Insider Patch Notes 2.2.1.9
Insider Update 2.2.1.9 is now live. As we approach our Season Four release, this Insider’s build now restricts the feature set to those features shipping in September. Please continue to venture deep into the Sunken Kingdom and tackle the Shrines and Treasuries while we continue to resolve known issues ahead of launch!
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Known Issues
Sunken Kingdom
- ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Storing a Voyage item in the Sunken Merfolk Statue will fail the Voyage.
- Sailing too close to the Sunken Merfolk will cause it to leave until your ship moves away.
Digging for Bait
- Grubs and worms unearthed while digging cannot currently be retrieved.
Season Four
- Season Trials such as ‘Expert Adventurer’ and ‘Eminent Emissary’ along with Renown actions ‘Vanquishing Skeletons’ are notifying players each time when progressed instead of at key milestones.
- Season Trial ‘Sunken Antiquarian’ updates twice when handing in a single Coral Relic.
The following Daily Deeds are not currently completable;
- Swift Daily Deed – Sail full billow.
- Standard Deed – Deliver a cargo crate to the Merchant Alliance.
Fury of the Damned
- There is placeholder artwork and text throughout the event.
Client Performance
- Players can experience 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
- When retrieving a Cargo Crate, players can now read the delivery note.
- ‘A Pirate’s Life’ – Players are no longer able to leave a Galleon travelling through the Tunnels of the Damned.
- ‘Shores of Gold’ – Commendations received while progressing through the Tall Tale should now be unlocked at the correct moments.
Sunken Merfolk Statues
- Players can no longer repeatedly place and retrieve treasure in order to level up their Emissary Grade.
- Retrieving large amounts of stored treasure from a Merfolk Statue should now correctly place the items on the ground around the statue.
Sunken Kingdom
- Upon discovering a washed-up Coral Message in a Bottle, crews will now only receive a single notification.
- If sent back to the Ferry of the Damned while battling through a Treasury, on their return players will no longer encounter the previous enemies in addition to a fresh wave at the same time.
- When a player is killed within a Treasury encounter, the battle music will no longer play on the Ferry of the Damned and will restart on rejoining the encounter.
- When a player is killed and revived within the Sunken Kingdom, they will no longer show a permanent bubble visual effect.
- ‘Treasury of the Lost Ancients’ - Players can no longer reach unintended areas within the exterior of the Treasury.
- ‘The Shrine of the Coral Tomb’ – When activated, the Siren window can no longer be seen outside of the door recess.
- ‘Shrine of Flooded Embrace’ – Players should no longer be able to push into the terrain and see through the environment.
- ‘Shrine of Flooded Embrace’ – Removed floating rocks outside of the Shrine.
- *‘Shrine of Hungering’ *– Treasure should now more consistently be found at certain key locations through the Shrine.
- ‘Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune’ – Internal air pockets can no longer be reached from outside of the Shrine.
- *‘Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune’ *– Treasure placement has been improved to reduce instances where players are unable to retrieve items.
- ‘The Shrine of Tribute’ – Waterfalls within the Shrine now display correctly when looked through.
- ‘Shrine of Ancient Tears’ – Treasure placed on a lift will now be moved as the lift is raised or lowered.
- ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Placing the medallion at the plinth at the Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune will now uncover the secret and allow crews to progress.
- ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Migrating servers after placing the Mysterious Ancient Key in the Ancient Table will no longer block crews from progressing through the secret door.
- ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – Migrating servers after placing the medallion on the plinth will no longer block crews from progressing through the forbidden door.
- ‘Legend of the Sunken Kingdom’ Voyage – On failing the Voyage, the Voyage banners should now correctly inform players why the Voyage failed.
Season Four
- Daily Deeds requiring crews to cash in treasure to the Gold Hoarders or Order of Souls should no longer complete when cashing in to the Reaper’s Bones.
- The ‘Eminent Emissary’ Monthly Trial should now correctly progress when becoming an Emissary and earning gold.
- The Firefly Lantern now correctly illuminates the area when used.
Fury of the Damned
- The Destroyer of the Damned Title now has the appropriate text description.
Pirate Emporium
- Performing a wave emote while wearing the Golden Nile Costume no longer stretches the players skin texture.
Performance & Stability
- Improved server stability, reducing scenarios where crews are removed from a game session.
Localisation
- The Hardy Ruffian Sea Dog Belt no longer displays symbols in it’s description in Turkish.
- Sunken Merfolk Statues now display correct prompts in Turkish, Polish and Portuguese.
- When viewing the contents of Storage Crates, there should now be a slash between the item counts in Turkish.
