Cargo Crates

Cargo Crates
Details
Type	Treasure
Company	Merchant Alliance

Cargo Crates are a range of treasure items in Sea of Thieves that are primarily associated the  Merchant Alliance Trading Company. Payment for these items will vary depending on the condition and timeliness of the delivery. Cargo Crates are either ordered through Cargo Run voyages, or found beached on islands. Each crate has a delivery address on it with Crates tied to Voyages or Quests requiring to be sold within a time limit. The current date and time can be tracked with the Pocket Watch.

Types of Cargo

There are three main types of Cargo Crates in Sea of Thieves with each of them having a Devil's Roar variant.

Regular Cargo:

Image	Crate	Base Gold Reward	Notes
	Crate of Plants	700	These Plants require to be watered with a Bucket or submerged in water every now and then to keep them from wilting.
	Crate of Luxurious Cloth	700	These delicate sheets cannot come in contact with Sea Water or they will start to rot. Keep them covered during Storms!
	Crate of Rum Bottles	700	Fragile bottles of every Pirate's favorite drink. The bottles can form cracks from the slightest jumps. Try to keep the Ship from crashing or combat while transporting these Crates!

Devil's Roar Cargo:

Image	Crate	Base Gold Reward	Notes
	Crate of Devil's Plants	1,400	Plants of the Devil's Roar, these shrubs need to be watered more frequently than their regular counterpart.
	Crate of Devil's Cloth	1,400	Luxurious linens of the Devil's Roar, this cloth can tolerate very little water. Keep it on high surfaces or the Rowboat!
	Crate of Devil's Rum Bottles	1,400	Bottles of the Devil's Roar that will break at the slightest bit of rough handling. Watch out for those nasty Geysers!

There are high-value variants of Cargo Crates found in Merchant Alliance emissary quests with each having a Devil's Roar variant.

Image	Crate	Base Gold Reward	Notes
File:Crate of Exotic Plants.png	Crate of Exotic Plants	1,650
File:Crate of Elegant Cloth.png	Crate of Elegant Cloth	1,650
File:Crate of The Finest Rum.png	Crate of The Finest Rum	1,650

Image	Crate	Base Gold Reward	Notes
	Crate of Searing Plants	1,980
	Crate of Fire-woven Cloth	1,980
	Crate of Brimstone Rum	1,980

Cargo Value and Degradation

Cargo will deteriorate in value as it degrades in quality, with no way to reverse the effects. The gold rewards for the different states of the Crates are as follows:

Regular Cargo:

• Crate of Plants - 700 
  • Crate of Parched Plants - 500 
  • Crate of Wilted Plants - 300 
  • Crate of Shriveled Plants - 100 

• Crate of Luxurious Cloth - 700 
  • Crate of Wet Cloth - 500 
  • Crate of Soaked Cloth - 300 
  • Crate of Waterlogged Cloth - 100 

• Crate of Rum Bottles - 700 
  • Crate of Cracked Rum Bottles - 500 
  • Crate of Splintered Rum Bottles - 300 
  • Crate of Smashed Rum Bottles - 100 

Devil's Roar Cargo:

• Crate of Devil's Plants - 1,400 
  • Crate of Devil's Parched Plants - 1,000 
  • Crate of Devil's Wilted Plants - 600 
  • Crate of Devil's Shriveled Plants - 200 

• Crate of Devil's Cloth - 1,400 
  • Crate of Devil's Wet Cloth - 1,000 
  • Crate of Devil's Soaked Cloth - 600 
  • Crate of Devil's Waterlogged Cloth - 200 

• Crate of Devil's Rum Bottles - 1,400 
  • Crate of Devil's Cracked Rum Bottles - 1,000 
  • Crate of Devil's Splintered Rum Bottles - 600 
  • Crate of Devil's Smashed Rum Bottles - 200 

Each type of cargo can be sold past the due date for 350  each.

Bugs

• The Cargo Crates found beached on Islands have been found to be especially buggy, as sometimes they have no discernible Delivery Address, the Address is to a place that does not exist or the Addressee refuses to pay for the Goods.

Patch history

• 2.10.0 (January 23, 2024)
  • Delivery notes on cargo crates now provide care instructions.

• 2.6.3 (October 20, 2022)
  • Handing Devil’s Roar Cargo Run Crates in on time and in perfect condition will now update the following Commendations correctly: Merchant of Forsaken Silk, Merchant of Forsaken Flora and Merchant of Forsaken Rum.

• 2.5.0 (March 10, 2022)
  • When players holding a Cargo Crate attempt to hand it in to the incorrect character, the tooltip now emphasises the correct hand-in location.

• 1.3.2 (October 31, 2018)
  • Cargo Run VFX - Cargo crates now drip in accordance to their health (i.e. Cloth drips more when damaged and Plants drip more when at high health).
  • Cargo crates can now be collected from Merchants if you have a contract that requires a crate pickup.

• 1.3.1 (October 10, 2018)
  • Introduced.