How To Make Money Sea Of Thieves

A pirate's life is all about treasure and sweet, sweet booty. Though all money earned can only be used for cosmetic purposes alone, everyone's main goal when playing Sea Of Thieves is to cash in some big coins. Doing the measly beginner voyages and quests won't get you anywhere. You need to aim higher.

By upgrading your voyages and taking larger risks out on the sea, you'll receive greater rewards worthy of a pirate legend. Once you understand what it takes to get big loot hauls, you'll understand what being a pirate truly is. The more you put yourself in life-threatening situations, the more you'll get lots and lots of loot.

10 Follow The Season Pass

Each season rewards you with various treasures. By completing the Sea of Thieves season pass you can get free cosmetics and currency. You don't have to buy the Plunder Pass for this. Progressing through the pass is as easy as sailing your ship and looting treasure. Every little thing you do in the game will be gradually rewarded from the season pass whether you intend it to or not.

Some ways to progress include:

Sailing for 50 miles
Speaking to specific NPC's
Looting treasure
Killing skeletons

To look at your progression, go to your Pirate Log and click Trials.

Rewards include:

Ancient coins
Gold coins
Doubloons
Ship cosmetics
Pirate cosmetics

9 Find Floating Loot

You're able to find lost booty out in the seas. If you see a bunch of seagulls surrounding one area in the sky, that means there's treasure beneath them. Go toward the seagulls to find floating treasure.

These are generated loot that anyone can find. If there aren't seagulls but there is treasure floating, then that means someone's ship just sunk. Either way, you get rich. Floating treasure will have skulls, mermaid gems, and barrels full of materials and food. People usually collect these with their ship's harpoons.

8 Loot Sunken Ships

Seagulls congregating above a random area don't just mean floating loot. Sometimes it can reveal a sunken ship instead. These aren't player ships. They are generated, abandoned ships meant for players to loot and fight over. Inside them, you can find gems, skulls, chests, and barrels full of goodies. These are trickier to completely loot because you have to hold your breath for a long period of time. Along with the risk of drowning, sharks may come and attack you as you float up the treasure you find.

TIPS:

If you find a sunken ship with no seagulls, someone has already looted it.
Sometimes these ships will be half above water and half underwater. At other times, they will be completely submerged.

7 Buy Coins With Real Money

As a last resort, you can always just pay up. By going to any storefront page in the game you can find an option to purchase coins for your pirate in bulk. This option will be at the bottom right. By paying for the coins, you can complete the look of your crew's ship without the hassle of grinding for money.

Sometimes people don't have enough time to grind day and night in video games. If you prefer to mess around with other pirates and get into fights, then buying the cosmetics you want may be the best option for you.

6 Raise A Trading Company's Emissary Flag

Doing voyages for the trading companies is honest work that gets you enough coin to survive, but pirates don't just want to survive. Instead of buying quests from trading companies like the Order Of Souls, you can team vote to raise a flag in their honor and do their bidding. By doing this, you get double the cash for what you find.

To be able to raise an emissary flag of a trading company, you need to upgrade their voyages enough so that instead of seeing any upgrade voyages, your only option left is to buy the right to raise their flag.

For Order Of Souls, you'll want to take on more than one captain and you get more money for their skulls. For Gold Hoarder's, instead of finding one treasure chest, you have to find ten. The more you collect for your selected trading company, the higher your emissary grade gets. The higher your emissary grade, the more reputation and rewards you get for that company.

5 Sink Ships, Any Ships

It can be frustrating when you're a new player and all people seem to do is blow you up without question. Sometimes people don't even do it for loot, but if loot is what you're after, this is fair play. Intercepting other pirates who have a lot of loot is another way to get big bank.

Everyone playing the game is trying to get a lot of loot. If you get good at controlling your ship, crew, and cannons, you should definitely try stealing goods from other ships when the time is right. It may seem mean at first, but it's part of the culture of being a pirate. Not everyone is toxic and aggressive, so you will end up hearing a "GG" or "Better luck next time" from the people you fight.

If you go into the fight with nothing to lose, it won't hurt to try. This is also where the most excitement comes from in Sea Of Thieves. The adventure and action of battling another player ship in real-time is something other games can't recreate.

You don't have to face player ships if you don't want to, though. There are always skeleton ships sailing around just waiting for trouble. These ships will also drop a good amount of loot. If you get good enough, you can farm these skeleton ships for money. They are the easiest to spot at night from their bright blue and green lanterns. By day, your only indication is ripped sails.

4 Complete Skeleton Forts

Skeleton forts can be found by looking into the sky. Any cloud that strangely looks like a skull with glowing eyes is your destination. There are many skeleton forts around the map, with cannon towers that look like ships from a distance, often scaring new players. These forts are always empty unless there's an event over them.

These forts consist of waves of every type of skeleton, so you need to understand them all and be prepared. There will be a queen skeleton after every wave is complete. Some of these enemies will drop skulls to sell, but that's not all. Once you've defeated them all, there will be a small vault full of goodies.

The risk factor here is that everyone can see the skull cloud and will want to try and get the skeleton fort loot. Note: if the cloud's eyes are green, no one is there. If they are orange-red, someone's fighting them already.

3 Do The Gold Hoarder's Vault Voyages

If you upgrade your voyages with Gold Hoarders enough (the creepy guy in the tent), your quests will be to open vaults. Vaults contain heaps of gold mounds, multiple chests, multiple trinkets, and one big and rare chest. Completing a vault voyage takes time at first because you're sent on a goose chase to find pieces of a map. This map only shows you the location of the key, not the vault.

Once you get to the vault, the only way to get the most expensive chest is by doing a puzzle in the middle of the room. All the while, the door is inevitably closing at a rapid countdown, with the room waiting to kill you. Despite the risks, you get a lot of loot from these voyages and it gives you the feeling of adventure.

2 Defeat Flameheart

Flameheart is the big, red skeleton captain in the sky. Everyone can see him and will want to try to take him down. To defeat him you have to kill waves and waves of ghost ships from minions to captain ships.

In the midst of fighting them, they will drop storage crates here and there. This gives you a chance to recuperate if you've lost resources during the fight. Toward the end of this perilous battle, the last ship will drop lots of Ghostly-themed loot for you to sell.

1 Go Towards That Scary Red Tornado (Ashen Winds)

This is another world event that everyone will try to get at. World events give you a lot of loot, for greater risks. This tornado indicates a skeleton ritual taking place. As soon as a player joins, an Ashen Lord will be summoned and the team, or any pirate nearby, must defeat the skeletons.

This fight is long and difficult, so like with any journey, make sure you're stocked up. Once you defeat the Ashen Lords and their minions, heaps of unique Ashen loot will be dropped.

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