Synopsis
Set sail for adventure! Outwit cunning pirates and battle fierce sea monsters in the biggest Poptropica quest yet. Build your ship. Assemble your crew. Rule the sea!
For walkthroughs on Skullduggery Island, scroll down.
or June 17, 2010 (for all)
Common Room: The Broken Barrel
Preceded by: Mythology Island
Succeeded by: Steamworks Island
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Video Walkthrough
For a written walkthrough with pictures, scroll down on this page.
Written Walkthrough
Walkthrough written by Zey-shomi
Special thanks to: Slanted Fish, Super Thunder, Vicyorus, Nameless, PopBuddies, Pixel, & Invisible Ring
When you arrive on Skullduggery Island, you’ll see that the fort is all destroyed. Let’s go see what’s up!
Fort Ridley
Go right till you arrive at this small hill, then click to go right. Talk to the girl and she’ll say she wants someone to fetch her coin. Go under the hill and click go left. When you get there, pick up the Doubloon (a type of coin that pirates use).
Go to the shop and press “Use” on the doubloon to get a Bag of Feed for chickens. Then head right until you see this shelf with a Broken Mirror on top. Click on it and she’ll say you can have it for free.
Exit, then go left until you see this guy with chickens. Press “Use” on the Feed and he’ll reward you with a Chicken.
Then go right and up the hill and go even more right till you see a guy with bugs destroying his crops. Click “Use” on the Chicken and he’ll reward you with a Blue Candle.
Head further right till you see a bunch of rocks. Jump on the rocks till you reach the top and go right to find the mansion. Go inside the mansion and head right to talk to the governor. He’ll give you a message that has some part that will only be able to be read under the blue candle.
Click “Use” on the blue candle and he’ll show you the rest of the message.
Now, exit and go back to the first part of Fort Ridley. You’ll see a building with a soldier holding a musket. Climb up the building to find the telescope.
Press “Use” on the broken mirror and you’ll have to keep looking through the telescope until you see a small raft. (Hint – Scroll the telescope all the way left.)
Press the mirror icon in the bottom left corner when you see the raft and you’ll shine a signal. Then he’ll respond back and a message will say he’s approaching. He comes back and he gives you his raft.
There are only two other guys on it for now, but don’t worry, you can expand your crew later. Right now, though, let’s find the map pieces!
Bouffant Bay
To find the Map piece here, you talk to this one guy who says it’s on 312 Hanging Fern Way. Go right till you find hanging ferns. Remember… 3-1-2 is the order you need to hit.
- 3rd fern
- 1st fern
- 2nd fern
When you hit them in this order, a map piece will fall. Grab it. You will need to assemble the rest of your Skullduggery Archipelago Map by finding all the map pieces on various islands in this archipelago.
Parrot Port
To find this Map piece, you need to talk to the parrot. He’ll tell you to jump in the sea and then come find him.
Jump in the ocean and then go on top of the second building (not including the tower). He will be on this window. Then he’ll tell you to clog the vent and see where he went. Go to the building to the right with the vent. Stand on it to clog it, and then go right and jump in the last palm tree where the bird is in.
Then he’ll tell you to go to the tower, and you’ll find a friend. There will be a pirate and he’ll award you the map piece if you bring back the parrot. To find the parrot, you need a Cracker, which is in the top left corner of the pub (location indicated by the red outlined square in this picture):
When you’re outside, press “Use” on the cracker and the parrot will fly to you. Then click on the pirate and he’ll give you the Map piece.
Golden Harbor
To get this Map piece, you need to light the lamps in a specific order: the first, second, and fourth.
Count the lamps and then do this. Light the fourth lamp first, which is right next to the gate. Then light up second lamp, which is on the first building. Next, light the first lamp, which is the first lamp you saw when you came.
If you light them up in this order, the map piece will come out of the gate next to the fourth lamp.
Pirate Outpost
To get this one, you need to go to the very top of the place. Jump on the post and pick up the Cannon Starter Kit at the top near the cannonry, just under the Jolly Roger flag.
You will also need to find an explosive barrel somewhere in the middle of the place. Push the explosive all the way down under the golden tooth of the skull. Click on the cannon a little left of the big skull.
When it hits the explosive, the gold tooth will fall out and then there will be a map piece sticking out.
Dragon Cove
In the water, step on the first dragon head. You will get the Mallet.
Bang the gong with the mallet. Then move the man with the fishing pole to where the fish jump. When he catches a fish, he will give you a map piece.
Ships
You can also upgrade your ship by visiting the merchant at “Ship Shape” in Dragon Cove. It’s recommended that you upgrade to the next best ship as soon as you have enough doubloons, because it will hold more cargo and move faster.
You will also receive a discount from the sticker price of the next ship depending on how strong your previous ship was. Once you buy a new ship, your previous one will be gone.
| Image | Ship Name | Price | Cargo |
 | Raft (default) | — | 20 |
 | 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 |
Although people have reported being able to defeat Captain Crawfish without the Phoenix Warbird, it is still recommended that you get it because it will make your final battle with him much easier than if you were using a weaker ship.
Skullduggery Island
You will need to gather doubloons (1 million or a little less) to buy the Phoenix Warbird at Dragon Cove. Again, it’s recommended that you upgrade to the next best ship as soon as you have enough doubloons, because it will hold more cargo and move faster. Note that you will need patience, as it will take quite a while to gather all those doubloons.
You will also need doubloons to assemble your crew. It’s best to buy all four crew mates (you can find people asking prices to be hired on every island except Golden Harbor) to beat the many enemies that will come. Here’s the list of all the crew mates:
- Cabin Boy (default)
- Cook (default)
- Cargo Master (found at Bouffant Bay) – gives extra cargo space depending on your current ship model; costs 15,000 doubloons
- Navigator (found at Parrot Port) – increases ship speed; costs 12,000 doubloons
- Cannoneer (found at Pirate Outpost) – loads cannons quicker; costs 20,000 doubloons
- Shipwright (found at Dragon Cove) – repairs ship without docking; costs 20,000 doubloons
The Cargo Master will be of use early on, but for the other crew members, it’s up to you whether you want to get them now or at the end.
Tips for Making Lots of Doubloons Easily
The best way to gain a lot of doubloons is to go from island to island in a clockwise direction, buying as much of the cheapest item as you can, then selling it all on the next island where it becomes most expensive and buying max of the cheapest again. Also, remember to collect salvages from the waters. If some other ship begins shooting at you, it’s best to run away rather than get beat.
Buying & Selling: What & Where
- Parrot Port – Buy: Grain, Sell: Medicine
- Pirate Outpost – Buy: Spice, Sell: Grain
- Dragon Cove – Buy: Silk, Sell: Spice
- Bouffant Bay – Buy: Medicine, Sell: Silk
Other Doubloon Tips
- Sell your salvages at the next island you dock at to clear more space for the suggested item you need to buy. Buy the max amount you can because you will profit at your next stop.
- Don’t stop to buy/sell anything at Golden Harbor; it’s not as profitable.
- When you go to the Pirate Outpost to sell the grain, steer your ship carefully and near Fort Ridley, in case you have to dock, because that area is filled with pirates. Try to avoid Skullduggery Island as well, since there are more dangers in that area, and only go there when it’s time.
- If you don’t mind risking your ship’s health, you can attack the sea monsters and other ships to earn extra doubloons and cargo when you defeat them. Otherwise, avoid them.
- You can get a loan at the Golden Harbor bank if you’re in a hurry for some doubloons, but keep in mind that you can’t take out any more loans until you’ve paid it back. Also, you won’t be allowed to buy a new ship if you don’t pay your loans, so be wise if you decide to take any out.
Battling the Boss
After you have assembled your crew and purchased the Phoenix Warbird from Dragon Cove, go to Skullduggery Island, which will show up when you have gotten all five map pieces.
Captain Crawfish’s ship will appear near Skullduggery Island. Keep trying to hit it with your cannons and don’t let him get out of your sight because he will keep healing.
If he only has a little health left and you have a lot, run your ship into his. It drains health from you and him very quickly, so only do this when he has a tiny bit of health and you have a lot. He will die quickly.
Once you defeat him, go back to the Governor in Fort Ridley and talk to him. He’ll give you a Map to the Treasure and a Bone Shovel.
Taking the Treasure
When you return to Skullduggery Island, walk six paces east (right) of the flag you see. Use your bone shovel to dig up the treasure, and Captain Crawfish will appear once again…
…but his ship falls apart because of your crew. When you leave, you’ll be awarded the Island Medallion plus credits to spend in the Poptropica Store. Congrats! You’re a true hero! You’ve rid Skullduggery Island of all forms of… er… skullduggery. 🏴☠️
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Album Photos
These pictures appeared in a former feature known as the photo album.
Trivia
- Skullduggery Island is Poptropica’s 13th island. It was released on May 20, 2010 for members and June 17, 2010 for non-members.
- Despite the name Skullduggery Island, it is really made up of several islands – Fort Ridley, Dragon Cove, Bouffant Bay, Parrot Port, Golden Harbor, Pirate Outpost, and then the actual Skullduggery Island at the end.
- The word “skullduggery” (sometimes spelled skulduggery) means “trickery” and may have been chosen because of the iconic skull-and-crossbones of a pirate ship’s Jolly Roger flag.
- Common room: The Broken Barrel
- There are many white clouds over the Skullduggery seas, and some of them have interesting shapes, such as a heart, skull-and-crossbones, smiley, fish, whale, bone, etc.
- Former PHB author Coderkid discovered from Poptropica’s code that this island would have originally been called Pirate Trade Island. A framework file in Poptropica that shows the islands’ code names does refer to Skullduggery as “Trade.”
- The ship’s names are, in order: raft, Jimmy Rigger, Carabelle, Sea Sultan, The Koi, Steaming Fury, Phoenix Warbird.
- Some people have reported being able to defeat Captain Crawfish without the Phoenix Warbird (although the Warbird is recommended). However, in the cutscene, your ship will display as the Warbird.
- Before the island was released, starting May 3, 2010, members received two exclusive items: The Skullduggery Teaser Trailer and a Skullduggery Pirate costume.
- An official book for Skullduggery Island was released on November 8, 2012. The first two chapters could previously be read for free on Funbrain. At the end of the preview, you’d get a promo code for the Skull Pirate costume (the code is SkullBook). The code no longer works.
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Thanks to Zey-shomi (Blue Bee) for writing this island walkthrough! 😀
yeah I need it.
ha ha
OMG!!!!!!!! Has anyone noticed that there is a skull shaped cloud? It’s there, but rarely. And I mean SERIOUSLY skull-shaped; like face, eyes, crossed bones underneath. SO CREEPY!
yeah theres a cloud shaped like a heart too
and another that looks like a smiley face…
Just so you know my chat room code is EXK89 so if u wanna join click on friends then go to multiplayer then enter my code. Slanted Fish I would be really honored if you would join me chat room. I LOVE THIS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SOMEBODY PLZ HELP ME!!! I need to find the guy who tells u where the ferns are or plz just tell me where they are I NEED HELP PLZ!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m making a new accoiunt
whoops i made a mistake i still have the same account.
Same 😉
yes,thank you.
i saw a one that looked liked a ship
awsome!
Question: Do you have to buy the Phoenix or can you get something cheaper and still win?
Hijuyo: You have to use the Phoenix Warbird ship to defeat Captain Crawfish.
yea! i finally got the phinix warbird because of your tip!
ha
yeah the guide helped alot and i was able to beat the island in 19 days!
The second time I beat it I did it in 3 days. No lie.
The second time I beat it was in 1 day. NOT LYING.
thanks
Heh, a lotta people tryna show themselves off. Except for you, Giant Sword. And Sleepy Feather.
I think he means 19 days in the game, not in real life. So yeah, the first time i beat it it was really fast, but I haven’t played in a while so I’m a bit slow on my second one.
I beat the game in 12 days (as in 12 days in the game, not real life).
19 DAYS!!!!!!!!!????????? THAT long????!!!!!
at least it isn’t 132514355612754782365782916378526478235645234237572385 623678567532684523674523745237days! :p
I beat it in three hours.not showing off?
me 2 days really no lie
1st time I beat it, IRL, about 15 days of actually being on the island. I beat Captain Crawfish after 92 days ingame, most days because of trading.
i beat it in 1 1/2 hours on my second try!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, everyone who likes stories, I am making a news story. It’s called “Pop News at Five.” (even though it isn’t always at five.)
It is at the bottom of chat. Hope you read it! It should be coming out this weekend.
You don’t have to use a phoenix warbird to defeat captain crawfish.
what ship can you use?
Any ship you want.
uh,yes you do!!!!
I heard that you can use the Steaming Fury to defeat Captain Crawfish
I agree with Smartthecar because I used the Steaming-Fury and I beat Captain Crawfish but then my laptop screen glitched and his bar went completely full…. I had reloaded and luckily that worked. So it appears u rlly don’t have to use the Phoenix Warbird…..
What if i already killed captain crawfish
congrats
I’m so angry right now!!! I have the Steaming Fury and I KNOW i defeated Captain Crawfish but then his health bar just RANDOMLY goes back up!!!!! I had to try to beat him 18 times but still couldn’t beat him!!! ):I
Thank you so much! I was so confused until i saw this blog!
this is going take awhile.
I know right! like seriously how do you earn 1000000 fast?!
instead of buying grain in parrot port and then skipping golden harbor and going straight to pirate cove, buy spice at parrot port and sell it at golden harbor then buy grain from golden harbor and sell it at pirate cove
I meant silk from parrot port not spice so buy silk at parrot port and sell it at golden harbor then grain there and sell it at pirate cove
This way is better no offense!
Thats what I did and was able to get money MUCH quicker!
i finished it in 44 day[in poptropica]
I found it useful just to go back in forth to bouffant bay and dragon cove while collect salvage.
yea same here way easier to get the warbird
COOL thnx i didnt know how to get a lot of money so i only have 20000 right now…….
Me too, I just move around Golden Harbor (salvage is most abundant there) and collect salvage until im full. Full profit that way.
yeah golden harbor has lots of salvage. i had 300 and i went up to 1,000 sometin in one trip. 🙂
Its a pub not a cafe by the way. Just trying to help.
ok!!!
dude I did saw that skull cloud with eyes and bones and whatever but didnt creep me out.
nobody was afraid of it
all most done got second ship
sorry i mean the second ship i love the ship
Serious Bird says this is the best island eva
I can’t get the first dubloon every time I try to go left under the hill it brings me back to the balloon
what the heck I didn’t say that this is scaring me so bad is somebody else using my name?
Okay, this is going to sound really stupid, but… *deep breath*… so im really serious bird but since I tried to use wordpress it said I was zippysanta whoever that is but my point is *deep breath*, that weird guy who said some weird thing about how ‘he can’t get the first dubloon every time blah blah blah blah blah’, well hes not me he was just using my name because im just obviously so popular, but that second guy, zippysanta, hes really me if you get what im saying. but anyway… *deep breath* im the real Serious BIrd!!! *audience applaudes* never mind that must sound really confusing forget I said anything
Serious Bird – it’s completely possible for someone else to have the same Poptropica name, and that’s likely what happened. The other Serious Bird is probably just commenting with their own name, which happens to be the same as yours, but isn’t trying to impersonate you. So don’t worry 🙂
Chances are that nobody is going to even read that comment, but, if I need to describe that differently just let me now 😉
phew thanks slanted fish 🙂
(actually I don’t think anybody would try to impersonate me im not that good to impersonate) oh yeah and no offense other serious bird whoever the heck you are
whistle whistle!!
I defeated captain crawfish with the Carabelle!! THX sO MUCH!!
goodjob
what? how d´ you do that?
I took 7 hours and didnt know what to do tnx for the island guide 🙂
Really useful! Quick question – has anyone else been halfway through being chased by a sea monster in this and the sea monster swam over an island?
yes
I keep on defeating crawfish but half his health comes back instantly. i dont know what to do im using the steamingf fury. help?
Even though some players have reported being able to win without the best ship, you should probably upgrade to the Phoenix Warbird to stand a better chance against Captain Crawfish.
im using all the crew members and the best ship but i still cant kill captain crawfish
Me too It’s happening with the Koi also, I got his life all the way to zero then it shoots back up!
Please i need help because when i am trying to get the 2nd map piece my character keeps on saying that the part would probably like this cracker but there is no use in giving it away!!
PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!!
You have to find the Parrot like three times and then the third time he’ll tell you to go find his owner which is the pirate on the tall watchtower thing and he’ll tell you to get his parrot back. The Parrot will be flying around and you’ll have to use your cracker to coax him down.
I don’t see the raft. please help!
Go to the telescope tower, move the telescope all the way left, when you see a raft click on your broken mirror at the bottom left corner to shine a signal and when the raft shines a signal back get off the tower and go all the way left. There will be a raft!!! 😀 Hope this helped!!! 😀
It’s hard for me heh heh
I mean the skullduggery island not to get the raft
Somebody plz help me I cant find the guy who tells u where the ferns are! Ive looked EVERYWHERE! P.S. If u wanna friend me my username is SportyWhale99 and my Poptropican’s name is Sporty Whale
For people who want money fast, I would recommend these steps:
Start at Dragon Cove:
*Sell Max Spice
*Buy Max Silk
Bouffant Bay:
*Sell Max Silk
*Buy Max Medicine
Parrot Cove:
*Sell Max Medicine
*Buy Max Spice
Then go back to Dragon Cove again and repeat the process. Its a lot more less tedious and you don’t have to go to Pirate Outpost/Golden Harbor to trade. Just have to have patience 🙂
Thx for the help Gregory_
I have already gotten the Koi. That is the third-best ship.
AWESOME! Thanks, Zey!
very cool i think you have it going
nice
Cool guide! I can’t wait to visit Skullduggery! 😀
Same here! 🙂 😀
It takes FOREVER, but it’s worth it.
I no it’s rlly hard 2 get so many dubloons! Why do ya hav 2 make it so hard. Bt it’s stll AWESOME. Probly da most awesomest island eva cos it’s quite long bt not boring long like Astroknights! So gd job ppl @ poptropica!
to save money… buy the grains in golden harbor… it’s much cheaper!
hey silver dolphin do you know how to get doubloons like SUPER quick? Thats the only problem im having……
ok this will help you but it is long but you will get unlimited money, go to parrot port sell all of your medicine and buy the max grain, then go to pirate outpost sell grain and buy max spice, then go to dragon cove sell spice and buy max silk, then go to bouffant bay sell silk and buy max medicine, repeat this process and you will have unlimited money and buy better ships and crew while you can to beat cap. crawfish
i wont ever be able to beat it 😦
don’t be negative…
i am sure you will someday…
@Dizzy Dee
YEAH! Someday! XP nice one!
Help!!!!!!
I can’t find the raft. I only find the pirate ship. And when I click on the mirror it says ”I dont want to signal a pirate!.” What shall I do?
Dear phakjira,
That means you haven’t done one of the things Zey-shomi has listed for you to do. Read what he has said again and see if you can find where you went wrong. The same thing happened to me on one of my accounts I don’t go on anymore. I made a new account (:
Hope I helped,
Poptropica Helper
I know u can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You got this
This is probably an old discovery for everyone but me but I just realized that the sell and trade system works in a circular motion. Buy grain from the golden harbor and sell it at the next island to the left Pirate outpost and buy spice from there and sell it the next island etc…it’s a lot quicker to get money that way for people who haven’t realized it yet. Don’t stay with your current ship and people trying to save up. It only slows you down so upgrade immediately.
ha that is so funny (without the dragon) because i figured that out to
thank you!!! i had no idea how to go to skullduggery and win the island
awesome……
Yeah! Awesome guide! The thing is that I found this smal deserted island but its not on the map and you didn’t list in the guide. It’s just South-East of Skullduggery Island. Strange! 8( 8l
Sorry about that! The island WAS skullduggery island. 😦
that’s skull duggery!!!!
3 words…. HELPED SO MUCH
mak that 5 words…. HELPED VERY OH SO MUCH
I’ve been playing for 2 days now and it seriously does take forever to raise the money, plus I took out a loan at the bank and the interest is horrible! Don’t make that mistake!!
I’ve made a loan for 2 DOLLARS and I forgot to pay the interest until the last day and it cost around 1,200 dollars. That really cut down my doubloons. And when you really have a lot of doubloons do NOT leave without saving your game!!!! I had around 30,000 doublons and it DELETED ALL my doubloons!
:(:(:(:(
Pay attention with loans i made a 2,000 doubloon loan took to long to earn and pay it back and ended up giving 30,000
I went to Bouffant Bay then went out to fill my cargo up then came back to Bouffant Bay and sold all of it and went back and did it again and again….. without moving to another island because every day it makes your loan go up by about 5%. So any way if you only remain at one island your loan doesn’t go up because it stays on the same day! It helped me until I had enough to go to back to golden Harbor and pay off my loan.
i made a lone for 1 dollar and paid it back 5 seconds later
i just go around 2 all of the islands and trade (i buy at the island with the lowest price for lets say, grain, and at the next island, grain is the highest price, and i earn a HUGE PROFIT!) This is my second time completing the island, and in my 1st turn, i have over 1000! (it’s only my 1st turn….) but thanks for the warning about the bank! the 1st time i played i almost mad that mistake! o, and 1 more thing, keep buying and selling the boats, dont wait for enough money 2 buy the Pheonix… the ships go MUCH faster, and u have less of a chance of getting killed!
I just go around and collect salvage.
Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!!! Now all I need are more doubloons…. I’m bad at earning them… xD
Yay! After restarting a few days (or maybe it was around a week…) ago, I’ve finally finished!
I beat skullduggery within the first two days it was out for members.It was awsome when you got to fight captian crawfish!!!!!!
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!
i finished you gus are the bomb I mean the cannon ball
ha ha
My eyes were hurting while doing this island. And typing this walkthrough ._.
Great walkthrough!!! 😀
ya awesome !!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Thanks for your help tho 🙂 I hate cheating but this one I got stuck on and had tooo…. 😀 Thanks again for the walkthrough, Still stuck on getting to the last island: Skullduggery. Whenever I try going to it this stupid pirate ship comes and starts shootin cannons at me! It’s rude 😛 I mean seriously you pirates! I JUST NEED MONEY! Which is why I see you wanna capture me…. But anyways THANK YOU for the walkthrough 🙂
Same ship exactly each time? if yes(i know this is 3 or 4 years late) then its captain crawfish you have to defeat him
U ROCK I am a BIG fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well it was worth it cuz we all love it thank you verry much
I’m nearly finished skullduggery. I know how to win.. 😀 Good job!
congrats 🙂
This is harder then Astro Knights!!!
I think this is going to take even longer than astroknights for me! I like the challenge though.:D
I really like AstroKnights, but this is good too… but when there is a pirate chasing after you…well….ya’know!
accually it seem harder than astro knights beacuse 1,000,000 dbs sound hard to get accualy it is i complelted skullduggery in less than 24 hours
im with you cool belly cuz skullduggery is SOOO HARD!!!!!!!!!! and i am stuck on the ice world on astro knights
sweet
I can’t WAIT till Skulduggery is released to the public! 😀
The island itself is fun but it takes forever to continue the storyline.
One really really quick way to get 1 million dollars, So go to one island , i would suggest Golden harbor,go to the trading person and buy the least expensive items with the maximum you could buy. Then go to the next island clockwise, ex: if you went to Golden harbor, you got to pirate port. then go to the trade person there, what ever you bought to max. at the last island sell to the max. at this one. you should get a bunch of money. While your still at the place you sold your stuff, buy the most least expensive to the max again, then keep going and going. It made me 1 million bucks in just one minutes!!!!!!!!!
it’s only easy if you have. like, the best ship. if you’re just starting out, it’s the best way, but it’s still not that quik…u cant win in one minute. impossible
Yeah I think your exaggerating about the one minute, it took me three days.
haaa,, well,,, obviously they r exagerating, but i finished it in like a day! just follow wat they said! it really works!
your exaggerating one minute is impossibe i did it in 6 hours but ived done this island many times so i know where the maps are and how to ovide cannons and monsters and how to defeaft them and i now where the most dbs are and much more
1 more thing:
MEDICINE- buy @ B. Bay/sell @ P. Port
GRAIN- buy @ G. Harbor/ sell @ P. Outpost/Place
SILK- buy @ D. Cove/ sell @ B. Bay
SPICE- buy @ Pirate Outpost/Place/ sell @ Dragon Cove
-DONT BUY ANYTHING AT PARROT PORT, JUST PICK STUFF UP IN THE WATER
-DONT SELL ANYTHING IN PARTICULAR AT GOLDON HARBOR, SELL WAT U PICKED UP WHILE COMING THERE!
hope that helps anyone who looks at this!!! 🙂
Well, you can buy spice at Parrot Port and sell it at Golden Harbor for a small profit…
You didn’t do it in a minute unless you had a lot of doubloons before you done it and how did you get past all the enemies if you had a bad ship if u tried it you would lose lots of cargo so i bet you had a good ship to do the thing you told us how to get the 1 million doubloons i know because i tried with the lowest ship with the ship you can get from the ship shape person in dragon cove and it was really hard for me to get to the other islands and it took me a long time and it took me like 19 minutes to get 9000 doubloons doing that so you must have a better ship than the 1 i had!
I agree. It’s nearly IMPOSSIBLE to do that. It took my DAD like, 1-3 hours to do it!
(i know this is 3 years late) but they might have wrote 1 instead of 10 or something? ’cause they did write one minuteS. with an s.
I gave up on this island because my computer is slow and this island is long!!!
I LOVE THIS GUIDE!!!
great job on the guide but there is just one thing on the island i dont really like. the part where you need the 1 million doubloon ship to sink captain crawfish’s ship.i managed to nearly sink it alot of times before i got the phoenix warbird ship but everytime captain crawfish’s ships health was supposed to sink it got half of its health back without sinking
i think because he keeps healing, or he has a shipwright too
yeah if you have the max he has the max just his is better and i died when cap crawfish had a little little little LITTLE tiny little health left
i dont have membership but really want to go to skullduggery island.
same here!!
thanks 4 the guide, zey-shomi!
This island is hard by defeating Captain Crawfish, But nice guide. It helped me for good. 😀
This Island Seems Wumboastic but To bad I am not a member 😦 Can’t wait till JUNE 17!
I’ve already won Skullduggery but I would have done it a lot faster with this guide.
Nice job!
well i didn’t red the guide yet(i want the island to be a surprise to me), but i am sure it good(the way the comments look)!
AWESOME GUIDE!
But I am not Member 😦
hey thx thats awesom im a member its been hard…still like it
I HATE THIS ISLAND!!!!! SO LONG!!!!!!!!! :angry: :angry: :angry:
did you mean to replace the :angry: :angry: :angry: with 😡 😡 😡
This guide is going to be really helpful when the island comes out for non-members!
Oh, and it’s a good thing there’s so many nice people out there. Thanks Zey-shomi (Blue Bee). 😛
I did this without buying anything, i used savages, i also bought the cargo master way before all other crew members. it took me 5 days.
it took me 2 weeks 😦
ive been working on this island for more than a YEAR!!!!!! 😦
Yeah, getting the salvages is actually better than buying the cheapest thing because when you buy the cheapest item, you’re still spending doubloons and there might be an even cheaper item and the prices always change.
it took me almost forever
Yeah, a nice guide!
Great guide!Skullduggery sounds difficult,(good for me, since I like difficult islands!)
-Wild Kid
It’s the hardest island I’ve ever played.
I agree
I would say one of the hardest.
I am playing skullduggery now!!!
Better than me…
I started playing last year and I just continued this day
I loss hope eh…
I got all of the map pieces using the raft ship, now I have “The Koi”
me too
Nice guide, but there is still something unclear to me. How are you supossed to start the cannon if you don’t have anything to start it with? Cuz i click the cannon and my character says that he doesnt have anything to start it with… So im confused 0_o
You’re supposed to get the cannon starter kit first at the top of pirate place, then jump left onto the platform with the flag. You’ll find it there.
-S.C.
Great guide!
it is best skullduggery guide ever… (one of the very few skullduggery guides………)
-_- I just got attacked by 2 ships, a giant crab monster, and a giant octopus all at the same time!
ALL of those?!! OMG!! I’ve only got attacked by two ships or two crabs. (Haven’t been ATTACKED by an octopus. YET! Seen one, though.) How hard is it to beat octopus’s? Are they harder than crabs? Cause I’ve NEVER beaten ONE crab!
Crabs are EASY to defeat! Octopus’s I HATE!!!
Both are easy to defeat. Just watch out for the snapping claws (crab) and waving tenticles (octopus) and you’ll be fine. i’ve defeat hundreds of them and earned heaps of cargo and doubloons that way. You can also earn heaps of cargo (mostly silk & medicine) and doubloons by defeating pirate ships. But never attempt to defeat those with a larger health bar and faster speed.
Once I got attacked by two crabs & two pirate ships. I’d almost finished them all off when Capt Crawfish came conviently along & started shooting at me, so I had to flee.
I hate when I get attacked by the dang ships… -_-
I know, I can lurk around the Northwest corner of the maps and kill as many monsters as I want once I have a good ship, but it’s almost impossible for me to kill pirates 😡 Te worst part, though, is when two enemies trap you and you get slowly squashed to death.
i got attacked by mr crabs and the kraken at the same time.guess who won?CAUSE CHEF SERVED CRABLEGS AND SQUID FOR DINNER.3 POINTS, right?
love this guide!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Might sound a little stupid, (I’m quite dimwitted) But where’s the mallet for the gong? D: I see the gong… but I’m not very sure if it’s the right one. It looks like a bell with green and bronze designs.
(i must be dimmwitted.)
I was wondering the same thing!But after about forty minutes, i figured out by jumping on the wobbly dragon statue. (the one in the water) Once i jumped on its head, the tail came up out of the water, and the mallet was on the tail.
I hope this helps you.
So THAT’S where it is! I was wondering where the mallet was…
SPOILER ALERT: Um, on the dragon right by where the port/ boarwalk ends is a dragons head sticking out. Hop on the head and the tail with a mallet will pop out! <3, Eliza
thats the gong! 😀
I defeated captain crawfish by anchoring my boat and then keep on clicking his ship
Also, buy the next ship at dragon cove once you have enough doubloons. The increase in cargo space helps you earn doubloons faster.
I thought the battle between me and Crawfish was kinda dumb; I was expecting a one-on-one battle like most of the other islands. Oh well. Great guide, it hepled me out alot.
For me it was like a 1v2 battle because there were so many other pirates!! But I ran into the smaller pirate and defeated him and continued with Crawfish until ANOTHER pirate came along and so on… 4x!
Do we have to destroy the sea monster?
You don’t HAVE to destroy the sea monsters, I do anyway since they don’t have cannons.:P
I just do cuz it gives u a ton of salvage! A trick for beating those is to try to get the monster in a whirlpool and shoot at it. when its low on health, get it to follow u out and shoot at it till it sinks. Then collect your salvage!! 😀
Another trick is, is your at golden harbour, try sitting on the opposite side of a rock. The monster will be stuck on the rock, trying to get you, then all you have to do is shoot at it with the cannons
I don’t think so…
I’m avoiding them…
I’m not killing/destroying them
Here’s some advice, just spin in a circle around the crab/squid/or ship and keep firing at them.
Can you hire more than 4 people for your crew?
I’m not sure. I think there is ONLY 4 people to hire. But, I may be wrong. And if I am, and there IS more you can hire, then I am SURE you can hire more then one person. Hope this helps!
Oops, I meant, I am sure you can hire more than FOUR PEOPLE. Sorry! I messed up!
No.
What happens if i dont pay my loan back in time?
I think you’ll end up owing even more . . .
you never ever can get another loan!
Thanx so much
Is this thingy hard to solve or is it easy I just wanna know?
Pretty easy compared to some of the other islands…
M.
NO WAY!!!
How do you buy ships?:(
Hijuyo: Talk to the ship trader at Dragon Cove.
Ugh!Beating Captain Crawfish is hard.He keeps healing!!!!
Captain Crawfish is easy to beat if you keep going round and round around the island he follows you so go around like 3 times then anchor yourself and turn around he’ll anchor himself and start shooting at you. shoot back! click rapidly and in about 5 seconds you won the fight!
Thanks! you helped me a lot!
Well guess what? I almost defeated Captain Crawfish without the phoenix warbird.
My cursor randomly moves when I click rapidly in a row 3 times!! RAGE
Where’s the mirror piece in by the telescope?
There’s nothing there!!
Hijuyo: It should be to the left of the telescope lens. You need to pick up the Broken Mirror from the General Store first.
Oh….Thanks a lot!!
Yeah thanks! You should probably put that in the guide … 🙂
what happens if you don’t pay back a loan? I mean I have defeated this island and I used a loan and I paid it back, but what happens if you don’t pay it back?
Hijuyo: If you don’t pay a loan back in time, the bank won’t allow you to take out any more loans.
EVER? no more loans ever? Fascinating. That’s kinda clever actually. But you don’t need a loan to defeat Crawfish.
It wouldnt kill me to take out a million and not pay it back- I only need the Phoenix Warbird and I’m awesome.
*CC = Captain Crawfish
I got a tip for beating Captain Crawfish!
1. Go to Skullduggery Island
2. When something pops up and says something like this, “Captain Crawfish up ahead! Everyone get to the deck!” then move ahead.
3. When you see CC’s ship, move in circles to avoid most of the cannonballs.
4. If CC’s ship is going nearer and nearer to your ship, RETREAT if you ship has low health. CC isn’t stupid.
5. If CC’s ship is behind you, click just a little in front of your ship. Your ship should excape the cannonball if it is fast enough. If CC’s ship still goes nearer, the cannonball will eventually hit it because the cannonball goes behind you.
-S.C.
I have one too! I know CC isn’t dumb, but if you lead him towards the rocks near golden harbor, you might be able to get him to bump into them! I did that fighting one ship once, and he lost a lot of health.
Same here, a random ship came out of nowhere when I started my jouney at the golded harbor and started attacking my small tiny raft. But in less then a second, they just got OWNED by that rock. lol
i think i beat a giant scorpion ship by bumping it into a rock once……
i am almost finished the new island skullduggery. it is very cool and great
I’m calling my ship with 1 cannon and 200 cargo space the Lady Carmabelle. Classy, non?
AMEN!
LOVED IT!!!
Battling with Crawfish was weird…we kind of bumped into each other then filled each other full of cannonballs 😛
M.
hahah, that’s what I did too. But sometimes that’s dangerous cause you sink before he does! 😀
Me too!
I only got 500,000 doubloons then I loaned the other 500.000 to get the phoenix warbird. BUt I still haven’t paid for my loan.
you should’ve done what i did… i just went around the island buying then selling then buying then selling and every time i got enough for the next ship i bought it. and every time i had enough for the crew members i hired them! so there you go.
THIS CONCLUDES MY SKULLDUGGERY ISLAND LESSON FOR TODAY!
PeAcE,
GrEeN nOoDlE
finding the mallet was really easy I just jumped on the dragon and then clicked
yeah i know skullduggery is a cool island
where can i find the bank?
Hijuyo: The bank is at Golden Harbor.
Ummmmmmmmmmm…….. What does the cargo, you know, the grain, the spice, do?
Hijuyo: You can trade with merchants on other islands and earn more doubloons by buying such cargo for low prices and selling them at another island for a higher price.
Thanks!! That really helped!! But I have ONE more qustion: Does it do anything else besides getting you money? Does it do anything to help you? Besides selling it. Thanks alot!
Hijuyo: No, the cargo is meant to be sold. 😛
Or stolen by pirates…. 😛
JUST BEAT THIS ISLAND !!!!!
Captain Crawfish is easy to beat if you keep going round and round around the island he follows you so go around like 3 times then anchor yourself and turn around he’ll anchor himself and start shooting at you. shoot back! click rapidly and in about 5 seconds you won the fight!
thank u, thank u, thanku, thank u, thank u, thank u, this really helped me!!
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! I just got attacked by a puff fish! You know, the kind of fish swells up to defend it self? I had NO IDEA that they could attack!!
yup i was like its soo tiny!!!!
then it suddenly puffed up and i got owned!
lol
puff fish can attack also Octopuses and Lobsters. Also when you defeat them you get a lot of doubloons.
What does ‘Trade In’ mean? When you talk to the ship trader, when you click a ship, it says trade in in the box where it shows the ship. WHAT DOES TRADE IN MEAN!??!
Hijuyo: It probably just means trade; exchange; turn in.
Ok, maybe, but it subtracts the REAL amount by, say, 7,500? It subtracts the real price! Like, the Pheniox Warbird was 1,000,000. NOW, it’s only about 950,000! And it says Trade In, then a – thingy! It must mean subtract or something.
Trade in means to trade your ship with the new ship. However, since your ship might be damaged, your current ship only costs one forth of what its original price is. But your ship shoudn’t be enough for a new ship. So you’re acually buying and trading at the same time. Hope that helped!
Thanks Shifty Crush a.k.a. Roary! That helped! I was SO confused!
GAH! Either Poptropica was being evil or there was a glitch, but every time I tried to exit Bouffant Bay, a storm cloud that was hovering over the island kept zapping me into oblivion! My ship sunk about 4 times before I gave up and closed the window.
what i do in situations like those is i just dock again and again until its gone 😉
i hate those ships at sea -.- they keep attacking me! my doublonsss!~ T.T
I won all of the island, even Skulldruggery Island
Wow I now finished all the islands
yayyyyy!
There is a pufferfish by the way. hit it when it is big. There is a worker on the dragon cove. he repairs your ship at sea.
i like the octupus. it is easy to kill. I defeated it with the jimmy rigger and gained 7000!!! 🙂
Octopus’s are EASY!? What is WRONG with you!?! What do you think about crabs? THEY are easy. NOT the octopus’s! Wanna know why they are hard to beat? Their arms!!!
They both are easy.
pufferfish give about 10000. 😀
skullduggery island was so hard and it took like forever. 8(
Great guide! It’s helped me a lot with how far I’ve come (I’m not finished yet).
At the dragon cove. Go in the building and talk to the ship merchant.
It hard but there is a person for hire at dragon cove go past the ship builder guy ( left) and keep going tillyou see a person that’s the person (he fixes your ship while on the water it’s awesome) 🙂
another way to defeat captain crawfish is to lower ur anchor and fire rapidly and he will lose help, it works thats how i won
I finished the map, and just bought the pheonix warbird. Skullduggery will be mine!
When docked at Bouffant Bay, find the hay bale near the dock hanging on a rope and slate of wood. Jump onto the slate of wood and keep jumping up til you find the tallest platform,where the machine on which you found the hay bale is, and click the lever that operates the machine and then again jump on to the machine, which will slowly sink down to the ground. Once on the ground, a political-military type man will thank you for getting the hay down on that hot day. He will then tell you to talk to his wife, the debutante-aristocrat-Dolley Madison type woman who is on the balcony. She will give you a clue to finding the map piece in Bouffant Bay!!! *Footnote: even if you have found the map, you may still do this!*
Once i baught the jimmy rigger for 3,000 and i got all the map map pieces and then i went to skullduggery island there was nothing there.When i tried to get out of the island cc was there and guess what i was so scared i tried to get away from him and i did! I went back to the main island.
anyway the guide awsome as lol 🙂
The plural of octopus is octopi…weird but true
Anyway the walkthrough and tips really helped me.
wow this really helps but i stink @ it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all did to defeat CC was just fire rapdily!
i didnt even lose 1 of my health!
I need some help. I finished the whole island up to the part where I finished beating up Captain Crawfish and now I have to go to Fort Ridley. But when I go; it doesn’t load and the vines go all over the screen. I tried to return to the island to make sure I defeated CC; but he wasn’t there. And every single time I can’t load Fort Ridley…
Help? D:
Hijuyo: Try using another computer that might load Fort Ridley faster, so you can continue with the quest. 🙂
I don’t think it has to do with the speed. I left it there. Until vines covered the whole thing; and nothing happened. And my computer is already really fast. I’ll try my dad’s laptop today.
good luck!
I was attacked by a puffer fish! Twas odd
This is an awesome guide! Thanks so much!
Should I get the crew first or the Phoenix Warbird?
Hijuyo: I suggest going for the warship first.
It was a lot easier for me to get the Phoenix Warbird when I had the cargo master and the navigator. But the navigator started to screw me up near the golden harbour though
i bought the crew first on one account and the ship first on one account…
TIMINGS:
1) Crew first- 8 hrs
2) Ship first- 13 hrs
How did it mess you up at Golden Harbor?
nice huh love it
Hey, I just discovered how to destroy enemies (except Captain Crawfish) without a cannon. It’s simple: force them to run into the rocks off Golden Harbor!
A TIP TO PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH EARNING MONEY! Keep upgrading your ship. Yes it costs a lot of money each time but you earn that money back quickly and then you are one step closer to beating Captain Crawfish.
Hope it helps,
Red Crush ❤
This is probably a stupid question, but whre is the govener? I talked to everyone and they just dont give me anythinggggg!!!!!!!!!HELPPPPP!!!!!!
Hijuyo: The governor is on the far side of Fort Ridley, inside a house up on top of some tall rocks.
Thanks!! 😀 I finished the island now 😀 😀 😀
Ya know, it’s not hard. Just very long.
Exactly
I need help bad!
I went to the secret island before reading the walkthrough! I don’t have a ship, and I just want to take a break from this island, BUT I CANT! I am stuck on the island, and whenever I try to leave I get killed by that ship! I am so annoyed because i cant do anything! I am seriously considering making a new acount if I can’t figure this out soon, I just want to do another mission, but again, I”M STUCK! Is there a way to ask the designer if he can teleport me back or something? Thanks, Please tell me what do…:(
Hijuyo: You can teleport yourself out using the “PopMatrix” developed by Coderkid. Click here to use it.
I beat the Crawfish guy, and I didn’t know wut to do after that xD But this guide helped me get another 100 credits,YAY TO ZEY!
Sorry guys if it’s not that descriptive, but this was at like late at night, and it’s a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG quest. I can’t remember EVERYTHING of the island. :L
Oh yeah, btw, it says Bone Scythe, it’s Bone Shovel, sorreh. And it’s actually best to get crew members first, because they help really well to get dubloons and cargo and stuff. Another easy way to get dubloons is by killing those sea monsters. The octopus isn’t that hard, you guys just probably just don’t have a good aim.
THANKS FOT TAKING TIME TO TYPE THIS WHOLE THING OUT!! I WONDER IF IT TOOK LONGER TO TYPE IT THAN TO ACTUALLY DO THIS THING… 8o
🙂
I FINALLY COMPLETED THIS ISLAND THANKS TO U!! after like 5 days or so..yea or mayb 4..or 3 ..eya watever all that matters now is that IM DONE!! THIS WAS THE FIRST ISLAN1D I HAV DONE THAT TOOK MEE MORE THAN A DAY!!
a way to get doubloons really quickly is to
go to golden harbour, and get max grain, which is 15 doubloons per piece,
then go to pirate outpost and sell it for 40 doubloons a piece
to beat captain craw fish run into him and start firing cannons really quickly!
it took me about 30 seconds to beat crawfish with this technique
p.s. you’re blog is the best!!