Infinite Pirate Generator
The Infinite Pirate Generator, or IPG for short, is the character creation system in Sea of Thieves. Instead of individually creating their character, players will have to choose their pirates from an essentially infinite system of randomly generated character models.
Mechanics
After launching the game for the first time, every player is taken to the Infinite Pirate Generator where they choose their permanent pirate from a wheel of randomly generated models. Players will be presented with 8 randomly generated models to circle and choose through. If they are not satisfied with the 8 models on offer, they can generate a selection of 8 new models by pressing the designated button for Create New Pirates below. Players also have the choice to favourite any model by pressing the designated button over the chosen pirate. Any favourited models will get a yellow circle below their feet and will stick around after each new round of generated models.
Once a player model has been chosen, the player will be taken back to the main menu. Once accepted, the model can only be changed with the purchase of a Pirate Appearance Potion from the Pirate Emporium.
Changing a pirate model
After the player has chosen their pirate's model, there are only two ways of choosing a new one:
- Purchasing a Pirate Appearance Potion from the Pirate Emporium for 149
Ancient Coins, changing only the pirate model. - Deleting the pirate from the settings menu, permanently resetting all in-game progress tied to the account.
Pirate Appearance Potion
With the February 2020 Crews of Rage (Content Update), the Pirate Appearance Potion was added as an exclusive Pirate Emporium purchase. The potion allows players to return to the Infinite Pirate Generator through the log-in screen and reset their character without resetting all of their in-game progress. The potion costs 149 Ancient Coins, which is a premium currency acquired through real money purchases or from extremely rare Ancient Skeletons.
Unique characteristics
There are various unique characteristics that can be generated by the Infinite Pirate Generator. The basic randomised features are the body shape, size, age, skin tone and the shape of the face. Hair, hair dyes, clothing and tattoos can also be randomly provided, although these can be switched for free from the Vanity Chest and Clothing Chest once in-game.
Randomised heads: Randomised gender, ethnicity, body shape, facial features, facial accessories.
Randomised bodies: Randomised ethnicity, body shape, facial features, facial accessories.
Base bodies: A range of body shapes.
Body type, personality and age traits.
Aside from these characteristics, there are various other unique elements provided by random by the IPG.
Unique hair dyes and beards
The Infinite Pirate Generator can generate unique hair dyes that cannot be purchased from Outpost shops. Once overwritten by other hair dyes, these unique dyes can be reverted back to when removing a hair dye in the Vanity Chest. Aside from lighter shades of regular dyes, pirates can also spawn with three shades of aged two-tone dyes, which can normally only be purchased by Pirate Legends from the Athena's Fortune Hideout. Male pirates have a chance for having a unique 5 o'clock stubble beard, which is permanent on their character.
A two-tone mix between potato skin blond and grey hair.
A two-tone mix between light grey and dark hair.
A two-tone mix between grey and brown.
A 5 o'clock shading on a male pirate.
Unique lips and teeth
The Infinite Pirate Generator can create unique lips and teeth for pirate models. Female pirates can have either dark or pink, large lips, or no lips at all, whereas male pirates spawn with either large pink lips or none at all. The APG can also generate pirates with missing or no teeth at all. Beauty marks can appear above the mouth.
A female pirate with lush, dark lips.
A female pirate with lush, pink lips.
A female pirate with no noticeable lips.
A female pirate with no teeth and a beauty mark above the mouth.
A female pirate with one missing tooth.
A female pirate with two missing teeth.
A male pirate with three missing teeth.
Unique eyes
The Infinite Pirate Generator can create various types of eyes, ranging from barely visible eyes, to large, wide-open eyes. The APG can also generate a blind left eye (the side where an eyepatch can be worn). Pirates can also have unique, permanent makeup around their eyes in the form of dark eyeliner.
A female pirate with a blind left eye
A female pirate with eye-shadow.
A male pirate with almost no visible eyes.
Other unique bodily features
The Infinite Pirate Generator can generate various unique body markings such as scars and spots
A male pirate with a small scar crossing the left eyebrow and various smaller scars on the body.
A male pirate with a large scar crossing their right eye.
An older male pirate with spots on their forehead.
Patch history
- First Release (March 20, 2018)
- Introduced.
- 'Left Click' to select a pirate in the Pirate Selector is now enabled.