Sea of Thieves Update 2.7.2 Patch Notes – January 19, 2023

Bristling Barnacle Cosmetics

• Show off your love of the sea with the new Bristling Barnacle clothing pieces, ship set, weapons and equipment. All can be purchased for gold from the appropriate shopkeepers.

Wailing Barnacle Hairstyles

• New hairstyles for this old favourite set are now available to purchase for gold from the Outpost clothing shops.

Storage Crate Pricing

• Storage Crates have now been reduced in price, and can now be purchased from the Merchant Alliance for 5,000 gold instead of the original 17,500 gold.

Gameplay

• Treasure can no longer be used around ships to reduce the damage taken from cannon fire.
• Treasure held by a player will no longer float in the air after being harpooned.
• Pirates will no longer be able to shoot through the wall underneath the stairs on the Sloop and damage players outside the ship.
• Treasure collected from wrecks within the Sunken Graveyard during the Legend of the Veil Voyage should no longer disappear from a crew’s ship after finishing the Voyage.
• Storage Crates acquired from Skeleton Ships can now be buried.
• Cannonball Crates of the Damned released when completing Order of Souls Ghost Ship Voyages will now only reward a single Wraith Cannonball.
• Athena’s Fortune artefacts found during the Legend of the Veil Voyage will now progress the Hider of Legendary Secrets Commendation when buried.
• Animals will now take damage when caught in the blast of cannon fire, explosions and blunderbombs.
• Ships can no longer be attacked by a Kraken while traversing the Tunnels of the Damned.
• Shadow Skeletons in the Fort of the Damned will now be instantly stunned if they emerge into an area with the correct type of lighting.
• If players shoot through a broken Rum Crate and hit a Gunpowder Keg, the keg will now explode as intended.
• The Old Brinestone Fortress storeroom key will no longer be present in the lock after the Fort has cleared, allowing crews to gain access again in the future.
• ‘Dark Brethren’ – Collecting the Siren Heart from Jack while holding an item will now drop the held item on the ground and collect the Siren Heart.

Battle for the Sea of Thieves

• Ships that become beached and subsequently destroyed during a battle will now cause that crew to lose the encounter.
• Crews should no longer experience the rare scenario where they surface for battle only to find another battle already taking place.
• The Ghost Lord Commendation is now unlocked when meeting the requirements needed.
• The Commendations entitled Risk It All, His Favourite Crew, In His Name, Running the Risk, Exemplary Captain and Pretty Good At This will now progress for Captains and crewmates alike when sailing on a Captained ship.
• The Proven Your Worth Commendation has now been removed. The Guardian Ghost Spyglass and Guardian Ghost Speaking Trumpet can still be earned by earning the Quite the Collection Commendation.
• Players will now need to earn the Live to Serve Commendation in order to unlock the Twin Peg Legs Lower Body Cosmetic instead of the previously listed Commendation.
• Players will now need to earn the Quite the Collection Commendation in order to unlock the Guardian Ghost Flag instead of the previously listed Commendation.
• Sitting down or sleeping while below the waves waiting for another opponent will no longer cause the player to become stuck or removed from the ship, or for the player’s camera to become stuck in the environment when a rival is found.
• If a crew’s ship is lost due to becoming beached on land, the ship will now retain its Faction status.
• Quickly rotating the Hourglass of Fate and joining a Faction should now consistently display the correct Faction alignment.
• When the Blessing of Athena’s Fortune or Ritual of the Flame cutscenes begin playing, only the players who are observing the cutscene will see the subtitles.
• Crew members leaving during the Blessing of Athena’s Fortune or Ritual of the Flame cutscenes should no longer cause the cutscene to end.

Captains of Adventure

• Captained ships with a large number of Captain’s Voyages in the Bookcase should no longer experience issues when purchasing ship supplies.
• Completing A Commission of the Ancient Veil now updates the Milestone for ‘A Veteran Voyager’.
• Players can now flip through the pages of a Ruined Logbook.
• As the ship is sinking, the Captain’s Logbook interaction prompt now disappears.
• When a crew member picks up their own Logbook from a wreck, their gamertag icon will now show that treasure is being carried.
• Captains changing a Ship’s Banner should now see the new banner after leaving the Ship Customisation Chest.

Pirate Emporium

• Players will now be able to repair the Soaring Oracle Wheel as normal.
• Players’ hands no longer intersect with the top of the barrel when reloading the Soaring Oracle Eye of Reach.
• Players can no longer equip belts over the top of the Soaring Oracle Costume.
• Players can no longer equip an eyepatch while wearing the Soaring Oracle Costume which includes the blindfold.
• The visual effects for the Soaring Oracle Costume emote have now been corrected for all body types.
• The aurora effect on the Boreal Aurora Cannons and Capstan is now consistent all the time.
• The Ravenwood Costume visual effects will now appear correctly when performing the emote while sailing on a ship.
• Players’ hands will now appear correctly while wearing the Mandrake Costume.

Environment

• The unfurled War Map no longer intersects with the Bone Crusher and Bilge Rat Captain’s Tables.
• Players will no longer be able to swim away from the Shrine of Ancient Tears and appear beneath the sea bed.
• It is no longer possible to swim onto the exit at the Shrine of the Coral Tomb.
• Players will no longer appear to start swimming on a wall at the Shrine of Ocean’s Fortune.
• There is no longer a hole deep underground at Wanderers Refuge.
• The player camera will no longer intersect with the ground while sitting south-west of the tavern on Sanctuary Outpost.
• Players will no longer intersect with Phantoms when sitting in the Tavern of the Damned.
• Players sailing on a Galleon will no longer be able to sit on a barrel where pets may also sit.

User Interface

• The fire and retract actions of the harpoon can once again be rebound within the Settings menu.

Visual and Audio

• Pirates will no longer appear tiny if they emerge from a Rowboat cannon when returning to the ship via a mermaid.
• The Ghostly Curse will now appear consistently when equipped by pirates of all body types.
• Scooping audio will no longer play when using a bucket on a dry deck or island.
• ‘The Sunken Pearl’ and ‘Dark Brethren’ – Areas of rising and lowering water during the Tall Tales no longer display an incorrect texture.
• ‘Lords of the Sea’ – Jack Sparrow’s voice now stays in sync with his location throughout the Tale.

Text and Localisation

• The Athena Shield, Is That All You’ve Got, Hunt Them Down and Righteous Victory Commendations all now have the correct requirements to unlock them listed within their descriptions.
• The descriptions for rank 70 and 75 promotions for Gold Hoarders, Merchant Alliance and Order of Souls have now been corrected.
• The text on Merchant Alliance quest parchments now appears correctly when the language is set to Russian.
• Samuel in the Pirate Legend Hideout no longer has an error in one of his dialogue options.
• The War Map tooltip for choosing to fight a larger foe is now a consistent size with other prompts.
• ‘The Legendary Storyteller’ – The Tall Tale book will no longer have overlapping or compressed sentences when the language is set to Thai.

Performance and Stability

• Improvements have been made to reduce scenarios where players can experience extended black screen loading times when using a mermaid or returning from the Ferry of the Damned.
• Reduced instances where players are being disconnected from their session when travelling through the underwater tunnels.
• Ubebeard error message should no longer appear after rapidly changing tabs from within the crew selection screen when setting up a session.
• Improved server stability to decrease the chances of players becoming disconnected from their session.
• Improved client stability when interacting with the Captain’s Logbook while playing on Xbox One.