# Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition Sea of Thieves Release Notes – 3.8.2

- Product: Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/sea-of-thieves-2026-edition)
- Vendor: Rare Ltd
- Date: 2026-08-20
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1172620/view/671752023818895704
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- **added** — Players in Custom Seas sessions can now choose the Seas of Sailor's Grave as a new Legendary Location for the Last Ship Standing battleground
- **added** — Hide Pirate Quick Command hides the player's pirate from others in the session
- **added** — Invulnerability Quick Command causes the player to become invulnerable to all damage
- **added** — Ship Invulnerability Quick Command prevents all damage to the ship during Quick Sail
- **added** — Repair Ship Quick Command fully repairs the ship during Quick Sail
- **added** — Reset Supplies Command restores a ship's barrels to their starting loadout
- **added** — Toggle Ship Invulnerability Command prevents all damage to the ship
- **added** — Destroy Treasures Command removes all items on the ground or in a pirate's hands within a large area
- **changed** — Rowboat spawning now offers additional types including Cannon, Harpoon and Reaper's Bones Rowboats
- **changed** — Server limit for Rowboats increased to allow 24 Rowboats to be active during a session
- **added** — Spawn Creatures menu now allows summoning Order of Bone and Blade Skeletons and their Captain variants
- **added** — Spawn Creatures menu now allows summoning The Mutinous Helmsman, The Two-Faced Scoundrel and The Duchess
- **changed** — All creatures summoned from the Spawn Creatures menu now appear with their nameplates
- **added** — Spawn Treasures menu now includes a Tall Tales category with Quest Items and treasure from Shores of Gold and Ashen Age Tall Tale arcs
- **added** — Lighthouse Logs and Smugglers' Heist Paintings added to the Miscellaneous and Paintings categories
- **added** — Skip Ferry of the Damned switch controls whether players respawn directly after death or visit the Ferry of the Damned
- **added** — Reviving switch controls whether crewmates can revive downed players
- **added** — Skip Downed State switch controls whether players wait through the full downed state or respawn immediately
- **added** — Weapon Damage control now allows individual adjustment of each weapon's attack damage from default values, including negative values to heal
- **added** — Custom Ship Supplies option provides fine-grained control over ship barrel resources and starting quantities
- **added** — Unarmed weapon loadout option allows players to select Unarmed for primary or secondary weapon slots
- **changed** — Game Options menu now provides quick access to Quick Command Menu, Session Overview, View Scoreboard and Free Camera
- **changed** — Free Camera settings are now saved between sessions
- **changed** — Spawn Radial allocates a slot to the most recently spawned item for quick access
- **added** — Session Join Code can now be copied without revealing it to viewers on livestreams
- **added** — Outpost weaponsmiths now offer Silver Coin weapons including Cutlass, Pistol, Blunderbuss, Eye of Reach, Double Barrel Pistol, Blowpipe, Grapple Gun and Throwing Knives
- **added** — Community Collaboration Hull, Sails and Flag designed alongside the community during SoTFest 2026 now available from shipwrights

##### Custom Seas

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**Legendary Location – Seas of Sailor’s Grave**

- Players in Custom Seas sessions can now choose the Seas of Sailor’s Grave as a new Legendary Location, allowing them to create and play within the Last Ship Standing battleground.

- The Devil’s Shroud surrounds the map, keeping crews focused on the action. Due to the unique nature of the location, some World Events, creatures and island-specific features will be unavailable.

**New Commands and Quick Commands**

- **Hide Pirate** (Quick Command) – This command hides the player’s pirate from others in the session. Using the command again reveals the pirate once more.

- **Invulnerability **(Quick Command) – This command causes the player to become invulnerable to all damage.

- **Ship Invulnerability **(Quick Command) – This command, when used during Quick Sail, prevents all damage to the ship, including holes, flooding, fire and damage to ship parts.

- **Repair Ship **(Quick Command)** **– This command, when used during Quick Sail, fully repairs the ship.

- **Reset Supplies **(Command) – This restores a ship’s barrels to their starting loadout.

- **Toggle Ship Invulnerability **(Command) – This prevents all damage to the ship, including holes, flooding, fire and damage to ship parts.

- **Destroy Treasures **(Command) – This removes all items either on the ground or in a pirate’s hands within a large area around the player, including treasure, food, fish, Storage Crates, ammo and Gold Pouches.

**Command Improvements**

- **Rowboats** – When spawning a Rowboat, players can now select from additional Rowboat types including Cannon, Harpoon and Reaper’s Bones Rowboats, which will be docked to the ship on arrival.

- **Rowboat Limits** – The server limit for Rowboats has been increased to allow 24 Rowboats to be active during a session.

- **Spawn Creatures** – Within the Spawn Creatures menu, players can now summon Order of Bone and Blade Skeletons and their Captain variants. While Order of Bone and Blade Skeletons will initially appear hostile, after being downed and revived they will become allied to the crew.

- **Spawn Creatures** – Players can now also summon The Mutinous Helmsman, The Two-Faced Scoundrel and The Duchess from the Skeleton Lord category.

- **Spawn Creatures** – All creatures summoned from the Spawn Creatures menu will now appear with their nameplates.

- **Spawn Treasures** – Players now have access to a Tall Tales category, providing a range of Quest Items and treasure found within the Shores of Gold and Ashen Age Tall Tale arcs. While a large number of items are included, items from _Sea of Thieves: A Pirate’s Life_ and _The Legend of Monkey Island_ Tales are not available.

- **Spawn Treasures** – Lighthouse Logs and Smugglers’ Heist Paintings have now been added to the Miscellaneous and Paintings categories.

**New Switches**

- **Skip Ferry of the Damned** – This switch controls whether players will be sent to the Ferry of the Damned or respawned directly after death.

- **Reviving** – This switch controls whether crewmates are able to revive downed players.

- **Skip Downed State** – This switch controls whether players must wait through the full downed state before respawning, or respawn immediately.

- **Weapon Damage **– Players now have full control over the damage of player weapons within a custom session. Damage for each weapon’s attacks can now be individually increased or decreased from their default values. Weapon damage can also be set to negative values, allowing attacks to heal players or creatures. To heal crewmates, ‘Friendly Fire’ must also be enabled.

**Switch Improvements**

- **Custom Ship Supplies** – Session Owners now have access to fully cust

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