Cargo Crates

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!

High-Value Cargo

Image	Crate	Base Gold Reward	Notes
File:Crate of Exotic Plants.png	Crate of Exotic Plants	1,640 - 1,660	Similar to the Crate of Plants, but primarily discovered during Message in a Bottle and Emissary Quests.
File:Crate of Elegant Cloth.png	Crate of Elegant Cloth	1,640 - 1,660	Similar to the Crate of Luxurious Cloth, but primarily discovered during Message in a Bottle and Emissary Quests.
File:Crate of The Finest Rum.png	Crate of The Finest Rum	1,640 - 1,660	Similar to the Crate of Rum Bottles, but primarily discovered during Message in a Bottle and Emissary Quests.

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!

High-Value Devil's Roar Cargo

Image	Crate	Base Gold Reward	Notes
	Crate of Searing Plants	1,970 - 1,990	Similar to the Crate of Devil's Plants, but primarily discovered during Message in a Bottle and Emissary Quests in The Devil's Roar.
	Crate of Fire-woven Cloth	1,970 - 1,990	Similar to the Crate of Devil's Cloth, but primarily discovered during Message in a Bottle and Emissary Quests in The Devil's Roar.
	Crate of Brimstone Rum	1,970 - 1,990	Similar to the Crate of Devil's Rum Bottles, but primarily discovered during Message in a Bottle and Emissary Quests in The Devil's Roar.

Cargo Value and Degradation

Cargo will deteriorate in value as it degrades in quality due to damage or improper storage, with no way to reverse the effects. The quality is divided into four stages that comes with the following descriptor:

Cargo Type	Perfect Condition	Lightly Damaged	Badly Damaged	Destroyed
Plants	Perfect	Parched	Wilted	Shriveled
Cloth	Perfect	Wet	Soaked	Waterlogged
Rum Bottles	Perfect	Cracked	Splintered	Smashed

The gold rewards for the different states of the Crates are as follows, all types of cargo have the same values:

On-Time Deliveries
Condition	Regular Cargo	Devil's Roar Cargo	High-Value Cargo	High-Value Devil's Roar Cargo
Perfect Condition	700	1,400	1,640 - 1,660	1,970 - 1,990
Lightly Damaged	500	1,000	1,170 - 1,190	1,400 - 1,420
Badly Damaged	300	600	700 - 720	840 - 860
Destroyed	100	200	230 - 250	270 - 290

In addition, any cargo deemed to be late will have it's value further reduced:

Late Deliveries
Condition	Regular Cargo	Devil's Roar Cargo	High-Value Cargo	High-Value Devil's Roar Cargo
Perfect Condition	350	700	820 - 830	985 - 995
Lightly Damaged	250	500	585 - 595	700 - 710
Badly Damaged	150	300	350 - 360	420 - 430
Destroyed	50	100	115 - 125	135 - 145

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.