Captain comes to the sea of thieves! What does this mean for someone who is not familiar with pirate speak? You can now buy and customize your ship. This ability comes during the game’s seventh season, which launches on August 4.
Even if you made it rich in the Sea of Thieves and loaded the gills with gold, you can only purchase one of each type of ship: sloop, brigantine, and galleon. In the teaser video above, we see the Sloop going for 250,000 gold, the Brigantine for 375,000, and the four-man Galleon for 500,000. Once one of these tools is yours to keep, you can name it, and it will appear on a wooden board on the ship’s insignia. If you really want to put your own fingerprint on it, you can customize the captain’s cabin, right down to the design of the table, chair and carpet.
Your achievements on the high seas can also be displayed in the cabin in the form of new jewelry. We don’t yet know how many jewels are available, but the video shows items that can sit on shelves or hang on walls. You can place each one as carefully as you like. Be warned: each item is physics based, meaning it will glide in storms and when attacked. You may need to pick them up and readjust how they hang after a trip.
Whenever you return to your ship, it will be exactly as you left it – including damage taken. You can make it look new again by picking up some gold at the store to repair the damage and give it a fresh coat of paint.
The seventh season gives you more to play for by introducing Milestones, a new progression system that charts your progress in a variety of areas. If you cook 25 supplies, you will unlock a milestone. Earn 30,000 gold as Athena’s Fortune Messenger, and you’ll unlock another one. Milestones bring unique rewards, including new ship customizations.
During this season, players will encounter a variety of other new things, such as the captain’s quests to complete, over 100 levels of rewards to earn, and many secrets to uncover. And shortly after this new content arrives, Sea of Thieves’ next time-limited adventure, ‘Hunter’s Cry,’ arrives on August 18. Details about the story-based quest are few at the moment, but we don’t have long to wait until we find out what treasure or mystery we’re after.
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