even though ive been playing sea of thieves for over 2 years, i didnt know it takes 10 minutes for a boat to despawn when its on land. Thanks for being awesome phuzzy my good friend
The whole "Chest on ship, all fine, happy sailing. Boom next to chest, not fine, sad sailing" part was great lmaoo hilarious. I love dry humor so i loved this
the other day i ranted about get cursed out by crew member and getting sunk by dark adventurer sails over and over. You said some very kind words and ended up helping me want stay adventuring. Thanks phuzzy!
I got sunk today by a athena while I was doing a veil solo even when I told them to stop they just sunk me anyway. People like that are entitled idiots who think they deserve everything. If your not a reaper and respect people then you are better than them by far. They might be good at pvp but other than that there stupid. As much as someone like that needs a punch to the face it will never change so if you get sunk by a reaper don't get angry that's what they want. You are better than them in every way. They will grow up to be fat 30 year Olds living in there mama's basement. Be RESPECTFUL.
The biggest mistakes that cost us our ship early on were: 1. Panicking about holes instead of actively fighting back or prioritising to fix mobility. 2. Not boarding enemy ships. 3. Getting overwhelmed by fire
I rarely (if ever) get in to any situation where I need harpoons to get out. 1- Raise your sails 2- Move wheel all the way to the left and wait for the ship to move as far as it will go. 3- Turn the wheel all the way to the right and wait for it to move. Repeating steps 2-3 usually gently rocks you out of any tight spot until it turns enough to just sail away.
Smol Brain: Leave lanterns on Big Brain: Turn off lanterns to avoid attention *Galaxy Brain:* Acquire green and blue flames for lanterns so you look like a skelly ship
3 issues 1. You get the skelly sinkers who think "easy loot" and immediately rush over to fight. 2. an audio cue plays when you see a skelly ship in your spyglass 3. this only works on sloops and galleons as brig skelly ships don't exist (for some reason)
@@arfarfsays29 brig skellies dont exist cuz the skeleton fleets were added before brigantine was,ig rare didnt bother to include the new ship in old content
Thank you for your videos! Today, I was doing a solo sloop reaper's session. Not for the loot, but rather to train. To bring enemies to me. I found one sloop parked at an island, and sunk it. Then went for a reaper's chest. They came back, took me by surprise, so I sailed away. As we got past a fort, I decided to try out what I saw in your videos! Went to a tower, shot a chainshot and an anchorball, and boarded with a keg. Didn't take long to sink them again. So thank you for your videos! Applying what I see in it allows me to improve.
Love the humor! I had the advantage of “practicing” with my son’s character until I got my own but I’m still inexperienced in some areas. Most of this stuff I knew but a couple things were helpful and again, just the overall comedic sarcasm made it worth my time. Thanks!
Another common player mistake: Leaving your ship's lanterns on will make experienced thirsty players lock on to you like a guided missile of sinking potential. Turn off lanterns to make it harder for the enemy to lock on to you.
Facts! Got chased for 30 mins right after spawning in...had NOTHING to gain, but still got chased... thinking back on it, im glad i saw them early enough to take off and mix them with another ship that WANTED pvp, but it also could have been a good opportunity to scuttle/tuck...every encounter is an opportunity to be more pirate, but chasing fresh spawns or noobs who have literally nothing but a ship is just not worth anyones time
@@HomingRocket1 this is gonna sound like im bragging but try not to take it as such, but im a day 1 pirate, and if theres ever one thing I learned, is that if a ship chases u after spawning into an outpost, they just want to grief/sink u...there used to be days that u could tell people u dont have anything and they may just take ur supplies and leave u be, but nowadays pirates are bloodthirsty for no reason... sinking everyone for any reason, just to say they are "better"... Sinking weaker/under supplied ships holds no appeal to me, and i can almost guarantee that they would have still chased me, even if i stressed that i had nothing for them, which this time i actually didnt lol
@@bunny1780 My friends are the types to sink a fresh spawn at an outpost just because they want to sell at that outpost and are too lazy to sail to another one. I agree, people can and will sink your ship regardless of what you say, what you have/don't have etc. Kinda sucks but hey, people will play this game how they wanna play it, it is a pirate game after all!
I haven't played SOT since season 1 so I have a lot to catch up to. These beginner vids will definitely bring me up to date and get back to the gold grind
Hey puzzybond and Jackie, you both have been the Pirates I looked up too. Your lessons been great help, sadly my days of sailing have came to end because it's time to drop the sword.even I do solo fishing mostly and run from larger ship blocking the sunset, wow what a experience there were salt pvp sometimes. I appreciate what you both have shown me, the sea is brighter now and I hope you all have fun at the sea
I have also just recently started and the things I have experienced are just insane. From funny, wholesome, awkward, cringe to simply ridiculous and cruel.
@@mizquitl A valluable Tipp I just learned a few Minutes ago; dont take gunpowder barrels with you if you plunder ghost sea forts. We just lost two forts and some drifting loot worth of booty because our ship got struck by lightning during a storm and that ignited all five barrels we had under deck, blowing us skyhigh in an instant. Sometimes the sea punishes greed in a spectacular way.😭 😆
dude thank you, i started playing SoT during the beta release and i haven't really played since they released the meg, so I'm essentially a new player and i despise people who speed towards you and sink you just because they can. this actually really helped me get back into the game :)
No matter how many tips and tricks videos I watch I still feel like I'm always out of classed Because the way this kind of works is that depending on who attacks you you either win or you lose if it's a new player or a person of your skill level you can probably win but if it's a person who's actually good at the game and it's kind of a sweat you might as well admit defeat as soon as you see them coming after you because they're just naturally better at the game than you and they will always win no matter how hard you try to defend yourself
If you throw the fight before it even began, how can you improve your skills? I still think it's always worth the fight, even if you lose. You learn about PvP tactics other crews are using and get prepared for the next encounters. It's obvious that a new player is guaranteed to lose against someone with over 100 hours on the clock, but if you give up in the first place, you will never get better. Like getting killed from a boss in a souls game and saying "nah, too hard for me", why even start playing? You knew what was waiting for you, didn't you? Every start is at the bottom, you just gotta stick to it.
See thieves the skill-based game and like any skills if you work on them you can improve upon them if you give up the fight before fighting you will learn nothing about the fight and you will not improve everybody even the best players sink on occasion you can't take it to heart and you can't take it personally you just have to get back on your ship and try again eventually you'll get to a point where you're winning those encounters more than you're losing them
This is not a champion mind set. Wanna get better? Go hunting DA sails. You're Gunna lose alot but eventually it will be less and less and all of a sudden you're the sweat. I loved arena because I could just practice combat consistently. Used to go into galleon open crew arena just to jump onto othe galleons and force myself into 1v4 situations. Sure enough I eventually started wrecking full crews.
Been playing for about a week. Didn't know about the despawn when sitting touching something. Also the harpoon reverse is a nice trick. I'm sure I'll use that. Thanks for the upload :)
The first time I got the chest of sorrows I was at one of those red pirate captain ghost raid thingies. Thinking that all the loot would be on the island, and seeing as my ship was being decimated, I fired myself onto the island and watched as my ship sank. I found the chest of sorrows and thought it looked valuable, so I took a rowboat off of the island and rowed and rowed and rowed until I found an outpost to sell it. I just found out when I watched this video that it floods your ship!
If it's a sloop it's a different story sloop you can raise that anchor in about 3 seconds and if it's not anchored you're more likely to have your ship sail off without you if you get someone on it
Plus it's better for you to think of the anchors like your emergency brake it's not something you're going to use very often but it does have its specific uses
@@magicpyroninja not if the ship rolling up on you is somewhat decent and uses blunders to stop you from raising that anchor ... besides in those 3 seconds you are raising anchor i have chainshotted your mast 3 times ....... my point was if your gonna tell people to not anchor ; then dont do it yourself either xD
The last one was something I thought as a bug. Happened 2 times to me. Thanks for explaining! Also, we love the slight guitar music as background music in all your videos. Please continue keeping them. :)
The greatest tip I can give is to simply detatch yourself emotionally from your loot!! As the pirate lord says, it's not about the gold it's about the glory! Once you are less precious about the loot you realise that amassing great wealth is kinda pointless as you can only buy cosmetics (which is cool, and I support it, but it reduces the loss when you lose loot see?). The real experience of this game is the adventure and the stories. I get a lot more fun now from not running from fights, and actually from using Open Crew more! Solo is Hard Mode for SoT. So consider Open Crew even on a Sloop as that's where all the good players seem to be. Whereas Galleon Open Crew is more chaotic but still fun. Remember you can quit and research for Open as well if your crew are annoying.
I must say; I LOVED the “ashen lord” skin and the “kraken” set you had on as the “new” player thing. By the way; what a familiar scene that was! And then it showed you at the end; with a rowboat. That really is how it is nowadays 🤣 I just love good symbolism.
Wow, I didn't even think that the harpoons could be used that way. I thought they could possibly be used as tethers on land, but not as tools to get outta a tight spot.
I read descriptions every time I see them. Not because I fear things like the Reaper's Mark, but because they normally are actually pretty funny. Makes me make weapon builds above my skill level in some games, or, in the case of SoT, it would've saved me from the Reaper's Mark if I hadn't, you know, been around when they added the thing.
That's actually smart. I learned the hard way that certain belts attract lightning, spent way too much time visiting the Ferryman while sporting one of the Admiral belts. Reading is your friend in SOT, lol.
@@stiixgirl6148 Belts don't attract lightning. That particular description is flavor text. Lightning has a something like five times higher chance of striking you if you're holding your sword out, that's what does it - so don't run around with weapon in hand in a storm.
When I started playing everyone gave this tip to raise sails instead of anchor. This was extra work until yesterday when a random guy tried to attack when I was on Island. In mere second I had the safe distance to fight back. Plus the arena grind I oblitrated him cannons ( he had that season 1 PL curse I saw in videos)
Thanks for the awesome video hehe I also like to sometimes harpoon backwoods and the set sails one step down on sloop hehe it rocks back and forward but with storms and heavy winds the harpoon will dilatch its a tricky but funny move maybe it will help keep others away...
that last one, I usually pull up facing a dock and have a slight sail drop so I can get as close as I can and sell quickly. Haven't had my ship despawn ever since this games release. Although, this is interesting, did not know this is a potential outcome ...
Tip I found with the crying chest is to hook it on a harpoon, downside is chance if theft but then its their problem and you can make another run for better loot to take place of what you just lost
So I hit pl a couple of months ago, I’ve had the game almost since release. However the harpoon part at the end there. Haven’t really thought of that hahaha. As a solo reaper at heart sloop kinda guy I just have my sails up and steer left, then right over and over and the ship will reverse..... (slowly XD) thx for the harpoon tip 😂 and this is a great video for new players.
A handy tip for the Chest of Sorrows is, if you aren't far from an outpost, and you have a rowboat, you can row it there. The rowboat won't sink if the chest cries. The downside is, you need to leave your ship unattended if you're soloing, so maybe only do this if you don't care that your ship gets sunk.
If you aren't far from an outpost then just sail there and bail lol. I think I got slightly less water by putting it on the bow, but I didn't test it in the hull to see the difference
I picked the Reaper's Flag for one of my first voyages and it surprisingly worked out great. I spawned in a central outpost and I just chilled there while my flag flew. Eventually, I saw multiple enemies closing in at the same time, and guess what happened?.. They fought and sunk each other and I went in and snatched up all their loot 😂
Ooooh... that despawn happened to me during my first week. XD glad to have an explanation (still new). I did bury all my loot and left the map on the board tho which was kinda fun.
I remember my first encouter with the chest of sorrows. Stuck it down below and took off to finish my quest. It started crying and I didn't notice until I heard creaking the ship makes when about to sink. By the time I got below it was bye bye ship. Miss being able to put kegs in top of the crow's nest and not making a difference but just saw a video by HitboTC that shows his crew shooting at kegs with loot around it and it not exploding. May have to try that next time I sail.
Still not a great option, your ship can still very easily be firebombed and cannonballs do big AoE. Sure it might stop a flintlock but still not a risk worth taking
First experience with chest of sorrows was a fun one to be sure I was with 2 friends, one of them was afk and we put him in the brig for shits and giggles When I finished on the island we were dropping stuff of for, I noticed the ship was basically completely full of water. Yes, I managed to save the ship by myself, but it made the trip a lot more anxious for the brig guy after he got back
my first experience was my mate telling me that he would go tuck on a fort ( a normal fort) he left the chest with me without saying a word about it, i went to sell our haul at the nearest outpost and in the middle of selling i noticed the emissary lost ship sunk message we lost a gold hoarder 5 after a giant vault stack and he blamed it on me, because apparently its my fault for not knowing what the wierd blue chest is
Nothing worse than seeing your ship so full of water that you have to make a split second judgement on whether it's completely under, not because you wouldn't try to bail anyway but so you can get ready for the incoming emotional damage 😂
It's in the SoT codex not to grief new players. Rather leave them alone or explain them instead of sinking them for easy loot would be recommended. Their are alot of people who sink ships while players are doing tall tales and there is literally nothing you can do about it.
and Rare wanted largely peaceful pirates when they made the game. they even implement features from time to time that can hinder pvp, but people are too desperate to burn the world
So thats why my ship disappeared on one of my first voyages! I was so confused as to why that happened and I've been paranoid about it happening again ever since because I lost so much loot that day. Now that I know what causes it and how to avoid it, I can definitely rest easier knowing my ship won't randomly despawn when I'm away from it
You can put the chest of sorrows in your row boat if you have one or you can put it on the point of the bow of your ship. That way it can cry all it likes and it won't affect your ship.
I just had a bit of misfortune solo slooping. I found some decent loot, just a couple pieces, and I was in the process of taking it back to an outpost when on the way, I noticed a bunch of barrels in the water, but I noticed it too late, as it was right in front of me. I began to turn, but ended up hitting a gunpowder keg, that severely damaged my ship and tossed me into the water. My ship's helm was hard to port at that time, and it kept turning, making it somewhat easier for me to get back on, but I had to wait for it to turn back around. Once I was back on, it was too late, I heard the death creaks. I could only get one scoop of water from below before it sank. I respawned only a handful of kilometers away, so I set back that direction. But when I got there, there was Nothing in the water. So I decided to just go back to try and get more loot. But as soon as I turned, a Kraken decided to visit me. I just quit the game before anything happened.
being Pirate legend doesnt mean anything ........it just means you know how to get 3 reps to 50 lmao ; being pirate legend should be the tutorial in this game XD
My first experience with the chest of sorrows I picked it up at the same time as a chest of rage. Set them next to each other in the cargo hold. They cancel each other out nicely. The second time I picked up a chest of sorrows I didn't realize how quickly they can flood a ship. That crying chest sank my battleship...
One time, my crew and I stuck the chest of sorrows in our row boat then used the row boat's harpoon to latch onto the back of the ship. We pulled the row boat to the outpost and sold it without having to worry about it flooding the ship. Honestly, we didn't think it would work.
Been playing a couple years now and never knew it would respawn if you're touching ground. Never had it happen but now that I think about it, I was anchored hiding my silhouette against a rock formation while I was diving a shrine and came back to floating loot and no ship. I couldn't figure out why someone would find it, sink it, and leave everything. I bet it was up against the rocks and this happened.
I remember when I found the sorrows chest the first time. I made the connection of it filling up my ship quick, and I left it, and all my other loot, in the rowboat on the stern, thinking that it wouldn’t fill up my ship if not technically on my ship, right? My ship sunk. But since I already had all my loot on the rowboat, and the rowboats don’t sink with the ships, and I had a heading for the nearest outpost, I just paddled all the way there. Lesson learned
The ship respawn happened to me for the first time yesterday and I’ve been playing for a few years.. I was parked to close to the dock and was looting the outpost. Lesson learnt I guess
I'M SO HAPPY YOU CALLED İT BOOM AND NOT KEG!!! i always call it boom, it's boom, big boom and soul boom. And booms are never for sale, you put them in the ship and then ram other ships and BOOM! Well, sometimes it booms in your hand or ship but it's okay.
I remember when I found a villain skull a duo of two other new players walked onto my ship and took it. Just like that they just waltz onto my tiny sloop to put the skull on their sloop. I didn't know what happened, so I just shrugged it off and continued my journey in the new adventure I was having.
With the ship despawn, one time me and my friends tried to sail over twin isles? (Whatever that really shallow island is. We tried to keg, blunder, harpoon, rowboat harpoon, and it was just funny.
Just finished a very long session and turned in 4 Athena chests and an Athena keg lovely lovely day. Early in the day we had a level 1 representing we just went straight after him and he ran away begging for mercy and never bothered us again he's still on there when I got off 10 minutes ago and I started playing at 12:00 in the afternoon good 7 1/2 hours
Been sailing since June 2020, I've used Phuzzys guides to pretty much solo my way to PL but now I'm hitting the limits of what's reasonably possible solo. Seems like Rare increased the aggressiveness of everything. Skelly Gallys are now impossible and even Skelly Sloops are giving me troubles.
"You don't owe anyone a fight." Jesus Christ, this needs to be plastered as an in-game mantra everywhere on ships, on taverns, when you dig up a random chest, fucking EVERYWHERE.
Me and my friend who have been playing for a year and half write that down, write that down! We found out about the ship disappearing after 10m recently, we were selling at Reapers and we crashed the ship to make it easier to drop stuff, we had a decent amount of loot so it took time to sell everything and a few secs after we removed the emissary flag our ship disappeared :o, we were lucky.
I've lost count of how many times I've rage quit Sea of Thieves in the last 4 years. Rare created a beautiful world but there are just some things that annoy me. The first is the wind currents. It seems that with every destination we need to get to, we have a head wind. There is no consistency with the currents, you can literally stay anchored at one spot and watch the currents change direction. One day I watched for 15 minutes the winds shifted 180 degrees. The wind shouldn't change like that while staying in one spot. It would make more sense to have a current flowing in one direct across whole sections of the map. Like having Row A & B with wind flowing West to East, then Row C & D flowing East to West. The second is how "Random" the boss encounters are. One night my crew and I had a skeleton galleon chasing us, then the Kraken appeared and attacked us. So we're defending from the Kraken and a Skellie Gallon. While we were stuck there, a large storm rolled over us then just as we're escaping from the Kraken's black ink (the Kraken actually attacked the Skellie so that helped us escape), a Meg showed up. Like many, my biggest gripe though is the PvP mixed in with PvE. Sea of Thieves would have worked great as a massive Co-Op adventure with a PvP option for those that like it. I just prefer going against tougher NPC enemies than having to worry about players who I know are far better at the game then I am.
You can get the ship stuck so bad that you can't get it unstuck with the harpoons. I've had to use full sail and harpoons. I've also had to stack a few kegs under the bow and blow them up. Of course me trying to run over the island was the original cause of this in both cases.
Bonus mistake, not listening when others talk thus accidentally interrupting people. And please do not get angry when people think you’re bad because of it, because it would just ruin the game for you and you’d go screaming on Reddit about how your ship skin is not terrible or something.
My fishing ship disappeared and I thought the crew that came by glitched it away, or my internet was bad and they sunk it, or the game bugged, or they cheated and deleted it (was my first voyage after my maiden voyage)
You forgot to mention leaving all your lamps on, makes you stand out very easy at night. For some reason I always get stuck with the noobs who think dropping the anchor the second the island title pops up is a good idea when your the one thats been piloting the ship for the last hour and have not once mentioned to drop anchor. Although it is funny watching them swim with a chest for 3 minutes just to get back to the ship only to be killed by a shark once they almost reach the ship.
I wouldn't say the Reaper's mark has been "replaced", as you can fly the mark at the same time you do Reaper's emissary. This is what I do all the time, 'cause why not? But I do admit most people don't, and I think that's a shame. The Reaper's mark just looks so damn cool... The quick and dirty advice I always gave to newbies was: "Don't light the deck lanterns, don't ring the bell, and DON'T PUT UP THE REAPER'S MARK"
The first time I was attacked by another player, I was actually so happy because I had been playing for 2 days and didn’t meet anyone, I was getting worried that nobody was playing this anymore. I ended up loosing the fight
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Bro if you play music, the sunken chest stop crying :)
even though ive been playing sea of thieves for over 2 years, i didnt know it takes 10 minutes for a boat to despawn when its on land.
Thanks for being awesome phuzzy my good friend
same. this made us loose a fort a fortune. we didn't know what happened
Literally happend to a galleon I saw today so decided to take the loot
This just happened to me after getting my emissary flag to 5 and fighting a kraken but never again will I park too close
Yeah, same here, never seen it happen, nor had it happen. I must park my ship in smart places..
The whole "Chest on ship, all fine, happy sailing. Boom next to chest, not fine, sad sailing" part was great lmaoo hilarious. I love dry humor so i loved this
the other day i ranted about get cursed out by crew member and getting sunk by dark adventurer sails over and over. You said some very kind words and ended up helping me want stay adventuring. Thanks phuzzy!
I got sunk today by a athena while I was doing a veil solo even when I told them to stop they just sunk me anyway. People like that are entitled idiots who think they deserve everything. If your not a reaper and respect people then you are better than them by far. They might be good at pvp but other than that there stupid. As much as someone like that needs a punch to the face it will never change so if you get sunk by a reaper don't get angry that's what they want. You are better than them in every way. They will grow up to be fat 30 year Olds living in there mama's basement. Be RESPECTFUL.
The biggest mistakes that cost us our ship early on were:
1. Panicking about holes instead of actively fighting back or prioritising to fix mobility.
2. Not boarding enemy ships.
3. Getting overwhelmed by fire
I rarely (if ever) get in to any situation where I need harpoons to get out.
1- Raise your sails
2- Move wheel all the way to the left and wait for the ship to move as far as it will go.
3- Turn the wheel all the way to the right and wait for it to move.
Repeating steps 2-3 usually gently rocks you out of any tight spot until it turns enough to just sail away.
Usually faster to use harpoons
Smol Brain: Leave lanterns on
Big Brain: Turn off lanterns to avoid attention
*Galaxy Brain:* Acquire green and blue flames for lanterns so you look like a skelly ship
@Promifius any good player will see that its a normal ship but from far away you could think its a skelly ship
3 issues
1. You get the skelly sinkers who think "easy loot" and immediately rush over to fight.
2. an audio cue plays when you see a skelly ship in your spyglass
3. this only works on sloops and galleons as brig skelly ships don't exist (for some reason)
@@arfarfsays29 there is a skin which makes your ship kind of skele like
@@arfarfsays29 brig skellies dont exist cuz the skeleton fleets were added before brigantine was,ig rare didnt bother to include the new ship in old content
@@alonymelony8047 I’m pretty sure the brig was added specifically DURING cursed sails
Thank you for your videos!
Today, I was doing a solo sloop reaper's session. Not for the loot, but rather to train. To bring enemies to me.
I found one sloop parked at an island, and sunk it. Then went for a reaper's chest. They came back, took me by surprise, so I sailed away. As we got past a fort, I decided to try out what I saw in your videos!
Went to a tower, shot a chainshot and an anchorball, and boarded with a keg. Didn't take long to sink them again.
So thank you for your videos! Applying what I see in it allows me to improve.
Love the humor! I had the advantage of “practicing” with my son’s character until I got my own but I’m still inexperienced in some areas. Most of this stuff I knew but a couple things were helpful and again, just the overall comedic sarcasm made it worth my time. Thanks!
Another common player mistake: Leaving your ship's lanterns on will make experienced thirsty players lock on to you like a guided missile of sinking potential.
Turn off lanterns to make it harder for the enemy to lock on to you.
Yeah even not having them on makes us much less likely to go after a ship.
Facts! Got chased for 30 mins right after spawning in...had NOTHING to gain, but still got chased... thinking back on it, im glad i saw them early enough to take off and mix them with another ship that WANTED pvp, but it also could have been a good opportunity to scuttle/tuck...every encounter is an opportunity to be more pirate, but chasing fresh spawns or noobs who have literally nothing but a ship is just not worth anyones time
When you're chased by a ship, when you just spawned in, let it be known that their pursuit will yield nothing for them.
@@HomingRocket1 this is gonna sound like im bragging but try not to take it as such, but im a day 1 pirate, and if theres ever one thing I learned, is that if a ship chases u after spawning into an outpost, they just want to grief/sink u...there used to be days that u could tell people u dont have anything and they may just take ur supplies and leave u be, but nowadays pirates are bloodthirsty for no reason... sinking everyone for any reason, just to say they are "better"... Sinking weaker/under supplied ships holds no appeal to me, and i can almost guarantee that they would have still chased me, even if i stressed that i had nothing for them, which this time i actually didnt lol
@@bunny1780 My friends are the types to sink a fresh spawn at an outpost just because they want to sell at that outpost and are too lazy to sail to another one. I agree, people can and will sink your ship regardless of what you say, what you have/don't have etc. Kinda sucks but hey, people will play this game how they wanna play it, it is a pirate game after all!
I haven't played SOT since season 1 so I have a lot to catch up to. These beginner vids will definitely bring me up to date and get back to the gold grind
Hey puzzybond and Jackie, you both have been the Pirates I looked up too. Your lessons been great help, sadly my days of sailing have came to end because it's time to drop the sword.even I do solo fishing mostly and run from larger ship blocking the sunset, wow what a experience there were salt pvp sometimes. I appreciate what you both have shown me, the sea is brighter now and I hope you all have fun at the sea
Don’t quit man. If it’s that bad come take a ride with us. We make millions in hours and fight everything we see.
I like his solo videos or tips videos mostly
@@Slayer-tr9ir thank you for the invitation, but I am not quitting, I am retiring.have good one
Yo buddy, u alright???? 🥺🥺🥺
@@mariozunigaliarte7492 I m alright. Thank you for asking. SOT is amazing game 👍👍
Fresh pirate here, just started out today. Thanks for the tipps, specially the ship despawn thing.
I have also just recently started and the things I have experienced are just insane. From funny, wholesome, awkward, cringe to simply ridiculous and cruel.
@@mizquitl A valluable Tipp I just learned a few Minutes ago; dont take gunpowder barrels with you if you plunder ghost sea forts. We just lost two forts and some drifting loot worth of booty because our ship got struck by lightning during a storm and that ignited all five barrels we had under deck, blowing us skyhigh in an instant. Sometimes the sea punishes greed in a spectacular way.😭 😆
dude thank you, i started playing SoT during the beta release and i haven't really played since they released the meg, so I'm essentially a new player and i despise people who speed towards you and sink you just because they can. this actually really helped me get back into the game :)
The reverse with the help of 2 harpoons is fantastic! Would not have come to this idea on my own. Thanks a ton!
No matter how many tips and tricks videos I watch I still feel like I'm always out of classed
Because the way this kind of works is that depending on who attacks you you either win or you lose if it's a new player or a person of your skill level you can probably win but if it's a person who's actually good at the game and it's kind of a sweat you might as well admit defeat as soon as you see them coming after you because they're just naturally better at the game than you and they will always win no matter how hard you try to defend yourself
If you throw the fight before it even began, how can you improve your skills? I still think it's always worth the fight, even if you lose. You learn about PvP tactics other crews are using and get prepared for the next encounters. It's obvious that a new player is guaranteed to lose against someone with over 100 hours on the clock, but if you give up in the first place, you will never get better.
Like getting killed from a boss in a souls game and saying "nah, too hard for me", why even start playing? You knew what was waiting for you, didn't you? Every start is at the bottom, you just gotta stick to it.
See thieves the skill-based game and like any skills if you work on them you can improve upon them if you give up the fight before fighting you will learn nothing about the fight and you will not improve everybody even the best players sink on occasion you can't take it to heart and you can't take it personally you just have to get back on your ship and try again eventually you'll get to a point where you're winning those encounters more than you're losing them
the videos give you knowledge. but they won't help you win unless you practice.
You need to be mechanically proficient as well.
This is not a champion mind set. Wanna get better? Go hunting DA sails. You're Gunna lose alot but eventually it will be less and less and all of a sudden you're the sweat. I loved arena because I could just practice combat consistently. Used to go into galleon open crew arena just to jump onto othe galleons and force myself into 1v4 situations. Sure enough I eventually started wrecking full crews.
Been playing for about a week. Didn't know about the despawn when sitting touching something. Also the harpoon reverse is a nice trick. I'm sure I'll use that.
Thanks for the upload :)
The first time I got the chest of sorrows I was at one of those red pirate captain ghost raid thingies. Thinking that all the loot would be on the island, and seeing as my ship was being decimated, I fired myself onto the island and watched as my ship sank. I found the chest of sorrows and thought it looked valuable, so I took a rowboat off of the island and rowed and rowed and rowed until I found an outpost to sell it. I just found out when I watched this video that it floods your ship!
1:20 : never leave your ship anchored
2:15 : Phuzzy's ship anchored 😅😅😅😅
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH SIR !!!!
If it's a sloop it's a different story sloop you can raise that anchor in about 3 seconds and if it's not anchored you're more likely to have your ship sail off without you if you get someone on it
Plus it's better for you to think of the anchors like your emergency brake it's not something you're going to use very often but it does have its specific uses
@@magicpyroninja not if the ship rolling up on you is somewhat decent and uses blunders to stop you from raising that anchor ... besides in those 3 seconds you are raising anchor i have chainshotted your mast 3 times ....... my point was if your gonna tell people to not anchor ; then dont do it yourself either xD
The last one was something I thought as a bug. Happened 2 times to me. Thanks for explaining! Also, we love the slight guitar music as background music in all your videos. Please continue keeping them. :)
The greatest tip I can give is to simply detatch yourself emotionally from your loot!!
As the pirate lord says, it's not about the gold it's about the glory!
Once you are less precious about the loot you realise that amassing great wealth is kinda pointless as you can only buy cosmetics (which is cool, and I support it, but it reduces the loss when you lose loot see?).
The real experience of this game is the adventure and the stories.
I get a lot more fun now from not running from fights, and actually from using Open Crew more! Solo is Hard Mode for SoT. So consider Open Crew even on a Sloop as that's where all the good players seem to be. Whereas Galleon Open Crew is more chaotic but still fun. Remember you can quit and research for Open as well if your crew are annoying.
True words!
I think I'll just not play lol
I must say; I LOVED the “ashen lord” skin and the “kraken” set you had on as the “new” player thing. By the way; what a familiar scene that was! And then it showed you at the end; with a rowboat.
That really is how it is nowadays 🤣
I just love good symbolism.
Thanks for the tips PhuzzyBond. For a pirate, you're one righteous dude.
Wow, I didn't even think that the harpoons could be used that way. I thought they could possibly be used as tethers on land, but not as tools to get outta a tight spot.
Love from Angola 🇦🇴❤️
And South Africa!
Love from Ukraine
@@pomamoba God bless you and God speed.
Where is angola?
@@LarnelTheThird south west Africa
wow! good to know!! I started playing yesterday and did the anchor method !
I read descriptions every time I see them. Not because I fear things like the Reaper's Mark, but because they normally are actually pretty funny. Makes me make weapon builds above my skill level in some games, or, in the case of SoT, it would've saved me from the Reaper's Mark if I hadn't, you know, been around when they added the thing.
That's actually smart. I learned the hard way that certain belts attract lightning, spent way too much time visiting the Ferryman while sporting one of the Admiral belts. Reading is your friend in SOT, lol.
@@stiixgirl6148 Belts don't attract lightning. That particular description is flavor text. Lightning has a something like five times higher chance of striking you if you're holding your sword out, that's what does it - so don't run around with weapon in hand in a storm.
When I started playing everyone gave this tip to raise sails instead of anchor. This was extra work until yesterday when a random guy tried to attack when I was on Island. In mere second I had the safe distance to fight back. Plus the arena grind I oblitrated him cannons ( he had that season 1 PL curse I saw in videos)
I have almost 3k hours in this game and this video still taught me something! (The harpoons to back up, WHY HAVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT!?!)
You can stop the chest of sorrow crying by playing the song stichers sorrow, it works for a bit before you have to repeat
Thanks for the awesome video hehe I also like to sometimes harpoon backwoods and the set sails one step down on sloop hehe it rocks back and forward but with storms and heavy winds the harpoon will dilatch its a tricky but funny move maybe it will help keep others away...
I actually used some of your ideas, so thank you so much for helping me Phuzzy
that last one, I usually pull up facing a dock and have a slight sail drop so I can get as close as I can and sell quickly. Haven't had my ship despawn ever since this games release. Although, this is interesting, did not know this is a potential outcome ...
it only despawns when your ship cant move because of thingseither under or around it
iv got a couple hundred hours on sea of thieves and didnt know about that last one. good thing to watch out for
Tip I found with the crying chest is to hook it on a harpoon, downside is chance if theft but then its their problem and you can make another run for better loot to take place of what you just lost
That is a good tip
So I hit pl a couple of months ago, I’ve had the game almost since release. However the harpoon part at the end there. Haven’t really thought of that hahaha. As a solo reaper at heart sloop kinda guy I just have my sails up and steer left, then right over and over and the ship will reverse..... (slowly XD) thx for the harpoon tip 😂 and this is a great video for new players.
1:52
This fast explanation reminds me of Colette in Ratatouille. Nice bit lol
A handy tip for the Chest of Sorrows is, if you aren't far from an outpost, and you have a rowboat, you can row it there. The rowboat won't sink if the chest cries.
The downside is, you need to leave your ship unattended if you're soloing, so maybe only do this if you don't care that your ship gets sunk.
If you aren't far from an outpost then just sail there and bail lol. I think I got slightly less water by putting it on the bow, but I didn't test it in the hull to see the difference
Another great guide covering the basics ;) Thanks again Phuzzster ;D
I picked the Reaper's Flag for one of my first voyages and it surprisingly worked out great. I spawned in a central outpost and I just chilled there while my flag flew. Eventually, I saw multiple enemies closing in at the same time, and guess what happened?.. They fought and sunk each other and I went in and snatched up all their loot 😂
Keep it coming baby
Ooooh... that despawn happened to me during my first week. XD glad to have an explanation (still new). I did bury all my loot and left the map on the board tho which was kinda fun.
Im not that experienced im learning new things all the time but i use these tactics i never give up thats one thing i was taught stand and fight
I remember my first encouter with the chest of sorrows. Stuck it down below and took off to finish my quest. It started crying and I didn't notice until I heard creaking the ship makes when about to sink. By the time I got below it was bye bye ship. Miss being able to put kegs in top of the crow's nest and not making a difference but just saw a video by HitboTC that shows his crew shooting at kegs with loot around it and it not exploding. May have to try that next time I sail.
Still not a great option, your ship can still very easily be firebombed and cannonballs do big AoE. Sure it might stop a flintlock but still not a risk worth taking
@@nebzla yeah but I still want to try it just for scientific purposes 😅.
First experience with chest of sorrows was a fun one to be sure
I was with 2 friends, one of them was afk and we put him in the brig for shits and giggles
When I finished on the island we were dropping stuff of for, I noticed the ship was basically completely full of water. Yes, I managed to save the ship by myself, but it made the trip a lot more anxious for the brig guy after he got back
my first experience was my mate telling me that he would go tuck on a fort ( a normal fort) he left the chest with me without saying a word about it, i went to sell our haul at the nearest outpost and in the middle of selling i noticed the emissary lost ship sunk message we lost a gold hoarder 5 after a giant vault stack and he blamed it on me, because apparently its my fault for not knowing what the wierd blue chest is
Nothing worse than seeing your ship so full of water that you have to make a split second judgement on whether it's completely under, not because you wouldn't try to bail anyway but so you can get ready for the incoming emotional damage 😂
No wait there is something worse: THINKING you have a chance to save it but it's inevitably a goner. 😅
It's in the SoT codex not to grief new players. Rather leave them alone or explain them instead of sinking them for easy loot would be recommended. Their are alot of people who sink ships while players are doing tall tales and there is literally nothing you can do about it.
and Rare wanted largely peaceful pirates when they made the game. they even implement features from time to time that can hinder pvp, but people are too desperate to burn the world
You can also try turning the wheel a bit to one side and just using one harpoon on the other side.
Thumbs up for the harpoon trick at the end. Thanks, PhuzzyBond!
you can also reverse the ship by steering left and right back and forth although it's hugely impractical
So thats why my ship disappeared on one of my first voyages! I was so confused as to why that happened and I've been paranoid about it happening again ever since because I lost so much loot that day. Now that I know what causes it and how to avoid it, I can definitely rest easier knowing my ship won't randomly despawn when I'm away from it
You can put the chest of sorrows in your row boat if you have one or you can put it on the point of the bow of your ship. That way it can cry all it likes and it won't affect your ship.
Love your vids, hope to run into you on community day.
A little tip: if u have a crying chest u can place it on the end of a harpoon to stop it from filling up your boat.
I just had a bit of misfortune solo slooping. I found some decent loot, just a couple pieces, and I was in the process of taking it back to an outpost when on the way, I noticed a bunch of barrels in the water, but I noticed it too late, as it was right in front of me. I began to turn, but ended up hitting a gunpowder keg, that severely damaged my ship and tossed me into the water. My ship's helm was hard to port at that time, and it kept turning, making it somewhat easier for me to get back on, but I had to wait for it to turn back around. Once I was back on, it was too late, I heard the death creaks. I could only get one scoop of water from below before it sank.
I respawned only a handful of kilometers away, so I set back that direction. But when I got there, there was Nothing in the water. So I decided to just go back to try and get more loot. But as soon as I turned, a Kraken decided to visit me. I just quit the game before anything happened.
Huh, I didn’t know you could back up with the harpoons. That would’ve been handy a few days ago. Granted I didn’t lose anything but still
Great video, good music too!
I didn't know that you could go backwards with harpoons
That awkward moment you come across 'pirate legends' that still make these mistakes... Rare, stop making it so easy!
being Pirate legend doesnt mean anything ........it just means you know how to get 3 reps to 50 lmao ; being pirate legend should be the tutorial in this game XD
My first experience with the chest of sorrows I picked it up at the same time as a chest of rage. Set them next to each other in the cargo hold. They cancel each other out nicely. The second time I picked up a chest of sorrows I didn't realize how quickly they can flood a ship. That crying chest sank my battleship...
One time, my crew and I stuck the chest of sorrows in our row boat then used the row boat's harpoon to latch onto the back of the ship. We pulled the row boat to the outpost and sold it without having to worry about it flooding the ship. Honestly, we didn't think it would work.
Been playing a couple years now and never knew it would respawn if you're touching ground. Never had it happen but now that I think about it, I was anchored hiding my silhouette against a rock formation while I was diving a shrine and came back to floating loot and no ship. I couldn't figure out why someone would find it, sink it, and leave everything. I bet it was up against the rocks and this happened.
I remember when I found the sorrows chest the first time. I made the connection of it filling up my ship quick, and I left it, and all my other loot, in the rowboat on the stern, thinking that it wouldn’t fill up my ship if not technically on my ship, right?
My ship sunk. But since I already had all my loot on the rowboat, and the rowboats don’t sink with the ships, and I had a heading for the nearest outpost, I just paddled all the way there. Lesson learned
Thank you for sharing, much appreciated
The ship respawn happened to me for the first time yesterday and I’ve been playing for a few years.. I was parked to close to the dock and was looting the outpost. Lesson learnt I guess
If you loose all your loot don't cry, unless it has Barnacles on it, then you cry. See what Phuzzy has done to us! Aaaarrrrrggghhh.... Awesome videos.
I'M SO HAPPY YOU CALLED İT BOOM AND NOT KEG!!! i always call it boom, it's boom, big boom and soul boom. And booms are never for sale, you put them in the ship and then ram other ships and BOOM! Well, sometimes it booms in your hand or ship but it's okay.
I remember when I found a villain skull a duo of two other new players walked onto my ship and took it. Just like that they just waltz onto my tiny sloop to put the skull on their sloop. I didn't know what happened, so I just shrugged it off and continued my journey in the new adventure I was having.
This was when I first got on after the maiden voyage.
First time playing today. Had just entered server, was at dock for 5 minutes before getting beamed with cannons.
a trick I just recently discovered is if you have a trident you can shoot it at your ship to push it if it gets stuck
your ship can still move unanchared with sails up
With the ship despawn, one time me and my friends tried to sail over twin isles? (Whatever that really shallow island is. We tried to keg, blunder, harpoon, rowboat harpoon, and it was just funny.
Just finished a very long session and turned in 4 Athena chests and an Athena keg lovely lovely day.
Early in the day we had a level 1 representing we just went straight after him and he ran away begging for mercy and never bothered us again he's still on there when I got off 10 minutes ago and I started playing at 12:00 in the afternoon good 7 1/2 hours
Been sailing since June 2020, I've used Phuzzys guides to pretty much solo my way to PL but now I'm hitting the limits of what's reasonably possible solo. Seems like Rare increased the aggressiveness of everything. Skelly Gallys are now impossible and even Skelly Sloops are giving me troubles.
Chest of sorrows is a weapon, change my mind
skull and bones brought me here 🤣 great game btw
thank you fuzzy bod this vdeio really helped me not cost me my ship anymore in se of thieves, do you know carso from veloc ity? dont mess with him.
I love the nonchalant comic narrative
Lost my first sloop with a ton of chests in it to a chest of rage… didn’t know what it did until it was too late.
Good stuff phuzzy 🤙
"You don't owe anyone a fight."
Jesus Christ, this needs to be plastered as an in-game mantra everywhere on ships, on taverns, when you dig up a random chest, fucking EVERYWHERE.
Learn something didn’t know you can back the ship up like that. Been playing since day one too
Thanks you taught me a thing! 😊
0:10 sorry that was probably me
The amount of "My ship disappeared! wtf game!?" posts on the subreddit has exploded recently... Hopefully this vid will help curb that a little bit.
Me and my friend who have been playing for a year and half
write that down, write that down!
We found out about the ship disappearing after 10m recently, we were selling at Reapers and we crashed the ship to make it easier to drop stuff, we had a decent amount of loot so it took time to sell everything and a few secs after we removed the emissary flag our ship disappeared :o, we were lucky.
I've lost count of how many times I've rage quit Sea of Thieves in the last 4 years. Rare created a beautiful world but there are just some things that annoy me. The first is the wind currents. It seems that with every destination we need to get to, we have a head wind. There is no consistency with the currents, you can literally stay anchored at one spot and watch the currents change direction. One day I watched for 15 minutes the winds shifted 180 degrees. The wind shouldn't change like that while staying in one spot. It would make more sense to have a current flowing in one direct across whole sections of the map. Like having Row A & B with wind flowing West to East, then Row C & D flowing East to West. The second is how "Random" the boss encounters are. One night my crew and I had a skeleton galleon chasing us, then the Kraken appeared and attacked us. So we're defending from the Kraken and a Skellie Gallon. While we were stuck there, a large storm rolled over us then just as we're escaping from the Kraken's black ink (the Kraken actually attacked the Skellie so that helped us escape), a Meg showed up. Like many, my biggest gripe though is the PvP mixed in with PvE. Sea of Thieves would have worked great as a massive Co-Op adventure with a PvP option for those that like it. I just prefer going against tougher NPC enemies than having to worry about players who I know are far better at the game then I am.
Omg using harpoons to back up ship is so simple but I never thought of it
Sorrows almost sunk me and my mates in our brig before we realized and saved ourselves
You can get the ship stuck so bad that you can't get it unstuck with the harpoons. I've had to use full sail and harpoons. I've also had to stack a few kegs under the bow and blow them up. Of course me trying to run over the island was the original cause of this in both cases.
Love from Brazil! - Amor do Brasil! 🇧🇷❤
You can calm chest of sorrows by playing a shanties! But not all of the shanties work, so you must find cheerful one to cheer the chest up.
Bonus mistake, not listening when others talk thus accidentally interrupting people. And please do not get angry when people think you’re bad because of it, because it would just ruin the game for you and you’d go screaming on Reddit about how your ship skin is not terrible or something.
My fishing ship disappeared and I thought the crew that came by glitched it away, or my internet was bad and they sunk it, or the game bugged, or they cheated and deleted it (was my first voyage after my maiden voyage)
One of my worst and saddest mistake I've made as a noob was putting a chest of sorrow on my ship while doing my 1st devil's roar gold hoarder quest
You forgot to mention leaving all your lamps on, makes you stand out very easy at night.
For some reason I always get stuck with the noobs who think dropping the anchor the second the island title pops up is a good idea when your the one thats been piloting the ship for the last hour and have not once mentioned to drop anchor. Although it is funny watching them swim with a chest for 3 minutes just to get back to the ship only to be killed by a shark once they almost reach the ship.
All good advice 👍
I wouldn't say the Reaper's mark has been "replaced", as you can fly the mark at the same time you do Reaper's emissary. This is what I do all the time, 'cause why not? But I do admit most people don't, and I think that's a shame. The Reaper's mark just looks so damn cool...
The quick and dirty advice I always gave to newbies was: "Don't light the deck lanterns, don't ring the bell, and DON'T PUT UP THE REAPER'S MARK"
Why shouldn't you ring the bell?
@@Ryan-ct3rv Like the rest it attracts unwanted attention.
When I first got a chest of sorrows, I looked it up to see what it did
I am really glad I did that
6th mistake: thinking people alliancing with you are actually friendly
Great tips!
The first time I was attacked by another player, I was actually so happy because I had been playing for 2 days and didn’t meet anyone, I was getting worried that nobody was playing this anymore. I ended up loosing the fight