A Quiet Day In the Sea of Thieves

You know what? Not every day is a day of bloodshed. Sometimes, you can just lay back, eat some fruit then run into a hidden vault to grab as much gold as possible. Turns out there’s more than just unlocking cosmetics and murdering people for their loot. Well, I say that, but really, part of the reason I play Sea of Thieves is to murder people and be a pirate, but you get what I mean. After all, we all need gold.

And where do we get gold? Pretty much everywhere. So we raised a flag with the Gold Hoarders and set sailing.

Getting some Emissary work done

What’s nice with Gold Hoarders is that they do exactly what it says on the side of the tin. They want gold and have a load of treasure maps. So we use the maps and bring them gold. Simple. And, luckily, the treasure maps we had, many of them denoted loot on islands close to each other. However, this was technically my first time signing up as a Gold Hoarder Emissary. Despite being rank 55 with them.

Either way, we had things to do. We mostly went to the islands on our treasure maps, while Bacxaber and I kept lookout and spammed music at each other.

Just catching fish

While everyone else was busy making themselves useful or trying to rank up the Stormcloud by playing music, I decided to fish. I did catch some nice trophy fish, funnily enough. However, all the fish I got were very colourful, but we had to cook them. The Hunters’ Call prefers it when we deliver nice, freshly seared fish to them. This does mean though that you drain the fish of all colour, and they’re all a creamy brown-y colour when cooked.

I was supposed to be on lookout, but there was very little going on. The horizon was mostly clear. I positioned myself on one side of the boat so I could still look around, even with the limited view of fishing. Sadly, it wasn’t stormy or anything, so what I caught was rather basic. However, I did somehow fish up a single Ashen Key. Which we later sold.

So really I was both fishing and on lookout at the same time. Not that it was really needed though.

A very quiet server

The weirdest thing though is how… empty the server was. Normally there’s at least three or so ships in a single server. In an entire 4 hour session though, we only saw one other ship, and it was a sloop that we left alone. There was no reason to attack, and we both simply sailed past each other, as if neither of us were there.

What’s even more surprising though is that, well, events were still being done. We could tell because of the giant clouds, signifying public events. So there had to be some activity on the server. We just didn’t know where it was. And if the server had been empty, we would have been merged into a new server. But we weren’t. As far as we were concerned, we were almost completely alone.

At the end of the day, our session went by very smoothly. Sure, my blood lust wasn’t quenched, but I was getting tired and needed sleep. Still, the quiet time spent at sea was very relaxing, especially since we didn’t need to fight anyone.