Guide to Sea of Thieves Season One

What are Seasons?

Sea of Thieves has finally introduced a Seasonal release cycle, with large features coming every 3 months and smaller updates each month. Along with this, there’s a new Progression system for all players to level up and earn rewards each Season- read on for all the details on what this entails

What are Seasons?

• Seasons will last about 3 months, each month bringing new quality of life updates, bug fixes, Pirate Emporium restocks, and Events/Challenges to complete
• Seasons introduce a new Progression Track that is separate from the Trading Companies. This refreshes at the start of each Season, and is FREE TO ALL PLAYERS
• Level up a ladder of 100 Rewards, including cosmetics and currencies

• Some of these rewards will be exclusive to the Season, others will become available in shops in the future.
• To level up, players earn Renown by completing basic actions during gameplay (more on Renown below)

Season One’s rewards include:

• 10 Titles to earn
• *Shroudbreaker: Makeup, Flag, Sails, Tattoo, Scar
• Frostbite: Eyepatch, Braided Hair, Topknot Hair, Belt, Beard, Boots, Pegleg, Gloves, Dress, Hook, Trousers, Jacket, Hat,
• **Seasoned: Kraken Lantern, Seasoned Aristocrat Hat, Bone Crusher Wheel, Parrot Cutlass,
• Eastern Winds Jade Eye of Reach
• ***Pirate Legend: Bound Beard, Lengthy Hair, Updo Hair, Curse

*Exclusive to the Season
**Color Variations of Existing Cosmetics
***Exclusive to Pirate Legends

Read about the Plunder Pass and its Rewards at the bottom of this page. ALL of the above rewards are FREE TO EARN!

What is Renown?

Renown is like your “XP” for leveling up the 100 Levels of the Season.

Unlike “Reputation” with the Trading Companies, Renown isn’t just earned by turning in treasure, it’s much easier than that!

How Do I Get Renown?

Renown is rewarded for completing very basic gameplay actions, like sailing, visiting islands, fighting skeletons, digging up treasure, completing voyages/world events, etc etc.
In fact, there are hundreds of actions that can earn renown.

Renown basically rewards you JUST FOR PLAYING, no matter how you choose to play.

Make progress EVERY SESSION, even if a crew or kraken sinks your ship!

Note: If you find the Renown earning Pop-Ups to be distracting, you can turn these off in the game settings!

What About Trials?

Within the Season tab of the Pirate Log, you’ll find a tab named Trials.

• Trials are a checklist of dozens of optional challenges to complete during the Season.
• Each Trial consists of several “Deeds” to complete that will earn a large sum of Renown towards your Season progress
• Completing all Deeds in a Trial will reward an even larger sum of Renown

There is no reward for completing Trials besides earning extra Renown

It is not intended for players to complete every Trial or change their play habits around completing Trials, which is why there are no Titles or Cosmetics tied exclusively to completing Trials. Trial progress will reset each Season. They are simply an optional way to progress the Season faster, and many of them are activities you will complete during normal gameplay!

Season 1 includes 57 Trials, containing 187 Deeds

Completing Trials, Earning Renown, Leveling up 100 Levels, and Earning 100+ Season Rewards is FREE TO ALL PLAYERS, NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

There is however an optional paid pass in addition to all of the above free content- The Plunder Pass

What is the Plunder Pass?

• The Plunder Pass costs 999 Ancient Coins- this is premium currency that requires real world money to purchase
• Buying the Pass adds 11 extra rewards to the Season Progression Track that you’ll need to level up to unlock
• All 11 Rewards are items from the Pirate Emporium premium shop
  Some are miscellaneous existing Emporium wares, made heavily discounted when purchased in the Plunder Pass, Some are early previews of items that will become available in the shop after the Season ends
• If you purchase the Plunder Pass partway through a season after already progressing, you’ll automatically unlock all the rewards you’ve leveled passed

None of the rewards are exclusives to the Plunder Pass, all are/will be available for separate purchase.

The Plunder Pass is simply a discount bundle of 11 Pirate Emporium Items (~$40 value) you have to play the season to unlock

Season 1’s Plunder Pass includes:

• *Dark Warsmith: Pistol, Blunderbuss, Cutlass, Eye of Reach
• Emotes: Crab Dab, Mysteriously Casual
• Bear & Bird Wheel
• Collector’s Night Wulf Figurehead
• Ruby Splashtail Fishing Rod
• Ruby Splashtail Monarch Costume
• *Collector’s Silver Skull Sails

*Debuts in the Plunder Pass, enters the Pirate Emporium for separate purchase after the Season ends

Seasoned veterans and newcomers alike can enjoy Season One for absolute free, making every session of gameplay more rewarding and engaging, and those who shop in the Pirate Emporium will enjoy the discounted rewards made available in this first Plunder Pass. Here’s looking forward to Season Two and beyond as this new addition lays the foundation for a bright future on the Sea of Thieves!

For a list of other features added in January’s Season One update, check out our quick summary

For details on the new Lost Shipments merchant voyage, check out our detailed Guide