Sea of Thieves, the hit pirate game from Rare, has seen plenty of updates over its almost 3-year history, changing the game from a rather disappointing launch version into the content-packed game it is today. With so many updates over the years, it’s no surprise that a variety of features tailored to different types of players, from the PvP hungry to the story focused players, have been introduced. It’s these changes that have helped propel Sea of Thieves to having more than 15 million players.
Stunning visuals aside, Rare has really delivered on the content-packed game fans hoped to see when Sea of Thieves was first showcased at E3 back in 2015. With the latest update introducing seasons, new cosmetics, a brand new voyage, and much more, Rare are showing fans they have no intention of slowing down. With so many things to do in the game, it can be difficult for players to decide how to spend their time, but one feature draws in players like no other: the Fort of the Damned.
The Fort of the Damned Sea of Thieves update, introduced more than a year ago, is still the game’s best feature despite lots of competition. There are five world events in Sea of Thieves, and each one offers a different PvE challenge for players to complete, like fighting a skeleton boss to sinking a bunch of ghost ships. Players that complete world events are rewarded with lots of treasure, but because they can be seen from anywhere in the map, other players are also likely to show up to try and steal the event and treasure.
Why Sea of Thieves’ Fort of the Damned Works So Well
The Fort of the Damned is unique in Sea of Thieves on several fronts, which helps make it the best feature in the game. Fort of the Damned is the only world event that needs to be started by players as opposed to starting automatically, and starting it requires work. In order for the Fort of the Damned to begin, players must collect six different lantern colors aboard their ship. Each lantern color corresponds to a way the player can die, ranging from PvP to snake poison. Players also need a ritual skull, which can be bought or won by sinking a skeleton ship. Once a crew has started the Fort, players must coordinate in order to kill waves of skeletons, which are invincible until lit with a particular lantern color, and then finally a skeleton lord with loads of health and powerful attacks. All of this makes Fort of the Damned the most difficult – and dangerous – feature to complete in Sea of Thieves.
All this work comes with a hefty in-game reward, with crews that complete the Fort of the Damned being given access to a vault on the same island. The vault contains lots of treasure, from explosive kegs to rare skulls. The most valuable treasure inside the vault is a Chest of Legends (known as an Athena’s Chest), which is not available in any other world events and can only be accessed outside Fort of the Damned by Pirate Legends – highly ranked players who have earned level fifty with three companies in Sea of Thieves – doing special voyages.
The Chest of Legends, along with all the other treasure, makes it a very appealing event to attend. Because Fort of the Damned is a world event in Sea of Thieves, meaning it can be seen from anywhere in the map, crews attempting to complete the Fort of the Damned and earn that very rare reward are often met with hostility by other players. Fort of the Damned can often become a hotspot on a server, leading to massive battles among several crews all competing for the loot. With lots of ships battling it out and everyone trying to find – and sneak away with – the Chest of Legends, this makes for a very entertaining and adrenaline-driven gaming session, particularly for the crew that did all the work. That level of excitement and scallywag behavior is what makes Sea of Thieves the enjoyable game it is, and what makes Fort of the Damned its best feature.
