This thread is simple enough - see something out in the world that you like that you think might be a good cosmetic design for Sea of Thieves? Then share it here with an image or link and explain why you think it's a good fit for the Sea. It can be just about anything too - a ship, a pet, a pattern, shape, color, fabric, whatever!
Who knows? You just might be the kind of inspiration Rare could use for future cosmetics, and with a little bit of luck, you just might see it on the Seas. Cheers!
I'll start with this beautiful set of images that inspired me to create this post.
Why can't we have more designs like these? 🤔
It would be cool if you could buy the Flying Dutchman as a ship set skin.
The ship already exists in the game, it just needs to be made ready for online mode.
@galactic-geek Boar skull figurehead? There are plenty of boar skulls and boar paintings on the big islands, and the Fearless Bonecrusher shipset has a boar skull on the sails and no figurehead. I think more skeleton inspired cosmetics would be neat in a game that features skeletons so heavily.
Maybe something like this? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PSRdr3Ev56U/maxresdefault.jpg
@ninja-naranja said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
I would be 100% fine with new ship designs if Rare told us out of the gate that they’d only be a hull and sails. That way they could be super creative but not feel like they need to make them complete sets.
Hmm... I think you may be on to something here, especially if the hull designs also recolored the capstan, wheel, and cannons (or just the bases) to match the deck color... I'd be fine using default components if the hull colored them accordingly.
@augspacussh said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@ninja-naranja said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
I would be 100% fine with new ship designs if Rare told us out of the gate that they’d only be a hull and sails. That way they could be super creative but not feel like they need to make them complete sets.
Hmm... I think you may be on to something here, especially if the hull designs also recolored the capstan, wheel, and cannons (or just the bases) to match the deck color... I'd be fine using default components if the hull colored them accordingly.
Many of the newer cosmetic ship sets actually already do this - just be sure to use the default cannons, capstan, and wheel, and to select the hull last (I personally like doing this with the following ship sets: Eternal Freedom, Morningstar, Shrouded Ghost, and silver Blade).
@unshodguide2026 said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@galactic-geek Boar skull figurehead? There are plenty of boar skulls and boar paintings on the big islands, and the Fearless Bonecrusher shipset has a boar skull on the sails and no figurehead. I think more skeleton inspired cosmetics would be neat in a game that features skeletons so heavily.
Maybe something like this? https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PSRdr3Ev56U/maxresdefault.jpg
I think this 1 is almost a certainty, especially considering that the asset is already permeated throughout the Sea, and we have the Fearless Bonecrusher set with a boar theme and with no figurehead.
@galactic-geek said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@augspacussh said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@ninja-naranja said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
I would be 100% fine with new ship designs if Rare told us out of the gate that they’d only be a hull and sails. That way they could be super creative but not feel like they need to make them complete sets.
Hmm... I think you may be on to something here, especially if the hull designs also recolored the capstan, wheel, and cannons (or just the bases) to match the deck color... I'd be fine using default components if the hull colored them accordingly.
Many of the newer cosmetic ship sets actually already do this - just be sure to use the default cannons, capstan, and wheel, and to select the hull last (I personally like doing this with the following ship sets: Eternal Freedom, Morningstar, Shrouded Ghost, and silver Blade).
I knew about the morningstar and silver blade, but not the other two. Thanks
@augspacussh said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@galactic-geek said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@augspacussh said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@ninja-naranja said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
I would be 100% fine with new ship designs if Rare told us out of the gate that they’d only be a hull and sails. That way they could be super creative but not feel like they need to make them complete sets.
Hmm... I think you may be on to something here, especially if the hull designs also recolored the capstan, wheel, and cannons (or just the bases) to match the deck color... I'd be fine using default components if the hull colored them accordingly.
Many of the newer cosmetic ship sets actually already do this - just be sure to use the default cannons, capstan, and wheel, and to select the hull last (I personally like doing this with the following ship sets: Eternal Freedom, Morningstar, Shrouded Ghost, and silver Blade).
I knew about the morningstar and silver blade, but not the other two. Thanks
There's a lot more than just those - they were just examples. 😉
@crank7861 said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
It would be cool if you could buy the Flying Dutchman as a ship set skin.
The ship already exists in the game, it just needs to be made ready for online mode.
Well, I did find this a few days ago. Doesn't quite look like the actual Flying Dutchman, though. I wonder why that is?
🤔😏🤭🤫😉
@galactic-geek said in Cosmetics/Weapons:
Look at what I found! 🤭
👉 ArtStation Magazine Sea of Thieves art blast 👈![]()
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In real life, If you get survive a lightning strike or a high power arc flash, you often get a pattern much like this on your skin:
I've got this legend among friends that I'm kind of a lightning rod. I was struck by lightning maybe 30 times in the first week of Sea of Thieves! It would be cool to have a scar like this in the game unlockable through times struck by lightning or some other thing. Maybe if there was a "Fury Chest" with a Zeus motif this scar could be unlocked through selling a lot of that chest.
@butterybarnacls said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
I would love to see the sailor set look as if it had been out as sea, or abandoned, for a long time.
The hull dark and stained. Rough patches and heavy damage.
Sails dark and stained, and ripped to shreds.
The cannon rusty and the wheel broken and badly patched back together. Same for the capstan.
I would like to see variations on the sailor set, just like with how every other set has variations.
@galactic-geek technically the Sea Dog Cannon, capstan and wheel cosmetics are sailor recolors. Although they don’t look broken and abandoned.
@ninja-naranja said in Inspiration for Cosmetic Design:
@galactic-geek technically the Sea Dog Cannon, capstan and wheel cosmetics are sailor recolors. Although they don’t look broken and abandoned.
Somewhat true, though the Sea Dog clothing, weapon, and tool cosmetics would disagree with that notion. Still, I always saw the Sea Dogs as the unlawful, daring pirate types. I figured the sailor cosmetics could set themselves apart by being the average law-abiding middle-class type.
Some of the emporium sets getting cannon flare added. Various phases of the moon for the Sabrewulf set. Flowers for the Elements of Power or the Viva Piñata one would be awesome! Bear and Bird has music notes. Battletoads has flies! Royal Squirrel has nuts lol.
Link that thread with the silly ideas .
Cannonflares for the existing shipsets.
Gold Hoarder could be gold with coins.
Merchant could be smoke with feathers and paper.
OoS could be gray with bones.
Forsaken Ashes could be orange with lava/fire effects.
Admiral could be white and smokey, a bit more like real cannonfire.
Sovereign could be gold and shiny.
Ocean Crawler could be blue and orange with crab parts.
You see where I'm going.
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