Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition

• Each Location can support 30 Layouts, and Layouts can be deleted from the Game Options menu. New Commands and Quick Commands • Set Time Speed – This command controls how quickly time passes in the world, supporting Stopped, Slow, Normal and Fast world times. • Edit Silver – This command allows Session Owners to manually adjust silver for individual players or crews during a session. Command Improvements • Spawn Treasures – Players now have access to an ‘Adventures’ category, providing a range of Quest Items and treasures featured in past Sea of Thieves Adventures. • Spawn Treasures – Within Crates and Commodities, creators now have access to a range of Firework Crates stocked with an assortment of fireworks. • Fast Travel has been improved with a new option to send multiple selected players back to their assigned ships in a single action. New Switches • Display Ships on the Map Table – Ships can now be shown as anonymous markers or fully identified by ship type and crew iconography. • Allow Regain Health – Session Owners can now disable health regeneration, preventing players from recovering health through food and other healing effects. When disabled, players returning from the Ferry of the Damned will return with full health. • Ship Damage – These switches allow creators to control whether different parts of the ship can receive damage during a session, and grant fine-grained control over flooding and fire damage. Switch Improvements • Custom Ship Supplies – Session Owners can now select ‘None’ when deciding on ship supplies, allowing ships to hold empty Resource Barrels at the start of a session. Gameplay Improvements Experiment – Diving to Experiences • During Season 21, all Voyages and Tall Tales will no longer offer the option to ‘Dive To’ from the Quest Table, and crews will be required to sail to their location across the waves. This is a time-limited live experiment, allowing the team to learn how this change alters the dynamics on the seas. The success or failure of this experiment will inform potential future permanent changes to the experience. Chest of Fortune • During Season 21, the Chest of Fortune will remain a potential reward for crews conquering a range of emergent World Events. Vanquishing one of these Events can award players one of three loot hauls: a regular loot pile, a lower chance of a regular loot pile with a Chest of Fortune, or a rare chance of a regular loot pile and three Chests of Fortune. • The following emergent World Events will have a chance for the Chest of Fortune to be part of the treasure on completion: Skeleton Forts, Reaper Fortresses, Fort of Fortune, Ashen Winds, Skeleton Fleets, Ghost Fleets, the Burning Blade and the Fort of the Damned. • The Fort of the Damned will have a rare chance for the Chest of Fortune to be present in the Vault on completion, along with a super-rare chance for three Chests to be uncovered. Removal of World Event Raid Voyages • Following the success of Season 20’s experiment, all on‑demand World Event Raid Voyages have now been permanently removed from the Quest Table. • Previously Raid-unique Trading Company treasures have been redistributed into emergent World Events, while Athena’s Fortune treasures can now be found within the Legend of the Veil. • Any associated Commendations have now been updated to reflect the new unlock criteria. Tall Tales Emissary Status • Crews representing a Trading Company as an Emissary will find that when sailing on-demand through a portal to the Sea of the Damned, their Emissary status is now lost and will need to be reacquired upon their next arrival on the High Seas. Crews migrating across servers naturally will continue to retain their Emissary status and any earned Emissary Grade progress. Shrinking Battle Bounds Improvements • The visual treatment of the Seas of Fate found at the edge of Faction Battles has been improved to address scenarios where crews are partially over the boundary. Once a ship crosses the boundary, all players on board will now experience the same consistent visual effect and will no longer find the effect can appear and disappear when moving around. Last Ship Standing – Spoils for the Victors • Emissary Flags released from bested ships within a battle will no longer sink and can now be retrieved by the victors before they head to the final portal. Audio Improvements • A range of audio improvements have been made across the game. Players will now hear various new impact effects when striking different materials and creatures, refreshed sound effects when using radial menus, new effects when equipping weapons from the Armoury and a clear audio cue when attempting to restock ammo at a crate while already full. • Improvements have been made to audio levels across various interactions and character voiceovers to balance the audio experience. Season 21 Another Season means 50 new levels to climb by raising your Renown, with racks full of rewards to snag along the way – and an optional Premium Tier adding even more! Season Pass and Premium Tier • Progressing through the 50 levels of Renown in Season 21 will reward players with Doubloon Pouches, playable Voyages and a choice of cosmetic rewards previously available from the Pirate Emporium. Reaching level 50 and completing this Season Pass will reward players with the Star Prize: the Fate's Light Lantern. • Pick up the latest Season Pass: Premium Tier to unlock boosted Renown progression and the ability to earn 1000 Ancient Coins and the Mutiny’s Mark Ship Collection, including Collector’s Figurehead and Sails. Purchase the Premium Tier through the Pirate Log or Pirate Emporium, or via the Pirate Emporium webpage or Steam Item Store! Season Pass Unclaimed Rewards • When a Season ends, players with any unclaimed rewards from progressing through the Season Pass and Premium Tier will now find those items are claimed automatically. • In the case of Season Pass levels where there are multiple rewards to choose from, an unowned item will be claimed and if a player owns all three items, they will instead be awarded 150 Ancient Coins. Emissary Ledger Rewards • This Season, the Guild Emissary Ledgers offer the ‘Peaceful Skies’ Painting, ‘Strong Together’ Ornament and Guild of Daring Diversions Title to Guilds who represent them well and perform proudly in the Ledgers. • The Hunter’s Call Emissary Ledger now offers the Living Depths Drum and Concertina, along with the Assailant of Boundless Initiative Title. These new rewards are earnable by Hunters representing the Company as Emissaries. Outpost Cosmetics New Outpost Stock! • The Fisherman’s Fable ship set arrives at the shipwrights this month, celebrating the Legendary Hunter, Merrick. This set includes the Figurehead, Sails, Hull and Flag. • The Pirate Legend Hideout will receive the Courteous Knave set across Season 21. The Courteous Knave clothing is currently available, requiring Pirate Legend status to purchase! • The Cast Iron set will also be delivered to the Outpost shops during Season 21. The Outpost weaponsmiths have received the Cast Iron weapons, with the Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss and Eye of Reach all available for purchase with gold. Conqueror of the Damned • A new Commendation challenges crews to win battles in Last Ship Standing and unlock access to exclusive Fallen Sea Dog rewards at each Grade. Players with prior Last Ship Standing wins under their belt will find that this progress also counts towards the new Commendation, and will be added following their next Last Ship Standing victory when this Event returns. • The Reaper’s Bones shop at their Hideout now offers Fallen Sea Dog clothing, weapons, ship items and equipment for purchase with gold upon reaching the required Grade in the Conqueror of the Damned Commendation. Pirate Emporium Show off your personal style with purchases from the Pirate Emporium! Pick up exclusive cosmetics such as ship liveries, costumes, weapons, pets and emotes using your Ancient Coins, purchasable with real money. Head to the Pirate Emporium page to browse and buy the latest additions! New Items – Now in Stock! • Bleakheart Groom Ship Collection • Bleakheart Groom Weapon Bundle (Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss, Eye of Reach) • Bleakheart Groom and Bleakheart Banshee Costume Sets • Bleakheart Groom Tankard • Darklands Wolf, Outback Wolf, Stoneheart Wolf, Duststorm Wolf and Icefall Wolf pets (Pirate Legend status required) • Full Moon Cat (time-limited during Season 21) • Oar Gazing Emote • Angry Scribe Emote – now returning for free! Updates Improved Streamer Settings Support • Players enabling Streamer Mode or using Hide Gamertags from Me will now find that various locations within the front end menu where their gamertag or the gamertags of other Guild Members or crewmates can be seen are now scrambled. Note: the player’s gamertag shown in the top right corner of the front end will still remain visible when enabling these settings. Front End Navigation • When starting a new session from the front end, the ‘Choose your Experience’ screen is now shown as a full page, ensuring consistency with other menu screens. Events Talk Like a Pirate Day Celebrations (September 17th – September 22nd) • To celebrate this special pirate occasion, players can now access a Parley Pennant from their ship’s Flag Box. When this is raised, other ships approaching will be notified that the crew just wants to talk. • Players using the Parley Pennant to engage in conversation with three other crews during this Event can unlock the Parley Proficiency Sails! • Following this Event, the Parley Pennant will become a permanent addition to the Flag Box. Bilge Rats Weekender (October 16th – October 19th) • New Challenges during the next Weekender will task crews in High Seas to explode sharks, go orienteering and enjoy various hijinks with other crews. • This Event brings a chance of Mega Stashes back to the Reaper Fortresses, replacing the Vault contents with an immense treasure pile of significantly higher-value rewards, while Event Goals offer opportunities to earn those sought-after Doubloons. • The Black Market will receive new stock during the Weekender for players with Doubloons to spend: o   Jacket of Boneward Blade o   Warring Seas Trousers o   Spider’s Venom Hat o   Bloodstone Dragon Eyepatch o   Hungering One Hunter’s Pegleg o   Famous Pirate Gloves o   Master of the High Seas Hair o   Shadow Tide Beard o   High-Spirited Spin Emote o   Tailor’s Apron (requires Pirate Legend status) • The Smugglers’ Market will also have new items in stock for Doubloons, the contents of which will remain hidden until Duke is discovered in his new location! Fixed Issues Gameplay • The Loyalist of the Flame and Playing the Part achievements and Trophies now progress correctly when players complete the rebalanced Commendation requirements. • Wielding a blowpipe after starting a session no longer forces an unnecessary reload animation. • Further improvements have been made to prevent Ancient Megalodons from being attracted to ships taking part in Faction Battles. • After migrating across servers, all players should now consistently see the same state of day or night. • Crews pledged to the Burning Blade are no longer able to dive with the ship to new seas. • The Gold Hoarders Tutorial Voyage can now be completed by handing in the chest regardless of which crew member started the Voyage. • Skeletons from Order of Souls Bounty Voyages now appear correctly at Wanderers Refuge, allowing Voyages to be completed. • Ocean Crawlers are now affected by the poison effect from the Trident of the Banished. • Cannons of Rage can now be placed on level ground in many more areas across the ramparts of Ashen Garrisons. • Tall Tale checkpoints now update correctly as players progress through the Tale. • Players can now place the Veil Stone into the Veil of the Ancients after burying the Ancient Chest during the Legend of the Veil Voyage. Last Ship Standing • Further improvements have been made to matchmaking, addressing issues that were causing crews to become stuck beneath the waves when waiting for rivals or experience a black loading screen at the start of battle. • Improvements have been made to ensure that after losing a battle, crews and their ships are consistently removed from the fight and do not reappear within the battle area. • After winning a battle, crews should no longer experience a Chequeredbeard error and find themselves disconnected from the game. • Following a win, the Battle Bounds will now return to their starting size, allowing players to retrieve any items before returning to High Seas while preventing access to unintended areas of the environment. • Water is now consistently fully drained from a winning ship at the end of a battle. • Players rejoining a match after a disconnection should now see the shrinking Battle Bounds in their correct location. • Players should no longer appear temporarily away from their ship when sailing beneath the waves waiting for rivals. • Players using Disguises while sailing beneath the waves should now remain on the ship when the battle begins. • Players cancelling matchmaking after requeuing are now safely returned to High Seas. • Ship tracks shown on the Map Table are no longer visible when the winning crew is returning to High Seas. • Crews sailing beneath the waves waiting for a battle should now see all handles attached to their ship’s capstan. • After a win, crews can now pass through the portal with their ship from any angle. • After losing a battle, players are now consistently taken beneath the waves rather than straight to High Seas. • Players choosing to rematch now consistently have the option to cancel matchmaking. • Repaired holes in a Sloop’s hull will now stay in the location they were made after diving beneath the waves. Custom Seas • A range of usability, text and localisation improvements have been made across the Command and Quick Command Menus. • Using the Free Camera no longer leaves players trapped when transitioning to the Ferry of the Damned. • Players revived while using the Free Camera now behave as intended after returning to gameplay. • Weapon damage overrides now affect Double Barrel Pistols, passive animals and throwing knives. • Ships now consistently retain their selected cosmetics when launching into a Custom Seas session. • Quick Command menus now scale correctly at different monitor resolutions. • Players and their fishing rods now remain hidden when using invisibility while fishing. • Red sea visuals now appear correctly around the Seas of Sailor’s Grave boundaries. • Players using a controller can now sprint while the Quick Command Menu is open. • Players can now freely jump while the Quick Command menu is open. • Toggle Invulnerability and Reset Supplies are no longer shown as usable to players without the required permissions. • Players switching crews no longer retain the Emissary Grade earned with their previous crew. • Loading into a new Custom Seas lobby now consistently shows the correct crew roster. • Players using the Free Camera can no longer reach beyond the playable area inside the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern and The Reaper’s Hideout. • Burning Blade skeleton crews now appear correctly after capturing the ship. • Rowboats can now be added correctly after changing ship type. • Six Galleons can now start a session in The Damned Sea Dog Tavern without any appearing upside down. • Fast Travel to Old Faithful Isle no longer causes players to be moved to a different location upon arrival. Visual and Audio • The Chest of Fortune is now consistently held correctly by pirates of all body sizes. • The Burning Blade’s deck effects now display correctly. • The Midnight Prowler Lantern, Fishing Rod and Drum now sit correctly in the player’s hands. • Allied Order of Bone and Blade Skeletons at Ashen Garrisons now hold Lighthouse Logs correctly. • The Tundra Wanderer Blowpipe now displays its darts correctly. • The lower section of Sovereign Hair now retains the correct colour when worn with hats and high-collared jackets. • Animations will no longer appear broken when players attempt to give away a pet while underwater. • Pets remain correctly positioned when loaded into cannons and observed at different distances. • The Crustacean Celebration Emote now displays correctly when viewed at all distances. • The Daring Deceiver’s Dress now fits correctly across pirates of all body sizes. • The Grinning Gourd Bucket now appears correctly when holding water and no longer spins while bailing. • A range of weapons have been improved to ensure they are wielded consistently and no longer clip into the camera when used. These include the Sunlit Sepulchre Eye of Reach, Smouldering Pegasus Eye of Reach, Smouldering Pegasus Blunderbuss, Steely Hammerhead Cutlass, Crimson Crypt and Cardinal Lodestar Grapple Guns and Silver Coin weapons. • The Smouldering Pegasus Cannons now cast shadows when equipped. • Players using a range of pulleys now animate correctly when observed by others. • After using ship sail interactions, players should no longer appear to rotate out of position when observed by others. • Players navigating through foliage on the Shores of Gold will now hear the appropriate audio effects. • During an Eternal Guard encounter within a cave, the battle music will now be lowered, enabling players to better pinpoint the location of the battle. • Bait and Firework Crates can now be consistently heard when opened. • Using the Stargazer at Skeleton Camps no longer changes a pirate’s size.  • The Forge of the Bonesmith Jacket no longer shows a visible seam on the left arm when worn with a Curse, Tattoo or Scar on that arm. • The rope attached to the various Sea Dog Buckets now moves as intended when used. • The music played while Ancient Skeletons are being pursued now continues until the encounter is over. Environment • Improvements have been made to areas of the environment at Sanctuary Outpost, Wanderers Refuge, Port Merrick, Sandy Shallows, The Devil’s Thirst, Sailor’s Knot Stronghold, Plunder Valley, Ancient Spire Outpost, Barnacle Cay, Lagoon of Whispers, Picaroon Palms, The Crooked Masts and all Skeleton Camps and Siren Treasuries to address visual issues and prevent players from becoming stuck while traversing. • Reaper Fortress Vault Keys can now be collected reliably at Sailor’s Knot Stronghold, if dropped in foliage around the Fort. • The Vanity Chest is once again present within the Dark Brethren Hideout. • The first-person camera no longer clips through the ceiling when a player falls asleep during the Maiden Voyage. • Sea of Thieves: The Legend of Monkey Island – Sitting down in the Scumm Bar during these Tall Tales now keeps the camera above ground level. User Interface • The ‘Show Items I Own’ filter is now available in Legendary Luke’s stock at the Pirate Legend Hideout. • Progress bars now align correctly with their background when a long Commendation title is shown while in Safer Seas. • The Ghostly Curse Fox now shows correctly when previewed in the Pirate Emporium. Text and Localisation • A range of improvements to grammar, punctuation and missing localisation have been made across the experience. • Days and hours within Special Voyages are now localised correctly across supported languages. Performance and Stability • Players choosing to start a session by choosing an Open Crew should no longer experience a Greybeard error after locating an active crew. • Improvements have been made to game stability to reduce scenarios where players unexpectedly exit the game or become disconnected from their session. Known Issues Doom and Groom Bundle • Players purchasing the Doom and Groom Bundle through a platform store will find that they incorrectly receive the new black variant of the Bleakheart Banshee Costume instead of the white variant of the Bleakheart Groom Costume. The team are aware of this issue and will be granting the correct Bleakheart Groom Costume to affected players at a later date. To learn more about known issues in Sea of Thieves currently being tracked and their status, head over to our Known Issues support site article. Download and Installation Download Size: • Steam: 4.8 GB