giving back

June 5th, evening:

• 16 more crates left at different outposts
• found 1 karma crate from other players, cheers! :)

June 6th:

• 20 crates left at different outposts
• +1 end of session crate
• found 1 storage crate floating in water (saved and sorted it)

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 48
• this is all happening on EU servers (germany)
• 1 in 10 storage crates seems to get stuck (prompt to retrieve that crate not working)
• buying anything from the shipwright does get the crate unstuck (yay!)

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My crew will be leaving a few storage crates at different outposts,
over the next few days during the gold and glory event.
The plan is to leave a crate at each outpost that we sail by or sell at.

June 7th:

• 4 mid session crates (from fleet or forts)
• 2 end of session crates

June 8th:

• 18 crates left at different outposts
• 2 mid session crates (from fleet or forts)
• 1 end of session crate

June 9th:

• 8 crates left at different outposts
• 3 mid session crates (from fleet or forts)
• found one of my own storage crates on server #7 (^_^)
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 98
• I still enjoy doing this and find it relaxing
• did not find a single storage crate from other people during Gold&Glory

The trifecta of terror still exists!

I am a megalodon hunter and I also sink every skelly ship I can find.
Today I was waiting for my meg to spawn and instead got the kraken.

Okay then ... starting to fire my cannons at the beast,
when I suddenly hear the megs raw behind my ship. Nice!

So I prepare to fight meg and kraken, firing shots left and right,
getting slapped by the kraken when the skelly ship music starts playing ... oh no! (^-^)'

You might already guess which type of skelly ship spawned in: a gally!
Fun part is: those 3 also tend to attack each other a lot.

The meg started his biting animation and last second switched target to the gally. Yay!
So I had enough time to hit the last kraken arm to defeat the first beast.

Then I started putting more holes into the skelly gally, while ignoring the meg for a bit,
hoping it would keep biting the gally instead: and yes, it worked: another bite into the gally! Hah!

On to the last beast. Thanks for helping me with the skelly gally, big guy!
Time to eat these cannon balls, here catch!

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So I managed to defeat another trifecta of terror. Awesome adventure. That was fun!

June 10th:

• 16 crates left at different outposts
• 3 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 1 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• you only need to talk to the shipwright to get crate unstuck at the merchant!
• shoutout to @R2D28201 and @Faxi3000 for delivering a storage crate to me
• (while also trying to sneak on my mast when I spawned on the outpost, hehe!) (^-^)

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June 11th:

• 9 crates left at different outposts
• 9 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 1, blue, 15m 31s)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 0 end of session crates

notes:

• day 7 of buying storage crates and filling them up for other people
• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 138
• I have tried to find different ways to do this (to spice things up for myself)

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outpost crate:

• buy storage crate and fruits (from shipwright)
• check all barrels on the outpost
• all supplies from my own ship
• listening to music while doing this
• scuttle to next server

outpost + fort + outpost crate:

• outpost crate + sail to nearest fort + sail to next outpost
• sailing in a way that enables the rare 15 min megalodon to spawn in
• scuttle to next server

mid session crate:

• storage crate from PvE stuff (fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• adding some useful items to these crates here and there
• these crates usually end up having 200+ cannon balls and 20+ chain shots
• dropping them of at outposts, when I sail by or sell there

end of session crate:

• all the stuff that ends up on my ship after playing a long session
• often 500+ cannon balls, 50+ chains (unless I had to use them myself ^^)
• often cooked meat and maybe even a bit of fish or megalodon/kraken

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notes on rare 15 minute megalodon spawn:

• average meg spawn timer is 1h 20 mins (after login or after diving)
• there is a small chance to get your meg a lot earlier (~15 mins for example)
• personally had about 10 of them since season 9 (2023) - so they are very rare
• all you have to do is stay away from islands or rocks, so it can spawn

June 12th:

• 10 crates left at different outposts
• 9 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 1 end of session crates

notes:

• delivered one of those crates to @loyaltyOFF at Sanctuary Outpost ;-)
• skelly ships scuttled while sailing to next outpost: 2

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June 13th:

• 5 crates left at different outposts
• 2 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 2 end of session crates

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June 14th:

• 1 crate left at different outposts
• 0 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• skelly ship spawn: 6m 29s after login
• megalodon spawn on the same server: 1h 36m after login

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June 15th:

• 1 crate left at different outposts
• 0 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 1 mid session crate (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 2 end of session crates

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June 16th:

• 8 crates left at different outposts
• 0 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 0 end of session crates

notes:

• message of the day: "I had a problem finding that. Ask me again" (-,-)'
• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 182
• tried to get more 15 min meg spawns (10 more tries, 0 spawns)

June 17th:

• 1 crates left at different outposts
• 0 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 1 end of session crates

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June 18th:

• 31 crates left at different outposts
• 4 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 1 end of session crates

notes:

• skelly ships scuttled while sailing to next outpost: 2
• day 14 of buying storage crates and filling them up for other people

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June 19th:

• 6 crates left at different outposts
• 7 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 0 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 0 end of session crates

notes:

• skelly ships scuttled while sailing to next outpost: 1
• found loot still inside Shark Fin Camp's vault while looting the island (yay!)
• (looked like they only cared about the 2 gifts inside that vault) ^^
• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 233

June 20th:

• 4 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

June 21st:

• 9 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

June 22nd:

• 8 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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June 23rd:

• 7 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 6 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 2 mid session crates (from PVE: fleet, skelly ships, captains, washed up on the beach)
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 275
• skelly ships scuttled while sailing to next outpost: 3
• played solo and duo hourglass on June 20, 21, 22 and 23

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I do not enjoy hourglass mode that much, but fight nights made me play a few matches anyway.
Interesting to see how different all those matches can play out.
The difference between solo and duo sloop is also huge.
Solo can be fun, when both players are on equal skill levels.
Bonus points when you meet nice players, who enjoy the fight no matter if they win or lose.

June 26th:
Today I have encountered a ship with Rare sails, for the first time.
We met them during duo sloop hourglass.

The fight was really fun and with a lot of fairplay. Thanks guys!

We managed to sink them in the end, but it got really close.
It was nice meeting you @Emilehh-x and (I did not see the other name sadly).
(let me know if you see this) ^^

I got really excited when the fight started and I saw the sails. Never seen them ingame before today.
I will remember this moment and the awesome fight. Cheers!

@drfauli
Haha, GGs dude!
Other player was my partner, @davcpas1234 :)

Thanks for the response @Emilehh-x and thanks for the great fight @davcpas1234 !
I am glad you took the time to visit this forum post. Cheers!

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I am curious, so may I ask:

• How did you guys manage to sail around with Rare sails?
• Was it a guild ship or are any of you working with/for Rare?
• Is there anything else you want to share about that ship, that would be good to know?

@drfauli
As you quite rightly said, they're staff sails- I work for Rare haha.

If you ever see a ship with staff sails, a staff member will be on board. They're locked to be used by us and us only, if you load up a ship they are saved to as a non staff member they will be standard white sails.

It's just one of my ships, nothing else exciting :)

@emilehh-x alrighty, thanks for explaining!
I think it is quite awesome to meet devs playing their own game.
Did not expect to meet someone from the team in hourglass.
Quite a special moment for me. We really enjoyed that fight.

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June 24th:

• 9 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 3 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 2 end of session crates

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June 25th:

• 6 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 0 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 2 end of session crates

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June 26th:

• 3 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 4 end of session crates

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June 27th:

• 10 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 2 end of session crates

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June 28th:

• 4 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 1 end of session crates

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notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 325
• still playing solo and duo hourglass, trying to find fun moments to enjoy
• some fights can be awesome, with a lot of fairplay and good moments
• other fights can feel really terrible and chaotic (in a bad way)
• there are also good chaotic moments, where time is critical and you manage to save your ship ^^
• got 37 min and 45 min meg spawns, but no 15 min spawn this week

June 29th:

• 8 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 0 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 1 end of session crate

notes:

• day 25 of buying storage crates and filling them up for other people

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June 30th:

• 5 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 3 end of session crates

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July 1st:

• 1 crate left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 2nd:

• 17 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 outpost + fort + outpost crates (15 minute meg spawns: 0)
• 1 end of session crate

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 363

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This topic and the fact that I still enjoy leaving those crates,
is actually quite a good way for me to motivate myself to play SoT more.
I have been enjoying it even more, knowing that someone might find a crate
at the start of their session - maybe even improving their day a little bit.

Spirit of Adventure
A story of a hidden reapers chest.

Today I was solo sloopin and had a reapers chest on my ship.
It is time to eat something, so I sail towards the reapers hideout.
While getting closer I see another sloop, they anchor and put up reapers emissary.
They keep waiting there. I know what they want.
I get close to the hideout and shoot myself out of the cannon,
while my solo sloop is sailing around in circles.
I investigate the island and find two pirates hiding as barrels inside the reapers tent.
They attack!

I fight a bit with them and take a good look at them:
They both seem to be new players having just unlocked their first cool outfits.
@Fancheck1 (and I did not remember your buddies name; let me know if you see this)

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Back on my ship I start heading towards plunder outpost
with the reapers emissary sloop about 2 mins behind me.

I already have a fun plan in my head and I am glad to see they are chasing me! hah!

I sail past plunder outpost and jump off with the reapers chest,
swimming over to the island and head directly into the tavern.

Then I drop the chest, play some music and walk down some stairs.
I drop the chest in a corner behind the wooden walkway
and then I enter the secret pathway, loading screen, back through, loading screen, run to my mermaid.
(doing it this way would make sure the stairs are closed, when they arrive)

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And now I zoom in on the map, grab me something to eat from the kitchen,
since I am still hungry and have a great movie to watch, happening on my ships map!

• 30 minutes have gone by fast, the reapers emissary sloop is still anchored next to plunder outpost
• at 35 mins another sloop wants to sell at plunder outpost and attacks them
• they fight back and distance themselves from the outpost
• a third sloop is getting close to the outpost and anchors at the dock
• I sail over there and see a solo slooper head into the tavern
• 1 min later and he comes out with my reapers chest, well played sir! @vlados4397
• the chest was already open tho and as he drops it on his ship, my skellies attack him! hah!
• he is fighting the skellies, while I decide to board and grab the chest
• the poor guy then died to my skellies, right when I have the chest in my hands!
• I jump of, just moments after he died and bring the chest to my ship
• I then head towards the reapers hideout and sell the chest 63 minutes after hiding it

This was pure Spirit of Adventure and I had a lot of fun.
I wonder how many holes they tried to dig at the location of the marker. ^^

fun fact: my ships name is also Spirit of Adventure!
cheers guys, thanks for entertaining me today! Well played!

... and here are a few images of this adventure:
#1: chest hidden (looked like this for at least 30 mins!)
#2: at 35 mins later a 2nd sloop attacks them (they turn and fight back)
#3: at 50 mins the 2 ships are fighting far away: my time to get the chest
#4: clip of the solo slooper fighting my skellies: video clip
#5: I sold the chest 63 minutes after hiding it - huge success and so much fun!
#6: name of my ship

#1:
#2
#3:
#5:
#6:

July 3rd:

• 7 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

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July 4th:

• 5 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• day 30 of buying storage crates and filling them up for other people

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July 5th:

• did not play SoT today

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July 6th:

• 4 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 7th:

• 6 crates lost in HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

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July 8th:

• 2 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• ship got flipped by a meg and we sunk, because we were not able to get water out ;-(
• meg did not want to flip the ship back at all (^.^)'
• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 396

July 9th:

• 3 crates lost in HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 10th:

• 6 crates lost in HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 11th:

• did not play SoT today

July 12th:

• did not play SoT today

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July 13th:

• 4 crates lost in HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 14th:

• 7 crates left at different outposts
• 0 end of session crates

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 419
• number of days where I placed karma crates: 37/40

July 15th:

• 14 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

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July 16th:

• 3 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 17th:

• 1 crate left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 1 end of session crate

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July 18th:

• 6 crates left at different outposts or in lost HG matches (^.^)'
• 3 end of session crates

July 19th:

• 1 crate left at different outposts
• 1 end of session crate

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July 20th:

• 2 crates left at different outposts
• 3 end of session crates

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July 21st:

• 2 end of session crates

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July 22nd:

• 9 crates left at different outposts
• 12 crates lost in HG matches (^.^)'
• 4 end of session crates

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 484
• number of days where I placed karma crates: 45/48
• tried to play HG in the morning and it was terrible. wow! (-.-)'
• played duo and solo: lost 80% of all matches and fights were no fun at all today.
• also played a very relaxing adventure session with no PvP at all in the evening! :-)

July 23rd:

• 2 crates left at different outposts
• 4 crates lost in HG matches (^.^)'
• 2 end of session crates

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July 24th:

• 3 crates left at different outposts
• 1 end of session crate

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July 25th: did not play SoT
July 26th: did not play SoT
July 27th: did not play SoT

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July 28th:

• 12 crates left at different outposts
• 2 end of session crates

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July 29th:

• 2 crates left at different outposts
• 2 end of session crates

notes:

• number of karma crates since June 5th 2025: 514
• number of days where I placed karma crates: 49/55