Sea of Thieves Dev Tracker

The Sea of Thieves servers will be offline from approximately 10am GMT tomorrow, Wednesday 5th, so that our crew can take down the decorations and stow them away for another year. Please plan your Voyages accordingly.

The issues with matchmaking appear to be resolved and players should be able to access the game as normal. If you continue to see any issues with getting into the game, be sure to raise a support ticket: https://support.seaofthieves.com

Gilded Voyages have been re-enabled. Those affected by previous Gilded Voyages being overwritten will receive a new one in January. If you currently have an old Gilded Voyage you will not be able to buy one for the same Trading Company as you can only have one at a time.

We are investigating an issue around this year's Gilded Voyages and have currently disabled the ability to purchase one.

Please keep an eye out for further updates later today.

The Festival of Giving is live until 10am GMT Dec 27th. Grab a free flag from Larinna, set out on a Gilded Voyage, unlock Wreath of Winter items and earn bonus rewards by having other crews cash your loot! ’Tis the season, after all :grog~1:

Acquiring a new Gilded Voyage during this year's Festival of Giving will remove any older Gilded Voyages you still have in your inventory. If you do still have a Gilded Voyage from a previous Event, we strongly advise completing it before picking up a new one.

Following further investigation, the freezing issues some players were experiencing are now resolved - and as such, we have switched achievement notifications back on.

Any achievements you earned during this period will be rewarded when you next log in.

Grab four fresh helpings of Twilight Hunter gear this week, via Twitch Drops!

Watch 20 minutes of partnered Sea of Thieves streamers each day between December 3rd and 7th from 10:00am GMT to secure these striking goods.

Link accounts: http://aka.ms/Twitch_Drops
Partner Directory: https://www.seaofthieves.com/partner-directory

Twitch Drops begin at 10:00am GMT on the stated day and each item runs for 24 hours:

Fri 3rd - Twilight Hunter Jacket
Sat 4th - Twilight Hunter Belt
Sun 5th - Twilight Hunter Eyepatch
Mon 6th - Twilight Hunter Hook

The Sea of Thieves servers are now back online! Before you get sailing, make sure to download the update and feel free to read over what's included here: https://www.seaofthieves.com/release-notes/2.4.0

The Sea of Thieves servers will be offline from approximately 10am GMT, Thursday 2nd December, so that Quest Boards can be built and cannons can be strapped to Rowboats as we welcome in Season 5!

Please plan your Voyages accordingly.

Thank you for your patience while we investigated the issues preventing some players from connecting with our servers. This has now been resolved and you should be able to set sail as usual.

We are aware that some players are experiencing issues connecting with our servers. This is being investigated and we'll keep you informed as progress is made.

While we understand your intention is to leave feedback, this type of post draws negative reaction, and does not foster discussion in the community.

Hit registration is an oversimplified term to cover a wide range of variables. From hardware to server speeds, packet loss, alculations on both the client and server hardware, connection speeds and reliability.

There are hundreds of factors that go into it that can determine how the server calculates hits. I know it can be frustrating but the dev team does work to improve the areas that contribute to hitreg issues but addressing all of the issues is a very complex and time consuming process and we are limited to the contributing factors under our control.

We value your feedback, and if you want to make suggestions or offer your ideas to improve the game, please feel free to create a new topic in Feedback & Suggestions on our official Forums.

This topic will now be locked.

Following last night's reports of gold and reputation not being received when selling loot, the team have investigated and some data has proved unrecoverable.

All players who were logged into Sea of Thieves between 6:50pm - 10:40pm GMT on Nov 21st will receive 50k gold and 30 Doubloons as compensation.

Gold and Doubloons will automatically appear next time eligible players log into Sea of Thieves.

Please allow 72 hours for this to be added to your account. If you have not received the expected amounts in this time, please contact our Support Team for assistance: https://support.seaofthieves.com/

As others have said, if you suspect you've encountered players who are cheating, you can follow the steps outlined on our website to report a player and supply video to assist in the investigation. More info on how to do so can be found here: https://support.seaofthieves.com/hc/articles/360016887200-How-to-report-a-player

The Sea of Thieves servers are now back online!

There will be a small download, so ensure your game is updated before you set sail.

Release notes for this update can be found here: https://www.seaofthieves.com/release-notes/2.3.2

We've noticed a number of threads are created due to encountering the Lavenderbeard error when trying to set sail. There's any number of reasons why you might be seeing this one, so here's a quick guide to our suggested fixes:

First, try to un-linking and re-linking your Xbox account to Steam. This action can be completed when at either the 'Start Game' screen or Main Menu. Simply clicking 'Sign Out' from these screens (or pressing the X key in the main menu) will prompt you whether you wish to sign out of Xbox Live. Clicking Yes will complete the unlinking process and return you to the 'Start Game' screen where you can sign in to another account.Click here for more info.[support.seaofthieves.com]

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We've noticed a number of threads are created due to encountering the Lavenderbeard error when trying to set sail. There's any number of reasons why you might be seeing this one, so here's a quick guide to our suggested fixes:

First, try to un-linking and re-linking your Xbox account to Steam. This action can be completed when at either the 'Start Game' screen or Main Menu. Simply clicking 'Sign Out' from these screens (or pressing the X key in the main menu) will prompt you whether you wish to sign out of Xbox Live. Clicking Yes will complete the unlinking process and return you to the 'Start Game' screen where you can sign in to another account.Click here for more info.[support.seaofthieves.com]

This should resolve the majority of... Read more

The Sea of Thieves servers are back online!

There will be a small download, so make sure you have that before you set sail.

Release notes for this update can be found here: https://www.seaofthieves.com/release-notes/2.3.1.1

Attention pirates! We’ll be rolling out a necessary hotfix for Sea of Thieves tomorrow, October 20th, from around 10am BST. Following this there will be an update to download before you can next set sail, so please plan your Voyages accordingly.

The Sails of Sharing [cdn.discordapp.com] are now available from the Microsoft and Steam Stores, with all proceeds from sales of these sails going directly towards helping the NoKidHungry crew's important work.


Grab them here: https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/1172620/detail/78/