Notes from a Solo Slooping Swabbie.

  • Having played the game since the recent Steam release, I thought I'd jot down a few helpful hints for new sailors on the Sea of Thieves.

    1: When you finish an island, go to an outpost and sell right away. Don't stack a lot of loot on your boat.
    2:Keep your empty collectors chests around. They can distract raiders while you swim away with the real loot.
    3: get a rowboat. It is the single most useful piece of equipment in the game.
    4: Get a Storage crate as soon as you can find one. preferably several. These don't sink with your ship like the ship storage barrels and can save you a lot of scavenging if whoever sank you doesn't bother with the storage crates.
    5: Keep one cannon pointed at the sky. It's a lot faster to check your horizon to just climb in a cannon and shoot yourself straight up.
    6: If you have multiple puzzle maps on the same island, do all but the last step on all of them so you can quickly dig them all up and run for an outpost.
    7: if you find some small sparkly loot, try putting one or two pieces on the railing on your crows nest. The treasure sparkle may be mistaken for a lookout on duty at first glance.
    8: Don't rely too much on online guides. There is a certain satisfaction to solving a riddle yourself.
    9: Merchant Alliance faction voyages are annoying. Instead of doing quests for them, sell them all your mermaid gems, Filled Wood, Fruit and Cannonball crates, and do any deliveries of random items you find, since these don't have a time limit.
    10: It's a pirate game and you're going to get sunk and robbed. Take it in stride and don't freak out.

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