Weird floating treasure

  • My friend and I were running some lost shipment voyages last night. On one of those voyages we got the key from kraken's watchtower and set off. Our next clue was at scurvy isle but we decided to skip it and head for the shipwreck near sanctuary. Directly west of kraken's watchtower in the middle of the sea he spotted treasure floating and assumed it was one of our stops, so he fired out to it as I brought the ship in.
    He found a few mermaid gems, and few goldhoarder trinkets, a skeleton captain's skull, and a few normal (not ghostly) gold pouches floating in the water.

    Gold pouches are only dropped by skeleton captain's that are on land and phantoms, right? Since they weren't phantom gold pouches they must have came from a skeleton captain, but not a captain on a skeleton ship since skeletons on ships only drop ammo pouches.

    We couldn't explain where this stuff came from. Skeleton ship's wouldn't drop individual gold pouches. Player ships wouldn't have gold pouches on board unless in an ashen chest, but those can't be removed from the chest without collecting them into your personal gold. The skeleton captain's skull made me think it was a skeleton ship, but there was no storage crate, and again that doesn't explain the gold pouches. We didn't know what to make of it and we were curious if anyone else had found something like that.

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  • @testakleze
    Yes, I had the same, yesterday, close to Sanctuary Outpost. Assorted treasure and gold pouches.

  • i also experienced this just east of plunder outpost a while back

  • I experienced the same north east of Sailor's Bounty just now. What's weird is that there were two pieces of Athena loot (a Skull of Athena's Blessing and an Offering of Legendary Goods), no storage crate, and the loot was super spread out across a large section of ocean. I wasn't running any quests, so I'm not quite sure what it was.

  • @gem3737
    I've started to suspect it's from a LotV shipwreck graveyard. Any treasure that's picked up and dropped will remain when the shipwrecks disappear and then float to the surface. I think the gold pouches will float to the surface too if the container they were in was opened.

  • ^^ this

    I got server merged several times one night since the update. There were 2 sets of gulls above where my graveyard should have been.

    Gems and gold and a couple of trinkets. No Athena stuff tho ☹

  • @testakleze This makes a lot of sense; I’ve been puzzling over the gold pouches ever since I saw the issue come up.

  • Hmm, check out this post:

    https://www.seaofthieves.com/community/forums/topic/151061/athena-loot-cloning-exploit-the-heck-rare-how-did-this-go-unnoticed/2

    Looks like canceling a captain’s Athena shipwreck voyage causes all the loot to float instead of despawn.

  • @Sn0kanon

    It's like that one kid who reminds the teacher about the homework over spring break 🙄

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