Spawn rates are unknown for the new doubloon skeletons but for one doubloon per kill, I'd expect them to be spawning all the time.

Figured y’all my enjoy me pumpkin!

I know, I know, there are posts like this on reddit almost every single day, but I'm seriously fed up with the PVP in this game.

For context, I've been playing SOT on and off for years, mostly solo slooper, binged videos after videos of tips to get better at PVP, tried hourglass only to get decimated every single time because I find it extremely hard to balance cannons, keeping a firing angle, avoiding obstacles, repairing and bucketing by myself.

In the end I desperately avoid other ships and get really anxious every time I have a pile of loot because I *know* I will get absolutely annihilated if another ship gets a whiff of my presence.

And I don't know if that's because I always fall on sweats who can snipe you from 500 metres blindfolded, or if I just suck at PVP (I can handle myself just fine with skelly sloops and brigs, galleons most times end up okay). So it's really either I run away in the opposite direction every time I spot a ship and stress out about selling my loot and loosing time, or I can sink and loose everything.

The game isn't fun that way. I want to engage with other players, make alliances, cooperate with another ship to fend off an ancient meg, actually get to an outpost where someone is already parked knowing there's over 1% chance you won't get attacked.

And I know, "It's a pirate game what did you expect", I know that, I'm not saying everyone should be buddy buddy and not steal from eachother, but I'm exhausted to be attacked on sight every single time, I swear I haven't had a single non-hostile interaction with another player in years, and I still can't seem to win a single fight because it's always 1v2 at the very least.

Is anyone in the same situation, or does anyone have a way to actually get bigger at PVP ? I swear I tried to apply every tip and tutorial I've seen but it's just way too many things to manage at once for one person.

I did not know the animals can trigger the smuggler traps.

Serious question:

I don't seem to find too many pirates sailing these days that care about the Bilge Rats Weekend, go out of their way to complete the voyages, or worry about doubloons/Duke's shop any more.

Played all weekend and a chunk of the LFG groups I joined said they hadn't bothered and didn't care, and in general it seems most pirates on the sea cbf'd sailing the crates around.

I know we've seen some hauls, but they seem few and far between.

What's everyone else's vibes on this?

The last 2 times I’ve attempted to do a Legend of the Veil voyage, I’ve gotten the 1st veil stone, but on the way to the shipwreck graveyard I’ve gotten server merged and it says that the Grim Fortunes key has been lost and the voyage has failed.

Anyway to prevent this from happening again?

So I recently was looking at the emissary ledger and realized for the reapers I’m getting the best thing, but I lowkey like the cannons at the “keeper” entry better than the sails I’m going to get, but I think I might get everything because I went above it, is this true or am I only getting the sails?

W Bilge rats weekender.

Its the bilge rats weekender and they added a bunch of challenges to earn doubloons from.

Blow up a shark with a keg

Sit on a skeleton throne on Devil's ridge

Shoot a firework from a cannon of rage at the peak of thieves haven

Use a mimic dart and take control of another crews ship

And raise a tankard of grog with at least 4 other pirates during a bilge rats firework display.

I started by going and getting a keg to blow a shark with and rowed out to the open ocean to find one.. easy enough.

I realized after that I was super close to devils ridge, so I sailed over. Spent like 20 minutes looking for the throne and saw another ship pull up to the other side of the island.

I figured, "hey maybe I could get the mimic challenge done and see if he wanted to find some other players to catch a firework display.

He was friendly!

I ended up leaving my ship behind and we went to go and shoot a firework from thieves havens peak together.

After doing so we had 4 of 5 of the challenges done and just needed to find the firework display.

So we sailed to plunder outpost to talk to larinna and find out.

Apparently the display was to happen right at plunder outpost!

We sailed away with haste to try and find some other players to recruit.

We saw two sloops fighting an ancient meg, i yelled through my horn to get them over to plunder outpost. A little further, we spotted a brigantine sailing to a nearby island.

I shot over to the island, there was another brigantine there!

So i talked to both crews and they were down to catch the firework display.

We headed to plunder outpost and saw the first two sloops we spotted docked!

The brigantines followed not far behind us, but the firework display started while we made our way over and it ended as we arrived so none of us got the challenge done.

The next firework display was at ancient spire. Our sloop, the two sloops at the outpost and the brigantines who arrived after us decided to alliance!

In the distance we saw another sloop fighting a skeleton galleon.

I wish you could've seen it.

A fleet of 5 ships started barreling toward the sloop. Dude must've been pissing in his kilt.

We all collectively sunk the skelly ship in like 10 seconds, and convinced the sloop to join our alliance and follow us to ancient spire.

All 6 ships on the server moved as a singular unit to ancient spire and made it just in time for the firework display.

We 12 pirates all shared a toast and downed our grogs together under the explosively lit sky.

It was magical.

We all then agreed to go and do the legend of glitter.beard Easter egg.

The fleet sailed over to plunder valley and made our way up to a lone tree adorned with a variety of bottles hanging from it and surrounded by a 8 bare patches of soil. We all got into position and pulled out the correct instruments for each position. We started playing the becalmed shanty start to finish right as the sun had set. Each patch of soil began to glow one by one. The glow began to flow up the tree and lit up each of the hanging glasses in the tree.

As the song came to an end, a hidden door in the rock face began to open.

Inside was the hideout of the legendary pirate known as glitter.beard.

A developer at Rare who unfortunately passed shortly after sea of thieves released.

We all opened the journal and got the commendation, one of us read the journal aloud and shared a lovely moment together before we parted ways.

We all added eachother as friends and left go and earn some gold!

The hours that followed were accompanied by my gold constantly counting upward from all of our alliance selling their loot.

My new friend i met at devils ridge and I went and started doing some gilded gold hoarders voyages and we earned over 3 million gold and just over 1000 doubloons over this period.

Never in all my years playing this game have had such an eventful, wholesome and profitable server.

If you were one of the pirates I met last night, thank you.

I will remember it forever.

For one of my bilge rat shipment voyages the key doesn’t work😑

Just like the title says, i bought the curse, the doubloons left my inventory but i didn't get the curse, even after reloading to make sure.

My microphone isn't working in Sea of ​​Thieves, and I’d like some help (I’m on PC).

I’ve already checked all my microphone settings (in the Xbox app, Windows, and Sea of ​​Thieves), and the Sea of ​​Thieves settings are correct the microphone is set to activate via a key press (F1).

Its most noticable at a very high sens like 10. As you lower your sens, the steps are still there, but get gradually smaller. At 1 sens if feels nonexistent.

imagine being able to play card games with NPCs in the taverns. Or with other players !

I would love to have slot machines, but that's just because I think every game should have slot machines.

what a lucky steal! we saw two brigs fighting and both of them had dubloon crates on board :)

Clipping software wasn’t on so quickly grabbed my phone, a 3 minute long firework show just displayed while at an outpost as I spawned in… BEAUTIFUL!

Hey everyone,
I’ve been dealing with a frustrating ping issue in Sea of Thieves for around 9 months, and I’m hoping someone with networking knowledge or a similar experience can help me figure out what’s actually causing it.
My situation:
Location: Saudi Arabia
ISP: Zain 5G home internet
Connection: Ethernet to my PC
Indian servers: Used to expect around 60–90ms, but I’ve been getting 250–300ms (yellow con) for a while. Recently, it became consistently 280ms or higher.
French servers: Around 140ms currently.
Other games: Around 20ms in Valorant on Riyadh servers, around 60ms in CS, and around 40ms in CoD.
The weirdest part is that some of my friends get around 60ms on the same Sea of Thieves server region, while my ping is several times higher.
I’ve changed ISPs twice and had my router/connection checked, but the problem persisted. My internet download speeds are generally fine, so this doesn’t seem to be a simple bandwidth issue.
I’ve been wondering whether this is an ISP routing/peering issue, a problem with the route to Microsoft’s Azure servers, or something related to Sea of Thieves matchmaking.
What I’d really appreciate help with:
Is there a way to identify the actual server IP and run a traceroute or WinMTR test to find where the latency increases?
Could this be caused by bad routing from Saudi Arabia to the Indian Sea of Thieves servers?
Has anyone in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East experienced something similar, and managed to fix it?
Is there a reliable way to test whether a VPN or routing service would actually help before paying for one?
I’m not looking for generic advice like restarting my router or changing DNS. I’ve already spent months trying to figure this out, and I’d really like to narrow down the actual cause.
If you have networking experience, I’d appreciate any diagnostic steps, commands, or results I should look for.

And i now understand why everyone hates this quote now (as seen in second image)

Have not played since late 2019. I have been playing for about a week. But I am having a hard time wrapping my head around all the new changes. Can anyone give me some helpful pointers?

Was watching some funny clips of people from different countries interacting with each other in game and I just thought it'd be quite cool to sail with our own country's flag. It would also cause a bit of chaos. Some alliances may get formed. Imagine a full British navy for example. Could also cause bring up some old rivalries (Spanish armada Vs British navy) etc.

Would also just be cool to roleplay a lot of the pirates of the time.

Anyone else like this idea? Perhaps not? Let me know why!

I was playing some custom seas today seeing that the bug where obsidian skellies didn't spawn was fixed, but I noticed either I was unobservant or they really just weren't firing back against a skeleton sloop. They were roaming upper deck even when there were no holes in my Burning Blade. Did anyone else experience this?

The boat that got launched, was bit by an ancient meg right before idk if this is a common bug but buddy went flying and I would love to see how that looked from his POV lol

As title says. Just a new pirate seeking some info