Sea of Thieves

What officially changed

Custom SeasBuild new game modes to challenge your friends, record unrivalled cinematics and experience the Sea of Thieves like never before! To learn more about this Season’s headline features, head over to our dedicated Season 20 page.Session LobbiesWith the keys to the seas, players can now create and host a Custom Seas lobby and invite up to 24 players and six crews, with full control over ship types and expanded crew configurations.Session Owners can invite others via platform invites or a Join Code, promote Session Leaders with deeper access and launch directly onto the seas with their chosen setup.Switches and PresetsSwitches allow Session Owners to customise a range of settings that modify how the world operates once a session is started. These include categories that control players, ships, emergent creatures, World Events and treasure hand-in locations.A set of Rare-curated Presets are also available to help quickly begin customising a session, including Adventure, Competitive Pirates, Competitive Sandbox and Social. A Creative preset is available for owners looking to start from scratch. Once a Preset is selected, a session can be modified further with fine-grained access to all available switches, and can be saved for future use.Command MenuOnce in-game, a Command Menu can be accessed from the Game Options that provides a suite of in-game commands to control the session, from managing the roster, editing ships and crews through to controlling World Events, changing settings and spawning items.From the Command Menu, players can begin a range of World Events on demand, choosing the Event type and (where applicable) its location. Players can also control the time of day and reposition weather events like storms and fog.A Quick Commands Menu is also available, pr