Sea of Thieves Season 14 Update: Key Highlights

The Season 14 update for Sea of Thieves brings significant gameplay improvements, new features, fixes, and fresh items in the Pirate Emporium. Here’s an in-depth look at what’s new.

Pirates of Mischief Updates

• Grapple Gun Improvements:Extended range to match the ship’s harpoon.Increased arrowhead speed for better accuracy and reduced cooldown after failed shots.Faster acceleration when grappling to surfaces, scaling with travel distance.
• Extended range to match the ship’s harpoon.
• Increased arrowhead speed for better accuracy and reduced cooldown after failed shots.
• Faster acceleration when grappling to surfaces, scaling with travel distance.
• Blowpipe Adjustments:New Dart Radial Input allows quick cycling of dart types (default: ‘H’ for keyboard, Right D-pad for controller).Option to prevent automatic dart type switching via settings.
• New Dart Radial Input allows quick cycling of dart types (default: ‘H’ for keyboard, Right D-pad for controller).
• Option to prevent automatic dart type switching via settings.
• Merfruit Changes:Enchanted Merfruit is excluded when cycling food to prevent accidental consumption.Enchanted Merfruit can now be stored in Fruit Crates.
• Enchanted Merfruit is excluded when cycling food to prevent accidental consumption.
• Enchanted Merfruit can now be stored in Fruit Crates.

Gameplay Improvements

• Safer Seas Rewards:Gold and reputation now earned at 100% of High Seas value (up from 30%) up to Trading Company Rank 25.Reputation progression capped at Rank 25 on Safer Seas, requiring players to venture into High Seas to progress further.
• Gold and reputation now earned at 100% of High Seas value (up from 30%) up to Trading Company Rank 25.
• Reputation progression capped at Rank 25 on Safer Seas, requiring players to venture into High Seas to progress further.
• Detection Enhancements for Ban Evasion:New systems to combat evasion of bans will roll out in phases, targeting repeat offenders.
• New systems to combat evasion of bans will roll out in phases, targeting repeat offenders.

Pirate Emporium Additions

• New Items:Dreamers’ Dust Collection: Ship, weapons, costume set, lantern, and ship’s crest.Glacial Curse Pets: Fox, Owl, Parakeet, and Alsatian.Free Emote: Ice Sculpture.Motley Mariner Cannon Flare and Menacing Weapon Pose Emote.
• Dreamers’ Dust Collection: Ship, weapons, costume set, lantern, and ship’s crest.
• Glacial Curse Pets: Fox, Owl, Parakeet, and Alsatian.
• Free Emote: Ice Sculpture.
• Motley Mariner Cannon Flare and Menacing Weapon Pose Emote.
• Returning Favorites:Bonechiller Ship Collection, Costume Set, and Weapons (time-limited).Festival of Giving Weapons and Pet Outfits.
• Bonechiller Ship Collection, Costume Set, and Weapons (time-limited).
• Festival of Giving Weapons and Pet Outfits.
• Store Updates:Homepage carousel highlights new items.Dedicated tiles for Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life and The Legend of Monkey Island.Improved Plunder Pass preview of unlockable items for Season 14.
• Homepage carousel highlights new items.
• Dedicated tiles for Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life and The Legend of Monkey Island.
• Improved Plunder Pass preview of unlockable items for Season 14.

Outpost Additions

• Weaponsmith Stock: Bone Crusher and Sea Dog Heavy Swords and Rapiers now available.
• Clothing Shops: Stately Shirts in four colors added for purchase.

Fixes and Improvements

Gameplay:

• Fixed pig behavior around Merfruit.
• Improved aiming alignment on the Seasoned Sailor Pistol.

Performance:

• Enhanced stability and reduced disconnections.
• Slight improvements to framerate.

Pirates of Mischief Commendations:

• Players can now unlock disguises upon completing requirements.
• Progression for Black Powder and Poisonous Pirate Commendations fixed.

Blowpipe and Dart Fixes:

• Restocking darts from ammo pouches is consistent.
• Improved controller vibration feedback.
• Black Powder Darts extinguish reliably with water.
• Kill markers display properly when using darts.

Crouching and Stealth:

• Improved interactions and transitions when crouching.
• Resolved visibility and interaction bugs during crouch states.

Traps:

• Improved retrieval and deployment mechanics.
• Traps trigger correctly under specific conditions, including melee and ranged attacks.

Environment:

• Grapple Gun glitches allowing out-of-map traversal resolved.
• Fixed terrain clipping issues on Kraken’s Fall and Sea Forts.

User Interface:

• Consistency in unlocking Ship Milestones and Guild loading.
• Correct prompts for various actions and interactions.

Visual and Audio Enhancements:

• Resolved shadow and alignment issues for several ship items and equipment.
• Improved ponytail hairstyles and costume interactions.
• Fixed sound glitches in emotes, blowpipes, and combat.

Localization:

• Improved translations and text for Pirate Emporium items across multiple languages.

Known Issues

• Blowpipe Keybinding: Default bindings may conflict with existing settings. Players must rebind keys to resolve this.
• For ongoing known issues, visit the official Sea of Thieves Known Issues article.

Season 14’s updates solidify Sea of Thieves as a continually evolving experience. With enhanced gameplay mechanics, exciting new cosmetics, and improved accessibility for all players, the seas have never been more thrilling to explore.