Learn how to find and sell treasure in Sea of Thieves. Discover different treasure types, their locations, and how to maximize your earnings with Trading Companies.
Walkthrough
- 1Find Treasure: Treasure can be found on islands, in shipwrecks, floating in the sea, inside vaults, or dropped by enemies like Skeleton Ships, Megalodons, and the Kraken. Look for a colored glint to spot treasure from afar.
- 2Carry Treasure: Treasure must be carried by hand to a Trading Company representative. While carrying treasure, you cannot fight or use equipment. You can drop the treasure to regain full control. Harpoons can also retrieve treasure from a distance.
- 3Store Treasure: Smaller treasure items can be placed in Container Chests to hide their glow and make transport easier. Container Chests can hold up to 3 small treasure items.
- 4Sell Treasure: Take treasure to the appropriate Trading Company representative at any Outpost. Each company values specific types of treasure. Selling treasure earns you Gold, Reputation, and Emissary Value (if you are an Emissary for that company).
- 5Treasure Types: Treasure items are categorized by the Trading Company they belong to: Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls, and Merchant Alliance. Within these, there are regular, Ashen, Stronghold, Skeletal, and Ghostly variants.
- 6Gold Hoarder Treasure: Includes Treasure Chests (Regular, Shipwrecked, Coral, Ashen, Valuable, Cursed) and Artefacts (small trinkets and ornaments). These emit a white or golden glint.
Tips
- Treasure dropped in water will sink after about 5 minutes, except for Trade Good Crates.
- As a Trading Company Emissary, picking up relevant treasure increases your Emissary Grade Reputation.
- Treasure Chests can be found via Treasure Maps, Riddle Maps, Ancient Vaults, and randomly across the seas.
- Coral Treasure Chests are found in Siren Shrines and Siren Treasuries.
- Ashen Treasure Chests are found in The Devil's Roar and sell for roughly double the price of regular chests.
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