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Overview

Miscellaneous Items (abbreviated Misc in the Windrose item panel) is the game's catch-all item category for everything that is not weaponry, armor, tools, resources, food, or ammo. The Misc bucket contains trade cargo, reputation trophies, faction-specific loot, consumable spawner whistles, keys, ruins artifacts, lore documents, and treasure maps. Most Misc items either convert to Piastre through trade or to Faction Reputation through Bounty Agent turn-ins. A smaller subset are usable inventory items (whistles, keys, coin pouches) that consume on use.

This page catalogs every sub-category of Misc items and links to the dedicated article for each one. Use it as the top-level index; individual item pages list vendor prices, loot tables, and tactical use.

Trade Goods Crates

Eight sealed cargo crates each tagged for a preferred faction buyer. Each crate has a fixed buyer premium at one faction's Buyer NPC and a flat baseline rate at every other faction's Trade Goods Merchant. Opening a crate before delivery destroys the resale value. Full system detail is on the Trade Goods page.

Munitions and Spirits are the two crates where the faction Buyer pays less than the Trade Goods Merchant baseline. For those two, the Buyer functions as a buy-cheap arbitrage vendor rather than a premium sale route.

Faction Reputation Items

Four ranks of Blackbeard-taken insignia plus a scripted letter, all turned in at any Tortuga archipelago faction Bounty Agent to raise Faction Reputation. Unlike trade crates, these items carry no Piastre value.

For the full comparison table and tier-by-tier turn-in strategy, see the dedicated Faction Insignia page.

Keys and Locked Containers

Seven key variants unlock region-specific chests, ship arsenals, or gated doors. Ancient stone-disk keys are the Foothills and Swamp region keys; Arsenal, Door, and Wagon keys open mundane locks on gated loot. Full drop-source breakdown and tactical use is on the Chest Keys page.

Consumable Misc

A handful of single-use pickups sit in the Misc bucket rather than the Food or Alchemy categories because they do not heal or buff. These include the three summoning whistles and the coin and shell pickups from the starter chest.

Lore and Collectible Documents

Many Misc items are in-world documents whose only purpose is to extend the game's lore. They collect into named sets, each with its own dedicated reading page.

Ship Customization

A large slice of the Misc category is taken up by ship cosmetic items: flags, hull colors, sail colors, and figureheads. These are strictly cosmetic. The full catalog and application mechanic is on the Ship Customization page.

How Misc Items Flow

Most Misc items resolve into one of three routes:

• Trade Goods: sold at a faction Trade Goods Merchant or Buyer for Piastre. Do not open them.

• Reputation turn-ins: handed to the Bounty Agent at any faction for Faction Reputation. Never route these to a Trade Goods Merchant.

• Personal use: opened, blown, or inserted on the player's end (Coin Pouch, Closed Scallop Shell, keys, whistles). These are consumed on use.

The single biggest early-game mistake is confusing a reputation insignia for a trade crate, or vice versa. The Bounty Agent and the Trade Goods Merchant can sit inside the same faction base, but they route through different counters. Always check the tooltip's "Turn it in on Tortuga to any archipelago faction to gain reputation" versus "Could be sold to [Faction]" line before handing anything in.

See Also

• Trade Goods

• Faction Insignia

• Faction Reputation

• Chest Keys

• Ship Customization

• Factions

• Tortuga

• Piastres