January 14, 2024

Pirate101 Main Quest Line Guide
Cool Ranch Part 1

Wait no more! After over TWO years since our last update to the Pirate101 Quest Line Guide, we’re back and starting it off a Pirate101 Cool Ranch quest guide! This will be intended to help you progress through Cool Ranch, easily one of the biggest worlds in all of Pirate101!

All the quests you have to do are ordered by areas. The areas are listed in the order you should do them in (unless otherwise specified). That said, questing in Pirate101 is also notorious for making you travel many different Skyways so while we may list a quest as being assigned in a certain area, it may have you travel to other zones that are not listed in this guide. Many quests may involve back and forth travel to chat with different NPCs, which will be simplified in the guide as having the quest say “talk” but not where the NPC is located. Located between brackets are the different parts of each quest, as many quests require you to do multiple things.

To help organize quests, one change in this guide compared to the Skull Island and Monquista/Valencia 1 guides is that this guide will also be divided up based on the Book and Chapter number. For example, this case, Cool Ranch starts in Book 5, Chapter 9. This guide will follow up immediately after the final quest of the Monquista/Valencia 1 guide, “Go West, Young Pirate!”, which concludes Book 4, Chapter 8 and begins Book 5, Chapter 9.

Additionally, some quest descriptions in some instances may only have you do just one thing but there are fights that automatically pull you in while doing the main quest (example: Quest 16 here). These forced fights are not listed as part of the quest breakdown here but you should keep that in mind while questing. On the other hand, there are some activities that are listed as interactions in the quest when they actually ALWAYS result in forced fights (example: Quest 17 and 36 here). Forced fights like this will be listed as combat activities rather than their original quest description. That said, don’t forget to complete the actual quest objective so you don’t accidentally repeat a mob fight!

I have divided the quests in the Spiral into the following groups:

Talk: Quests that require an interaction with an NPC.
Mob: Quests that require the defeat of regular monsters, either by air or on land
Boss: Quests that require the defeat of a Boss, allowing you to manually choose which companions you will fight with.
Cheat: Quests that require the defeat of a Cheating Boss, with all the criteria of a Boss but there may be some cheats or special conditions to keep in mind.
D&C: Quests that require the collection of something from certain monsters (Defeat and Collect).
Broadside: Quests that require Broadside Combat, or Ship-to-Ship Combat
Broadside D&C: Quests that require the collection of something from certain ships or monsters located only on ships (Defeat and Collect).
Instance: Quests that require the completion of a place behind a sigil with at least 2 battles.
Interact: Quests that require interaction with a certain object.
Explore: Quests that just require you to run towards a certain area, NPC or item.

Book 5, Chapter 9

Cooper’s Roost/Bison Burial Ground

1. Welcome to Cool Ranch! – Talk + Explore + Talk
2. A Merriweather Chase – Talk + Explore 3x + Instance
3. Angry Bison (Instance)- Mob 3x
2. A Merriweather Chase – Talk + Explore + Talk

Elder Bluff

4. Dances With Bison – Explore + Instance
5. The Big Sky Hunters (Instance)- Talk + Boss 2x
4. Dances With Bison – Talk 2x

Book 5, Chapter 10

Hidden Valley Ranch

6. Setting Things Right – Broadside D&C + Explore + Instance
7. Bringing Home The Beads (Instance) – Mob + Explore + Boss + Explore + Boss
6. Setting Things Right – Talk

Bison Burial Ground

8. To The Rescue! – Explore + Mob 4x + Talk 2x

Scorpion Rock Cave/Cooper’s Roost

9. Scorpion Marks the Spot – Explore + Boss + Talk + Explore 2x + Mob + Explore + Boss + Talk
10. Blood Trail – Talk 3x

Book 6, Chapter 11

Santo Pollo

11. Onward to Santo Pollo – Talk
12. Who is that Masked Bull? – Talk 2x
13. Troubled Times – Talk
14. The Mark of Toro – Explore + Talk 2x
15. Banditoad Baggage – Broadside D&C 4x + Talk 2x

Banditoad Trail

16. There Goes The Bride – Explore + Mob + Explore + Boss

Book 6, Chapter 12

Banditoad Gulch

17. Tax Relief – Explore + Mob 5x + Explore 2x + Boss + Talk
18. Toro Unleashed! – Explore + Instance
19. El Toro Unleashed! – Mob + Explore 2x + Mob + Explore + Mob + Interact 5x + Mob + Explore + Mob + Explore + Boss
18. Toro Unleashed! – Talk + Explore + Boss + Talk

Book 7, Chapter 13

Bison Village/Cooper’s Roost Skyway

20. A New Clue – Talk
21. Hi-Yo Silver, Ahoy! – Explore + Broadside + Explore + Cheat + Talk + Explore + Talk
22. Mighty Medicine – Talk + Gather (Broadside D&C 3x + Broadside D&C 5x + Interact) + Talk

Bison Village/Elder Bluff

23. Voice of the Thunder – Interact + Talk 2x

Bison Village/Gold Creek

24. Troubled Spirits – Broadside D&C + D&C 4x + Talk + Explore + Talk
25. Stray Feathers – Gather(Broadside D&C 8x + Boss) + Talk 2x

Bison Village/Isla de los Muertos

26. Coils of the Serpent – D&C + Talk 2x
27. Bitter Venom – D&C + Talk 2x

Bison Village/Scorpion Rock/Skull Island

28. Hungry Like the Wolf – D&C 4x + Explore + Talk
29. Wolf’s Grievance – Talk 2x + Boss + Talk 2x + Boss + Talk + Interact + Talk

Book 7, Chapter 14

Bison’s Village/Elder’s Bluff/Cooper’s Roost

30. Black Storm Rising – Broadside D&C 6x + Explore + Boss + Talk
31. The Enemy Revealed – Explore + Interact + Talk 2x + Explore + Talk
32. Miner Difficulties – Instance
33. Miner Threat (Instance) – Mob 2x + Boss + Explore + Boss
32. Miner Difficulties – Talk 3x

Boot Hill/Santo Pollo Skyway

34. Showdown at Boot Hill – Explore + Broadside 8x + Explore + Instance
35. Standoff at Boot Hill (Instance) – Explore + Cheat + Explore + Cheat
34. Showdown at Boot Hill – Talk + Explore + Talk + Broadside D&C + Explore + Instance

Book 7, Chapter 15

Boot Hill

36. Tales from the Crypt (Instance) – Mob 4x + Interact
34. Showdown at Boot Hill – Interact + Talk

Scorpion Rock/Flotsam

37. True Love Triumphs? – Talk + Instance
38. Taking a Dive (Instance) – Explore + Mob + Explore
37. True Love Triumphs? – Mob + Explore + Talk