Message in a Bottle

On occasion, a lucky Fisher or Aquarium-owner will discover a Message in a Bottle. Looking inside will reveal either a A Waterstained SOS or, on a 1 in 25 chance, An Ancient SOS.

Travelling to the location the message specifies gives you the chance to attempt to fish a chest up from the ocean floor, though at least 65.0 skill points in Fishing are required for a chance of succeeding.

Pre-chest Loot

While attempting to bring up the chest, you may on occasion bring up other bits of random items with the special tag Recovered from a Shipwreck. As of Publish 105, items brought up from an Ancient SOS will also have the name of the shipwreck on it. You may get the message You fish for a while but fail to catch anything or You pull out [item]. The count of such items ranges from 0 (chest directly fished up) to at least 20 items (VorLesh(Luck 140) of Drachenfels September 19, 2017 [20 items and 8 fishing attempt bearing nothing + chest in 29 attempts]). Such articles include:

Common Items

• Footwear including Sandals, Shoes, Boots and Thigh Boots
• Hats including Skullcap and Tricorne Hat
• Pillows
• Shell

• Shells
• Conch Shell
• Nautilus

• Barrel Staves
• Unfinished Barrel
• Bones
• Skulls
• Stool
• Candelabra
• Broken Clock
• Globe
• Paintings

• Painting (Still Life)
• Painting (Large])
• Portrait
• Painting (Medium)

• Anchor
• Anchor Chain
• Porthole
• Ship in a Bottle

Uncommon Items

• Chest of Drawers (MiB)
• Fish Heads
• Oars -
• Table Legs

Rare Items

• Yellow Polkadot Bikini Top

Chest

Eventually the chest (also including the shipwreck tag) will appear from the deep, typically containing the same modest loot associated with other Treasure Chests.

Level		Treasure Items
		Gold	Reagent (Stacks of Ten)	Scrolls	Gems	Magic Items	Special
							Unique	Shared
	1	10000	1	5	10	4	Special Fishing Net	Artifacts An Antique Wedding Dress Bronzed Armor of the Valkyrie Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings Runed Driftwood Bow Decorative A Large Fishing Net Grapevines Other Random Treasure Map
	2	20000	2	10	20	12
	3	30000	3	15	30	18
	4 - Ancient Chest	40000	4	20	40	24	Fabled Fishing Net Live Rock Salted Serpent Steak Ocean Sapphire
	A Ship's Strongbox	10000 per Level	-	-	20 per Level	-	Copper Ingot Gold Bricks Rare Gems (Level * 5 + random 0-4)

Artifacts

• An Antique Wedding Dress
• Bronzed Armor of the Valkyrie
• Enchanted Kelp Woven Leggings
• Runed Driftwood Bow

Special Items

• One of the fifteen Special Fishing Nets:

• One of the ten Grapevines:

Heading	Left End	Middle (large)	Center	Middle (small)	Right End
South
East

• A Large Fishing Net

Ancient SOS

• Fabled Fishing Net
• Live Rock
• Salted Serpent Steak
• Ocean Sapphire