Your Admiral and Mates can equip Gears, such as Weapons and Armor, to upgrade their base stats and gain additional stats.

You can check your Mate's Gears and the Total Gear Stats via [Menu] - [Mates] - Select an Admiral or Mate - [Gear]. You can view the Gears your Company owns and see who is equipping them through [Menu] - [Storage] - [Gear Storage].

There are a total of six slots: Head, Weapon, Accessory, Face Decoration, Torso, and Cape. Gears for each slot affects various Expertise, as well as combat stats such as Artillery, Melee, and Duel stats. Equipping Gear that represents certain cultural regions increases Disguise and increases the chance of avoiding inspections when visiting hostile cities.

You can purchase basic Gears from the Item Shop of each city. Depending on the city's Development LV, more items will be added to the shop.

In certain cities, You can visit the [Black Market] which opens only at night at the Item Shop, where you can obtain rarer Gears. The Black Market deals only in limited quantities of products, but its inventory refreshes as time progresses. You can spend currency to immediately refresh the inventory.

You can also obtain Gears through Treasure Chests, Combat Loot, Request Rewards, and Event Rewards.

Some Gears are available only to specific genders.

Tools encompass everything used for upgrades, like Usables, Materials, Blueprints, Contracts, and Manuals, with the addition of Currency used for Promotions.

Tools also include items players use to remove Status Effects while sailing or during Combat, Repair ships, and deal with Disasters. Usables required to Fish or Explore, and Gifts that can be given to Employees or Mates are also considered Tools.

Materials for promoting Mates or Manuals for acquiring Skills are also considered Tools, and this might cause some inventory issues. If you are short on inventory space, you can either Sell or Discard unnecessary Tools. You can also unlock additional inventory slots using Blue Gems.

Parts are like equipments for ships. You can equip your ships with Parts to increase their performance.

Ship Appearance, Special, Cannon, Sail, Figurehead, Armor, Ram, and Anchor are the 8 slots that you can equip parts to. Each slot affects your ship in a different way. Ship stats such as Seaworthiness, Ice Breaking, and Momentum are crucial when sailing to far places, and that is why high-grade Parts are considered precious.

You can purchase basic Parts from [Shipyard] - [Parts Shop], and the Parts Shop will sell more types of Parts if the city's Development LV is high enough.

You can also gain rare Parts through Exploring. You can gain Parts through Request and Event rewards as well.