Sea of Thieves

Custom Seas

Build 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 Lobbies

With 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 Presets

Switches 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 Menu

Once 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, providing fast access to useful commands like Fly, Quick Sail, Quick Spawn and Free Camera.

Silver and Scoring

While no progress or gold is earned during Custom Seas sessions, silver can be used as a temporary currency to provide a way of keeping score. Session Owners can configure scoreboards for this, providing flexibility for a range of different experiences.

Scoring switches define how and when silver is earned, including scoring start conditions, time limits, score limits and team or individual scoring. Silver rewards can be assigned to player actions, creatures, ships, World Events and loot hand‑ins, with support for both positive and negative values.

When inside a session, players will be notified when earning silver and can view both a live scoreboard on the HUD and a full scoreboard showing detailed standings, objectives and active limits.

The Command Menu provides in‑session control over starting, pausing, resetting or ending scoring and timers.

Free Camera

The Free Camera can be accessed from the Quick Commands Menu, and various camera settings allow for a customised experience ranging from movement speed, field of view and depth of field to manipulation of environmental conditions.

The Free Camera can be moved manually or locked onto players, ships or creatures for a dynamic shot.

Legendary Locations

Custom Seas sessions can now take place in a variety of iconic locations from Sea of Thieves. Legendary Locations include Old Sailor Isle, Tribute Peak, the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern and the Damned Sea Dog Tavern.

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Season 20

Another Season means 50 new Season Pass levels to climb by raising your Renown, with racks full of rewards to snag along the way – and an optional Premium Tier adding even more!

Season Pass Evolved

The Season Pass now offers 50 levels of rewards to progress through. Every five levels, players can earn Doubloon Pouches, playable Voyages and a choice of cosmetic rewards previously available from the Pirate Emporium.

Progressing to level 50 and completing this Season Pass will reward players with the Star Prize: the Greed’s Reach Cutlass.

Players can also purchase a limited number of Season Pass levels in each Season. There is a limit of 10 levels which can be purchased for 150 Ancient Coins each, directly from the Season Pass. These will be granted to all Pirate Profiles. All newly unlocked rewards from purchased levels can be claimed immediately from the Season Pass.