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Gilded Merchant achievement in Sea of Thieves

Gilded Merchant

Receive the Commendation for earning 150,000 gold from Merchant Alliance Voyages.

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How to unlock the Gilded Merchant achievement

• KungFuStu72

  27 Apr 2018 04 May 2018
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  First thing to note with this achievement is that the description is slightly misleading. You don't actually need to do any Merchant voyages to earn this achievement. The commendation in question is simply for selling loot items to the Merchant guild. The merchant guild accepts a variety of items including caged animals, cases of sugar, tea & spice (found on shipwrecks, washed up on islands or as Skull Fort loot) and gunpowder barrels.
  
  Every time you sell any of these items the gold is added to your tally that can be found by pressing , scrolling right to the merchant guild and looking at the second item on the top line. When this value reaches 150,000 you will earn the commendation and you can now buy the title "Gilded Merchant" from the clothes shop.
  
  To earn this achievement quickly you can complete lots of skull forts as they usually reward you with multiple high value crates of exquisite spice.
  
  The alternative method is to complete lots of Merchant Voyages. This involves purchasing a voyage from the guild, activating the voyage on your ship (do this while at an outpost), collecting the required cages from the merchant then heading to a relevant island to capture the animals on your "shopping list" and deliver them to the target outpost. It sounds like a lot of work but by using an animal location map maps.seaofthieves.rarethief.com/ you can cut out a lot of uncertainty. When you activate the voyage have a quick look through the list, if there are no black or gold animals (high value) then cancel the mission and start another; it's really not worth the bother of catching white chickens once you've leveled up past level 10.
  
  There are a few boosting methods which involve rounding up loads of high value animals on a floating zoo before you take on voyages but this leaves you open to losing the lot if attacked by other pirates. Rare are also constantly patching the game to make these methods less and less effective.
  
  Note. I unlocked the commendation about 6 days before I got the achievement. It actually unlocked when I sold a crate of exquisite spice that I found on a ship wreck. I had probably sold about 156,000g of loot to the merchants by this time.

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  I can confirm this pops later than it should. Haven't got the achievement yet but definitely unlocked the commendation ingame.
  Edit: Unlocked it at roughly 158k merchant loot.

  Posted by DnB Gnasher on 08 May 18 at 20:35

  I got it pretty well bang on at 150,000 so it must be patched.

  Posted by Friggin Grease on 10 Jun 18 at 15:48

  Just to add, you can get this quicker with a merchant emissary flag raised. Get it to level 5 and you get more gold for each turn-in.

  Posted by ManicMetalhead on 15 Jun 20 at 14:49

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• xxDAMRONxx

  01 Jan 2019 05 Jan 2019
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  Ahoy Mates! Welcome to Sea of Thieves!
  
  The below video will discuss everything you need to know to get this achievement as well as all the other Merchant Alliance related achievements. Keep in mind you DO NOT actually need to do merchant voyages to obtain this achievement. Simply turning in items to the merchant trader counts towards this no matter how you obtained it.
  
  KungFuStu72 has provided an excellent text guide to please refer to that as I will not replicate that here (drop him a like!).
  
  I hope you find the video helpful!
  
  -Damron Out
  
  
• Squirrel091

  23 Mar 2023 23 Mar 2023
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  I found a pretty easy way to do this is running trade routes.
  
  Each week, every outpost will list goods they have a shortage of and a surplus of. Our goal is to sail to each outpost buying low, selling high.
  
  Here is how I did it.
  
  1) Look up current weeks Trade Route. I used merfolkslullaby.com.
  2) When you log in, raise Merchant Alliance embassy flag (assuming you're level 15, if not just play the game and try to get a better understanding of the mechanics/world events/etc. Do some voyages as well).
  3) Buy all commodities at the outpost from the Merchant Alliance representative.
  4) Talk with them again once all are bought to actually receive the box.
  5) Place all boxes in harpoon range and harpoon them all (very quick with season 9 changes!)
  6) Sail to next outpost according to your route.
  7) Sell all until you reach embassary rank 5. After that only sell what is being sought by each outpost to maximize profit. But raising Embassy rank is priority 1.
  8) Repeat until achievement pops.
  
  Once you hit Rank 5 You'll average selling items for 1875 gold each! 150,000 / 1875 (avg) = ~80 total goods sold. 15 goods/outpost makes it 80/15 = 5.3 or 6 outpost visits once you hit level 5. Really it will probably be closer to 10 total because you won't hit rank 5 until your 4th outpost sell. But you also will probably be closer to needing 100k by the time you're ready to actually farm this.
  
  Hope this helps!