Buccaneer's Den

Buccaneer's Den (commonly Buc's Den) is the Den of Pirates and Thieves — UO's lawless island city, located on the large island on the southeast edge of Brittany Bay. It is less of a city or town than a collection of hovels and huts where privateers, pirates, thieves, and murderers can hole up to avoid the law or prepare for their next excursion. With the exception of a few blacksmiths who provide weapon and armor repairs, nearly all items of technology found on the island are stolen — plundered from coastal cities or from misfortunate shops. Buc's Den has no government in either Trammel or Felucca; it is the canonical outlaw refuge of Britannia.

General facts

Landmarks

The bank's name — "A Place Fer Yer Stuff" — captures Buc's Den's casual, piratical attitude toward formal civic structures. The Magical Gate provides the mainland link without requiring a long sea voyage.

Shops

Carpenters, Bowfletchers, & Architects

Guild Halls

Healers

Inns & Taverns

Provisioners

Tailors & Tanners

Weapon & Armor Shops

Felucca-aligned culture

Buc's Den is functionally a Felucca-aligned community even on Trammel — the Thieves' Guild has historically kept a cell here, and characters with murder counts find the village a tolerable refuge from town guards (though the actual game-mechanics rules now apply guard-spawn equally to all towns, the lore-flavor remains Felucca-style).

The Stratics-archive BNN: Pirates Sell Buccaneer's Den? documents a piratical-economic crisis in which the actual ownership of the village was put up for sale — illustrating the village's precarious civic structure. BNN: Buccaneer's Den Plagued by Strange Fires and BNN: Buccaneer's Den Still Owned by Orcs chronicle other crises.

High Seas relevance

With the 2010 Adventures on the High Seas booster pack, Buc's Den became more relevant — the piratical economic infrastructure (smuggler vendors, pirate-themed crafted items, pirate-dialogue NPCs) was expanded. Pirate Pet Hatchlings and Parrot pets sell here.

See also

• Britannia — the kingdom Buc's Den nominally sits within
• Felucca — the PvP facet that matches Buc's Den's lore
• Thieves'_Guild — the criminal alignment with historic Buc's Den ties
• Stealing · Snooping — rogue skills relevant to the village
• High_Seas — pirate-economic expansion
• Karma — most Buc's Den activity costs Karma