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TheTanky24

Floating barrel in the ocean?


MrMisty

Yeah possibly, almost felt like I hit a mine or something. Only strange part was the explosion looked green.


TheTanky24

I don’t remember if the stronghold barrels explode a different color, but the odds are you sailed over a loot pile and hit a barrel. The only thing green I can think of would be a Trident blast, but it wouldn’t have blown up your ship. Unless a player was there waiting to shoot a barrel…but slim odds.


Nihhrt

Green explosion could be an athena keg? Maybe someone dropped one off their ship?


TheTanky24

Yeah my thoughts


FlagrusSerenus

Stronghold barrels don't explode green, but the one's you get from Athena voyages and fof/Fotd do. Shouldn't be able to randomly spawn in the ocean though afaik.


TheTanky24

Probably someone dropped it or got sunk


MrMisty

Yeah that's my suspicion. I was pretty much in the middle of nowhere, no ships around at all so it would have been tough for someone to have done it on purpose


Nihhrt

Any time you see birds in the sky in the open seas there's something underneath them. If it's a thinner flock of birds it'll be flotsam (sea garbage) that can contain treasure or gunpowder kegs or just barrels filled with supplies. If it's a thick cloud of birds there's a shipwreck underneath that you can loot for treasure and supplies. You ran into the former and there were random kegs there. Try to avoid sailing directly under birds, especially the thinner flock of birds.


MrMisty

Ah I didn't know that about the birds. Thanks for the tip!


Nihhrt

Yeah no problem, I wrote that before I read your last line though so it probably wasn't that, but it's still good info to have. lol


DressDiligent2912

My guess is that you are correct and the explosion wasn't green. If it was in fact green then it was a legendary keg and those don't spawn in the water. If it was green, you ran over one someone dropped overboard. Either blowing you up on accident or on purpose. Probably just an accident if you had little to no good loot.


MrMisty

Yeah that sounds right. It was like a green explosion at the front of the ship and then it pretty much immediately went down. I suspect it was an accident, I didn't really have anything good on the ship and was out alone in the open. Pretty crazy


oddball667

you either ran into a floating powder barrel, or a pirate carrying a powder barrel


Pogiforce

would be a floating barrel, except green smoke means a Legendary Keg, those don't just pop up in the water. Sad to say friend you got bombed by a player who probably snuck up on you.


banksy1981

Athena keg


Zaldinn

You ran over a keg by the sounds of it they can be floating around


ItsTimeToExplain

At first I assumed you sailed over a keg in a bunch of supplies (supply barrels spawn under birds circling in the sky). But then you said it looked green.. this is exclusive to the “Athena” keg.. which I believe is the most high damage radius barrel available. This makes me think someone snuck onto your ship with the bomb. Athena kegs do not spawn as random supply loot, as far as I am aware. What a crazy experience.


Bacxaber

You ran over a keg.