What to do on your FIRST DAY in Sea of Thieves 

Hey! A lot of you guys commented that you picked up Sea of Thieves after watching my videos and were asking for some Beginner Tips. Well, here you go! My best shot at a Sea of Thieves Beginner's Guide; I hope it helps!

Anyone watching this in 2024 waiting for release on ps5?

I was a bit worried about the community after reading some reviews. I bought the game two days ago, and have only had good experiences with other people. Someone helped me with the Kraken, I was boarded by someone and the left me a chest, and I had people come to my aid when I ran into an explosive barrel. This game has been nothing but fun, and you made it better.

My tips I used to give when teaching new players: 1. Learn how to hold block, then simultaneously hold sword charge, then release both and jump to do the sword dash jump, this is the best way to jump off an island and get to your boat in seconds. 2. Whenever you stop at an island have your anchor lifted and sails lifted so if you spot someone coming your way fast u can sword jump on and drop sails and start getting away, solo players have a tough time solo raising anchor. 3. If you are seeing other ships, visiting ones other players were just at., or heading in the path of one, repeatedly check the front of your ship for someone in the water, or one on an island nearby waiting for you to stop. 4. If you think someone might've snuck on board, run around and basically slash every brown barrel or dark area of the ship in case they are "tucked" there, which means they are basically emoted in the spot. 5. If you are running from other players go into the wind, it has been proven that facing the wind is fastest on the smallest ship, but at the end of the day until you have more experience, as a solo player you won't outrun a galleon of experienced players. 6. I know he says in the video lights aren't too big of a deal because a good player will still spot you... this is kind of true, in the past there have been issues with render distance where players hide on other sides of islands their lights still show for enemies because the island hasn't rendered in yet, only lights you ever want on are belowdecks ones. 7. Keep loot down below, never store treasure on your deck, it will shine to other players, also if u have skulls, on the bottom floor of your sloop, there is a barrel in the center, but them on that barrel, if you put them on the bottom floor the green will glow outside the boat making it obvious you have valuables hidden inside. Bonus Tips: If you are feeling good about your skill, keep kegs in the crow's nest (they can be found at any Fort, just look out for a skull in the sky), that way if an enemy galleon or brig comes after you, you can drop the kegs off of the back of your boat in the hope they run them over, this can be dangerous because if a player hits the deck of your boat with a fire bomb then it will set off kegs in the crow's nest. Try to find friends whether it's the craziness of open queue or via a discord, having other players with you will teach you a lot of the ins and outs of the game. Google videos for "Best Tuck Spots on sloops" , which will help you identify if someone has snuck on your boat. If you are a solo console player id recommend going to settings and turning off crossplay, whilst console newbies are the most fun to mess with for PC players it is significantly more difficulty to sword-fight PC players because we can basically keep jumping over your head faster than your remote can turn. If you are in fog and can't find other players or something else point the cannon straight up and shoot yourself out of it , it puts you above the fog and you can see everything, just get to a mermaid asap once you hit the water again. You can harpoon the Megalodon when its at the front of your ship for its first passby to snag a ride, it will go way faster than wind will and it usually goes straight for at least a little bit. If you are unlucky enough to be faced with a galleon or brig that is trying to broadside you, you can try to do what he does in the video and hit whoever on their cannons and knock out sails, another good one is hitting them with fireballs, the bigger the ship, the more annoying fire is to put out due to the layers, so they have to decide on neglecting it and letting it spread or getting off the cannons. LASTLY, If your enemy is dressed in all black, or has any sort of ghostly glowing green on them.... run, get the hell out of wherever you are, because you have a 70/30 chance they are either experienced pirates ready to take everything you have or they are actually really nice and helpful and will try to show you parts of the game. and them being nice is rare usually.

Even though I’m a veteran Sea of Thieves player, I did enjoy watching this video because it is helpful AND tells a story, which is something not many other content creators can do. I’ll definitely tell someone to watch it if they need tips. Also, congrats on the 100k Cliff!

I’ll definitely keep this video in mind to send to my friends who get into the game. I keep getting more of my friends into this wonderful game.

For enemy types there are several other ones with their own quirks Normal skeletons: Attack them in any way you want they dont have any quirks Broken Skeletons: same as normal but way weaker they will die in like 3 sword hits Shadow skeletons: Can be killed in daylight but shine a lantern on them when its night *when invincible you will notice they are kinda seethrough and you can go through them* Gold skeletons: throw a bucket of water on them or lead them to water and then shoot them, they are way slower than other types so you can easily throw a firebomb at them Plant skellies: slash them with your sword guns dont work as well on them, they also regenerate health in water/rain FOTD Skeletons: You wont have to worry about those unless you are on a specific island and a specific player activated even is taking place they are same as shadow skellies but you have to shine specific light color on them depending on their own color SPECIAL SKELLY: The ancient skeleton: this one very rarrely spawns on any island and gives you ancient coin, a currency you can only get from buying it with real money or getting them from the plunder pass you are at you will notice this sound of something going out of the ground and a noise similar to coins being shaken, locate this skeleton quickly (he is gold and blue and has a bag on his back) and attack it, the skellly will try to run away if it runs away for some amount of time it will go into the ground and disappear so quickly kill it, there are some other skeletons that are just reskins of the standard white skeletons like white skeletons with some glowing bits There are boss skeletons like the captains having just higher health having a name and captain clothes and there are the skeleton lord/ashen lords which are actual bosses with multiple special attacks, really high health and more

Good newbie tip is save your empty chests if you plan on playing for a long time. You can put all your loot in the chests and keep them on the front tip of your ship when you dock land near the vendors and then just drop the chests first then start selling the items. You can put the same 3 types of items in a chest and carry to specific vendors and sell all 3 at once. Saves alot of time imo.

This is a great tutorial and I'm honestly so thank you for this channel and these videos. I first came to the sea of thieves not too long ago because of this channel and I can see so many new players coming in rapidly. Well done for another great video and HAPPY 100K!

I've been solo slooping for my entire time on the seas, and recently another friend got the game, so this'll be super helpful for him. Thanks Cliff!

Thanks for making such great videos Cliff! You motivate me to get on the seas every week and do some plundering!

Dude u are by far one of the best sot content creators. Appreciate what u do, even for us veterans who have 900 hours in game it's nice to see someone enjoying the game while trying to help others.

Finished a session where me and my crew decided to use everything you said here instead of going on our regular route of doing world events or talk tales constantly it felt nice to feel new again I showed this to my younger brother and he was able to tag along and understand what he was doing. Love the content btw 👍

Great tutorial, I would definitely recommend this to a new player. Also happy 100k cliff you earned it.

I love this, super simple to follow, and again, love the storytelling type that you keep producing, keep up the awesome job!

Yes this is exactly what I needed I’ve always wondered what I should do I’m new to the game and you are still my favorite RU-vidr :)

I’ve spent about 200ish hours on SoT and basically know all there is to know but just watched your video for fun and learned you can hit a harpoon with your sword to drop a piece of loot that you harpooned, keep up the great content!

My friends that I got sea of thieves to play with started me and my wife off a lot like this but they are definitely scared of taking us on world events and don’t seem to enjoy PVP much. But being able to break up and get tier 5 gold hoarder on my second session really put me ahead of the game gold wise allowing me to buy cosmetics for my ship as well as having friends do tall tales with just makes the experience so much greater. You have a lot of details that an impromptu guide from experience players on the ocean will just miss by design so I really love this video it has a lot of tips and tricks they get missed when you’re in the thick of it And trying to explain to newer players.

I've tried to get into this game so many times already, but now that I actually have some basic knowledge, and watching your story in this video, I'm a hell lot more hyped!

Wow, this video was very good and somehow more interesting! Great job dude! Keep it up and your legacy shall be remembered👍

Congrats on 100k Cliff! You deserve it, your content is soooo underrated and it’s a good day when you upload😁

Absolutley adore your work Cliff, Been playing SoT since 2018 and i love it that you went from starting your adventure t guiding others. I love how you've grown and hope you get more subs, you deserve it :)

Nice work Cliff. Only been watching about a week or so but I binged all your content and I've been excitedly waiting for the next episode. Thanks for making such entertaining and informative content.

very informative and helpful, I sure wish I had this when I was a newbie back in 2020

Cliff is an amazing youtuber! His videos are so entertaining! RU-vid wouldn't be the same without him.

Been playing since Alpha, just found your channel and I love what you are doing. Even though I know basically everything about this game, still wanted to see your take on a tutorial for it. Best I've seen thus far. Keep it up, dude!

Hey Cliff thank you for posting I love your videos so much! I would like to say after a week of playing the game ... getting to know the "community" I personally think that Devils Roar is pretty fun to just go solo slooping in, I only found 1 other player in a 4 hour session and they seemed so distraught seeing me they just took off too. I think the harshness of devils roar can actually help train a player faster to learn how to avoid volcanoes, where to park the ship, how to run and repair. Most of all those things, explore and have fun, its a pretty big game to explore all of it. Thank you.

Cliff I got into Sea of Thieves because of your videos. Loving this game!

Congrats on 100k we'll all be here when you soon hit 1M!!

You have already become one of my favorite youtubers, keep up the amazing work! Always looking forward to the next video :)

It's been a few days that I played this game on the gamepass. At first, I went solo, not worrying that players could scuttle me and steal what little loot I found. I was afraid it would happen to me again, and unfortunately... I understood that I couldn't prevent that, because it is part of the heart of the experience of this video game. But after joining a very experienced player and successfully bringing back the huge loot we amassed, I finally understood the appeal of this game. Still, I have a lot to learn. But your video enlightened me on the questions I didn't dare ask during my few sessions with other players. And I thank you very much!

Wish I had this tutorial when I started, though I had a friend who helped a lot. Also congrats on getting legendary kraken hunter.

Kinda felt nostalgic to me to see that when you explained the ashen winds event, it was on the same island I did one on my first day. Me and my friend took over 2 hours to complete it and sunk twice due to meteors and a skeleton sloop. We were very proud of ourselves afterwards though and vowed never to go to the 'red swirly thingy' ever again 😂

This channel is really cool. The community here is so nice, I'm excited to tell that I'm already halfway through the path of a Pirate Legend.

Thanks Cliff! I managed to get Merchants Emisary 5 today, on my third day of play! You're the best, hope to meet you some day on the seas. Peace!

It's always a good day when cliff posts

Love the videos man! You make me wanna redownload Sea Of Thieves... If I had the space..

I'm always anticipating your videos, keep up the great work

Great video! I really in joyed it and I am new to Sea of thieves and you kinda got me into it and this video really helps and I don’t have constructive criticism because you’re content is already really good keep making videos like this!

I'm only 80 hours or so in Sea of Thieves, but I've fought 2 krakens solo and feel very proud of myself! c:

Always a good day when he posts!!

Am a seasoned player, but I invited a friend to play the game. I decided to watch this video just to see what I might need to teach them or how to explain things. Watching this made me look back and realize I need to just link this video to them. This video is phenomenal and is well at explaining, plus the story makes it really fun! Good job on this video! You earned a sub from me.

Excellent videos as always. Absolutely love this content style, reminds me of a less dry version of ambiguous amphibian which is high praise to both of you

Sometimes is pretty hard to explain the mechanics for new players without being boring or sound too complicated. This is one of the most friendly first voyage videos out there. Great work as always!

You know what, I actually kind of like this guidance-giving, knowledge-sharing iteration of Cliff.

Thank you so much for this video. Ive had Sea of Thieves for a while now but i watched anyway and actually learnt a lot. Subscribed!

Hey Cliff I am a huge fan and i just bought the game like 2 weeks ago and because of you I LOVE IT, thank you mate and keep up the amazing work

I went in this game blind with my buddy. We explored for hours and I was drunk on the unknowns and uncertainty of it all.

On my first day in this awesome world of Pirates, Thieves, Wild waters and majestic beasts, I set sail with my friends on brygantine and started looking for treasures and money as every pirate, however we also met skeletons who tried to get into our way with their captain from hell. It wasn't easy at start but as they say teamwork makes the dreamwork. We managed to get as much loot as we could so we started sailing to nearest outpost. While we were looking at the amazing view of sunset, we saw that water started getting darker, the music appeared. It was legendary kraken that appeared out of nowhere, we didn't know what to do but we managed to use our gunpowder barrels to destroy this monstrocity. After we did it our barrel with planks was empty, we had to throw out the water all time, untill we arrived to Galeon's grave outpost... We managed to sell all the loot but then we realised that this outpost is called galeon's grave for some reason. Our ship was blocked between 2 rocks, we tought it was over for us... But then! We used our last gunpower barrel to push the ship back on the sea. With the money we had we bought planks and fixed ship. Sometime later my friends had to go, I ended up sailing alone in the middle of nowhere, then I took the flame grenades and set the ship on fire and went away to see the view. That was last thing that I saw at my first day in Sea of Thieves.....

I've been waiting for a video like this, can't wait to set sail!

Thanks for the awesome video!! Keep up the great content and amazing editing!

The legend has uploaded 💪

Me and my brother will be sailing the seas come April 30th wen this game drops on PS5. Can't wait for the fun adventures to come!

Epic video man! I used to play like 3 years ago and you just reminded me how fun this game can be. ill use your tips to score victory!! thank you so much!

Love the guide! When I try quests, I always get repeatedly targeted and killed. Spending 3 hours to keep dying and eventually earn a meager amount of gold is brutal. I've learned to just sail, explore, fish, and quit whenever conflict arises. These tips will help me start completing objectives, instead of just vibing on the seas 🤙🏽

I am new to the game, but I can actually tell you something about the chest of rage. Instead of letting it explode, make a hole in your ship and set the chest in the lower deck so it's always submerged in water 🤓 (Edit) I didnt watch that clip all the way and I am just now hearing you explain the concept I just gave 💀

sea bad, boat good

Incredible Video 👌. And i think new players will be happy to see this video. Good job!

So glad i joined the discord bc i got an notification immidietly soooo i guess another video i got somthing for my tursday now !

I love the empathy. Most experienced players have forgotten what it's like being new, and it makes it hard for them to give good advice. I agree that some of the things the game has to offer are difficult for new players to handle, but I encourage everyone to try those things when they are ready--use gunpowder barrels, do the other world events, drop the anchor mid-combat, go to the Devil's Roar--just not yet.

Hey just got this game this week and found your content when searching for guides. This is an amazing guide with useful info, and a fun story on the side. I'd love to see more like this with some other new player guides

I love your videos man, they're unlike any other creator and your perfect at narrating!

Congrats on 100k! You definitely deserve it Cliff, can't wait to see what you put out next!

Good vid, this will help a lot of new players learn the basics of the game 10/10

Excellent guide! The chronological fashion is charming. Only thing you missed is that new players tend to wait for their cannonballs to land before reloading

You definitely deserve way more subs man. Your content is unmatchable

Already knowing the basic stuff I still enjoyed this video. Cliff is someone that can always keep my hooked into literally anything

This video is perfect for new players and i will be recommending it to new pirates i meet on the seas Love your videos btw!

Only 30 seconds in and I can already tell this is the best tutorial I will watch today. All the other tutorials make it seem like you have a lot of knowledge of the game thus far.

Thanks so much spiff, I just got the game and this video has been very helpful to me!

Great tutorial! Though for new players who would prefer not to get into pvp right away, I would recommend starting in the East since it's usually a bit more quiet over there.

Just bought this on my steam deck and it run amazing. I played a bit when the game first came out but stop so its been a few year and i know they added a lot of content so this guide is very helpful thanks.

Thank you for this I’ve never played sea of thieves but now when I get it I’ll be ready!

Great guide! I will make sure to send this to friends who are new in the game.

Perfect timing ! I bought the game yesterday but I was confused because of all the npc your video is really saving me

im going to get sea of thieves as my first game on a pc. ill keep you posted on my progress!! Also super informative and entertaining!!!!

This was such a fun video, I appreciate it even though I've been playing for a little while. Very good tips...and I feel utterly stupid for not thinking of the storage chest idea.

Since i watched the ,,100day to pirate legend" video I literally can't stop watching your videos! keep up the good work!

I literally just started playing little over a week ago, been loving the game and watching sea of thieves content creators

Thank you so much for the help!!

I was just able to play Sea of Thieves yesterday! My laptop was fixed, thanks for this!

Such a great video for new players like myself, you gained a new sub!

Cliff you're the only and I mean the ONLY Guy i watch sot Videos of. You're insanely entertaining

This man needs more subscribers, plain and simple. Great content.

Love your videos! you're may 2nd fav SOT content creator 👍

thanks for making this this really helpd me

Thanks, bud. Just picked this up, and failing to get ANY of my massive family to join me in some adventure. This was KINDA my solo plan, but this info helped a lot. And I was about to do easy missions rather than just go out... but maybe a mix if I still have free ones.

Although I'm not new and I know how to play. It's gonna be useful for my friends. So I'm gonna make sure to send it to them. To be honest they don't really know how to play and rely on me to progress. Some of them are quite new. Great video.

I got the game and after watching a few videos thought it was to toxic to play but watching this made me want to play again haha thanks for the tips and good luck on your travels

thanks for all the tips! sea of thieves has been on my backburner until i found some friends to play with but i may just try it solo in the meantime

Was there when you had about 5k Abos and now you have a 100. Im very impressed keep up the good work man :)

This has to be the best beginner guide I have ever watched,so helpful and so easy to keep up with. This guy should do the tutorials in new games, at least then they would be fun and helpful instead of bland and annoying.

I wish I had this tutorial when I first started love you cliff for making this I have lots of friends that just started SOT and this will be perfect for them (and me because u have many tips in your videos that I have never seen in my years of playing SOT)

Really good video by a really good content creator. And he finally got that kraken commendation, long time coming lol

This will be helpful I’ve been looking at sea of thieves for a bit so thanks for the tips

As a new SOT player this video was incredibly helpful

i have just done 11 hours of work im happy u made a new vid love it

Wow! What a well-put and overall helpful video... It's a shame that none of my friends understand English -_- It definitely would have helped me back when I started playing this game :D Congrats on the 100k! You 100% deserve it!

I started on fortresses. Just used a sniper and shot skeletons from ship until I could get the key to vault. Easy 15k runs and doesn’t take long at all. Good for playing solo and you get all sorts of items to sell so you can level up gold hoarder, merchant, etc. highly recommend. Just for leveling and coins. If you want a fun experience then definitely sail around and try out some of the other features because it will most definitely feel like a grind after a while.

Love u Cliff! Favourite SOT RU-vidr!