I'm a veteran solo player, I've been playing since launch of the game and I agree. But I also don't. The real good advice wouldn't be to never lower the anchor. The most important thing in Sea of Thieves is to ALWAYS check on the horizon for ennemy ships, pay attention to sounds (swimming, climbing ladder, keg ignition) and to ALWAYS be on your guard. I lower the anchor 50% of the time I get to an island, cuz' I'm too lazy and guess what : because I am aware of my suroundings, I never get surprised or sunk. Well, not never, but, very rarely ! It's Sea of Thieves after all ! Happy sailing to all !
Using it cause your lazy doesn't make much sense to me, it creates more work for you. If you just raise sail while on approach you don't have to even wait for the ship to come to a stop, sword lunge to the island and let the boat drift the rest of the way. Raising the anchor takes just about the same amount of time as raising the anchor except if you just anchor, before you raise anchor if the ship is pointed at the island you have to raise the sails first anyways then anchor. Laziness just doesn't make sense it's more work to use the anchor
New players remember, when doing a fof always anchor your ship facing the island so you can harpoon the loot, as a quick getaway is not needed. Also remember to put mega kegs in your crows nest.
Drop anchor to lock in the perfect parking job, roll up sails and pull up anchor. Puts you in a good position and you're still set up to bug-out if needed. If someone is close enough to engage in the 20 seconds it takes to get in bug-out mode that's on you for not paying attention to your surroundings.
Also another quick tip, if you ever need to immediately turn around while sailing(usually on a sloop) turn the wheel in the direction to turn and when you start turning for a sec, lower the anchor. That way the ship turns around and all you have to do it straighten the wheel and raise back up.
Its better to raise the anchor the second it finishes lowering. Then while your ship gains speed again you can set the wheel straight. Ive found this usually gives a perfect 180 turn
For some reason I see gallas all the time anchored with tons of loot on Broad but when we are sinking them it's a breeze just keep your anchors up people
The outcome of an unorganized open crew is that it’s just easier to anchor since no one is actually gonna be coordinated enough to raise all three sails in time to stop where you want to stop. And of course no one is gonna help raise the anchor again. So they just leave it.
Bruh I started playing this right before the Kraken got added and I still hard anchor, if the whole crew is coordinated you can pull off some sick turns but I do agree it's absolutely the last thing you wanna do if the entire crew isn't on standby to lift the anchor lmao
storytime: when I was first starting out, I learned about this trick. I did it. accidentally didn't realize that the sails weren't all the way up and boat went bye bye
Everyone takes this as a terrible thing when it isn’t the worst thing in the world just don’t do it for more than a minute or two and don’t leave your boat unattended. At least on smaller ships. On a galleon it takes so long with less than 4 people it isn’t worth it to anchor really
For real! I ran into these 3 dudes in arena (they where in discord) and they refused to use sails, instead they just anchored to get the chest. Even when we got into a good position to broadside they insisted on full sail navaling them, they got lucky the whole lobby was bots. Best part was when they asked for my discord, I was like "nah, when y'all learn how to use sails hmu" LOL
They don't know what they're talking about it's like I think people have this hive mind where if something seems silly everybody will say it cuz they don't want to be the one to be like oh no that works actually because you got to know what you're doing when you do it and when to do it and most people don't You know it's like balancing and weight distributation pushing and pulling leverage all that kind of stuff people don't understand that so it's stupid to do it I do this all the time and it works beautifully
It's actually way more fun just to start turning hard, drop the anchor come to a complete stop and do a fun little drift so you're facing away from the island raise the sales straighten the helm and you've landed way faster and are so ready for a quick getaway
I'd say another thing for new players to know is to never assume a ship is completely peaceful, regardless of how friendly they seem. Betrayals are fairly common and often stem from alliances that seem completely friendly when they're first created.
The alliance i got pulled into today started out as a fight, its my second day on the game so naturally i lost, they ended up helping me out for a couple hours and taught me a lot. Just thought it was funny how my situation was backwards
Noob: drop anchor Pro: raise sails Legend: turns wheel, drops anchor and u turns ready to go back to the outpost and gets the chest all within 15 seconds
Good advice but something I would like to point out that you didn’t is if you leave your ship for too long with the anchor raised will cause your ship to de spawn, which got very annoying when I first started out as a would take a long time to do what I needed to do then come back and my ship would be gone
Ships only Despawn if it detects that its out of water for more than a couple of minutes sounds like your ship just sank from the tide or it drifted away
I watched someone sink their boat with a chest of rage so I stole their loot and ended trading the chest of rage to another player that needed to steal 5 of them for a quest.
Anchoring is not a bad thing. Anchoring is NOT a bad thing. Movement is not key, situational awareness is key. Sail stoping is a HUGE waste of time and you cant park in exact spots like you can when anchoring. The drift on anything other than a sloop is insane, and the time it takes to drop anchor and raise everything is well worth a perfect parking job. Just keep your eyes on the horizon and be aware of your surroundings.
but if someones comes to pvp you cant raise anchor cuase they just aim for you when you try to ancher up just becuase you look out around for players when your on the only they can just come from behind a rock or somthing
Quick note. If you are in the devils roar you might want to anchor anyway, because if the island starts having an earthquick you'r ship will move very far away.
Or don’t because an earthquake is a 50/50 warning sign of an eruption and being anchored inside on anything besides a sloop means you’re probably going to have to wait it out rather than sail outside it.
The problem i have with it, is if your gone away from your ship for an extended period of time. Like your doing a sunken kingdom then your ship will drift away.
My favorite method of stopping is raising the sails "too late" and then using the harpoon to stop in time. Takes less time than just raising sails carefully or anchor stopping.
Yeah hard disagree here. The REAL lesson is more to be aware of surroundings, and if possible, always try to have quick access to returning to your ship. If you see an enemy vessel approaching in the distance, you will almost ALWAYS have time to return to the ship if you are running a solo sloop. If not, realistically there is always going to be another crew member close enough to the ship to start preparing to leave if needed. Having the anchor always up introduces other issues, such as the ship being bombarded by the storm, or keg explosions sending the ship too far to repair.
I may be a new player but I find it quicker to drop anchor then raise sails and anchor.. faster than slowing down and trying to position. Especially as a solo sloop
Except in the devil's roar. If you don't anchor in the roar, the island can quake and your host will wander off and be difficult to get onto. Devil roar you need to have your boat anchored with sails down so you can leave quickly but your boat will be where you left it.
I like to turn masts and wheel all the way one way, then drop anchor, and the second it happens, raise it up. Instant u-turn. Obviously, it's not always applicable, but more like, oh sh-- I'm about to crash into the island. Also, if you want to stop somewhere and not float away. Raise sails, drop anchor, raise anchor. Then the ship will be stationary as if it were anchored, but you're able to punch it out of there as needed.
Things for new players - drop anchor when you need to stop, put kegs below deck so that people cannot shoot them, put all of your materials in storage crates, put on the reapers mark flag because it hides your ship from other players, if you spam your block button and spam the bell on your ship it gives you a sword speed and damage boost. Hope this helps.
Personally now that there’s safer seas, it’s more important to raise sails, quickly drop and then raise anchor in high seas because it’s a public server with possibility of PvP where as with safer seas, you should only do it if a skeleton ship is chasing you or if it’s patrolling and you’re close enough for it to start heading to you.
I’m a pirate legend and I can’t count how many times people make this mistake. When I’m sailing and I see a parked ship with their sails down it just yells “new player”. So unless you have a death wish please don’t do it
Also my advice to cannon loading is that never preload cannons because it trades flexibility to one cannonball that you are now locked in to use first instead of some other option that might work better. For example your crewmate has preloaded normal cannonballs into all cannons and enemy ship is trying to move past you from the right side and you only have time for one good shot and you decided to use chainshot to get enemy mast down but since cannons were preloaded it costs you time to shoot the normal cannonball out and load chainshot into the cannon but you were bit too late to shoot the mast down. I think Flexibility is overall better than faster shooting and helps you in wider variety of situations. TLDR; Preloading cannons gives you faster shooting but costs you lot of flexibility in the process.
I'm a new player and I've already figured this out. I only anchor if I can't wait for the ship to gradually slow down, to make a quick 180 or whenever I'm fighting the meg because my aim sucks (I haven't encountered a kraken yet but I'd lower the sails since the kraken fight requires a lot more mobility compared to meg)
The ink from the Kraken basically brings you to complete stop, i find it super easy to just raise sails 90% of the time one of its toes will be on right side or left for easy cannon shots
Raise sails for both Kraken and Meg. Kraken is already lined up and you rotate with Meg to hit shots and avoid leaving its territory. Plus all the loot is next to the ship right away.
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0 hours: drop anchor
100 hours: raise sails
1000 hours: ram island, anchor, raise everything
Homeboy didn't say repair. He's at the bottom of the ocean now from that one hole.
True
OMG its the one youtuber I watch
Stopping just costs a few planks, that's normal,
Facts
I'm a veteran solo player, I've been playing since launch of the game and I agree. But I also don't. The real good advice wouldn't be to never lower the anchor. The most important thing in Sea of Thieves is to ALWAYS check on the horizon for ennemy ships, pay attention to sounds (swimming, climbing ladder, keg ignition) and to ALWAYS be on your guard. I lower the anchor 50% of the time I get to an island, cuz' I'm too lazy and guess what : because I am aware of my suroundings, I never get surprised or sunk. Well, not never, but, very rarely ! It's Sea of Thieves after all ! Happy sailing to all !
It’s still good advice
Imagine fronting a heavy fort and telling your mans to raise the sail instead of hard anchoring 😭😭😭
also always have your cannons loaded :P
@nobody. they literally said they're a launch player...
Using it cause your lazy doesn't make much sense to me, it creates more work for you. If you just raise sail while on approach you don't have to even wait for the ship to come to a stop, sword lunge to the island and let the boat drift the rest of the way. Raising the anchor takes just about the same amount of time as raising the anchor except if you just anchor, before you raise anchor if the ship is pointed at the island you have to raise the sails first anyways then anchor. Laziness just doesn't make sense it's more work to use the anchor
"Make sure your wheel is straight"
I would cry if i found out my wheel was gay
The amount of sensitive people that got offended of this comment is just pathetic😂
@@jesseprice1186You’re the only one in the comments so far
@@jesseprice1186you were the first person to reply to the comment...
😭😭😭😭
No steppy on snake man is mad
Remember new players, if the sea turns red it's the super rare kraken that gives tons of loot
Lol, expensive loot too!
Where is the Red Sea?
@@jaydenbenson500you have to go outside of the map for the rare kraken to spawn
@@walterwhite2342damn i lost the kraken is quite strong
😂
New players remember, when doing a fof always anchor your ship facing the island so you can harpoon the loot, as a quick getaway is not needed. Also remember to put mega kegs in your crows nest.
Fail army content 🤣✌️
Thebun
In the wild
Lmao
Crow nest takes too long to retrieve them, you should put them in the captains quarters for easy access. The helmsman will be fine.
Drop anchor to lock in the perfect parking job, roll up sails and pull up anchor. Puts you in a good position and you're still set up to bug-out if needed. If someone is close enough to engage in the 20 seconds it takes to get in bug-out mode that's on you for not paying attention to your surroundings.
Bug out mode? You mean anchored?
@@CaptainRockoBD bug out means run away essentially
Me, a player since launch:
*Anchors everywhere because lazy, leaves sails down for nice pictures, and never stocks up the boat*
😅
just food
Launch Crew!
And Stocking takes too long and does no good if you have to scuttle.
If you can't carry it yourself, it's dead weight.
@@Deconstruction_Administrator sounds like easy loot to me.
Also another quick tip, if you ever need to immediately turn around while sailing(usually on a sloop) turn the wheel in the direction to turn and when you start turning for a sec, lower the anchor. That way the ship turns around and all you have to do it straighten the wheel and raise back up.
Its better to raise the anchor the second it finishes lowering. Then while your ship gains speed again you can set the wheel straight. Ive found this usually gives a perfect 180 turn
For some reason I see gallas all the time anchored with tons of loot on Broad but when we are sinking them it's a breeze just keep your anchors up people
Late comment but galleons usually are open crews and very unorganized so i think they just have that one guy who drops the anchor
The outcome of an unorganized open crew is that it’s just easier to anchor since no one is actually gonna be coordinated enough to raise all three sails in time to stop where you want to stop. And of course no one is gonna help raise the anchor again. So they just leave it.
I must be the only galleon that pulls the anchor up, Sometimes, need to do it more, i only really leave it down in storms.
There’s a shanty that talks about how much it is a pain in the neck to raise the anchor just to drop it again later
No. Pro tip:
Make your enemies underestimate you
Bruh I started playing this right before the Kraken got added and I still hard anchor, if the whole crew is coordinated you can pull off some sick turns but I do agree it's absolutely the last thing you wanna do if the entire crew isn't on standby to lift the anchor lmao
Before the Kraken got added?
Kraken was day 1.
Megaladons were added later, after the Hungering Deep event.
Or do you mean Kraken cosmetics?
@@Deconstruction_Administrator Pre-Release.
@@Deconstruction_AdministratorMaybe he means after they made the kraken worth something?
@@benlozier3290 he’s probably bullshiting to be honest
storytime: when I was first starting out, I learned about this trick. I did it. accidentally didn't realize that the sails weren't all the way up and boat went bye bye
Lol
Same the waves
Dragged my boat
even if they are all up, the boat nowadays moves a little bit if you are not anchored
@@Jackcaos yeah, but a little bit ain't much in the grand scheme of things
Everyone takes this as a terrible thing when it isn’t the worst thing in the world just don’t do it for more than a minute or two and don’t leave your boat unattended. At least on smaller ships. On a galleon it takes so long with less than 4 people it isn’t worth it to anchor really
For real! I ran into these 3 dudes in arena (they where in discord) and they refused to use sails, instead they just anchored to get the chest.
Even when we got into a good position to broadside they insisted on full sail navaling them, they got lucky the whole lobby was bots. Best part was when they asked for my discord, I was like "nah, when y'all learn how to use sails hmu" LOL
1 or 2 minutes😂
They don't know what they're talking about it's like I think people have this hive mind where if something seems silly everybody will say it cuz they don't want to be the one to be like oh no that works actually because you got to know what you're doing when you do it and when to do it and most people don't
You know it's like balancing and weight distributation pushing and pulling leverage all that kind of stuff people don't understand that so it's stupid to do it I do this all the time and it works beautifully
Honestly depends on your ship size😭😭 you can anchor a sloop and get it back up in 5 sec. But if you anchor a brig+ it’s problematic
Me talking to my crew: " Raise the ancor" Some random dude's boat : "O free ship and loot for ME"
One more thing, steer your boat in the direction you anticipate needing to go to in case of emergency.
anchor turn go brrrr
Dont forget about the quick u-turn with the sloops anchor trick
It's actually way more fun just to start turning hard, drop the anchor come to a complete stop and do a fun little drift so you're facing away from the island raise the sales straighten the helm and you've landed way faster and are so ready for a quick getaway
I'd say another thing for new players to know is to never assume a ship is completely peaceful, regardless of how friendly they seem. Betrayals are fairly common and often stem from alliances that seem completely friendly when they're first created.
This is a great lesson
@@RicoJake Thank you
The alliance i got pulled into today started out as a fight, its my second day on the game so naturally i lost, they ended up helping me out for a couple hours and taught me a lot. Just thought it was funny how my situation was backwards
Noob: drop anchor
Pro: raise sails
Legend: turns wheel, drops anchor and u turns ready to go back to the outpost and gets the chest all within 15 seconds
The Joe Dirt reference was perfect. Laughed my ass off.
Good advice but something I would like to point out that you didn’t is if you leave your ship for too long with the anchor raised will cause your ship to de spawn, which got very annoying when I first started out as a would take a long time to do what I needed to do then come back and my ship would be gone
Ships only Despawn if it detects that its out of water for more than a couple of minutes sounds like your ship just sank from the tide or it drifted away
J turns with a gally are fun tho
This dude just wants to riggingball you all
I watched someone sink their boat with a chest of rage so I stole their loot and ended trading the chest of rage to another player that needed to steal 5 of them for a quest.
Pov : your boat goes away cause the waves
It doesn’t if your sails are fully up
Anchoring is not a bad thing. Anchoring is NOT a bad thing.
Movement is not key, situational awareness is key. Sail stoping is a HUGE waste of time and you cant park in exact spots like you can when anchoring. The drift on anything other than a sloop is insane, and the time it takes to drop anchor and raise everything is well worth a perfect parking job. Just keep your eyes on the horizon and be aware of your surroundings.
but if someones comes to pvp you cant raise anchor cuase they just aim for you when you try to ancher up just becuase you look out around for players when your on the only they can just come from behind a rock or somthing
Anchoring is a bad thing. Don't anchor unless your about to crash, movement is literally key in this game as he mentioned, don't listen to this clown
When in battle in the shallows my favorite tactic is harpoon turns,i also use them to slow down when im shallow enough
Golden rule: A stationary target is a dead target
I choose to do noob "mistakes" , so other screws believe I don't know what I am doing
Anchor down, sails down says hey come swim a keg to me.
I prefer the good old fashion method of ramming the boat into the island and worrying about damage later.
I did this and the ship sailed away
I was also in a shipwreck so I was stranded in the middle of the ocean.
@@takis4585 fun fact: mermaids bring you back to your ship
@@infinitypeaches3329 i know 😃
@@takis4585 ok
I can't tell if this comment is a joke or not
I hard anchor during hourglass a handfull of times. It's always unexpected.
Quick note. If you are in the devils roar you might want to anchor anyway, because if the island starts having an earthquick you'r ship will move very far away.
Or don’t because an earthquake is a 50/50 warning sign of an eruption and being anchored inside on anything besides a sloop means you’re probably going to have to wait it out rather than sail outside it.
if you’re in devil’s roar, stop further away then only come close to harpoon loot/allies on board
New player here. We dont stop... we jump out & then catch the siren back.
The problem i have with it, is if your gone away from your ship for an extended period of time. Like your doing a sunken kingdom then your ship will drift away.
summary of the video: Anchor is mostly useless unless your boarding someone
Should be “you can lower your anchor but never keep it lowered” ya know?
Exactly! I always anchor to full-stop where I want my ship, then raise anchor after making sure sails are 100% up
I’ll try to remember this when I get a computer that’s compatible for this game.
I thought this was just BASIC knowledge
The only time you anchor is in hard storms or meteors in ashen winds or hard anchor turns
Nothing matters when everybody that's PVP in is running God mode.
A tip for old player:
Do this
My favorite method of stopping is raising the sails "too late" and then using the harpoon to stop in time. Takes less time than just raising sails carefully or anchor stopping.
Except for the 180 combat offensive maneuver
I didn’t know that I thought the boat would drift away 😅
Yeah hard disagree here. The REAL lesson is more to be aware of surroundings, and if possible, always try to have quick access to returning to your ship. If you see an enemy vessel approaching in the distance, you will almost ALWAYS have time to return to the ship if you are running a solo sloop. If not, realistically there is always going to be another crew member close enough to the ship to start preparing to leave if needed. Having the anchor always up introduces other issues, such as the ship being bombarded by the storm, or keg explosions sending the ship too far to repair.
This right here is why open crew is something impossible to make work.
Me who always anchor my ship 100% 🗿 because I want a enemy ship come for me
🗿
🗿
When I fucking raise the sails and keep the wheel strait and I still fucking go
The Joe Dirt lol
Don’t listen to this man, as a veteran you should always anchor your ship instead of raising sails.
Me stealing entire shipfuls of loot because I found a ship unanchored and unattended
What about Anchor turning, I have found its a wild card at time lol
I love how i see this tip everywhere and still when i try to do this then the ship is still swimming by itself
um...I always hard anchor so I can come into an island like a wrecking ball. then I lift sails then lift anchor and move ship to face out to sea
I love hard anchoring in a turn battle. Need a hard left or right? Smack in in the direction and drop the anchor and then quickly bring it back up
Agreed, but in the Devil’s Roar it’s not so great as your ship can move away on you.
I'd rather my ship be miles away than burnt to a crisp
As someone who watched Battleship, i drop the anchor to do the drift everytime
bro stop spilling the secrets
Finally, someone who says it's okay to handbrake basically.
I’ve done this, and I swear my ship slowly started moving further away
i'll just play how i want
Lemme correct him u can hard anchor but if u do raise it as fast as possible and raise ur sails before hand ofc
The joe dirt got me fucking right now
Anchor turns sorrrrrrdddddyyytt
I actually learned that my self and it's really helpful
Anchor is the parking break
Not thee brakes
There’s no breaks on boats just forward, less forward and reverse
I may be a new player but I find it quicker to drop anchor then raise sails and anchor.. faster than slowing down and trying to position. Especially as a solo sloop
Except in the devil's roar. If you don't anchor in the roar, the island can quake and your host will wander off and be difficult to get onto.
Devil roar you need to have your boat anchored with sails down so you can leave quickly but your boat will be where you left it.
I like to turn masts and wheel all the way one way, then drop anchor, and the second it happens, raise it up. Instant u-turn. Obviously, it's not always applicable, but more like, oh sh-- I'm about to crash into the island.
Also, if you want to stop somewhere and not float away. Raise sails, drop anchor, raise anchor. Then the ship will be stationary as if it were anchored, but you're able to punch it out of there as needed.
I leave my boat in a death spiral usualy just cus 😂🤣🤦♂️
Things for new players - drop anchor when you need to stop, put kegs below deck so that people cannot shoot them, put all of your materials in storage crates, put on the reapers mark flag because it hides your ship from other players, if you spam your block button and spam the bell on your ship it gives you a sword speed and damage boost.
Hope this helps.
hope ppl understand the sarcasm lol
lmao
Nah mate, arriving at mach 4. Anchoring that piece of wood like there is no tomorrow. Loot loot loot, kill. Raise the metal. Repeat.
"make sure your wheel is straight"
yeah about that.
I learned this last night...... After my boat was sunked.
My boat grows legs and walks away.
me being a boat drifter
Our galleon getting chased by another galleon
HARRDDD LEFTTT DROP THE ANCHORRR
**Proceeds to drift the boat and open fires all cannons**
Thank for the advice I rlly needed it when I started playing so thank you 🙏🏽
Personally now that there’s safer seas, it’s more important to raise sails, quickly drop and then raise anchor in high seas because it’s a public server with possibility of PvP where as with safer seas, you should only do it if a skeleton ship is chasing you or if it’s patrolling and you’re close enough for it to start heading to you.
You can do really cool 180 turns that way though lmao
Funny enough yesterday if I had not anchored I'd have lost a sizeable part of my loot
Im over here preparing to be a tryhard when it comes out for ps5 😂
I’m a pirate legend and I can’t count how many times people make this mistake. When I’m sailing and I see a parked ship with their sails down it just yells “new player”. So unless you have a death wish please don’t do it
Until a storm rolls in and my boat starts playing teriyaki boyz
Another tip, the boat can turn while stationary!
f off timing is everything:)
The fact that new players play after 30 minutes and found out it’s boring game and quit LMFAO
Also my advice to cannon loading is that never preload cannons because it trades flexibility to one cannonball that you are now locked in to use first instead of some other option that might work better.
For example your crewmate has preloaded normal cannonballs into all cannons and enemy ship is trying to move past you from the right side and you only have time for one good shot and you decided to use chainshot to get enemy mast down but since cannons were preloaded it costs you time to shoot the normal cannonball out and load chainshot into the cannon but you were bit too late to shoot the mast down.
I think Flexibility is overall better than faster shooting and helps you in wider variety of situations.
TLDR; Preloading cannons gives you faster shooting but costs you lot of flexibility in the process.
I'm a new player and I've already figured this out. I only anchor if I can't wait for the ship to gradually slow down, to make a quick 180 or whenever I'm fighting the meg because my aim sucks (I haven't encountered a kraken yet but I'd lower the sails since the kraken fight requires a lot more mobility compared to meg)
The ink from the Kraken basically brings you to complete stop, i find it super easy to just raise sails
90% of the time one of its toes will be on right side or left for easy cannon shots
Raise sails for both Kraken and Meg. Kraken is already lined up and you rotate with Meg to hit shots and avoid leaving its territory. Plus all the loot is next to the ship right away.
If there are waves, you have to anchor your boat, which is about 99.9% of time
I’m here and I don’t know what to do! 😭😂😭☠️😂
Wait till he notices that the Capstan is not center on his sloop 😂
Oh no...
Or....do it and bait the fools onto your cutlass! Yarrr
It only takes a couple seconds to raise anchor. If your aware of your surroundings then don't worry and just drop anchor
Sloop anchor is not a problem. But NEVER ANCHOR YOUR GALLEON.