Insider Patch Notes 2.0.20.5
Insider Update 2.0.20.5 is now live! With revised Seasons balancing now configured and all Insider’s Seasonal progression reset, set sail and give us your feedback on this exciting new change coming to Sea of Thieves in January!
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Seasons
Seasons Progression
- Exploration actions such as discovering washed up treasure, digging up treasure and placing loot onboard now rewards players with repeatable Renown progression.
- Combat actions such as defeating skeletons, emergent Skeleton Ships, clearing Skeleton forts and defeating Kraken tentacles now rewards players with repeatable Renown progression towards the active Season.
Life at Sea actions such as fishing, cooking meat, eating perfectly cooked food now rewards players with repeatable Renown progression.
All Insider’s progress through the test Season has now been reset!
Plunder Pass
- In addition to the Pirate Emporium, players can now purchase the Plunder Pass directly from the Quick Menu anywhere in the world.
- Purchasing the Plunder Pass at any point during the Season will unlock the ability to earn an additional tier of rewards fresh from the Pirate Emporium containing a mix of previously released items alongside early access to future Emporium items.
Outpost Cosmetics
Silent Barnacle Set
- The Outpost Shipwright, Clothing, Equipment and Weapon shops now offer the complete Silent Barnacle Set. Players must complete the Hoarder of Barnacled Gold commendation to unlock this set.
Bedraggled Castaway Bilge Rat
- The Outpost Clothing Shop now stocks the Bedraggled Castaway Bilge Rat Clothing Set, available for Gold.
Updates
Lost Shipment Voyages
- The trade route maps have been updated to improve the look of the route line.
- Players are now able to purchase the Lost Shipments Voyage from the Merchant Alliance at Outposts if they are level 25 with the Merchants Alliance.
Inviting Steam Friends
- When playing Sea of Thieves on Steam, using the Invite Friends menu will now allow you to invite players to your crew not only from your Xbox Friends List but now also your Steam Friends list.
- Inviting a Steam Friend to join you, they will receive a notification through Steam which can be accessed from the Game Overlay or Steam Friend Chat.
Joining Steam Friends
- When a Steam Friend is playing Sea of Thieves, use the ‘Join Game’ option from the Steam Friends List to join their crew directly!
Known Issues
Game Instability
- Playing Sea of Thieves on Steam or the Microsoft store for an extended time can cause islands to render incorrectly and using a mermaid or safe teleporting can cause an infinite black screen. If this happens, please restart the game.
Lost Shipment Clues
- Showing the clue to another player will not display correctly to the other player and will cut off the text.
- A sea clue can fail to spawn a clue and will only spawn loot and debris.
- Clues can be removed from the quest radial after a player dies.
- Sea clues have a chance to spawn on top of shipwrecks.
- Clues can sometimes fail to spawn at island clue sites.
Lost Shipments Voyage
- Commendations and achievements related to the Lost Shipment Voyages are currently not present in the game.
- Ships and shipwrecks can lose collision whilst on the Voyage causing players to fall through the ships.
- The Lost Shipments Voyages do not currently support server migration and can cause instability for crews.
Lost Shipments Shipwreck
- There is a chance the shipwreck can fail to spawn.
- The Merchant Captains found in shipwrecks can spawn under the floor or in the walls of the shipwreck causing them too not be interactable.
- Shipwrecks can sometimes spawn underneath islands or rocks.
Pirate Emporium
- There is a range of placeholder imagery and text in the Pirate Emporium.
Champions of Souls
- The Champions of Souls Event uses a range of placeholder visuals.
Fort of the Damned
- Graymarrow does not drop a Fort key after being killed.
Emissary Ledgers
- There is a lack of a Leaderboards section and Emissary Rank progress for Order of Souls and Gold Hoarders companies.
Seasons
- Seasons continues to use a range of wireframe assets and placeholder visuals.
The following Trials are unable to be completed:
- Merchant I
- Explorer 1
- Bounty Hunter 1
- Master Sailor
- Story Seeker I
- The Bilge Rat I
- Worshiper of Fire 1
- Voyager 1
- Proficient Sailor
- Proficient Bilge Rat
- Aspiring Scavenger
- Party Pirate
- Ambitious Firestarter
- Aspiring Historian
- Apprentice Hunter
Fixed Issues
General
- Lanterns on the Fort of the Damned should now show prompts and be interactable.
- There have been improvements made to server stability.
- Athena’s Reborn items will no longer have placeholder descriptions.
- The Silent Barnacle set should now unlock after players complete the “Hoarder of Barnacled Gold- Grade 5” commendation.
- The header for Seasons in the gameplay settings will now be spelt correctly.
Lost Shipments Voyage
- Approaching a floating sea clue or shipwreck should no longer cause the client to crash.
- Seaposts should now show up correctly on the Merchant Alliance trade route maps.
