Most Profitable Ancient Skeleton Farm [Fast Ancient Coins] 

What I have come to do personally is to complete a sea fort, and wait there once finished. This is because once the fort is finished, no enemies EXCEPT for ancient skeletons can spawn.

This saturday will be Community weekend with INCREASED SPAWN RATES for Ancient skeletons

i've gotten 3 ancient skeletons since i started playing, one while doing order of souls, 2 while fishing for pondies at crow's nest and mermaid's hideaway. the one at crow's nest actually startled me since it the fort was inactive and I wasn't expecting anything to spawn

The most consistent spawn I’ve found for ancient skellies has been at fort of the damned. My crew ran it back to back a few months ago during a gold and glory weekend, and we got 2 in just that weekend. With the new skull of fates voyage, that makes fotd farming potentially viable

A while ago I completed the shores of gold for the first time with some friends, as we were walking out of the cave thing an ancient skeleton spawned and blocked our path, perfect ending

Last community day, I found an ancient skeleton on practically every island I visited. Just had to wait 15 minutes and in that 15th minute they usually always spawned then. And I was doing nothing lol.

My husband has found them the most at forts and fortresses but I actually found my first on Community Day last year on Krakens Fall. I was honestly so surprised that I nearly missed it.

Thanks for the tips. I've had three Ancient Skeletons, two of them spawned during OOS voyages (mermaids Hideaway, Lagoon of Whispers) and one on shores of gold outside the broken vault door where you place all the tokens.

I found two while doing ashen winds. Both were when I was exploring the island looking for food. So maybe it depends on distance covered. I say this because skeletons, ghosts, and ocean crawlers appear when you are running around on the island.

This is such a well timed video, you sir are an algorithm lord

I used to do Phantom Sea Forts a couple seasons back, and found no less than 4 Ancient Skeletons spawn at the Phantom Sea Fort closest to New Golden Sands in my time grinding the commendations there.

I've found quite a few on forts, Tribute Peak, and various islands doing OOS or just messing around, mainly solo. The ones I've found with my crew have been when the crew is separated, usually one member is on the boat while the others are scattered nearby. They always spawn near ya so if you hear that distinct music, start spinning around until you spot it cuz it's close. Sea fortresses are also a great place to find them, I've had quite a few of them spawn on me during the fortress and right after I've finished it and am in the process of collecting loot. You have approx. 20 seconds to kill it or it'll disappear back into the ground.

Over the last 6 months of playing SoT, I've encountered about half a dozen Ancient Skeletons. They've been on small islands and large islands, usually when I'm playing with one other person in my crew. Mostly while doing Gold Hoarder missions, but I think only one of them spawned during a skeleton "wave" while digging a chest.

I always like to see different methods of finding ancient skeletons but whenever I see a video I always remember I found one within my first hour of playing and I barely knew what it was. I've also found two in one ashen winds event after the boss spawned them

I found by and far the most spawn during Christmas time. Throughout the year, I might find 3-4; so like every other month with almost daily sessions. But during Christmas events, I've gotten 4 in a two week period.

I found a ancient skelly when doing the "Heart of Fire" tall tale. It was around the skeleton fighting portions of the tall tale before and after you get the chest of rage.

You know the feeling when you experience 5 ancient skeletons and only managing to kill one? No? Just me?

I've found four ancient skelies total and I encountered a quick succession spawn of two at the fort of fortune; I've only been playing for about six months and I already have over 1,250 ancient coins; love the video btw

I've ran into quite a few ancient skeletons probably about 5 or 6, while just doing ashen Athena's in the volcano area of the map. Going back and forth between all of the islands around there doing the quests for Athena's they just randomly spawn in, but I have also ran into a few maybe 3 while doing fort of the fortunes.

I have yet to find any, so far lol. I’m definitely going to be on the lookout now.

I will say this, I don't think they spawn in the spot of a pairing of skeletons. They have their own spawn mechanics. Because with the heart of fire tall tale down that stops all pve from spawning in the non devil's roar areas EXCEPT ancient skeles. So they are their own entity and a way to farm them would to afk on an island with that tall tale down so nothing else spawns like ocean crawlers or skeles, just for convenience so you can just afk with a pair of headphones on listening for the ancient skele sound. Just a tip if you are only looking for them but it's also just as viable to pve normally and find them.

Me and my friends have had 5 spawn on us the past week on random islands, loving it! 👌🏻😂

I've only ever gotten 4 ancient skellies, and it was always during tall tales. Once while helping a friend get the Ashen Curse, and the other three were all at Tribute Peak. Essentially, three of the five times I replayed Shores of Gold for the golden curse, I'd find one.

A lot of the Ancient Skellies I've found have been on various islands. However, during the last Community Day that had increased Ancient Skelly Spawns, most of them were at Skelly Forts

Could you see if the coral skellies that constatly spawn from digging up the siren song key/chest/skull increase the chance of seeing an ancient skelly?

Can confirm, I've found them on the Shores of Gold, and also doing Gold Horder voyages on islands, and the odd Tall Tale too.

I found one today running a Veil voyage in the devils roar, it was probably just me striking it lucky but it was a nice find.

Is about time you made a ancient skally vid

Maurarders arch fort where the ashen winds boss will spawn has given me a total of 5 in the two years I've been playing, so I imagine if you get gold hoarder voyages and go digging there with this set up in mind that'd be pretty effective. Other then that it's been forts for every other one.

I played on 2 days last week, and I found an ancient skeleton on BOTH days. The first one appeared while tucking on normal fort (5 players in total on that fort). The second one appeard while solo playing, RIGHT AFTER I opened the vault of a sea fortress.

I've found 7, only one of which was an ancient fortune (200-400 coins). It was on Kraken's Fall, while looking for the vault entrance. The rest were ancient stashes. My first stash was on Plunder Valley, while doing The Art of the Trickster tall tale. Two of the stashes were on sea fortresses, one in the middle of the waves and one while loading the loot to harpoon it onto my ship. One stash was found while just sitting on Sailor's Bounty while just sitting around at the end of my session, wishing one would spawn. Another was on a regular island, I forget which. I also forget where the other one was, but I know it must have been on an island, perhaps Plunder Valley again. I haven't spent much time on sea fortresses, and since 2 out of my 7 have been found on those, I would say there is some truth to those carrying increased rates. I have never found one on a skeleton fort, though as it is said, it is incredibly random. That's my experience with these funny skellies (I have a little over 400 hours in game for reference).

thx bro hope i can finally buy myself dat cockatoo

I feel like I found more ancient skeletons back when I used to solo sloop, before I found friends to play with more often. I started playing back in the beginning of October, so about 9 months or so, and I have been around when 10+ ancient skeletons have popped. I have killed 7 myself. The first time one had popped was like my second month into playing, I was on an inactive skeleton fort, I had gone there to "set foot on every island" and decided to loot the barrels while I was there. It popped, and I heard the noise first, and I didn't know what it was, and thought I was hearing a gold skeleton, so I actually ran towards the water to grab a bucket, then I turned and ran towards it as it buried itself back in the ground. Like a week later I encountered another one (in what was to be a series of like 4 or 5 I encountered over the course of like 3 weeks). After I encountered that next one and killed it, and realized what it was, I felt dumb for letting that first get away. I was spoiled getting so many so early, because now its been months since I've last seen one and at this point I've got over 1500 hours into the game now, so yeah, I play quite a lot, especially going back a few months. Out of the ones I encountered, only like 2 or 3 were on skeleton forts, 1 was on a ghost fortress, and 1 was in the shores of gold. The rest were just on random islands. Some of those were probably during OOS voyages.

Nice video thanks

Ancient coin farming is back? Let's goo

I got one ancient skelly at sea fort.. and on community day we farmed it at fort and on island.. Managed to get 2.5k ancients and around same 2.5M regular in one session.. Got it on video as well.

I was grinding today SoG for the curse (got it today) and I found 2 ancient coin skeletons in like 3 hours or so. From what I've seen on the chart that I didn't knew, one was tier 2 and the other tier 1, but yeah, 2 of the ones I've seen were on SoG. Also, I once got one on a seafort. I didnt find it tough, he left before I could get to the correct floor. But yeah, on SoG I heard a lot of people seeing them at least once, so I would try there!

Only got the game a day or two ago, played solo day 1, with friends day two, and just at the start of our playing, we got a 500 skeleton. This is the only good luck I've ever had, and I didn't know they even existed until that moment

A pretty niche use, but a decent way to farm ancient skeletons if you are a fishing vessel, if you have the Heart of Fire tall tale active and no active voyages, emergant enemies will not spawn. However, this does not prevent ancient skeletons from spawning. It is unknown if this causes them to spawn at a slower rate due to the lack of other enemies spawning, but it does allow you to be a lot lazier when trying to farm ancient skeletons.

I spend a lot of time at sea fortresses and have never had an ancient skeleton spawn on one of them. However, I’ve had several spawn in the Shores of Gold when I’ve gone there to fish for pondies.

I've caught them two times since ~1000hrs, sunken grove, while doing new quest for cursed chests, and like two years ago on, you guessed it, shores of gold :)

I've gotten 4 (of wich I only got to kill 3) ancient skellies. On all ocasions, I was doing Gold Hoarder voyages, just digging up chests. The fourth one, I had just gotten to an island, dug up my chest and went on my way, when I looked back (after setting sale) and looked at the island, there was, the fourth skellie runnnig on the shore, soon to be gone!

Can I ask what pistol skin you’re using? An eye of reach? They look awesome buddy!

I once got 3 ancient skeletons in a 2 day period. The first was a random spawn on Snake Island. Brig crew, Gold Horder Vault Voyage. The second was the same session, we'd formed an 8 person alliance to do Glitterbeard, then all 3 crews went to an Ashen Winds together at Shipwreck Bay and one spawned almost immediately after we had killed the Ashen Lord. (One of the other crews actually got the kill sadly so no ancient coins). The 3rd was the very next day, I was solo fighting an Ashen Winds at Marauder's Arch and one spawned in during the fight. And I haven't seen one since. I think I used up all my luck.

I got one from just after completing a FOF, and in the same day, just on a regular island (Shooting off boat to get extra stuff along the way).

I once had an ancient skeleton spawn at a Spanish Seafort. The fott had already been cleared for a while and I was just fishing when he popped out of the ground

I’ve just gotten back into the game a week ago, I’ve found 3 so far within about 15 total hours of playtime. 2 on regular sea forts minutes after completion and one after farming kills on a skelly ship, after we killed about 50 skellies on a galleon the very next island we landed on spawned one right away

I’ve only found 3 ancient skeletons in my time on the seas back when forts megs and krakens were the only big things, 2 of them I found on the shores of gold while getting my gold curse and the third was in the cove in the very bottom left portion of the map

I seen my first one the other day at a raid on a sea fort, It reminded me of a treasure goblin form Diablo. Unfortuantely I was busy saying wtf is that and it despawned before I could kill it lol

My first ancient was within 10 or so minutes of first playing, it was on rapier cay. I was just getting tons of skeleton spawns because I was taking so long to loot the stuff from the captains and tutorial voyages.

I've seen 3(IIRC) 2 on random islands, maybe doing gold hoarders or order of souls missions, and once on a FOTD.

ive found 2 in my 500 hours (ish) of playing. both were just lucky finds on islands, both were T1 too. ima definatley try this method though.

The first ancient skeleton I ever found was at a sea fort during Season 6 community day. I was setting my loot down on the little pulley platform when the skeleton spawned right next to me, and I got around 500 coins from it

I found 4 total, once doing an order of souls mission, second after a sea fort was complete and I was fishing, third at a live skelley fort and last at the shores of gold.

Just got one in season 10 after finishing a sea fort, loading up the downstairs loot, and returning to the top with the second key for the remainder; cute lil guy just popped out of the sea fort floor right in front of me.

Sun out here ensuring that every fort you see this weekend is going to be busy!

Just found one on Mermaid's Hideaway while fishing in the pond. Was there about an hour before it spawned.

I was in a full crew fishing for some fish after we had cleared out a fortress. After 10 minutes or so we had encountered an ancient skelly and then another 15 minutes we had another one spawn. We were considering staying there but one of us had to hop off so we agreed on selling our fish first.

i was doing thieves haven runs with my friends on a brig/galleon for 6 days and i got 8 ancient skeletons back to back within that time and came out with almost 1000 ancient coins from it idk if its boosted or just luck but would suggest doing thieves haven runs

Had two spawn on FOTD in one run, I recomend forts for sure

I was doing shores of gold tall tale on community day for some reason and i found like 6 ancient skeletons that day, where 1 was tier 3(biggest luck ever)

This seems like a correlation vs causation issue, the places we spend the most time at (like forts) spawn the most

I was stacking FOTD for 12 hours straight the other day and I dug up two, and thanks to this video, I found out that one of them was a t2

There is another theory/possibility and it is based off of experience although it could be time spent in game as you suggested as well. 10k+ Hours played here (No flex intended) and I find that when I spend ancient coins in the emporium, I get more ancient skeletons that spawn on me soon after. Like a reward from Rare or like a "mail-in" discount or rebate. If I were to guess, no exaggeration, I have had somewhere in the neighborhood of 40+ Ancient skellies spawned and killed since they were released with zero effort on my part to hunt for them. I can also confirm I have spent nearly, (An Ass Ton), in the Emporium as well. TLDR; The more you spend in the Emporium the more Ancient Skellies Spawn for you. Again though, this is theory with zero supported evidence other than my personal experience. Good luck in your pursuit.

I managed to get 2 to spawn within a day at the Traitor's Fate Fort, had no idea they existed or how rare they were until i watched this video

The first ancient skeleton i found was at an inactive fort. I dont remember why i went there but someting with gunpowder keg. I got scared but got it.

Me and my friends got an ancient skeleton yesterday for the ashen world event

ive had at least 4 ancient skeletons spawn. 1 after a sea fortress was completed and i was loading up on the loot, 1 on a random island i was on for an athena emissary quest, 1 during heart of fire as i was clearing out the final skeleton fight section, and one so far back when i started playing i genuinely dont remember what we were doing.

they spawn more at the shores of gold because it is the largest island in the game. it is based on island size, according to my sources. Thought it might be wrong.

My first ancient skeleton was tier 3 (after Ashen Winds update), then next 1 with tier 2, and next 3 or 4 were tier 1 (~~season 2-5)

I found a box of wonderous secrets today. Idk if that better than an ancient skeleton but I have had the most luck just doing phantom forts as I got two or three to spawn on them

i agree with the shores of gold this week i was doing the tall tale 5 times for the gold curse and i found 3 ancient skeletons out of the five times i was there and one of them was a tier 3 because i got 576 ancient coins

Last Community day with the Ancient Skelly multiplier, my friends and I earned like 3k Ancient Coins from normal Islands, so I don't really think it's more likely to get them on Forts

I got 2 in 2 days while farming treacherous loot on shores of gold. Both were only just above 100 coins but they did spawn.

I found my first and only ancient coin skeleton during a legendary thieves haven run couple years back

I really wish i had seen this video before the community weekend event

Several forts, fotd, active & not, fishing for pondies at Hidden Spring (fort), voyages on islands, one on Shores of Gold, Skull of the Siren Song (2 skellies within 20 mins of each other on diff islands). I’ve gotten 12-15 in total.

I’ve found 5 ancient skeletons throughout my adventures, 2 on small island and 3 while doing Thieves Haven runs.

I was tucking on a FOTD once during S7's community day where the spawn rate was upped. Ancient Skelly spawned and I came out of my hiding spot and stole it then ran off

I've found 3 skeletons on the same session 😂 The first spawned once I went on Plunder Valley, 20 min later another spawned on the same island. Something like 30 minutes later we accidentally crashed the ship on Sandy Shallows and... a third skeleton spawned. 😮

I subbed and got three tier 3 ancient skeletons within 5 minutes using this method🤑😎

I started playing 1 week ago and I encountered 2 at fort of the damned 2ce while doing stacked FOTD

I've found one in a sea fort once so I believe it spawns on pve areas like he said in the video

Have mostly been finding them around Ashen Lord's lately.... but have found 1 or 2 the past week by purely doing Forts coz I'm trying to get Humble Gifts

what is your jacket called and good video

I was doing the cargo run for the captain merchant voyage and the skely spawned

I’m very new All I’m doing tomarrow is skeleton forts and im going to try and figure out how to get to shores of gold

I got an ancient skeleton earlier today an di missed it so I looked up this video for redemption so thank you ig

when it comes to spawning, i had 3 of them spawn in 1 day with a friend, we went island to island on a voyage, and all 3 islands had one, its likely pure luck, but it does make me wonder if it selects a server then does a check on each island 1 by 1 if one can spawn there or not

today found my first one that it gave me 250 and I was in shock, couldnt belive it so had to learn more about them and how or where do they spawn

Im about to buy sot

Found them at the moment only at Athena missions :D

So far I've only ever found one while i was a mermaid hideaway while pondie fishing grind.

Ive found 2 both at Fotd. Had one spawn a third time, also at Fotd but i never did find him before he returned to the ground

Gotta love the time when I had three spawn in one session

I just started when sot came out on ps5 and 4 days in I got one

This is very weird considering I have never found one at a fort. Most of mine were on the larger devils roar islands, with one at a seafort and another couple on random shores of plenty islands.

im pretty sure the 2 of my 3 or 4 ancient skellies i've found so far, i have gotten them from sea fortresses after completing them (when i was hauling the loot)

Best method, but also very rarely Happening is just waiting for the Community weekend. Did that once and combined with doing just fotds all day resulted in finding 8 in a single day of about 10 playtime

I do not know why but I tend to find them quite frequently when doing captain stashes when I get a small island