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Merchant Adventurer achievement in Sea of Thieves

Merchant Adventurer

Correctly fill 250 animal crates whilst on Merchant Alliance Contract Voyages.

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How to unlock the Merchant Adventurer achievement

  • StipularBuggerStipularBugger
    25 May 2018 25 May 2018
    As of patch 1.0.8, this achievement just got a lot easier. This update gave players the ability to discard voyages from their voyage inventory.

    Not only that, but when you discard those voyages, the voyages sold by the Trader are restocked! So now you can just buy 3 voyages from the Trader, discard them, buy them again, rinse and repeat. Do this until you reach 250 purchases, and voila, achievement unlocked!

    It is highly recommended that you grind this achievement before purchasing ANY promotions, as the voyages are free at the lowest rank. I have tested this strategy. I was able to "purchase" 250 merchant voyages at the lowest rank in less than an hour, and went from level 1 to level 9 in the Merchant Alliance just because of the commendations obtained on the way. Just be very careful to not accidentally buy a promotion while you are spamming the cn_A button!

    I'm not sure if the Traders restocking their voyages is a glitch or not, so take advantage of this while you still can! If anyone can confirm whether or not this is a glitch, please let me know in the comments.
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    mdd092still works as of 2022
    Posted by mdd092 on 26 Jul 22 at 16:58
    SunkenStyxHad to purchase well over 250 contracts for the achievement to unlock, was only at 78% after getting the commendation in game
    Posted by SunkenStyx on 18 Jan at 02:31
    Bazroy99If you get the commendation for 250 but the achievement doesn't pop, I found exiting the game and starting a new one triggered it.
    Posted by Bazroy99 on 19 Jan at 10:15
    xxHANCHOxxThese achievements have been changed to "defeating 500 skeletons on an Order of Souls Bounty Voyage" "digging up 250 chest on x marks the spot voyages" and "correctly filled 250 animal crates whilst on Merchant Alliance contracts"
    Posted by xxHANCHOxx on 27 Jan at 14:12
    Twigleaf TwigsAs for new Season 11. This now says to catch 250 of correct animals. However, I have been working on this, and either you do not actually need 250, or ( maybe ) you do not actually need the "correct" animals. But it really doesn't matter, as it's random. Here is a way to grind this.

    Play Safer Seas, as you are not making $ here.

    Get the easiest merchant mission to find 2 animals. Preferably chickens because they spawn in groups of 4 or 5 . The "easy" 2 animal mission, because the island will be small and compact. It's less chasing.

    Fast travel and park boat on one side .

    Catch your chicken and kill it. Repeat this for the 4 or 5 chikens that go with this mission. Kill them all AFTER you catch them. Hopefully you get credit for 3 or 4 of these. (This achvmnt won't track until you log out and back in.)

    Now mess around for 2 to 4 min. Then get into your boats cannon, and fire yourself out to sea. Swim out to the 2nd mermaid.. This seems to "respawn" the chickens. It's random, and may need to wait 3 or 5 minutes before shooting yourself away. Seems like it's also a timer added plus your distance from the island that effects respawn.??

    Repeat steps.

    You can knock out 10 to 15 % of this achvmnts ever hour or so. It is Grindy, but It's way faster than getting a new mission and doing 250 animals though. There are also far easier ways to complete the accompanying achvmnts for turning it in . so I would not worry with turning them into port
    Posted by Twigleaf Twigs on 13 Feb at 05:12
    tntiseverywereSo, i saw this increasing at the release of season 11 and then it seems like it stopped tracking by the same time that the banner "Seasons 11 achievements are disabled" was on... I did a lot of them before realizing it's not counting... Anyone has the same issue? Is it back tracking now that they "fixed" seasons 11 achievements?
    Posted by tntiseverywere on 17 Feb at 06:54
    ggallinftwMy tracker has been stuck at 43% since achievements were turned back on and I've filled at least 30 crates correctly in that time. Yet another example of Rare/Sonysoft being garbage.
    Posted by ggallinftw on 18 Mar at 18:28
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