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manifest date: 2021-09-07 09:04:05 UTC

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# Insider Patch Notes 2.2.1.7

Insider Update 2.2.1.7 is now live. Head to the Events tab to take part in the Fury of the Damned event to see what Season Four has to offer. In true pirate fashion, you can now bury your plunder to hide it from other pirates that roam the seas.

As always, if you 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.

## Sunken Kingdom

**Legend of the Sunken Kingdom Voyage**

* Larinna is now offering pirates a new Voyage for purchase, the ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’. Scholars have left clues to uncover the mysteries hidden below the surface in the Shrines of the Sunken Kingdom. *For this Insider’s build, all players have been granted a free ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage directly to their inventory to get them started on their journey.***
* The coin trails in Shrines should now be only visible to the crew doing the Voyage only.
* The sail distance to the buried chest/notes should now be shorter and the buried chests/notes can spawn in any region.

**Siren Shrines**

* Players can now find Tridents and Gunpowder Kegs within the Shrine of Ancient Tears.
* During the Shrine of the Flooded Embrace, crews should no longer encounter Siren Leaders and instead will battle regular Sirens. 
* The Shrine of Ocean's Fortune now offers a Chest of Ancient Tribute for crews reaching the top of the shrine.
* All Siren Shrines now have an increased chance of finding sunken treasure outside the Shrine on the surrounding seabed.

**Siren Treasuries**

* Barrels found within each Siren Treasury encounter now have increased chances of being stocked with Firebombs and Blunderbombs to restock crews against the threats ahead.

**Message in a Bottle Quests**

* When exploring on islands across the wider Sea of Thieves, discovering a washed-up message in a bottle will now have an equal chance of providing a Map to the Sunken Kingdom compared to a regular X Marks the Spot Map. *Previous Insider builds had an elevated chance of discovering Coral bottles, therefore this returns the intended setup to an equal chance ahead of release.*

**Sunken Kingdom Commendations & Rewards**

* The ‘Seeker of the Sea’ Commendation now has reduced criteria, requiring only 30 Breath of the Sea to be cashed in to complete.

## Burying Treasure

**Burying Treasure**

* Shovels now have a secondary use: enabling pirates to bury treasure. With an item dropped on soft ground, use RMB or LT to begin burying the item in the ground, continue burying to fully hide the item.

**Buried Treasure Maps**

* When an item is fully buried, the crew will receive an ‘X Marks the Spot’ map marking the location of the treasure. Burying multiple items on the same island will add additional X’s to the map. *Due to issues with Buried Treasure Maps during Server Migration, this Insider build will have server migration disabled to allow extended testing on this feature.***
* Maps can be gifted to other crews! With the map equipped press RMB or LT to offer the map and should the other crew accept, it will be removed from the quest radial.
* Be warned - when a member of the crew is killed by another player, they will drop all buried maps in a bundle, allowing them to be stolen.

## Fury of the Damned

**Larinna’s Black Market**

* When players talk to Larinna, she will now have dialogue pertaining to the Fury of the Damned event. Players will also be able to see what rewards are available in this event when going into Larinna’s Black Market Shop.

**Event Week 4 Active**

* Week four will be active in this Insider build, where all the Deeds are in their bonus states and are worth their maximum amount.

## Updates

**Nautical Narration**

* Players will now find an additional option in the nautical narration settings ‘Continuous when equipped’ allowing the compass to narrate without the player needing to raise it to their face.

**HDR Experience on Xbox Series X & Series S Consoles**

* Following Insider feedback on the introduction of an experimental HDR Experience improvement on Xbox Series X & Series S consoles, this change has now been rolled back.

## Known Issues

**Sunken Kingdom**

* '**Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – **Storing a Voyage item in the Sunken Merfolk Statue retrieving it and placing it in the corresponding slot will fail the Voyage.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage –** Storing the locked Forbidden Chest in the Sunken Merfolk Statue will fail the Voyage.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage –** Migrating after placing the Mysterious Ancient Key in the ancient table will stop players from being able to open the secret door in the Shrine of Ancient Tears.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage –** Migrating after placing a Medallion on the plinth will stop players from being able to open the Forbidden Key door in the Shrine of Hungering.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage** – Holding the Mysterious Ancient Key and looking at the Forbidden Chest can cause performance issues.
* When returning to an in-progress Treasury event room, the Treasury will have reset, but previous AI will remain.
* **‘Shrine of Ancient Tears’** – If a player migrates after lighting the beacons within the Shrine and returning to their ship, returning to the Shrine will show the beacons have remained lit.
* **‘Shrine of Hungering’****& ‘Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune’** – When retrieving loot from the Merfolk Treasure Statues within the Shrine of the Hungering and Shine of Ocean’s Fortune, the loot can spawn in the terrain and be irretrievable or disappear.
* Players will not be able to start a Voyage after picking up a Coral Message in a Bottle.

**Burying Treasure**

* Items appear to float and sink into the ground if dug up fully on the shores of certain islands.
* Players are able to bury items in the same location.

**Fury of the Damned**

* Players will not receive Favour when completing Daily Deeds.
* Players will not receive rewards after the community goals are completed.
* There is placeholder artwork and text throughout the event.

**Season Four**

* A range of Daily, Legendary, Monthly and Seasonal Trials are not tracking correctly for Season Four and none are tracking correctly for the Sunken Kingdom.
* The Vulnerable Weapon Pose is not received when rank one is reached after the Plunder Pass is purchased.

**Tunnels of the Damned**

* While travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned, losing your connection to the game and rejoining may cause visual issues, resulting in migration to the new area to fail and returning you to your starting location.

**Localisation**

* There is a range of missing localisation when setting the game language to Turkish.

**Client Performance**

* There is a freeze when returning to the game after alt + tabbing out when playing on the Windows Store version of Sea of Thieves.

## Fixed Issues

**General**

* All bounty skulls should have a VFX glint when viewed at a distance. 
* After killing an Ashen Lord, loot should spawn in accessible areas.
* The peanut bag should no longer stick out of the Pirate Emporium wall in Plunder Outpost and Ancient Spire Outpost.
* Players should no longer be able to clip through the rock to the left of the pier and teleport outside of the Pirate Legend Hideout.
* At Sailor's Knot Stronghold loot should no longer be able to fall under the map near the Vault doors.
* Players should no longer receive a blank Mysterious Note.
* In Arena, after the match ends players should be able to vote using an Xbox controller on any platform.
* Trident of Dark Tides has a new green coloured glint VFX when viewed at a distance.
* All merchant commodities should now have a VFX glint when viewed at a distance.

**A Pirate's Life**

* **‘A Pirate's Life’ & ‘Captains of the Damned’** – Players should no longer be able to start another Voyage after Passing through the Tunnels of the Damned after a player leaves the crew causing a majority voting to take effect.
* **‘The Sunken Pearl’ **– The mermaid statue located outside of the Throne Room should now have interaction prompts.
* **‘The Dark Brethren’ **– Players should no longer get stuck or fall under the map in the Lower Ascending Chamber.
* **‘The Dark Brethren’ **– The Waterfall splash VFX in the Ascending Chamber should no longer go invisible when a player gets close to it.

**Season Four**

* The Season 4 Deed 'To the Victor, the Spoils' should now complete when handing in another crew's flag as a Reapers Bones Emissary.
* The ‘Master Explorer’ Deed should now track the player sitting on Skeleton Thrones three times to complete.
* The Seasonal Deed ‘Bringer of Chaos’ should now track correctly when handing in another players Emissary flag as a Reapers Bones Emissary.
* The last deed in the Aquatic Archaeologist Seasonal Deeds should now tell players to speak to the Castaway.
* Weekly Deeds should now be visible and working as intended.
* Players should now be able to access the Season tab without any issues.
* The Vulnerable Weapon Pose should now have the final icon attached.

**Pirate Emporium**

* The Jack O'Looter Costume should now be received when reaching level 100 in the Season track after the Plunder Pass is purchased.****
* The "Plunder Pass" tab should now have final imagery.
* Emote animations should play correctly after climbing down a ladder.
* The hammer should no longer obscure the players vision whilst aiming down sight on the Golden Nile Blunderbuss.
* When equipping the Magpie’s Glory Capstan, it should now appear correctly on a player’s ship across all ship types.

**Sunken Kingdom**

* A range of environment and collision issues have been fixed within the Shrines and Treasuries.
* Within the Treasuries, Sirens should no longer de-spawn after a player dies or is in the air lock room.
* Attempting to return to a Treasury from the Ferry of the Damned after dying should no longer cause the client to crash.
* The Sunken Merfolk should now still spawn if a player’s ship is above a Shrine or Treasury.
* The Treasury shimmer VFX should no longer be visible when the Treasury is not active.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’** Voyage – When players open the forgotten coral chest, they should no longer get the pop up for the Ancient Key until they pick up the key itself. 
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage** – The interaction prompt on the Ancient Key has been updated to say 'Read Inscription'.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage –** The Ancient Key should correctly fit in the lock on the Legend of the Sunken Kingdom Voyage. 
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage –** Another crew reading the last Journal should no longer complete the Voyage for other nearby crews.
* **‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage –** Storing a Voyage item in a Sunken Merfolk Statue such as the Gold Hoarder Medallion, Forbidden Key or Forbidden Chest should no longer fail the Voyage.
* **‘Shrine of Tribute’** – The large statue should now reset when the Shrine resets, meaning Sirens should now spawn and players should no longer be able to swim straight into the Vault.
* **‘Shrine of Tribute’** – When standing on the pressure plates again, the statue should no longer resets and repeats its animation.
* **‘Shrine of Hungering’**– The geyser should now work even after the Shrine has reset.
* **‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’** – Sirens should no longer be able to respawn in the Shrine after it has reset.
* **‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’** – Improved timing on set pieces that occur during the Shrine.

Preview

Insider Patch Notes 2.2.1.7

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

Sunken Kingdom

Legend of the Sunken Kingdom Voyage

Larinna is now offering pirates a new Voyage for purchase, the ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’. Scholars have left clues to uncover the mysteries hidden below the surface in the Shrines of the Sunken Kingdom. For this Insider’s build, all players have been granted a free ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage directly to their inventory to get them started on their journey.**
The coin trails in Shrines should now be only visible to the crew doing the Voyage only.
The sail distance to the buried chest/notes should now be shorter and the buried chests/notes can spawn in any region.

Siren Shrines

Players can now find Tridents and Gunpowder Kegs within the Shrine of Ancient Tears.
During the Shrine of the Flooded Embrace, crews should no longer encounter Siren Leaders and instead will battle regular Sirens.
The Shrine of Ocean's Fortune now offers a Chest of Ancient Tribute for crews reaching the top of the shrine.
All Siren Shrines now have an increased chance of finding sunken treasure outside the Shrine on the surrounding seabed.

Siren Treasuries

Barrels found within each Siren Treasury encounter now have increased chances of being stocked with Firebombs and Blunderbombs to restock crews against the threats ahead.

Message in a Bottle Quests

When exploring on islands across the wider Sea of Thieves, discovering a washed-up message in a bottle will now have an equal chance of providing a Map to the Sunken Kingdom compared to a regular X Marks the Spot Map. Previous Insider builds had an elevated chance of discovering Coral bottles, therefore this returns the intended setup to an equal chance ahead of release.

Sunken Kingdom Commendations & Rewards

The ‘Seeker of the Sea’ Commendation now has reduced criteria, requiring only 30 Breath of the Sea to be cashed in to complete.

Burying Treasure

Burying Treasure

Shovels now have a secondary use: enabling pirates to bury treasure. With an item dropped on soft ground, use RMB or LT to begin burying the item in the ground, continue burying to fully hide the item.

Buried Treasure Maps

When an item is fully buried, the crew will receive an ‘X Marks the Spot’ map marking the location of the treasure. Burying multiple items on the same island will add additional X’s to the map. Due to issues with Buried Treasure Maps during Server Migration, this Insider build will have server migration disabled to allow extended testing on this feature.**
Maps can be gifted to other crews! With the map equipped press RMB or LT to offer the map and should the other crew accept, it will be removed from the quest radial.
Be warned - when a member of the crew is killed by another player, they will drop all buried maps in a bundle, allowing them to be stolen.

Fury of the Damned

Larinna’s Black Market

When players talk to Larinna, she will now have dialogue pertaining to the Fury of the Damned event. Players will also be able to see what rewards are available in this event when going into Larinna’s Black Market Shop.

Event Week 4 Active

Week four will be active in this Insider build, where all the Deeds are in their bonus states and are worth their maximum amount.

Updates

Nautical Narration

Players will now find an additional option in the nautical narration settings ‘Continuous when equipped’ allowing the compass to narrate without the player needing to raise it to their face.

HDR Experience on Xbox Series X & Series S Consoles

Following Insider feedback on the introduction of an experimental HDR Experience improvement on Xbox Series X & Series S consoles, this change has now been rolled back.

Known Issues

Sunken Kingdom

'**Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – **Storing a Voyage item in the Sunken Merfolk Statue retrieving it and placing it in the corresponding slot will fail the Voyage.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Storing the locked Forbidden Chest in the Sunken Merfolk Statue will fail the Voyage.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Migrating after placing the Mysterious Ancient Key in the ancient table will stop players from being able to open the secret door in the Shrine of Ancient Tears.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Migrating after placing a Medallion on the plinth will stop players from being able to open the Forbidden Key door in the Shrine of Hungering.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Holding the Mysterious Ancient Key and looking at the Forbidden Chest can cause performance issues.
When returning to an in-progress Treasury event room, the Treasury will have reset, but previous AI will remain.
‘Shrine of Ancient Tears’ – If a player migrates after lighting the beacons within the Shrine and returning to their ship, returning to the Shrine will show the beacons have remained lit.
‘Shrine of Hungering’& ‘Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune’ – When retrieving loot from the Merfolk Treasure Statues within the Shrine of the Hungering and Shine of Ocean’s Fortune, the loot can spawn in the terrain and be irretrievable or disappear.
Players will not be able to start a Voyage after picking up a Coral Message in a Bottle.

Burying Treasure

Items appear to float and sink into the ground if dug up fully on the shores of certain islands.
Players are able to bury items in the same location.

Fury of the Damned

Players will not receive Favour when completing Daily Deeds.
Players will not receive rewards after the community goals are completed.
There is placeholder artwork and text throughout the event.

Season Four

A range of Daily, Legendary, Monthly and Seasonal Trials are not tracking correctly for Season Four and none are tracking correctly for the Sunken Kingdom.
The Vulnerable Weapon Pose is not received when rank one is reached after the Plunder Pass is purchased.

Tunnels of the Damned

While travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned, losing your connection to the game and rejoining may cause visual issues, resulting in migration to the new area to fail and returning you to your starting location.

Localisation

There is a range of missing localisation when setting the game language to Turkish.

Client Performance

There is a freeze when returning to the game after alt + tabbing out when playing on the Windows Store version of Sea of Thieves.

Fixed Issues

General

All bounty skulls should have a VFX glint when viewed at a distance.
After killing an Ashen Lord, loot should spawn in accessible areas.
The peanut bag should no longer stick out of the Pirate Emporium wall in Plunder Outpost and Ancient Spire Outpost.
Players should no longer be able to clip through the rock to the left of the pier and teleport outside of the Pirate Legend Hideout.
At Sailor's Knot Stronghold loot should no longer be able to fall under the map near the Vault doors.
Players should no longer receive a blank Mysterious Note.
In Arena, after the match ends players should be able to vote using an Xbox controller on any platform.
Trident of Dark Tides has a new green coloured glint VFX when viewed at a distance.
All merchant commodities should now have a VFX glint when viewed at a distance.

A Pirate's Life

‘A Pirate's Life’ & ‘Captains of the Damned’ – Players should no longer be able to start another Voyage after Passing through the Tunnels of the Damned after a player leaves the crew causing a majority voting to take effect.
*‘The Sunken Pearl’ *– The mermaid statue located outside of the Throne Room should now have interaction prompts.
*‘The Dark Brethren’ *– Players should no longer get stuck or fall under the map in the Lower Ascending Chamber.
*‘The Dark Brethren’ *– The Waterfall splash VFX in the Ascending Chamber should no longer go invisible when a player gets close to it.

Season Four

The Season 4 Deed 'To the Victor, the Spoils' should now complete when handing in another crew's flag as a Reapers Bones Emissary.
The ‘Master Explorer’ Deed should now track the player sitting on Skeleton Thrones three times to complete.
The Seasonal Deed ‘Bringer of Chaos’ should now track correctly when handing in another players Emissary flag as a Reapers Bones Emissary.
The last deed in the Aquatic Archaeologist Seasonal Deeds should now tell players to speak to the Castaway.
Weekly Deeds should now be visible and working as intended.
Players should now be able to access the Season tab without any issues.
The Vulnerable Weapon Pose should now have the final icon attached.

Pirate Emporium

The Jack O'Looter Costume should now be received when reaching level 100 in the Season track after the Plunder Pass is purchased.****
The "Plunder Pass" tab should now have final imagery.
Emote animations should play correctly after climbing down a ladder.
The hammer should no longer obscure the players vision whilst aiming down sight on the Golden Nile Blunderbuss.
When equipping the Magpie’s Glory Capstan, it should now appear correctly on a player’s ship across all ship types.

Sunken Kingdom

A range of environment and collision issues have been fixed within the Shrines and Treasuries.
Within the Treasuries, Sirens should no longer de-spawn after a player dies or is in the air lock room.
Attempting to return to a Treasury from the Ferry of the Damned after dying should no longer cause the client to crash.
The Sunken Merfolk should now still spawn if a player’s ship is above a Shrine or Treasury.
The Treasury shimmer VFX should no longer be visible when the Treasury is not active.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – When players open the forgotten coral chest, they should no longer get the pop up for the Ancient Key until they pick up the key itself.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – The interaction prompt on the Ancient Key has been updated to say 'Read Inscription'.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – The Ancient Key should correctly fit in the lock on the Legend of the Sunken Kingdom Voyage.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Another crew reading the last Journal should no longer complete the Voyage for other nearby crews.
‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Storing a Voyage item in a Sunken Merfolk Statue such as the Gold Hoarder Medallion, Forbidden Key or Forbidden Chest should no longer fail the Voyage.
‘Shrine of Tribute’ – The large statue should now reset when the Shrine resets, meaning Sirens should now spawn and players should no longer be able to swim straight into the Vault.
‘Shrine of Tribute’ – When standing on the pressure plates again, the statue should no longer resets and repeats its animation.
‘Shrine of Hungering’– The geyser should now work even after the Shrine has reset.
‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ – Sirens should no longer be able to respawn in the Shrine after it has reset.
‘Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ – Improved timing on set pieces that occur during the Shrine.