How to Get Pearls in 100 Days at Sea — Earn, Spend, Priority

What Pearls are

100 Days At Sea runs three separate currencies, and they are not interchangeable. Pearls are the one you carry between runs. They buy the two things that persist: classes and companion chests. Coins are spent at the Mukumuku Market vendor; Doubloons come from treasure chests and stay inside a run. If you are saving toward a 750-Pearl class, nothing you do with Doubloons gets you there faster.

Classes can also be bought outright with Robux, which is the part most guides skip. Everything below is the free route.

Every verified way to get Pearls

Five routes turn up across the guides we checked, none of them requiring Robux. Companion chests return some value too, which is why they sit on this list as a recycle rather than a primary farm.

The one route with hard numbers is codes. Every code the trackers have recorded for this game paid 20 Pearls, not a mixed jackpot and not a 500-Pearl drop. Live strings, and the ones that have already expired, are dated on the codes page. Treat them as free top-ups you redeem in ten seconds.

Badges are the other route you can inspect, because the game's public badge list carries award counts. The survival ladder thins out fast: most accounts never reach the deep-run milestones. If your Pearl plan leans on finishing a 100-day run, that is a steep hill — the shape of it is on the Day 100 page.

What to spend them on

The class shop runs from 40 to 750. Costs below are the ones already published on this site. Chaos Master and Minigunner are ranked on a tier list but carry no published Pearl price yet, so they are not in the table.

Priority, only where the repo already gives it

1. Under 100 Pearls, buy Crewmate (60). It is the only class in the cheap band that starts you with a weapon. Medic (50) is the alternative worth a thought — it starts with a Medkit. Do not buy Survivor at the same price.
2. Skip the 150–250 band unless you're playing a role. Builderman and Chef are co-op support. If you just want your own run to go better, Swordsman or Olympian (250) are the two the tier list rates.
3. Knight (380) is the first real power spike — cheapest A-tier, and the 30% damage reduction stays useful on day 80 as well as day 8.
4. If you can wait, wait for 750. Fire Mage is the consensus destination. Buying two mid classes on the way there costs you a Fire Mage.
5. Classes before chests. A class is guaranteed; a 120-Pearl Magma or Pirate chest is one roll at published companion rates.

What nobody has published

How many Pearls a daily quest, a badge or a day of survival actually pays. We are not going to invent a Pearls-per-hour figure to fill the gap — and there is a second reason to distrust any you find, since players in a July comment sweep described a Pearl-farming strategy being nerfed by the developers within days of it spreading. Rates in this game are a moving target.

FAQ

• What are Pearls used for in 100 Days At Sea?

  Mainly unlocking classes — the class shop runs on Pearls, from the 40-Pearl Sailor up to 750-Pearl classes like Fire Mage. The other published sink is companion chests; Magma and Pirate chests cost 120 Pearls. Pearls persist between runs. Doubloons and Coins do not buy classes.

• How do you get Pearls in 100 Days At Sea?

  Five routes turn up across the guides we checked, none of them requiring Robux: achievements and badges, daily quests, active codes, days survived in a run, and the Crafting building that unlocks at max Bonfire. Every confirmed code has paid exactly 20 Pearls. What nobody has published is how many Pearls a daily quest, a badge or a day of survival actually pays.

• How many Pearls is the Fire Mage?

  750 Pearls. It tops Pro Game Guides' July 2026 tier list as the best class in the game. Codes are not a shortcut: five recorded codes at 20 Pearls each is 100 Pearls of code income in a month, roughly a seventh of one Fire Mage.

• Should I buy companion chests or classes first?

  Classes first for most players. A class is a guaranteed permanent kit; a chest is RNG. The best companion pulls (Salamander, Penguin, Swordfish, Magma Golem) sit at 5%, and Magma and Pirate chests are 120 Pearls a roll.

• Where should my first Pearls go?

  Under 100 Pearls, buy Crewmate at 60. It is the only class in the cheap band that starts you with a weapon, and the only one PGG ranks above its bottom tier. Medic at 50 is the alternative if you want a Medkit. Skip Survivor at the same price. If you can wait, wait for 750 — buying two mid classes on the way there costs you a Fire Mage.