Insider Update 3.8.1.5 is now live. This update expands Custom Seas with new session controls and commands, introduces a Last Ship Standing Stress Test with rewards, and provides an early look at upcoming cosmetics and features.
If you encounter any bugs while playing in Insiders, please head to the Sea of Thieves support site and report an issue with our Player Support team.
Improved Switches
Custom Ship Supplies – Session owners now have access to fully customisable ship supplies, providing fine-grained control of which resources appear in ship barrels and how many of each item are available at the start of a session.
Unarmed Weapon Loadout – Players can now select ‘Unarmed’ as a weapon loadout override for primary or secondary weapon slots. This provides support for single-weapon or fully unarmed experiences.
Improved Commands
Rowboats – When spawning a Rowboat, players can now select from additional Rowboat types including Cannon, Harpoon and Reaper’s Bones Rowboats, which will be docked to the ship on arrival.
Rowboat Limits – The server limit for Rowboats has been increased to allow 24 Rowboats to be active during a session.
New Commands
Reset Supplies – This restores a ship’s barrels to their starting loadout.
Toggle Ship Invulnerability – This prevents all damage to the ship, including holes, flooding, fire and damage to ship parts.
Destroy Treasures – This removes all items on the ground within a large area around the player, including treasure, food, fish, Storage Crates, ammo and Gold Pouches.
This Insider update includes a timed Stress Test for Last Ship Standing. From Friday, August 7th 20:00 UTC to 23:00 UTC, Last Ship Standing will be available in Insiders for both Solo and Duo Sloop crews.
Stress Test Rewards
Insiders who participate in this test can earn rewards for use on their account in the live game. Players can earn:
Join a match – Fulfills the weekly Insider reward quota
Play 2 matches – 100 Doubloons
Play 3 matches – Free Season Pass Level
Play 4 matches – 200 Doubloons
Play 5 matches – Rogue Tinkerer Sails
Conqueror of the Damned
A new Commendation now challenges crews to win battles in Last Ship Standing to unlock access to exclusive Fallen Sea Dog rewards at each Grade. Players with prior Last Ship Standing wins under their belt will find their progress is counted towards this new Commendation.
The Reaper’s Bones shop at their Hideout now offers the Fallen Sea Dog clothing, weapons, ship items and equipment that can be purchased with gold upon reaching the required Grade of Conqueror of the Damned.
During this Insider update, players earning their first win in Last Ship Standing will find their Commendation progress is artificially boosted to Grade IV.
New Items – Now in Stock!
Silver Coin weapons: Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss, Eye of Reach, Double Barrel Pistol, Blowpipe, Grapple Gun, Throwing Knives
Community Collaboration ship set: Hull, Sails, Flag
New Items – Now in Stock!
Sunlit Sepulchre ship items: Cannons, Capstan, Figurehead, Flag, Hull, Sails, Wheel, Collector’s Figurehead, Collector’s Sails
Sunlit Sepulchre weapons: Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss, Eye of Reach, Double Barrel Pistol, Throwing Knives
Sunlit Sepulchre clothing: Hat, Jacket, Gloves
Sunlit Sepulchre equipment: Lantern
Ghostly Curse Fox pet (Pirate Legends only)
Wing Flap Emote (free)
PC Streaming Detection
Players on PC streaming live will now be shown a notification when returning to the title, providing direct access to Enable Streamer Mode to apply a suite of recommended settings.
The following software is currently detected: OBS, Streamlabs OBS, Meld, XSplit, TikTok LIVE Studio and vMix.
Last Ship Standing
Players’ ships can respawn in the Last Ship Standing map after being scuttled.
Emissary Flags do not remain in the arena until the end of the game.
Custom Seas
Gameplay
Gameplay
Last Ship Standing
Further improvements have been made to matchmaking, addressing issues that were causing crews to become stuck beneath the waves when waiting for rivals or experience a black loading screen at the start of battle.
Further improvements have been made to ensure that after losing a battle, crews and their ships are consistently removed from the fight and do not reappear within the battle area.
After winning a battle, crews should no longer experience a Chequeredbeard error and find themselves disconnected from the game.
After losing a battle, crews with crewmates still on the Ferry of the Damned should no longer experience a Cashewbeard error and find themselves disconnected from the game.
Following a win, the Battle Bounds will now return to their starting size, allowing players to retrieve any items before returning to High Seas while preventing access to unintended areas of the environment.
Players rejoining a match after a disconnection should now see the shrinking Battle Bounds in their correct location.
Players should no longer appear temporarily away from their ship when sailing beneath the waves waiting for rivals.
Players using Disguises while sailing beneath the waves should now remain on the ship when the battle begins.
Custom Seas
Mercenary Skeleton eliminations now appear correctly on the scoreboard.
Land-based enemies can no longer spawn aboard ships within the Seas of Sailor’s Grave.
The Remove Creatures command now removes Mercenary Skeletons as intended.
Navigation within Edit Ships and Crews is now more reliable.
Players now receive feedback when using Quick Commands to repair their ship while Quick Sailing.
Food now restores health correctly when Player Damage is disabled.
Recently spawned items now update correctly within the Quick Spawn Radial and Spawn Menus.
Toolbar commands now hide correctly when the menu side panel is hidden.
Environment
Visual and Audio
Torch fire effects now remain visible while moving the camera.
The Smouldering Pegasus Wheel now looks smoother as players move towards and away from it.
Performance and Stability
Players should no longer encounter Glassbeard errors after switching Pirate Profiles and queuing for Faction Battles.
Improvements have been made to server stability to reduce instances where players are disconnected from their session.
