'Slapping' arms quickly spawn and slap hard against the side of the ship, causing movement and damage similar to a Gunpowder Barrel.The poison damage counts for poison death in the Ferry of the Damned.Damaging the main body wrap on the deck can also release the wrap, but takes longer and may inflict poison damage. Gun and sword damage will cause it to splash poisonous Kraken blood on nearby attackers. Damaging the head of the wrapping tentacle is the quickest way of releasing the wrap. The wrap immobilizes the ship and causes holes in the hull over time and pulls the ship lower, causing some holes to take in water faster. 'Tangling' arms wrap around the body of the ship, with the head of the wrapped tentacle popping out of the water close to either side of the ship or laying onto the deck of the ship.A trapped player can be freed early by damaging the arm or harpooning out of its mouth.

Eventually, the arm will throw the player into the water a little ways from the ship. Once sucked, the player is rooted in the arm and it will occasionally slap them on the water's surface, dealing a large amount of damage.

To avoid getting sucked in, go below deck or do damage to the open, inhaling 'mouth' on a nearby tentacle.

'Inhaler' arms make a wind graphic on the deck and suck a player up into the arm.

There are 4 'types' of arms to the Kraken: Kraken arms will spawn in the area, the crew must kill enough arms to defeat the Kraken, or survive long enough. Drowning speed is dramatically increased in the inky waters. Ship movement in the dark water is minimal, but not halted. There is a musical cue and the water around the ship darkens when the Kraken attacks. A kraken will despawn shortly after all ships in the ink are sunk.

The Kraken appears to be a timed encounter where the amount of loot spawned depends on the number of limbs defeated during the fight. The tentacles may attack by sucking players up into their mouths, wrapping around the hull, or slapping the ship. The Kraken spawns under a ship, darkening the water into an inky-black pool and slowing the ship to a crawl as up to eight tentacles rise from the waves.

The kraken song