Destiny 2 Sails of the Ship Thief Week 1 Quest Steps

Destiny 2’s Ship Thief Sails is a quest that runs throughout Season of Plunder.

Each season, Destiny 2 has a story that updates with new stages every week – requiring you to collect season-specific currencies and activities to progress.

In Season of Plunder, it’s all about finding treasure coordinates and map fragments, which in turn will allow you to dig up treasure using the Expeditions Treasure Maps.

Confused? This seasonal storyline is designed to take you step by step, as well as give you some history to chew on until the next weekly reset.

This page explains how sails of the shipstealer works as well as all Sails of the Shipthief quest steps as they are released.

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How the Sails of the Shipstealer quest works in Destiny 2

To start Sails of the Shipstealer, you must complete the Season of Plunder intro quest “Rescue and Salvation”. This starts automatically the first time you load the season, but if it doesn’t you can start from the HELM

Once done, you must then complete “Ahoy and Aweigh” – introducing you to Ketchcrash and the Captain’s Atlas in the HELM, the season’s “vendor” – which finally gives you “Sails of the Shipstealer”.

To start Sails of the Shipstealer, you must first complete “Salvage and Salvation” and “Ahoy and Aweigh”.

Each week, the Sails of the Shipstealer quest steps follow a familiar pattern – visit the HELM, loot a treasure map on an expedition once you have enough map fragments and treasure coordinates, and finally a Pirate Hideout activity, before returning to the HELM or Eliskni district for some interaction with the characters to advance the story.

The sails of the ship robber have a total of 62 stages, with only a certain number of stages released each week. You can either play them as they release or wait until later in the season to play them en masse – whatever suits you!

All Season of Plunder activities will appear on the HELM director screen.

Destiny 2 Sails of the Ship Robber Week 1 Quest (Steps 1-10)

First, complete the “Rescue and Salvation” and “Ahoy and Aweigh” stages to unlock the following:

1. Visit the sky map in the HELM
2. Examine the details of the Captain’s Atlas in your quests. Restore a treasure map in the Captain’s Atlas using the provided map fragments and treasure coordinates.
3. Recover buried treasure at the end of an Expedition activity. (Complete an expedition with an active treasure map)
4. Claim the Successful Expedition Weekly Challenge in the Season of Plunder section of your quests. (Claim the challenge in your Seasonal Challenges menu, as seen here 🙂

This is where you can claim the Weekly Challenge of a Successful Expedition.

5. Improve the sky map in the HELM.
6. Complete Pirate Hideout: Val’aug, the Brute. (The activity is in the HELM director screen)
seven. Visit The Ether Tank holoprojector in the Eliskni district.
8. Visit Spider in The Ether Tank in the Eliksni district.
9. Check in with Spider in The Ether Tank.
ten. Mithrax and Eido are investigating what you recovered from the pirate hideout. They will contact you when they have more information.

You can find The Ether Tank holoprojector right in front of where you spawn in the Eliskni district.

More stages to come in the next weekly reset!

The season of plunder has arrived! New additions include the Sails of the Shipstealer quest and Quicksilver Storm. Before this Friday, learn more about the King’s Fall release time. Before that, haunting season continues. Familiarize yourself with our leveling guide before tackling the Duality dungeon and learn how to collect Calus Bobblehead locations, Calus Automaton locations, and find all Opulent Key chests. For The Witch Queen, find out how to get Exotics including Dead Messenger and Parasite. Late last year, we saw Bungie’s 30th anniversary, which introduced the Grasp of Avarice dungeon, weird rooms, and new Exotics including the Gjallarhorn and Forerunner.

When does the Sails of the Shipstealer quest expire?

Although Sails of the Shipstealer is the seasonal quest for Season of Plunder – which runs between August and December 2022 – you don’t need to complete the entire quest before the end of the season.

While the Seasonal Challenges and Artifact will continue after the Season ends, this quest – along with the associated currencies and activities – will remain until future major expansion releases. It will be Year 6 and Lightfall, which will launch on February 28, 2023.

So while it’s worth playing Sails of the Shipstealer during Season of Plunder to get the most out of this season’s rewards, if you want to catch up later, you can.