Gold

Gold is the primary form of currency in Sea of Thieves and is used to buy most standard cosmetic items.

Gold can be spent at shops or Trading Companies found at Outposts and Seaposts.

Earning Gold

Gold can be acquired through various means:

• Delivering and selling treasure to Trading Companies:
  •  Gold Hoarders accept Treasure Chests, Artefacts, and Mermaid and Siren Gems.
  •  Order of Souls accept Bounty Skulls, and Mermaid and Siren Gems.
  •  Merchant Alliance accept Animals, Resource Crates, Trade Good Crates, Cargo Crates, Gunpowder Barrels, and Mermaid and Siren Gems.
  •  The Hunter's Call accept fish, meat, Treacherous Plunder, and Mermaid and Siren Gems.
  •  Reaper's Bones accept all treasure at The Reaper's Hideout.
  •  Athena's Fortune accept all Athena's Treasure items.
• 50 - 2,000  found inside Treasure Chests after opening them
• 160 - 600  from Gold Pouches
• 1,000  from large Gold Pouches inside Ashen Chests
• 75 - 300  from Gold Piles inside Gold Hoarder Treasure Vaults
• 8,000  for completing a Tall Tale
• By Currency Exchange at the Bilge Rats for Doubloons
• Completing weekly test initiatives for the Insider Programme
• Purchasable from Microsoft Store exclusive bundles
• Leveling up through seasonal progression
• Completing certain Daily Deeds

Spending Gold

Gold can be used in the following ways:

• Purchasing most cosmetics from Outpost and Seapost shops
• Purchasing company-related cosmetics from Trading Companies.
• Purchasing Captained Ships from the Main Menu.

Notes

• During the time that The Arena game mode was available, players could earn 2,000 - 6,000  (depending on placement) upon completion of a match.
• The Black Market previously contained a gold shop with Voyages and exclusive cosmetics available for purchase. These cosmetics can now be found at their respective Outpost shops.
• Gold used to be a way to purchase voyages and promotions. With the overhaul of the voyage system in Season Eleven, this has been removed and does not require spending Gold anymore.

Patch history

• 1.0.0 (March 20, 2018)
  • Introduced.