Island hopping in Tides of Tomorrow is rewarding, but expensive. Each time you move between locations within the story, you lose two health points. This health must be restored with Ozen, a resource that isn’t easily found. However, the developers have left a loophole in the lead-up to dangerous adventures.
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Ocean Events in Tides of Tomorrow: Farming Without HP Loss
After key story milestones, special points—”ocean events”—begin to appear on the map. You can see them through a telescope. Their main advantage: visiting these locations doesn’t cost you any health. These events are divided into three types, each with its own logic.
Naval Battles in Tides of Tomorrow: Tactics and Rewards
When entering such an event, the system often warns that a boat battle will begin immediately after loading. Did you defeat the enemy vessel? What happens next depends on the specific scenario. Let’s look at the options.
Boat Raid: How to Collect Loot Before the Sink
In some events, the player attacks a departing vessel—one of smugglers or poachers. If enough damage is inflicted, a timer appears, giving players a few seconds to dock and board. Then it’s a race to the cabin. There, a countdown begins. When it reaches zero, the ship will sink. The goal is to accumulate scrap metal, ozen, and anything else lying around before the timer runs out.
Omulus’s Country: How to Get Ozen via Story-Link
This is suspicious—a homage to surrealism. After defeating one of the boats, you can dock alongside it and meet a character named Omulus. He’ll declare that this vessel is his country. Scrap metal is scattered around. After a short dialogue, he’ll offer to join his “country.” It’s best to accept—the reward will be the one the previous player chose.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get ozen. If you’re unlucky, you get scrap metal. Immediately afterward, you choose the reward for the next player. Ozen is almost always the most sensible option.
The country of Raymus and the Easter egg in Maelstrom
Remember Omulus and his ship-nation? Well, he has a neighbor—Raymus. She also calls the boat her country, and this event is a sort of mirror image of the previous one. You defeat the ship, climb aboard, and collect the scrap metal. The trick is this: the game calmly doesn’t check whether you’ve already “been a citizen” of Omulus. You can safely remain silent and swear allegiance to Raymus, too.
For this, you’ll receive the reward chosen by the previous Wave Walker. And if you join both countries, then at the end, near the Maelstrom, to the right of the harbor, there’s an Easter egg hidden: Omulus and Raymus make peace. Sweet, if strange.
Ocean Merchants: Buying Ozen or Breaking the Back Door
Merchants regularly appear in ocean events. The mechanics are straightforward, but there are countless details. Your luck depends on which Walker you follow. The merchant offers Ozen at a fixed price (tied to your run progress).
However, if the previous player hasn’t robbed the shop, there’s a door to the right of the entrance. Inside is a pile of scrap metal and Ozen you can steal. But be warned: after stealing, the merchant permanently locks the door for all future Walkers. So the decision is yours.
Other events: Storm Race, Hermit, and White Islands
Storm Escape: Route through mines and swim reward
Starting challenge: you need to navigate a boat through stormy waters. The ship constantly maneuvers, the pace increases, and mines are added towards the end. Success rewards up to 50 scrap metal and one Ozen.
Pleasureland Race: Double Your Scrap Metal
A reference to Pleasureland. You can bet on your victory again. Confident? Your bet doubles your scrap metal.
The Hermit: How to Get Ozen Without Losing Resources
Climb aboard, and there’s a conversation upstairs. He asks you to trade all your Ozen for a secret. Agree—he won’t take the resource, but instead will give you the key to a chest in the backyard. In the chest… oh, yes, more Ozen.
White Island Group: Where to Find Mereid Eggs and Scrap
Visit each mooring point. Mereid eggs are hidden on the X-shaped island behind the pool. There’s a scattering of scrap metal on the main island. Don’t miss it.
Tides of Tomorrow Ocean Event Tier List: The Best Events
When three or four dots light up in the telescope at once, you have to think quickly. The question is simple: which event will give you the most Ozen with the least risk. Below is a working tier list of all Tides of Tomorrow ocean events from DigixArt, ranked by “profit, danger, and run time.” Not by average reward, but by the actual ratio of guaranteed loot, chance of losing a resource, and run duration.
How to read the Tier List: deciphering ranks and priorities
S — go first, no options. A — take it if the waypoint is on the way. B — only out of desperation or for the Easter egg achievement. Danger is measured in three stages: from zero (easy loot hoarding) to high (really loses the run or loses Ozen). The “Priority” column is tied to the stage of the run—the early stretch to Marketland, the middle, and the final stretch at Maelstrom.
In-Game Events Guide
Event Priority: What to Farm First
The rule for any run in Tides of Tomorrow is as follows. At the entrance to the story island, keep one HP bar, and before key dialogues, have at least four ozens in your pocket. The story regularly requires you to hand over resources, and some of these moments cannot be reversed. Therefore, we close the S-tier without discussion: Omulus and the Hermit give away ozens for next to nothing, and the merchant’s back door is a “scrap metal + ozens” combo with no scrap cost at all. It’s indecently convenient.
A subtle point is the Story Link. If you follow the trail of a Tidewalker who has already looted the shop, the merchant closes to you permanently. The door locks, and so does the window. It’s a good idea to check the markers on the Walker selection screen—they show you what’s left in the yellow chest of the next zone and whether the merchant’s inventory has been emptied. Losing 30 seconds checking is better than wasting a run blindly. Only attempt the race with the Pleasureland reference and the regular merchant purchase if you have a clear scrap surplus. Doubling your bet on the race sounds sweet, but losing cuts into the resource used to repair platforms and buy the plastemia cure. Visit the White Islands for the Mereid eggs—they’re the only stable source of collection that doesn’t depend on the previous Tidewalker’s decisions. Neither Story-Link nor other players’ loot are a hindrance here.
And the final nuance, which is where half the players fall: almost always leave the “next Tidewalker” reward after the events of Omulus and Raymus as ozen. Scrap metal is lying around, ozen is not. This is the Story-Link karma loop: the more often players deposit ozen, the greater the pool of resources shared between each other’s sessions, and your next run through Elynd will be noticeably smoother. A small detail that pays off by Marketland.
