3.8.0|Jun 18, 2026
View on Steam↗Sea of Thieves 3.8.0: Custom Seas and Season 20
4/5 Significant
Custom Seas adds configurable sessions for up to 24 players. Season 20 brings a 50-level pass and temporarily removes on-demand World Event Raid Voyages.
Key Changes
- 1Custom Seas lets players host configurable sessions for up to 24 players and six crews.
- 2Season 20 introduces a 50-level Season Pass with a paid Premium Tier.
- 3On-demand World Event Raid Voyages are removed from the Quest Table during Season 20 as an experiment.
- 4The Chest of Fortune can appear across a range of emergent World Events during Season 20.
- 5Last Ship Standing losers can requeue immediately with Faction Storage Crates and an automatically raised Emissary Flag.
- 6The Double Barrel Pistol keeps its second barrel ready after stashing, re-wielding or restocking.
All Changes
⛵Custom Seas(9)
- newCustom Seas: Players can host Custom Seas lobbies for up to 24 players and six crews, with control over ship types and crew configurations.
- newCustom Seas: Session Owners can invite players by platform invite or Join Code, promote Session Leaders and launch with their chosen setup.
- newSwitches: Switches let Session Owners customise players, ships, creatures, World Events and treasure hand-in locations.
- newPresets: Customisable, saveable Presets include Adventure, Competitive Pirates, Competitive Sandbox, Social and Creative.
- newCommand Menu: The Command Menu controls session rosters, ships, crews, settings and item spawning, and can start World Events or adjust time and weather.
- newQuick Commands Menu: The Quick Commands Menu provides access to Fly, Quick Sail, Quick Spawn and Free Camera.
- newSilver: Custom Seas sessions award no progress or gold, but owners can configure silver scoring, limits and team or individual scoreboards.
- newFree Camera: Players can use Free Camera with adjustable settings and lock it onto players, ships or creatures.
- newLegendary Locations: Custom Seas sessions can take place at Legendary Locations including Old Sailor Isle, Tribute Peak and both Sea Dog Taverns.
🏴☠️Season 20(7)
- changeSeason Pass: The Season Pass offers 50 reward levels, with Doubloon Pouches, Voyages and cosmetic choices every five levels and the Greed’s Reach Cutlass at level 50.
- newSeason Pass: Players can purchase up to 10 Season Pass levels per Season for 150 Ancient Coins each, with levels granted to all Pirate Profiles.
- changePremium Tier: The paid Premium Tier replaces the Plunder Pass name and offers boosted Renown, up to 1000 Ancient Coins and the Sirens’ Splendour ship set for completion.
- changeRenown: Renown is earned from activities including Voyages, Tall Tales, World Events, treasure sales, exploration, fishing and sinking rivals in Faction Battles or Last Ship Standing.
- changeSeason 20 Deeds: Season 20 has no Act structure and offers time-limited Custom Seas Deeds that award Renown on returning to High Seas; completing all available Deeds grants the Custom Crafter Sails.
- newGuild and Hunter’s Call Emissary Ledgers offer Season 20 cosmetic and title rewards.
- changeChest of Fortune: The Chest of Fortune can appear in several emergent World Events, with a lower chance of one chest and a rare chance of three alongside regular loot.
⚔️Gameplay(4)
- removeWorld Event Raid Voyages: During Season 20, on-demand World Event Raid Voyages are removed from the Quest Table as a time-limited experiment; the events remain available emergently.
- newLast Ship Standing: Losing crews can use Quick Requeue in Last Ship Standing, receiving Faction Storage Crates and an automatically raised Emissary Flag.
- changeLast Ship Standing: Last Ship Standing winners have more time to collect loot and reach the final portal.
- fixDouble Barrel Pistol: The Double Barrel Pistol keeps its second barrel ready after stashing, re-wielding or restocking following one shot, though players may need to reload manually.
👕Outpost Cosmetics(1)
- newSilver Coin clothing set: Outpost clothing shops offer the Silver Coin clothing set for gold.
🛒Pirate Emporium(2)
- newThe Pirate Emporium stocks Scene Stealer ship, weapon and clothing cosmetics, the Bilge Rats Bull Terrier, Ghostly Curse Owl and Table Flip Emote; Ancient Coins can be purchased with real money.
- changeDog Dance Emote: The Dog Dance Emote returns for free.
🐛Bug Fixes(33)
- fixRetrieving items from a barrel consistently takes them from the selected stack.
- fixReaper Fortress: Ships docked south of a Reaper Fortress are in range of its Ship Customisation Chest.
- fixAiming is corrected on several pistols, including the Legendary Flintlock and Paradise Garden Pistol, so shots align with the barrel tip or iron sights.
- fixTunnels of the Damned: Ships entering the Tunnels of the Damned are consistently repaired.
- fixMap Table: The Map Table and various hanging points should no longer let multiple pirates occupy the same location.
- fixPlayers rejoining during server migration should no longer lose the ability to use inventory items and resources.
- fixLottie: Lottie should show the appropriate dialogue choices to players who meet the requirements.
- fixLast Ship Standing: Last Ship Standing ships should no longer rarely flip into the air and abruptly end a battle.
- fixGuardians of Fortune: Guardians of Fortune sinking other Guardians vessels can recover Emissary Flags marked as won in battle.
- fixBattle Bounds: Ships destroyed by shrinking Battle Bounds release Emissary Flags marked as won in battle.
- fixLast Ship Standing: Cancelling a battle while waiting underwater no longer causes a black loading screen.
- fixLast Ship Standing: Cancelling an underwater battle search should no longer show an Hourglass value awarded notification upon arrival at an Outpost.
- fixLast Ship Standing: Fiery and Athena Treble, Quintuple and Strike Commendations consistently progress when crews with active streaks win a Last Ship Standing battle.
- fixLast Ship Standing: Voting for Last Ship Standing should no longer display the Faction Treasure Onboard Grade counter.
- fixBone Caller: Bone Caller Skeletons appear when Bone Callers explode on players’ and rivals’ ships.
- fixLast Ship Standing: The portal back to High Seas should remain present after a player disconnects and rejoins following a battle win.
- fixLast Ship Standing: Players starting a new session while waiting underwater should retain the option to cancel Last Ship Standing matchmaking in the new session.
- fixCrescent Isle: Players can no longer use the Grapple Gun to climb into cave ceilings on Crescent Isle.
- fixMercy’s End Fortress: Visual issues in areas of Mercy’s End Fortress have been addressed.
- fixPicaroon Palms: Players catch fire when stepping on lit campfires at Picaroon Palms.
- fixGlorious Sea Dog Tavern: Skeleton Ships no longer become stuck on rocks near the Glorious Sea Dog Tavern.
- fixthrowing knife: Retrieved throwing knives are consistently held in the correct position when viewed by others.
- fixThe Doubloon Crate and Secret Shipment Crate glint correctly at a distance.
- fixLegendary Sea Dog Blunderbuss: The Legendary Sea Dog Blunderbuss displays the correct Armoury icon.
- fixMimic Dart: Players can use a customised emote radial while affected by the Mimic Dart.
- fixThe ‘More’ prompt no longer appears on the Pirate Wheel of Emotions or Disguise Radial when there is only one page.
- fixDisabling controllers on PC no longer leaves them disabled on a console using the same account.
- fixPet pigs are animated while browsing the Pirate Emporium.
- fixGorgon Cannon Flare: The Gorgon Cannon Flare displays the correct Pirate Emporium icon.
- fixTranslate Other Players and Speech-To-Text Override can be set independently without affecting each other.
- fixSecret Shipment Voyage: Secret Shipment Voyage notifications should be translated correctly when using Russian language settings.
- fixStability improvements reduce unexpected game exits and session disconnections.
- fixSmaller high-framerate improvements address gameplay hitches.
📅Coming Soon(6)
- changeA Pirate’s Life: From June 22nd to September 17th, the A Pirate’s Life anniversary celebration offers the Sea King’s Cutlass for completing an associated Tall Tale before Season 20 ends.
- changeSeason 20 Community Weekend: Season 20 Community Weekend runs June 26th–June 29th with gifts, Twitch Drops, Pop-Up Plunder, reward boosts and event goals for Meridian Hunter weapons.
- changeLast Ship Standing: Last Ship Standing returns July 3rd–July 10th for Solo and Duo Sloops, with boosted Allegiance and Doubloon rewards for a first win and first top 3 finish.
- changeWeekly Fight Nights: Weekly Fight Nights return starting July 14th, offering double Allegiance and gold for Faction Battles for 24 hours each Tuesday when Last Ship Standing is inactive.
- changeBilge Rats Weekender: The Bilge Rats Weekender runs July 17th–July 20th with High Seas challenges, Legendary Messages in a Bottle, event rewards and new Black Market and Smugglers’ Market stock.
- changeLetters of Recommendation: Black Market Letters of Recommendation will refresh during the Bilge Rats Weekender rather than during game updates.
Summary
Custom Seas
Custom sessions support six crews, configurable world settings, presets, commands, silver-based scoring and a Free Camera. Legendary Locations are available as session settings; Custom Seas does not award gold or progress.
Season 20 and gameplay
The 50-level Season Pass includes an optional paid Premium Tier. Renown sources have changed, the Chest of Fortune can appear in several emergent World Events, and on-demand World Event Raid Voyages are unavailable during a Season 20 experiment. Last Ship Standing gains quick requeue and a longer winner grace period, while the Double Barrel Pistol retains its ready second barrel in more situations.
Fixes and events
Fixes address Last Ship Standing matchmaking and rewards, inventory use after server migration, weapon aiming, accessibility settings and stability. Upcoming events include the A Pirate’s Life anniversary celebration, Community Weekend and the return of Last Ship Standing.