中文 ↗Much of the writing in chapters, cutscenes, character bios and rumours has been reworked to read more naturally, with more feeling given to the characters. The description of the Da'an Pavilion in Shangdu no longer names a fixed construction year. It now simply says an old hall was taken down in the south and rebuilt there, to stay clear of uncertain dates.
When the first year's profit from your joint ship with Fo Lian arrives, it now comes as a string of copper coins holding down his note, instead of a piece of silver, which better fits everyday money of the time.
Zhang Shijie's early rank now follows his biography in the History of Song: commander of the Wuding armies at Huangzhou. Wang Shiqiang's entry now only says that Emperor Duanzong's fleet put to sea from Fuzhou and headed south, rather than sailing straight for Guangzhou. Shi Nawei's forebears now handled cargo in Guangzhou's foreign quarter, since the Huaiyuan hostel there was only set up under the Ming. Chen Zan is now a more distant uncle, and the Chen family servant no longer uses a later, Ming-style word when he addresses the young master.
Several companions' fates were also matched to the records: Zhao Zhong's end after the battle of Hàm Tử is now left unknown rather than a death in battle; Wu Zhidou went missing after his ship returned to Penghu in 1292; and Shōni Tsunesuke died in 1292.
The last few mentions of "Mingzhou" in crew, companion and biography texts now read Qingyuan, as the city had been renamed by then — the temple trip to Tiantong, the reef line off Sanjiangkou and the tea and rice news from Huizhou among them. "Monsoon" is a modern word, so the seasonal winds are now called by their Song names, and sailing "against the monsoon" is simply sailing into the wind. The thing young Awang lies beside all night aboard your ship is now the needle compass of the day, and the Arab interpreter's quarter uses its period spelling.
A few interface lines were also reworded: your rented lodging, the note shown when a ruin has already been rubbed, the opening button now simply says "Set sail", and the warning before loading a save says plainly that any days not yet written into the volume will be lost.
Biographies: Zhang Shijie's stand at Jiaoshan now follows the History of Song — ships lashed in squares of ten and anchored mid-river — instead of the popular "iron-chained fleet". Emperor Duzong now calls Jia Sidao "the Master Minister", since Jia had not yet been made chief councillor at that point. Wang Shiqiang's march into Fujian is told in the right order: Jianning and Fuzhou fell first, and Pu Shougeng surrendered Quanzhou only in the twelfth month. Dates for Bayan at Dingjiazhou, Hulagu's western campaign and Chen Yizhong's mission to Champa were checked one by one.
Companions: Shōni Tsunesuke builds the stone sea wall after the first Mongol invasion, not before; Hōjō Tokimune no longer turns up in Hakata in person but sends an envoy with a letter from Kamakura; the Sambyeolcho fleet now appears off Jindo; and since Foloan lies south of Champa, Balu's ship now heads south. Dozens of stock lines repeated across companions were rewritten to fit each person.
In the discoveries, Penghu now records its old garrison and the Penghu channel is described as deep with strong currents; "Champa" is used throughout. At the shipyard, "durability" now reads as the state of the hull, repairs mention fresh tung-oil caulking, and the small gifts handed over at first meetings are paid in copper cash rather than broken silver. Across the city quarters, boatmen and ready money now use one consistent period term.
Quanzhou's 1277 siege is now part of the timeline, following the historical record. In the seventh month, Zhang Shijie returns with his Song fleet and local militias, and Pu Shougeng shuts the gates. In the tenth month the Yuan relief under Sogetu arrives, the siege is lifted, and Quanzhou stays in Yuan hands. During those months Quanzhou's market and harbor are closed, the log reports the siege and its end, and players who sided with the Pu family lose their customs discount until it is over.
In the closing chapter, the Pu family ending now speaks of "the old twenty-percent customs levy": that discount was Quanzhou's maritime customs duty, not a broker's tea money. The South Seas ending has been rewritten so it no longer repeats the cutscene captions word for word; it simply notes that you sailed from Quanzhou to Champa, that the customs register gained a new line under your name as ship's master, and that the chart to the south is still largely blank. An old save line about "the roll call after the Xianchun years" now reads "during the Xianchun years": after the exam of Xianchun 10 (1274), the Song court never held another palace-exam roll call.
The inn and guild cards now match the port text: the straw mats in the inn are still damp, and with the trade wind not yet come, merchants wait here for it. The guild's subtitle is now "Bargaining and Registration", and the guild head is checking cargo space and freight charges with a few foreign merchants. The note slips in the battle screen now say they close with a single press.
If you sided with the Pu family, Quanzhou's customs duty is normally 20% off. While the city is under siege or its harbor is closed, that favor no longer holds and the full duty is charged; the Maritime Trade Office shows a note saying so. Once the fighting eases, the discount returns. This follows history: after Pu Shougeng surrendered Quanzhou to the Yuan, Zhang Shijie's Song army laid siege to the city in 1277.
Naval battle orders, status bar and after-action notes now use period terms: missiles instead of "ammo", catapults counted as engines, gunpowder packets wrapped in paper and cloth, fuses as powder cords. News and character entries correct details on guanzi notes, the public-field law, the Lin'an surrender talks and the court at Fuzhou. Eight ports have their circuits and goods rechecked, and modern words are gone from the main screen and voyage events.
Behind Fuzhou's Xichan Temple now stand its famous lychee groves, and the Nantai wharf sits on the north bank of the Min River outside the south gate. East of Zhangzhou you will find Yundong Rock, where Zhu Xi taught, and the salt works are laid out in proper evaporation beds. In Qingyuan (Mingzhou), Tiantong Temple is back below Mount Taibai, the Dongjin floating bridge rests on sixteen boats, and the market takes paper huizi notes.
On Tamna (Jeju), ginseng, paper and sable furs are mostly goods passing through from elsewhere, and the island has its Beophwa Temple. The stone wall along Hakata Bay now runs from Imazu to Hakozaki. Champa's fields grow Champa rice, and its rice granary is now a merchants' storehouse. On the sea chart and in battle, "monsoon" is now the older term "trade wind" (xinfeng), and the turn of the season is marked "wind unsettled". The examination hall page now names the prefectural examination correctly, results are posted on the notice wall, and coins at the trade office, inns and elsewhere are called ready cash, as the Song did.
In Guangzhou, the Haishan Tower is back beside the maritime trade pavilion south of the city, looking out over the Wuzhou islets onto the stretch of water called the Little Sea, where the trade office held its banquet each tenth month. The examination hall is back in the northeast of the city, and the jasmine fields lie ten li to the west. In Quanzhou, the old tree west of the Kaiyuan Temple hall is a mulberry, the prayers for fair winds at Jiuri Mountain are carved into the cliff face, and the Shunji Temple stands on the Jin River. Xinghua's bookshops sell paper and ink, and the text for Wenzhou's Huagai Hill has been corrected.
The highest rank you can earn through reputation is now Chengxinlang, a rank the Song court really did grant to ship captains and foreign merchants who brought in large cargoes of incense. Goods descriptions now follow the Zhufan zhi on where each incense and drug came from, and Japanese gold comes from eastern Ōshū. A few details in the opening story have changed too: letters are sealed with wax, the letter of recommendation leads to the Imperial Academy, and the roll of graduates no longer records events that have not happened yet.
The remaining seventy-five companions have had their friendship lines and travel events rewritten one by one, with broken sentences, typos and mixed traditional and simplified characters fixed. Their lives were checked against the histories too: Zhao Rushi died in 1231; Pu Folian's eighty sea-going ships came to light when his estate was confiscated in 1293; Bai Dahasan served in the Guanghui Office, which handled Muslim medicine; and Wupoling, where Wen Tianxiang was captured, is back in Haifeng.
Another batch of biographies has been corrected: Dong Wenbing entered Fujian by way of Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Jianning and Shaowu; Hong Qiwei is shown as prefect of Lin'an; and Khubilai, still a prince, no longer refers to himself with the imperial "We". Characters' titles and lines have also lost terms from later periods.
Morale, sea-state and battle notes in naval combat now follow how Song and Yuan fleets actually fought, so catapults can no longer be used in force-six winds. The twenty-nine weapon descriptions now note where the Song and Jin firearms are recorded. The district text for Ganghwa, Kamakura, Huizhou, Jiangling and Thăng Long was rechecked as well: in Ganghwa, Choe Ui is now killed by Im Yeon and his allies, and the name of Thăng Long's National Academy has been corrected.
Duty treasures such as the floating compass needle now only take effect when you have hired the matching navigator, helmsman, purser or interpreter. They give slightly faster sailing, steadier headway against the wind, lower running costs, or better prices in foreign ports, and your ledger shows which ones are in use. Taverns now carry five treasure rumours, including sunken porcelain off Guangzhou, agarwood at Quanzhou, a Goryeo silver-inlaid kundika at Qingyuan, Champa ivory and Srivijaya rhino horn. Search the waters near the port named in a rumour to find the treasure.
The biographies of Chen Wenlong, Zhang Shijie, Jia Sidao, Bayan, Hülegü, Emperor Lizong, Empress Dowager Xie, Emperor Duanzong, Fan Wenhu, Lu Xiufu, Chen Yizhong and others have been checked against the histories again: the dates of the battles at Jiaoshan and Dingjiazhou, Duanzong's age and Chen Yizhong's departure for Champa in the winter of 1277 are now correct, and unsourced head counts, dates and quotations have been removed.
The fifteen companions now speak in their own voices as you grow closer, instead of sharing the same stock phrases, and unsupported death years and places have been dropped from their stories. In the Champa chapter ending, the sailors who drift in after Yamen now come from the north, as they should.
Twenty-two Song, Jin and Yuan treasures — Ru, Guan, Ding, Jun and Longquan wares, Jian tea bowls, Goryeo celadon, a floating compass needle, bronzes and calligraphy rubbings — can be bought, appraised, presented to the Maritime Trade Office, or found on voyages, and are tracked in a treasure catalogue. New districts for Jingjiang, Huating, Ganpu, Huizhou, Jiangling, Ganghwa, Kamakura, Thang Long and Diaoyu Fortress, and a full historical-accuracy pass over all district and rumour text.
District content for over twenty ports not yet on the sea chart (Qingyuan, Champa, Lin'an, Kaifeng, Yangzhou, Xiangyang, Shangdu and more). Market prices now follow the seasons; you can sell on credit to a port broker and settle two months later, at some risk; shipyards offer a third refit, caulking, to reduce storm and grounding damage. Seven recurring townsfolk storylines, five new crew candidates, three harbour quests, two new Chapter 4 endings, twenty historical news items, fourteen discoveries and eleven seasonal festivals.
You can now walk the streets of Quanzhou and Xinghua, each with its own painted district art; Guangzhou, Hakata and Wenzhou districts followed. New title screen, chapter cards, still-life icons for all 29 trade goods, battle and registry art for eight ship types, and 49 new companion portraits.