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# Insider Patch Notes 2.0.13.1

Insider Update 2.0.13.1 is now live! With updates to the Trading Company Emissaries, Pirate Emporium and even a new, haunting threat sailing the seas, there’s plenty to get involved in!

If you do encounter any bugs, then please head to the 
[Sea of Thieves support site](https://support.seaofthieves.com/hc/en-gb) and let our Player Support team know.

## Ghost Ships

Flameheart’s power rises! As his influence across the Sea of Thieves escalates, the infamous spectre is summoning long lost vessels from the Sea of the Damned to his service…

*This current Insider Build has a very early iteration of Ghost Ships, using a placeholder ship cloud in the sky. We will continue to iterate and balance the encounter based on your feedback on this initial encounter.*

* **Ghost Ship Encounter** – Seek out the large Ship Cloud in the sky and head towards your encounter with the haunted fleet. On arriving at the cursed island you’ll encounter a fleet of Ghost Ships haunting the island – take them down!
* **Engaging with the Ghost Ships** – These Ghost Ships will fire a barrage of ghostly spectres at your crew, so position yourselves carefully to avoid them. While you can sail straight through these haunted apparitions, prepare for your ship to take some damage!

## Non-Verbal Communication

The team are working on a suite of improvements to non-verbal communication in order to aid crew communication and teamwork. This Insider build introduces a set of initial improvements to nameplates, with more changes coming in a future Insider update.

* **Crew Nameplate Visibility** – Gameplay Settings now contains a ‘Crews Status Tags’ option - switching this on enables your crewmates nameplates to become visible through solid objects and increases the overall distance you can see nameplates.

*This current Insider build has an uncapped distance in which you can see your crew’s nameplates across the entire server. This value is for initial testing purposes and will change to a much closer distance.*

## Pirate Emporium

* **Cats!** – Head to the Pirate Emporium to collect a furry friend, with 3 breeds to choose from; the Scruffy Wildcat, Fluffy Ragamuffin and Slinky Mau and a wide range of colours you’re sure to find your next floofy companion!
* **Cat Outfits** – Why not treat your new floof to an outfit? The Sovereign Outfit is available for all breeds and Pirate Legends can even purchase the Legendary outfit for their new friend.
* **Cat’s Meow Bundle** – Own one of each of the three cat breeds and all three Sovereign outfits in one adorable bundle.      *The Cat’s Meow Bundle is time-limited for the duration of the Ships of Fortune update.*
* **Wildcat Sovereign Discount Bundle** – For this month only, you can pick up a discounted bundle including a Cat and Sovereign Outfit!      *The Wildcat Sovereign Bundle is time-limited for the duration of the Ships of Fortune update.*
* **Night Wulf Ship Collection** – A ferocious new Ship collection enters the Emporium inspired by Sabrewulf. A Night Wulf Ship Bundle is also on offer which includes all the regular ship cosmetics at a wild discount!
* **Crab Dance Emote Bundle** – It began with a simple, innocent little dab...but now you can get crabby in four new ways!
* **Cosmetic Item Emotes** – The Emporium now offers a range of emotes which use your equipped item cosmetics, looking to show off your Spyglass skills or Sing like Nobody’s listening?
* **Cats out of the Bag Bundle (Store Only)** – Available only from the Xbox and Microsoft Stores. This bundle includes the Cat’s Meow Bundle, which gives you one of each new cat type and Sovereign Outfits for them all, 500 Ancient Coins and a free 25,000 gold bonus for use in the Outpost shops!

## Reaper's Bones Trading Company

* **Expanding Trading Company Ranks** – The Trading Companies have expanded their ranks to defend against the Reaper’s Threat. The Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls and Merchant Alliance now allow players to progress to Rank 75 while Athena’s Fortune now allow players to progress to Rank 20. Along with new ranks, each company has a range of new Commendations and will unlock each Trading Companies ship cosmetics to truly represent your allegiance.      *The new Trading Company Commendations are visible in the reputation pane however are not currently unlocking in this Insider build.*

## Trading Company Emissaries

* **Emissary Voting Tables** – The Outpost Voting Tables have now been dressed for each Trading Company. Completing a vote to become an Emissary will now confirm your Emissary status with UI Banners.
* **Visualising Emissaries on the Seas** – When approaching an Outpost Voting Table, crews can now see how many other Emissary crews are representing that Trading Company. Check the table before making your choice and ally against the Reapers!
* **Emissary Grade 5** – Reaching Emissary Grade 5 with Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls, Merchant Alliance or Athena’s Fortune will unlock a crew’s access to a repeatable high reward Voyage from their Trading Company Representative at their Outpost. Once a Reaper’s Bones crew reaches Emissary Grade 5 however, they will unlock the ability to spot any Emissary Ship no matter their Emissary Grade on their own Ship’s Map!      *The Grade 5 Voyage is not currently functional for this Insider build.*
* **Rewarding Emissary Player Kills** – As a Reaper Emissary defeating players will now earn Emissary Grade Progression, however this offers diminishing returns on repeat kills of the same player. This diminishing returns resets after 10 minutes allowing crews to continue to earn progression when defending an objective from a rival crew. For the other Trading Company Emissaries, defeating Reapers will also reward you with Emissary Grade Progression.

## Reviving

* **Offering your Soul to the Ferryman** – As soon as you die you will be able to ‘Offer Your Soul’ to the Ferryman and go straight to the Ferry of the Damned. This is only available in Adventure as Arena players do not visit the Ferry upon death.
* **Balancing Revive Times** – When arriving on the Ferry of the Damned, the door now opens much sooner, allowing you to return from death quicker than before. When attempting to revive a crewmate in Adventure you have a much shorter window in which you can safely revive before they are taken to the Ferry.
* **Revive Interaction** – Reviving has now moved to "Y" on controller and "R" on keyboard to avoid accidently interacting with the ship and environment when attempting to revive a crewmate.

## Updates

* **Arena Penalty for Quitting** – Players who quit contests too often will now be suspended from playing the Arena for a time. While inside the Arena, receiving an invite to a different session will now warn players that this will count as a quit contest.
* **Preventing Reload while Jumping** – Players are now prevented from reloading a weapon while jumping and attempting to jump during a reload will also cancel the reload forcing them to restart the full reload duration on landing landing.
* **Cutlass Damage Balancing** – When attacking with a cutlass, players will now deal more damage per hit. Players will now deal 30 damage per regular hit, increased from 20. Attacking with a heavy strike will now deal 60 damage, increased from 50.
* **Cat Hangouts** – Cats will now strut around your ship and look for places to take a nap. You can even place your cat at a range of hangout spots setup around your ship!
* **New Player Voyage Onboarding** – When first purchasing a Voyage as a new player, you are provided with pop-ups teaching you how to vote and begin your first Voyage.
* **New Player Ship Damage Onboarding** – As a new player, when your ship is damaged for the first time you are provided with pop-ups teaching you how to fix the specific area of damage inflicted.
* **Ship’s Map Markers** – Enabling the ‘Show Tall Tales on Map’ allows the ship’s map to display markers, showing the starting locations for Tall Tales and whether your crew is eligible to embark upon them.

## Fixed Issues

**General**

* Placing a Fort of the Damned Key inside a Collectors Chest will no longer hide the icon on the Ship’s Map
* Players should no longer be able to fall through a hole near the peak of Molten Sands Fortress volcano.
* With ‘Show Tall Tales on Map’ active, migrating should no longer cause the map markers to duplicate.
* There should no longer be a visible black rendering issue at the base of the waterfall atop Thieves' Haven when it is morning.
* The "Flintlock of the Ashen Dragon" is now correctly named in the Armoury.

**Reviving**

* Your death camera timer now resets back to the correct time each time you die and are revived.
* Large pirates will no longer T-pose when they are reviving a crewmate.
* When trying to 'Offer Soul to the Ferryman', you will now have to press and hold X.
* When a player dies, their body will no longer start jittering back and forth.

**Arena**

* Storm clouds in the Arena can no longer appear in a different location to storms effects.
* The Glorious Sea Dog chests beacons are now easier to see from far away in all conditions.
* The Glorious Sea Dog chests beacons will no longer bend when being moved at speed.

**Pirate Emporium**

* Performing emotes after equipping items should no longer cause hands to be misaligned on medium/large male pirates.
* Large pirate's arms should no longer clip through the cats when Stroking or Showing them.
* The Slim cat no longer looks detached from the hands in 3rd person view when being shown by any pirate.
* When stroking a cat in water, the cat no longer appears on the players head.
* When the cat is asleep, it’s head will no longer track its owners' position.

**Heart of Fire**

* Skeletons in the combat room located in the right trap run will now always be able to reach players in order to attack.
* Players with equipped curses will now display a shadow in Flameheart's Lair.
* Players hit by geysers in the catacombs will no longer be thrown through geometry.
* Improved player collision with rocks in the three-door and steppingstones areas of the catacombs.
* Players should no longer become stuck on a crystal in the first fight bowl of the left trap run.

**Reapers Bones**

* Handing in Mermaid Gems to the Reaper's Bones now gives an appropriate reward.
* Handing in a Hateful Bounty Skull to the Reaper's Bones now gives an appropriate reward.
* The Servant of the Flame NPC now holds his sword correctly.
* Player will no longer receive Gold hoarder commendations when handing in chests to the Reaper’s Bones.

**Trading Company Emissaries**

* Emissary Grade counter should now max out at Grade 5.
* Emissary voting tables now use the island radius when checking for the location of your crew’s ship, meaning all Voting Tables should once again be usable if your ship is docked at the island.
* Players can no longer actively vote on multiple Emissary Voting Tables.
* Placing treasure on your ship now increases the appropriate Trading Company Emissary Grade.
* The Sea Dogs Reputation tab no longer shows emissary information.
* Crews can no longer become stuck in an Emissary state when trying to vote to lower their emissary flag.

## Known Issues

* **Trading Company Emissary Balancing** – As this feature is currently in functional testing, the balancing of reward multipliers, emissary ranks, and Reaper’s Bones reputation levels are currently work-in-progress and not final.
* **Reaper’s Hideout** – The Reaper’s Hideout Construction is well underway, however while it visually appears complete there are areas where players can fall through the geometry and become stuck.
* **Voyage Voting Prompts** – Some voyages that can be purchased in the game do not currently trigger the Voyage Voting onboarding prompts.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 2.0.13.1

Insider Update 2.0.13.1 is now live! With updates to the Trading Company Emissaries, Pirate Emporium and even a new, haunting threat sailing the seas, there’s plenty to get involved in!

If you do encounter any bugs, then please head to the Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.

Ghost Ships

Flameheart’s power rises! As his influence across the Sea of Thieves escalates, the infamous spectre is summoning long lost vessels from the Sea of the Damned to his service…

This current Insider Build has a very early iteration of Ghost Ships, using a placeholder ship cloud in the sky. We will continue to iterate and balance the encounter based on your feedback on this initial encounter.

Ghost Ship Encounter – Seek out the large Ship Cloud in the sky and head towards your encounter with the haunted fleet. On arriving at the cursed island you’ll encounter a fleet of Ghost Ships haunting the island – take them down!
Engaging with the Ghost Ships – These Ghost Ships will fire a barrage of ghostly spectres at your crew, so position yourselves carefully to avoid them. While you can sail straight through these haunted apparitions, prepare for your ship to take some damage!

Non-Verbal Communication

Crew Nameplate Visibility – Gameplay Settings now contains a ‘Crews Status Tags’ option - switching this on enables your crewmates nameplates to become visible through solid objects and increases the overall distance you can see nameplates.

This current Insider build has an uncapped distance in which you can see your crew’s nameplates across the entire server. This value is for initial testing purposes and will change to a much closer distance.

Pirate Emporium

Cats! – Head to the Pirate Emporium to collect a furry friend, with 3 breeds to choose from; the Scruffy Wildcat, Fluffy Ragamuffin and Slinky Mau and a wide range of colours you’re sure to find your next floofy companion!
Cat Outfits – Why not treat your new floof to an outfit? The Sovereign Outfit is available for all breeds and Pirate Legends can even purchase the Legendary outfit for their new friend.
Cat’s Meow Bundle – Own one of each of the three cat breeds and all three Sovereign outfits in one adorable bundle. The Cat’s Meow Bundle is time-limited for the duration of the Ships of Fortune update.
Wildcat Sovereign Discount Bundle – For this month only, you can pick up a discounted bundle including a Cat and Sovereign Outfit! The Wildcat Sovereign Bundle is time-limited for the duration of the Ships of Fortune update.
Night Wulf Ship Collection – A ferocious new Ship collection enters the Emporium inspired by Sabrewulf. A Night Wulf Ship Bundle is also on offer which includes all the regular ship cosmetics at a wild discount!
Crab Dance Emote Bundle – It began with a simple, innocent little dab...but now you can get crabby in four new ways!
Cosmetic Item Emotes – The Emporium now offers a range of emotes which use your equipped item cosmetics, looking to show off your Spyglass skills or Sing like Nobody’s listening?
Cats out of the Bag Bundle (Store Only) – Available only from the Xbox and Microsoft Stores. This bundle includes the Cat’s Meow Bundle, which gives you one of each new cat type and Sovereign Outfits for them all, 500 Ancient Coins and a free 25,000 gold bonus for use in the Outpost shops!

Reaper's Bones Trading Company

Expanding Trading Company Ranks – The Trading Companies have expanded their ranks to defend against the Reaper’s Threat. The Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls and Merchant Alliance now allow players to progress to Rank 75 while Athena’s Fortune now allow players to progress to Rank 20. Along with new ranks, each company has a range of new Commendations and will unlock each Trading Companies ship cosmetics to truly represent your allegiance. The new Trading Company Commendations are visible in the reputation pane however are not currently unlocking in this Insider build.

Trading Company Emissaries

Emissary Voting Tables – The Outpost Voting Tables have now been dressed for each Trading Company. Completing a vote to become an Emissary will now confirm your Emissary status with UI Banners.
Visualising Emissaries on the Seas – When approaching an Outpost Voting Table, crews can now see how many other Emissary crews are representing that Trading Company. Check the table before making your choice and ally against the Reapers!
Emissary Grade 5 – Reaching Emissary Grade 5 with Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls, Merchant Alliance or Athena’s Fortune will unlock a crew’s access to a repeatable high reward Voyage from their Trading Company Representative at their Outpost. Once a Reaper’s Bones crew reaches Emissary Grade 5 however, they will unlock the ability to spot any Emissary Ship no matter their Emissary Grade on their own Ship’s Map! The Grade 5 Voyage is not currently functional for this Insider build.
Rewarding Emissary Player Kills – As a Reaper Emissary defeating players will now earn Emissary Grade Progression, however this offers diminishing returns on repeat kills of the same player. This diminishing returns resets after 10 minutes allowing crews to continue to earn progression when defending an objective from a rival crew. For the other Trading Company Emissaries, defeating Reapers will also reward you with Emissary Grade Progression.

Reviving

Offering your Soul to the Ferryman – As soon as you die you will be able to ‘Offer Your Soul’ to the Ferryman and go straight to the Ferry of the Damned. This is only available in Adventure as Arena players do not visit the Ferry upon death.
Balancing Revive Times – When arriving on the Ferry of the Damned, the door now opens much sooner, allowing you to return from death quicker than before. When attempting to revive a crewmate in Adventure you have a much shorter window in which you can safely revive before they are taken to the Ferry.
Revive Interaction – Reviving has now moved to "Y" on controller and "R" on keyboard to avoid accidently interacting with the ship and environment when attempting to revive a crewmate.

Updates

Arena Penalty for Quitting – Players who quit contests too often will now be suspended from playing the Arena for a time. While inside the Arena, receiving an invite to a different session will now warn players that this will count as a quit contest.
Preventing Reload while Jumping – Players are now prevented from reloading a weapon while jumping and attempting to jump during a reload will also cancel the reload forcing them to restart the full reload duration on landing landing.
Cutlass Damage Balancing – When attacking with a cutlass, players will now deal more damage per hit. Players will now deal 30 damage per regular hit, increased from 20. Attacking with a heavy strike will now deal 60 damage, increased from 50.
Cat Hangouts – Cats will now strut around your ship and look for places to take a nap. You can even place your cat at a range of hangout spots setup around your ship!
New Player Voyage Onboarding – When first purchasing a Voyage as a new player, you are provided with pop-ups teaching you how to vote and begin your first Voyage.
New Player Ship Damage Onboarding – As a new player, when your ship is damaged for the first time you are provided with pop-ups teaching you how to fix the specific area of damage inflicted.
Ship’s Map Markers – Enabling the ‘Show Tall Tales on Map’ allows the ship’s map to display markers, showing the starting locations for Tall Tales and whether your crew is eligible to embark upon them.

Fixed Issues

General

Placing a Fort of the Damned Key inside a Collectors Chest will no longer hide the icon on the Ship’s Map
Players should no longer be able to fall through a hole near the peak of Molten Sands Fortress volcano.
With ‘Show Tall Tales on Map’ active, migrating should no longer cause the map markers to duplicate.
There should no longer be a visible black rendering issue at the base of the waterfall atop Thieves' Haven when it is morning.
The "Flintlock of the Ashen Dragon" is now correctly named in the Armoury.

Reviving

Your death camera timer now resets back to the correct time each time you die and are revived.
Large pirates will no longer T-pose when they are reviving a crewmate.
When trying to 'Offer Soul to the Ferryman', you will now have to press and hold X.
When a player dies, their body will no longer start jittering back and forth.

Arena

Storm clouds in the Arena can no longer appear in a different location to storms effects.
The Glorious Sea Dog chests beacons are now easier to see from far away in all conditions.
The Glorious Sea Dog chests beacons will no longer bend when being moved at speed.

Pirate Emporium

Performing emotes after equipping items should no longer cause hands to be misaligned on medium/large male pirates.
Large pirate's arms should no longer clip through the cats when Stroking or Showing them.
The Slim cat no longer looks detached from the hands in 3rd person view when being shown by any pirate.
When stroking a cat in water, the cat no longer appears on the players head.
When the cat is asleep, it’s head will no longer track its owners' position.

Heart of Fire

Skeletons in the combat room located in the right trap run will now always be able to reach players in order to attack.
Players with equipped curses will now display a shadow in Flameheart's Lair.
Players hit by geysers in the catacombs will no longer be thrown through geometry.
Improved player collision with rocks in the three-door and steppingstones areas of the catacombs.
Players should no longer become stuck on a crystal in the first fight bowl of the left trap run.

Reapers Bones

Handing in Mermaid Gems to the Reaper's Bones now gives an appropriate reward.
Handing in a Hateful Bounty Skull to the Reaper's Bones now gives an appropriate reward.
The Servant of the Flame NPC now holds his sword correctly.
Player will no longer receive Gold hoarder commendations when handing in chests to the Reaper’s Bones.

Trading Company Emissaries

Emissary Grade counter should now max out at Grade 5.
Emissary voting tables now use the island radius when checking for the location of your crew’s ship, meaning all Voting Tables should once again be usable if your ship is docked at the island.
Players can no longer actively vote on multiple Emissary Voting Tables.
Placing treasure on your ship now increases the appropriate Trading Company Emissary Grade.
The Sea Dogs Reputation tab no longer shows emissary information.
Crews can no longer become stuck in an Emissary state when trying to vote to lower their emissary flag.

Known Issues

Trading Company Emissary Balancing – As this feature is currently in functional testing, the balancing of reward multipliers, emissary ranks, and Reaper’s Bones reputation levels are currently work-in-progress and not final.
Reaper’s Hideout – The Reaper’s Hideout Construction is well underway, however while it visually appears complete there are areas where players can fall through the geometry and become stuck.
Voyage Voting Prompts – Some voyages that can be purchased in the game do not currently trigger the Voyage Voting onboarding prompts.