The Caravan system is a brand-new land-based adventure feature recently added to Uncharted Waters Online.
It lets you form your own desert caravan, recruit a Caravan Leader, manage camels, upgrade your caravan, and eventually cross the vast deserts with your team.
Forming Your First Caravan
Once you meet the required conditions (“East Meets West” event episode), head to the Caravan Broker in Xi'an.
- Speak to the Caravan Broker.
- Select and Upgrade Plan and a Caravan Leader (pay the brokerage fee).
- Once the leader is hired, your Caravan is officially formed!
Important notes:
- You can only form a caravan after completing the necessary event episode.
- Simply dismissing and re-hiring a leader won’t give you a new camel.
- The Caravan Leader is permanent until you manually dismiss them. If you dismiss your leader, you’ll need to hire a new one to continue.
Checking Your Caravan Status
After formation, open the Ship/Fleet menu → Caravan Info to see everything about your caravan.
As your Intimacy Level with your caravan grows, you’ll unlock deeper statistics and details.
Stats of the Caravan
Your caravan has five main stats. You can later prioritize which ones to grow:
| Stat | Effect |
|---|---|
| Endurance | The higher the Endurance, the fewer camels will lag behind or get separated during travel. |
| Leg Strength | Affects the recovery time before the caravan can move again after land travel. |
| Handling | Increases the types and quantity of Trade Goods you can carry as the level rises. |
| Potential | Makes it easier for the caravan’s overall stats to grow. |
| Trust | Increases the chances of acquiring more camels when you arrange them. |
Initially you can only view the basic grade of each stat. As your Intimacy Level increases, the exact numbers become visible.
Camels – The Ships of the Desert
When your caravan is formed, you randomly receive camels (maximum starting number is around 120, scaling with your rank at the time of formation).
Camels are graded into six different quality tiers. Higher-grade camels improve the overall stats of the caravan. Based on these grades, the camels you acquire later will also tend to be better.
Intimacy Level with Your Caravan
- Intimacy increases gradually with time and certain actions.
- Losing camels while crossing the desert (e.g., to bandits or exhaustion) will lower Intimacy.
- Intimacy increases by roughly 1 point every 10 days spent sailing at sea.
- Your Caravan also needs a Leader for the Intimacy Level to increase.
- At Intimacy Level 20 you unlock even more detailed information about your caravan.
Upgrading & Ranking Up Your Caravan
Once formed, you can repeatedly upgrade your caravan at the Caravan Broker (or banks).
- Performing enough upgrades raises your Upgrade Level.
- When Upgrade Level reaches certain thresholds, your Caravan Rank increases.
- Higher rank = more camels you can possess, higher trade-good capacity, and various other bonuses (including the ability to overland travel at Rank 8).
Requirements for each upgrade:
- Camel feed
- Additional materials (varies by upgrade)
- Gold
Limits:
- Maximum 5 upgrades per day.
- You can only perform upgrades on your own caravan and only through the Caravan Broker (or at banks later).
- If you dismiss your leader, you must hire a new one before upgrading again.
You can also upgrade your caravan across the world at banks once the feature is fully unlocked.
Transferring Your Camels
You can hand camels over to the Caravan Broker. Depending on the grade of the camels you transfer, you earn Land Trade Contribution points.
These points can be exchanged for various items at the Overland Trade Manager in Xi'an. Be careful—if you transfer every single camel, your caravan will disband!
Premium Eastern Goods
When your Caravan Rank is 5 or higher and your Cultural Contribution in all East Asia Culture Areas reaches 40,000 or more, you can exchange East Asian Trade Goods for Premium Eastern Goods with the Eastern Trade Merchant in Xi'an.
The Premium Eastern Goods obtained through these exchanges have higher value and can be sold for for more than ordinary East Asian Trade Goods.
Additionally, exchanging with the Eastern Trade Merchant will earn you Land Trade Contribution.
Limits
- Trade Goods currently for sale in the Bazaar cannot be exchanged for these items.
- You can only exchange Trade Goods of the same category in a single exchange.
- If the amount of Trade Goods is less than 50, they cannot be used for these exchanges.
- Exchanges for Premium Eastern Goods cannot be performed consecutively. To exchange again, you must travel to another city (excluding Yuntaishan) and then return to Xi'an.
- You can perform up to 5 exchanges of Eastern Premium Goods per day.
- NPC doesn't work.
Tips
To get better exchanges, try exchanging Trade Goods that are scarce in Xi'an for Premium Eastern Goods that are abundant there.
You can check market information by talking to the Eastern Trade Merchant while having the Accounts skill and selecting “Information on Goods to Trade.”
The backstock works similarly to common EA common and you may still get a 1:1 trade if "the line of the graph is currently at the top" (even without NPC).
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