Black market
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Bank |
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Estate agent |
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Fort |
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Inn |
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Market |
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Palace |
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Black market |
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Explorers' hall |
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Trading post |
A black market is an island attraction building placed on a medium or large island. Players can purchase black boxes from them, which have a random item inside.
Attraction buildings are nearly identical to regular infrastructure buildings: they change ownership along with an island's governance and they do not count against an island's building limit on medium islands. There are however a few differences:
- Attraction buildings typically have a higher tax rate than standard buildings, and decay a week after failing to have their taxes paid. A black market has a base tax of 10,000 PoE.
- A limited number of attractions can be built on a given island: 1 on medium islands and 2 on large islands. Outpost islands cannot build attractions.
- Only one of each type of attraction can be built on an island at a time.
- Each attraction building has a different effect when it is built. A black market will increase the density of brigands and barbarians around nearby leagues.
Contents
Construction
| Construction Costs | |||
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| Doubloons: 0 | |||
| Basic | Upgrade | Downgrade | |
| Basic labor | 300 | N/A | N/A |
| Skilled labor | 200 | N/A | N/A |
| Expert labor | 100 | N/A | N/A |
| Iron | 100 | N/A | N/A |
| Stone | 4,000 | N/A | N/A |
| Tan cloth | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wood | 250 | N/A | N/A |
An island needs only a completed fort to begin construction of a black market.
Use
A black market sells black boxes for 10,000 PoE each. These are identical to presents in functionality, but they come with a random item inside of them. Each black box is labeled with a series number, which indicates the set of items possible inside. The probability of each item in a Series 3 black box is as follows (see Official:Black Box for the official list):
- Unique black market trinket (55%)
- Shipwreck, buried treasure, Viking or Imperial expedition map (16%)
- Monster summoning charm (11%)
- Monster amulet - One of zombie, skeleton, ghost or werewolf (5%)
- Brigand King compass (3.5%)
- Cursed Isles, Atlantis or Haunted Seas map (3%)
- Black piggy bank (1.8%)
- Black top hat (1%)
- Black bandana mask (1%)
- Dastardly moustache wax (1%)
- Empty black piggy bank furniture (0.2%)
- Rogue class ship design
- Rogue class sloop design (0.25%)
- Rogue class dhow design (0.18%)
- Rogue class war brig design (0.12%)
- Rogue class war frigate design (0.06%)
- Rogue class grand frigate design (0.06%)
- Black pet
- Black cat (0.2%)
- Black dog (0.2%)
- Black small dog (0.2%)
- Black pony (0.04%)
- Black chroma (0.15%)
- Black or shadow unicorn pet (0.02%)
- Skeletal monkey familiar (0.02%)
Trinkets
The numbers in parenthesis are the black box series in which the specified trinket may be found.
Black handkerchief (1,2)
Caltrops (1,2)
Disguise kit (1,2)
Forged documents (1,2)
Garrote (2)
Grappling hook (2)
Knucklebone dice (1,2)
Lockpick kit (1,2)
Marked cards (2)
Plunder bag (2)
Poison (2)
Poison darts (3)
Ransom note (3)
Raven's feather (3)
Skeleton key (1,2)
Smoke bomb (2)
Stinking badges (3)
Stolen imperial plans (1,2)
Throwing knives (2)
Wanted poster (3)
Amulets
Charms
Skeleton charm (minor)
Skeleton charm (medium)
Skeleton charm (major)
Zombie charm (minor)
Zombie charm (medium)
Zombie charm (major)
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Storage
A black market has no hold. A chest near the back can be used to deposit pieces of eight in order to pay the tax.
Rooms and Furnishing
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Historical Notes
- The rent was halved from 20,000 pieces of eight to 10,000 in release 2011-03-22.
- Black markets were first released with release 2010-03-09.
