Insider Patch Notes 2.3.1.1
Insider Update 2.3.1.1 is now live. This Insider’s build introduces a range of quality-of-life improvements. Head to your Vanity Chest to check out the new Dice Emotes or set traps for unsuspecting pirates by burying a lit Gunpowder Barrel. Also, check out the Feast of Bounty Event to earn new cosmetics!
As always, if you encounter any bugs, then please head to the
Sea of Thieves support site and let our Player Support team know.
Gameplay Improvements
Moving Resources Between Barrels and Crates
- Players will now be able to transfer resources more quickly between barrels and storage crates using a held action while holding the crate itself. Transferring more resources will take longer time!
- Transferring more resources will take longer time, and stealing resources from another crew’s ship will take an extended time – it pays to be stealthy!
- Players can store resources in a barrel by holding ‘Y’ on controller or ‘R’ on keyboard, or retrieve resources to their held crate by holding ‘X’ on controller or ‘F’ on keyboard.
Talking
- Players will now notice that while they are using the in-game voice chat their pirate’s mouth will now automatically move and appear like their pirate is actually talking.
Dice Emote
- Players will now have access to six new dice emotes which can be equipped from any Vanity Chest. Use the D4, D6, D8, D10, D12 or D20 sided dice emote to roll a random number and then zoom in camera to see the number more clearly.
For this Insider’s build, all players have been awarded the Dice Emotes directly to their accounts. Head to the Vanity Chest to equip it!
Burying Treasure
- Players can now set explosive traps by burying Gunpowder Barrels. Gunpowder Barrels will automatically light their fuse when a player hits them with their shovel. If you hear the hiss of the fuse, run for your life!
- When stealing a Map Bundle from another crew’s Captain’s Table, the unsuspecting crew will no longer receive a notification indicating that it has been stolen.
- Items buried by players should now leave the ground where it was buried looking disturbed.
- When an item is buried within a cave, players should now see a new “X” marks icon when looking at the treasure map to show it is it a cave.
Cannon Rowboats
- Skeleton Ships should now target and attack Cannon Rowboats, so long as they're manned and not attached to a ship.
Automatically Vote on Proposed Voyages
- When players propose a Voyage, the player that proposed it will automatically vote for the Voyage. While this new voting mechanic is enabled by default to improve the new player experience, players can choose to disable this using the ‘Auto-vote on Voyage Proposal’ in the settings menu.
Updates
Sunken Kingdom Balancing
- The Shrine of Ancient Tears now has an increased timer after being completed before it’s treasures will become available again to explorers.
Known Issues
Feast of Bounty
- There is placeholder imagery throughout the event.
Player Input Handling
- Jumping while performing an emote will no longer break the player out of the emote.
Burying Treasure
- The Map bundles look oddly positioned in the player's hand in both first-person and third-person view.
- Players shouldn't be able to bury items in the same location.
- Items that are partially buried when a player dies cannot be fully buried unless they are fully dug back up again.
Fixed Issues
General
- Players are able to bucket and dig consistently after migrating across servers.
- Players should no longer see another crew's mermaid smoke and audio effects when they themselves are not abandoned at sea.
- When starting a Merchant Alliance Cargo Voyage within the Devil’s Roar, Morrow’s Peak will no longer appear as a cargo collection location.
- Picaroon Palms is now shown in the correct location on the ship’s map.
Player Input Handling
- Firing yourself from a cannon will no longer also fire the weapon that is being held.
Whispering
- The Speaking Trumpet should no longer clip through a players pirate's head on a thin or Average female pirate and a thin male pirate in third person when whispering.
Burying
- A ship’s map bundle will now detach from the ship and float in the water when passing through a portal to the Tunnels of the Damned.
- Map bundles should now be able to be stored and retrieved from the Sunken Merfolk Statues.
- Tale items should no longer end a tale when buried.
Skeletons Dropping Ammo
- There should longer be a delay before ammo spawns and ammo should now spawn directly beneath skeletons.
- Ammo pouches should now fade in when spawned and fades out when picked up.
- Ammo should now be limited to 10 spawns per island and will then replace the oldest ammo pouch that has spawned.
Tall Tales
- “Shores of Gold” – The Gold Hoarders boss name should now be translated correctly above his head in Turkish.
- “Fate of The Morningstar” – The Phantom Skeleton firing a cannon animation should now play correctly.
- “Dark Brethren” – There should no longer be an invisible wall beneath the red coral in Dark Brethren Room.
- “Dark Brethren” – Rebinding movement controls on PC should no longer prevent a player from being able to navigate keys on the organ.
Pirate
- Bats from Crimson Crypt Cannon Flare should now correctly disappear when a player fires themselves from the cannon.
Accessibility
- Options that aren’t highlighted in the settings menu should now have a higher contrast to improve accessibility.
- The “Welcome Insiders” pop up notification on the front end now has more accessible font sizing.
