Deepest Depths · Player Classes
Pick your place in the deep.
Six classes, each with its own strengths, weaknesses, signature ability, gear and tag.
Four build up your island, two are made for PvP. None of them is best at everything,
so the strongest islands are ones where members pick different classes.
Open everything with /classes
Abilities: hold your class tool, then Sneak + F
−10 m · The basics
How classes work
- One active class at a time. Only your active class's strengths and weaknesses apply to you.
- Switch whenever you like, for free, from
/classes. You can't switch mid-fight.
- Every class levels separately. Switching never loses progress, but only your active class earns XP.
- Weaknesses are real and stay the same from level 1. Your strengths are what grow as you level.
- Island classes are great at one job and worse at another, so co-op islands do best when members mix classes.
PvP classes give up island boosts completely in return for combat power.
−200 m · The roster
The six classes
Island classes
Caretakers of the coral gardens, who grow life from the seabed.
- Strengths
- Crops near you grow faster
- Chance of a double harvest
- Harvested crops replant themselves
- Weaknesses
- Slower mining
- Weaker melee
- Signature ability
- Bloom Pulse: instantly grows every crop around you. At level 50, Spring Tide also multiplies your harvests for a short time.
Coralweave armor · Coral Scythe
Forge-workers who mine the scalding hydrothermal vents.
- Strengths
- Permanent Haste, rising to Haste II
- Chance of double ore drops
- Ores smelt as you mine them
- Weaknesses
- Heavy plate: you sink in water and move slower
- Fewer rare fishing catches
- Signature ability
- Vent Burst: mine a 3×3 area with every block for a few seconds. At level 50, Motherlode gives ores a chance to drop much more.
Ventforged Plate · Vent Drill
Bioluminescent anglers who lure things up from the dark.
- Strengths
- Fish bite faster
- Better treasure chance
- Night vision in water
- Weaknesses
- Fewer hearts
- You glow, so you're easy to spot
- Signature ability
- Lure Flare: your next catch bites fast and is guaranteed treasure. At level 50, Abyssal Hook can hook a sea-creature mini-boss.
Lumen Scale armor · Abyssal Lure
Divers in brass suits who pick through shipwrecks and fight what lives in them.
- Strengths
- Chance of double mob loot, plus extra mob XP
- Water breathing
- Chance of salvage from mobs
- Weaknesses
- Hunger drains faster
- Smaller crop harvests
- Signature ability
- Harpoon Reel: pull in a mob and kill it quickly for extra loot. At level 50, Davy's Claim lets spawner mobs drop salvage too.
Brass Diving Suit · Salvager's Cutlass
PvP classes
Krakenborn
Close-range bruiser
Hulking brawlers bonded to the kraken. Strongest up close.
- Strengths
- Extra hearts
- Knockback resistance
- Melee hits can slow your target
- Weaknesses
- Can't use bows or crossbows, or throw tridents
- Slower sprint
- No island boosts
- Signature ability
- Tentacle Grab: drag a player or mob to you and blind it. At level 50, Ink Cloud blinds everyone near you when your health drops low.
Kraken Hide armor · Tentacle Maul
Deceivers who fight with song and trident. Strongest at range and in water.
- Strengths
- Thrown tridents hit harder and fly faster
- Dash (press F holding a trident); faster in water or rain
- Trident hits can slow your target
- Weaknesses
- Fewer hearts and light armor only
- Weak melee without a trident
- No island boosts
- Signature ability
- Charm Song: a target can't attack and drifts toward you. At level 50, Riptide Call lets Riptide work on dry land.
Pearlsong Raiment · Sirensong Trident
−1,000 m · Progression
Levels and tiers
Each class goes from level 1 to 50. You earn XP by doing your class's job:
farming, mining, fishing, hunting mobs, or beating other players. Challenges give big chunks of XP on top.
Your strengths get a little stronger every level, and every ten levels you reach a new tier.
INovice1–9Your class's strengths and Tier I gear. The signature ability unlocks at level 5.
IIAdept10–19Tier II gear, a stronger ability and a bonus perk.
IIIExpert20–29Tier III gear and a stronger ability.
IVMaster30–39Tier IV gear, a stronger ability and a second bonus perk.
VLegend40–50Tier V gear, and your class's capstone perk at level 50.
Trials guard every tier
At levels 9, 19, 29 and 39 you have to pass your class's Trial, a short set of class tasks, before you can
move into the next tier. Nothing is wasted: XP you earn while the Trial is open is saved and added
as soon as you pass.
−2,000 m · Challenges
Dailies and weeklies
Every day
- 3 daily challenges per class, new each midnight
- Rewards: class XP, coins and class materials
Every week
- 3 weekly challenges per class, new each Monday
- Rewards: more XP, coins and rare materials
- Finish all three for a bonus crate key and to keep your weekly streak going
Good to know
- Only your active class makes progress
- Switch class to work on another class's challenges
- Rewards grow as your tier in that class goes up
−3,000 m · Gear
Class gear and the Abyssal Forge
Every class has its own armor set and signature tool in five tiers, from chainmail-level up to
netherite-level. You make them at the Abyssal Forge in /classes.
- Materials drop as you play. Each class has a common and a rare material that drop while
that class is active. Challenges and Trials give them too.
- Upgrade, don't replace. Tier I is forged from materials. Each tier after that is made from the
tier below plus more materials, so nothing gets thrown away.
- Trade with other classes. Tier IV and V pieces also need a rare material from a different class.
- Your gear is yours. It's bound to you, you keep it when you die, and nobody else can wear it.
- It only works for its class. When that class isn't active, or you haven't reached the gear's tier, it works like plain iron.
- Full set bonus: wear all four armor pieces of your active class for stronger class strengths and a particle trail.
- Repairs are done at the Forge with common materials.
| Class | Common material | Rare material |
|---|
| Tidewarden | Coral Fragment | Living Coral |
| Ventsmith | Vent Slag | Magma Core |
| Lanternfish | Glowscale | Lumen Pearl |
| Wreckdiver | Brass Scrap | Sunken Relic |
| Krakenborn | Kraken Ink | Kraken Beak |
| Siren | Siren Scale | Echo Pearl |
In fights between players, island-class armor protects like iron at most, so the PvP classes stay on top in combat.