Items

Various items are scattered on the island. All items can be found by searching in the appropriate place; some tend to be found more in huts and villages, while others are more likely to be found in the jungle. All items can be traded to traders for what they have in stock.

You can carry 71 items in your inventory. Each rifle and blowpipe takes 2 inventory spaces, while gold coins don't take up any inventory space. All other items take 1 space.

Clicking on an item in your inventory uses 1 AP. Generally, this attempts to use the item (such as a sharpening stone); otherwise, you get a message like: "Upon closer inspection, the knife appears to be a weapon." (1 AP is used in either case.)

For more information, see Talk:Items.

Melee weapons

The default weapon, the punch, deals 1 point of base damage at 10% base accuracy.

There is an unknown chance of a weapon dealing additional damage during combat. "Maybe it's luck or maybe it's skill, your attack is right on target and inflicts more damage than normal. You attack [the target] for 5 damage." There is also an unknown chance of a weapon breaking during combat, which causes you to lose that weapon. "Unlucky or just clumsy? The blade snaps off and you're left holding the handle, which you discard." See Special weapon event odds for more information.

Melee Weapons
Name	Base damage	Base accuracy	Normal trade value	Locations	Notes
Knife	1	20%	$80	Camps	Required for writing messages on trees or huts.
Dagger	1	20%	$80	Ruins	Required for writing messages on trees or huts.
Machete	2	20%	$100	Jungle	Breakable. Required for chopping through the jungle. Can become a blunt machete when you chop vegetation; see Special weapon event odds.
Blunt machete	1	20%	$70	Camps, Jungle	Required for chopping through the jungle, but doesn't always succeed at doing so. Can be sharpened with a sharpening stone to become a machete.
Cutlass	2	20%	$120	Ship	Breakable. Required for chopping through the jungle. Can become a blunt cutlass when you chop vegetation; see Special weapon event odds.
Blunt cutlass	1	20%	$80	Ship	Required for chopping through the jungle, but doesn't always succeed at doing so. Can be sharpened with a sharpening stone to become a cutlass.
Heavy sword	4	20%	$5000	Jungle (?)	Extremely rare; only a few are rumored to exist.

Ranged weapons and ammunition

Ranged Weapons
Name	Base damage	Base accuracy	Normal trade value	Locations	Notes
Rifle	5	20%	$300	Outsider ammunition huts, Outsider camps	Needs ammo (rifle bullets). Holds 2 bullets at a time. Requires 2 inventory spaces (regardless of how many bullets are loaded). (Outsiders only; natives require outsider knowledge to use.)
Blowpipe	4	20%	$300	Native ammunition huts, Native camps	Needs ammo (poison darts). Holds 1 dart at a time. Requires 2 inventory spaces (whether loaded or empty). (Natives only; outsiders require native knowledge to use.)

Ammunition
Name	Normal trade value	Locations	Notes
Rifle bullet	$15	Outsider ammunition huts, Outsider camps	Used as ammo for rifles (which hold 2 bullets each). Found as singles or in boxes with up to 8 in a box; boxes immediately break out into individual bullets, taking 1 inventory space per bullet. (Outsiders only; natives require outsider knowledge to use.)
Poison dart	$10	Native ammunition huts, Native camps	Used as ammo for blowpipes (which hold 1 dart each). Found as singles or in bundles with up to 8 in a bundle; bundles immediately break out into individual darts, taking 1 inventory space per dart. (Natives only; outsiders require native knowledge to use.)

Consumables

Using a consumable item takes 1 AP and consumes the item (removing it from your inventory). All fruits and drinks you have are only usable on yourself. First aid kits and healing herbs are unique in that they can also be used to heal animals and other characters (including NPC traders and shamans).

Banana

• Restores: 1 HP
• Normal value: $40
• Locations: banana tree, jungle

Found hanging on trees and lying loose around the jungle.

Bananas are overpriced in trading huts, costing $40 per 1 HP healed at normal prices.

Bottle of beer

• Restores: 2 HP
• Normal value: $40
• Locations: outsider camps, beach

A bottle of beer costs $20 per 1 HP healed at normal prices.

Natives without Outsider Knowledge see this item as a "bottle of brown liquid" and can use it normally.

Bottle of rum

• Restores: 2 HP
• Normal value: $40
• Locations: shipwreck

A bottle of rum costs $20 per 1 HP healed at normal prices.

Natives without Outsider Knowledge see this item as a "bottle of brown liquid" and can use it normally.

Bottle of water

• Restores: 2 HP
• Normal value: $30
• Locations: outsider camps

The most cost-effective healing item in the game, costing $15 per 1 HP healed at normal prices

Natives without Outsider Knowledge see this item as a "bottle of liquid" and can use it normally.

Bunch of poisonous berries

• Inflicts: -2 HP
• Normal value: $20
• Locations: berry bush

Poisonous berries can be found on berry bushes (which have tree icons on the map).

Outsiders without Native Knowledge recognize this item as "a bunch of berries" and can use it normally. (However, such outsiders also see tasty berries as "a bunch of berries" and thus can't tell whether a given bunch is tasty or poisonous until they eat it.)

Note: Poisonous berries yield 2 XP when eaten. Since characters earn XP again when healing the damage, repeated poisoning and healing is a viable method of gaining XP for non-combat characters.

Bunch of tasty berries

• Restores: 2 HP
• Normal value: $40
• Locations: berry bush

Tasty berries can be found on berry bushes (which have tree icons on the map).

Outsiders without Native Knowledge see this item as "a bunch of berries" and can use it normally but cannot distinguish it from a bunch of poisonous berries.

When purchased at normal prices at a trading hut, tasty berries cost $20 per 1 HP healed.

First aid kit

• Restores: 5 HP (10 with First Aid)
• Normal value: $200
• Locations: outsider camps
• Usable by: outsiders; natives with Outsider Knowledge

A first aid kit will heal all wounds caused by shark bites.

Natives without Outsider Knowledge recognize this item but are unable to use it.

A first aid kit costs $40 per 1 HP healed at normal prices, or $20 per 1 HP with First Aid.

"FAK" and "kit" are common abbreviations.

Gourd of water

• Restores: 2 HP
• Normal value: $30
• Locations: jungle

Found lying loose around the jungle.

The most cost-effective healing item in the game, costing $15 per 1 HP healed at normal prices.

Healing herb

• Restores: 5 HP (10 with Natural Medicine)
• Normal value: $200
• Locations: native camps, grasslands, ruins
• Usable by: natives; outsiders with Native Knowledge

Applying a healing herb will heal all wounds caused by shark bites.

Outsiders without Native Knowledge see this item as a "dried herb" and are unable to use it.

This item costs $40 per 1 HP healed at normal prices, or $20 per 1 HP with Natural Medicine.

Players often refer to these as "herbs".

Mango

• Restores: 1 HP
• Normal value: $40
• Locations: mango tree, jungle

Found hanging on trees and lying loose around the jungle.

Mangos are usually overpriced in trading huts, costing $40 per 1 HP healed at normal prices.

Useful equipment

GPS unit

• Normal value: $250
• Locations: outsider camps, outsider resource huts
• Usable by: outsiders; natives with Outsider Knowledge

Gives the coordinate location of your character when a signal is available in a non-dense, non-enclosed area. Coordinates are in the form [-70.366,+26.443], where the first number is the X coordinate (longitude) and the second is the Y coordinate (latitude). Moving a single square represents a change in coordinate in that direction of 0.001.

GPS units are high-demand items for new characters. There is a very slight chance of finding them lying on the ground in an outsider village, but the best places to search for them are in outsider medical and ammunition huts (see Hut for search odds). Outsider traders often have them in stock.

Piece of driftwood

• Normal value: $70
• Locations: beach

Found on beaches, dunes, and boatyards, pieces of driftwood are useful for construction.

A signpost can be built out of two pieces of driftwood.

Sharpening stone

• Normal value: $50
• Locations: camps

Sharpening stones can be clicked on to sharpen a blunt machete into a machete or a blunt cutlass into a cutlass.

Currency

Gem

• Normal value: $1000
• Locations: ruins, hold (shipwreck)

Ten times more valuable than gold at normal prices. Unlike gold, gems require inventory space.

Gold coin

• Normal value: $100
• Locations: camps, jungle, beach

Being the currency of the island, gold coins are the only items to require no inventory space, and up to ten can be given to any player in the same location via the "Give" button. Clicking on a gold coin in one's inventory flips it and gives "heads" or "tails" as a result.

Creatures, and other apparently useless items

Crab

• Normal value: $50
• Locations: beach

Currently useless except in trade.

Poisonous snake

• Normal value: $5
• Locations: grasslands

Currently useless except in trade.

Magic charms, amulets, and fetishes

Charms appear to be a recent addition to the world of Shartak (June 2006). Your charms are automatically listed in your character profile, but other powers and functions (if any) are completely unknown.

Rabbit Foot Charm

• Locations: jungle

Unknown powers.

Parrot Feather Charm

• Locations: jungle

Unknown powers.

Silver Skull Cross

• Locations: jungle

Unknown powers.

Monkey Claw Charm

• Locations: jungle

Unknown powers.

Tiger Tooth Amulet

• Locations: unknown. One has been found in the shipwreck trader hut.
• Normal value: ~$50 (traded for a cutlass when understocked)
• Becomes visible to other players viewing your profile.
• When examined: The tiger tooth amulet doesn't appear to actually do anything. Maybe just carrying it is sufficient if you believe in its power.