With the season of spooky fruit mutilation behind us, Sea of Thieves is readying to trade one lot of festivities for another, and will be getting into the spirit of celebration when its jam-packed fifth season sets sail this Thursday, 2nd December.
Unlike Sea of Thieves’s third and fourth seasons, which went all-in with their big headline features – the Pirates of the Caribbean Tall Tales and Sunken Kingdom map expansion respectively – Season Five is focussed on delivering a pleasingly diverse grab bag of slightly less flashy but no-less-welcome additions and quality of life improvements.
One such long-requested new feature will finally enable pirates to bury their own treasure, leaving their mark on the Sea of Thieves for other pirates to discover. Treasure maps are generated on-the-fly as players start to hide their valuables on an island, and these can then be posted on quest boards newly added to outposts and sea posts.
Once a map has been submitted, other crews can accept it and go on a mini-adventure of your own making – and any treasure successfully found will be award gold and renown to both the questing crew and the pirates that buried it. Let the tidal wave of treasure maps featuring crudely draw male genitalia fashioned from bright red crosses commence!