Sea of Thieves

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Sea of Thieves is a shared world action-adventure video game developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Studios for Windows 10 and Xbox. The game allows players to take the role of a pirate, sailing the seas of a fantastical world either solo or as part of a crew of up to four players featuring both co-operative and player versus player combat.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Sea of Thieves reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Sea of Thieves Outage Chart 01/26/2026 21:00

January 26: Problems at Sea of Thieves

Sea of Thieves is having issues since 08:40 AM AEST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Sea of Thieves users through our website.

  1. Sign in (68%)

    Sign in (68%)

  2. Online Play (18%)

    Online Play (18%)

  3. Matchmaking (5%)

    Matchmaking (5%)

  4. Glitches (5%)

    Glitches (5%)

  5. Game Crash (5%)

    Game Crash (5%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Sea of Thieves outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
United StatesFayetteville Sign in
United StatesThomson Sign in
United StatesDuluth Sign in
United StatesCollege Station Sign in
United StatesAtlanta Sign in
FranceLa Tour-du-Pin Sign in
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Sea of Thieves Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • markalexm Mark (@markalexm) reported

    @jhillard0515 @SeaOfThieves The gold and rep will eventually come in. Same issue has happened in the past and it would take up to 48 hours for your game to show you got it.

  • RogueRavenclaw Rowena Slytherin (@RogueRavenclaw) reported

    @SeaOfThieves Wtf dude. Why the hell does shopping count as inactivity!? I just got booted for inactivity even though I was using the shop! That is so irritating since the game takes FOREVER to load on an Xbox One. Fix your ****!!!!

  • schwartzy2995 schwartzy™ (@schwartzy2995) reported

    @SeaOfThieves Very tone deaf to promote this while there are major issues with people not getting their gold. Not even delays, just not receiving anything.

  • TrompiPhil Philipp Hennigs (@TrompiPhil) reported

    @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves Yea...stacked six FOTDs and got no frkn gold at all...how do you manage to do this every gold & glory event....it's just sad. Please focus more on fixing the many issues with this game instead of pushing out more and more things for emporium and more and more bugs.

  • Taaaaamas Taaamas (@Taaaaamas) reported

    @smarioplayer200 @SeaOfThieves Issues like these don't go under the radar, of course it's known about, you're not a hero by pointing it out 12 times every time something goes wrong.

  • smarioplayer200 Joshua1995 (@smarioplayer200) reported

    @Taaaaamas @SeaOfThieves Im sorry for being so mean to you guys, i quess i can't really look into how hard it is to fix this

  • jhillard0515 James Hillard (@jhillard0515) reported

    @SeaOfThieves Will you expand the even due to the people who are not getting the rep and gold because of system issues?

  • Sherl0ckSparr0w SherlockSparrow (@Sherl0ckSparr0w) reported

    @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves When you finally fix this will the emissary ledgers update with what we’ve earned toward it? I’d hate to be doing all this for nothing!

  • hrdchp383 Chips (@hrdchp383) reported

    @DizzleFrizzleMD @SeaOfThieves Don’t worry. Once everyone stops playing this weekend because they aren’t getting any gold, the issue will stop and Rare will think they fixed it. Then they’ll give everyone a whopping 100k gold to make up for the millions they lost, and the same thing will happen next event 👍🏼

  • kola5 Jaybo Kazhi (@kola5) reported

    @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves HONEST SUGGESTION: Have somebody monitor the servers and if this issue pops up, immediately put up a disclaimer on game that states Delayed Rewards, Sail at your own risk, similar to the Disclaimer that the servers will go offline in X amount of time.

  • CallMehToxic CallMehToxic (@CallMehToxic) reported

    @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves What you guys should look into is server stability. Latency and d sync on a prolonged server (if your in same server for couple hours) is extreme and is what's causing a lot of the issues. you can even see it with the AI.Skelly standing in a spot swinging when you moved 20sec ago

  • C00kie17128846 Kawaii Titan (@C00kie17128846) reported

    @ItsPrentissYall @SeaOfThieves @SoT_Support Yeah I have the same problem. Why isnt Rare listening at the moment? Do they really care so little?

  • gajones1345 Garrett Jones (@gajones1345) reported

    @SeaOfThieves turned in two vaults last night and the game didn't credit me any gold for those chests I turned in and with it being double gold weekend that's alot of gold I'm missing, can you fix this

  • wehavea2318 Callum (@wehavea2318) reported

    @SeaOfThieves I tried to suffer through this **** boring game for half an hour and for some reason I can't even use the bumpers because of a game breaking glitch. You literally ask players for money and this is the quality of stuff you idiots put out it's disgusting really

  • SSJG_Andre DarthTroll (@SSJG_Andre) reported

    @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves Fix infinite black screen bug

  • Vezxh Vezxh⁷ᵏ (@Vezxh) reported

    @VezCreates @SeaOfThieves You think so? I just am worried there not gonna fix it because I guess it was happening to everyone

  • Sherl0ckSparr0w SherlockSparrow (@Sherl0ckSparr0w) reported

    @killzone1401 @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves Oh I’ve found it. Leaderboards. Doesn’t seem to have updated since I did more yesterday. I guess I’ll have to wait until they fix this issue so I can properly look! Cheers.

  • TrompiPhil Philipp Hennigs (@TrompiPhil) reported

    @RedFoX194 @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves And tbh I don't care about the gold; it is just sad, that rare never fails the expectation of getting more bugs into the game without fixing issues the game already has for years. I love the game, but I hate to see, that rare doesn't care about fixing issues.

  • RogueRavenclaw Rowena Slytherin (@RogueRavenclaw) reported

    Also please fix your many glitches emissary quests. Tired of manifests and shipwrecks not spawning. The Order of Souls emissary mission seems impossible even with a friend. Several ghost galleons versus a sloop? Come on, guys @SeaOfThieves #SeaOfThieves

  • Krasnooo Bartlomiej (@Krasnooo) reported

    @seaofthieves @RareLtd Fix the servers yet? Absolute hot trash reg and servers this week. #wakeup #stopkillingyourgame

  • Taaaaamas Taaamas (@Taaaaamas) reported

    @smarioplayer200 @SeaOfThieves 12 times as in for the same 1 situation issue. It's not really necessary. Things will work out, but moaning about it over and over wont help anyone, and it wont help yourself. Take the time to relax for a bit, do something different, and chill...

  • dogbite84 adrian nicholl (@dogbite84) reported

    @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves Do we have any update on when this problem with gold is goin to be solved

  • DizzleFrizzleMD Dizzle Frizzle (@DizzleFrizzleMD) reported

    @SeaOfThieves Do not play this weekend, it's bugged where you won't get ANY bonus multipliers. No gold and glory, no emissary, no gold rush. My crew got screwed out of so much gold and rep, and we're not the only ones. Rare is ignoring the problem.

  • RogueRavenclaw Rowena Slytherin (@RogueRavenclaw) reported

    @SeaOfThieves Wtf dude. Why the hell does shopping count as inactivity!? I just got booted for inactivity even though I was using the shop! That is so irritating since the game takes FOREVER to load on an Xbox One. Fix your ****!!!! #SeaOfThieves

  • VezCreates Vezh — Christian. (@VezCreates) reported

    @Vezxh @SeaOfThieves They’ll fix it, its happened many of times to me

  • noob76052507 oxynatOr (@noob76052507) reported

    @SeaOfThieves right... we glitch from the ship...

  • air_ttv TTV.Viper (@air_ttv) reported

    @SeaOfThieves fix your game

  • smarioplayer200 Joshua1995 (@smarioplayer200) reported

    @Taaaaamas @SeaOfThieves Maybe i don't have to point out the same problem if it didn't happen 12 times maybe?

  • zOConnxr z Joca (@zOConnxr) reported

    @NoahKel06918695 @SeaOfThieves No.... because at this point its obvious they have no idea how to fix them

  • Spoooeeee Spoooeeee (@Spoooeeee) reported

    Would be real sweet if you managed to fix the delayed rewards and never-ending loading of the pirate log. I can imagine this annoys a lot of players and puts them off the game @SoT_Support @SeaOfThieves