How to Bury Treasure in Sea of Thieves? Custom Buried Treasure Maps

Sea of Thieves and its Buried Treasures, Our Guide to find them

Sea of Thieves buried treasure has been one of the most requested features from fans, and it has arrived alongside map bundles and the Quest Board. There are even two new commendations up for grabs with these Season 5 additions.

How to Bury Treasure in Sea of Thieves

Burying treasure in Sea of Thieves is easy. First, you’ll need to collect some loot. This can be almost anything, from treasure chests to skulls, to item boxes, kegs, and even chickens in coops (don’t worry, they’ll be fine!). Really, your buried treasure hoard can be whatever you want it to be!

Set the item you want to bury on some dirt and pull out your shovel. Press the “secondary use” button — typically mapped to the left trigger on a controller and RMB on a mouse — to start scooping dirt.

Work that shovel a bit and your buried treasure will disappear below the surface, with nothing but some slightly disturbed dirt to indicate its location.

Custom Buried Treasure Maps & Map Bundles Explained

Once you have fully buried treasure in the dirt, a custom map will appear in your inventory, with X marking the spot. If you bury more items on an island, more X’s will appear, with up to 10 per map. You can bury things on other islands too, and each island will generate its own chart.

The buried treasure maps will also appear on your ship’s Voyage Table as a map bundle. You will want to be careful with this physical representation of your maps: map bundles can be stolen by other crews. They can be snatched directly off of the table, and if your ship sinks, map bundles will float to the surface, ready to be nabbed by whoever gets to them first.

As a well-to-do-pirate, you will want to take care of your maps and map bundles, and keep an eye out for opportunities to steal some new ones from other players.

How to Use the Sea of Thieves Quest Board for Buried Treasure

Sure, stashing loot as buried treasure is a fun part of the Sea of Thieves experience, but we all know sharing is caring. That’s where the Quest Board comes in. Once you’ve created some treasure maps, you can return to an Outpost or Seapost and find the Quest Board near the docks. Interact with it and navigate to the My Maps section. Every sharable treasure map you have will be displayed here, and you can select which maps to post.

Posting a map makes it available for other pirates to find on the Quest Board. If another crew takes your map and finds the treasure, you will receive a full share of the renown and reputation. Best of all, this can happen anytime, even while you are offline.

Don’t be surprised to drop off a few maps, and come back days later to see a message informing you of the renown you’ve earned from buried treasure. If a crew never takes your map, you will still eventually earn reputation and renown for posting it, but a lesser amount than if a crew had found it.

You are welcome to take other player-created maps from the Quest Board as well. These will be listed in the Quest Board section. Buried treasure maps are generally divided into stashes and hoards, with hoards having more loot. Still, you won’t know in advance the type or quantity of the buried treasure, so it is a bit of a gamble. It could be a mountain of valuable loot, random fruit, or event kegs set as traps.

You can discard buried treasure maps you aren’t interested in, but keep in mind that you are limited to five maps from the quest board per day. Beggars can’t be chooser

How to Bury Treasure, Create Maps, and Steal Maps

The time has come! You can now live your pirate life to the fullest with the ability to bury treasure! However, the buried treasure maps you create can be used by crews other than your own. So you’ll have to protect them from sneaky pirates looking to find where you hid your loot!

How to use the Quest Board

So you can create buried treasure maps as you sail the sea, but did you know you can also share those maps with other pirates? Check out the Quest Board the next time you visit an Outpost. You can post your player-created maps to share with others. You can also take a few maps from the Quest Board to go on a hand-crafted adventure designed by your fellow pirates!

Fireworks and Signal Flares

It’s time to light up the sky pirates! The next time you celebrate with your crew, why not shoot a few Fireworks from your ship? While Fireworks are all fun and games, you can instead send a Signal Flare into the sky for more serious matters. We’ll tell you all about where to find Fireworks and Signal Flares, as well as how to use them.

Sitting and Sleeping

Another level of immersion has been added to the game with the new ability to sit and sleep! There are now hundreds of spots throughout the Sea of Thieves for your pirate to sit, relax, and take in the moment. So the next time a beautiful sunset is on the horizon, why not find a great place to take in the view.

How to Get and Roll Dice

You can now gamble for treasure with the ability to roll dice! New emotes allow your pirate to roll six different types of dice. You can earn these new emotes by progressing through Season Five. So what are you waiting for? Set sail and earn yourself some dice!

What’s the point of burying treasure in Sea of Thieves?

If someone else finds the treasure, the player who buried it will earn extra renown. Other new additions in Season 5 include the ability to obtain fireworks and signal flares, new sitting and sleeping animations and the ability to whisper to players by turning around the speaking trumpet.

Has anyone found pirate buried treasure?

There are a number of reports of supposed buried pirate treasure that surfaced much earlier than these works, which indicates that the idea was at least around for more than a century before those stories were published. … No treasure has been reported to be found yet.

What can you bury in Sea of Thieves?

Sea of Thieves finally allows players to bury their treasure after the release of Season 5. Not only can you bury almost all the items anywhere on the map, but you can even set traps to prevent them from getting stolen by other pirates.

How do treasure maps work Sea of Thieves?

Treasure maps have an island drawn on them with a red X marking the spot where a treasure chest is buried. … At this point, you will have one or more treasure maps or riddle maps in your map inventory. You may get more maps after completing one set in Sea of Thieves, depending on the voyage.