some and . As skulls are worth 125 Favour each, this yields a total of 53.57 Favour/Action, a return of 11.54 Favour/ .

es can also do this more cheaply at the cost of speed, spending 30 and 5 actions.

Notably, this grind can be combined with diving by using a specific option to raise . Gather flotsam for the King-in-Coral gives Memories of Distant Shores, which can be turned in 40 at a time along with . Alternatively, the memories can be converted into and turned in 10 at a time.

End of the Festival

At the end of the festival, any Treasures you still have beyond one copy of each piece of equipment and your will be be converted into at a rate of 10 to 1 Memory, giving Thalassic Favour a value of 0.5 .