Sea of Thieves: The Hunt for the Hoarder's Golden Key Voyage Guide - Rare Thief (2024)

So, you’ve completed Puzzle 4 and are ready for the next part of The Crowning Glory stage of the Mystery: The Hunt for the Hoarder’s Golden Key voyage! The Hunt for the Hoarder’s Golden Key is a time-limited, multi-chapter voyage that will have you sailing through the Sea of Thieves, solving riddles from a Mysterious Journal.

Like the previous three Silver Key voyages, you must solve the riddles to complete the voyage. If you are successful, you will find the Bullion Gold Key, unlock the Gold Hoarder Skull Trinket, and finish the fourth and final stage of The Hoarder’s Hunt Mystery!

After completing The Crowning Glory Puzzle and submitting the correct keyword to the official Sea of Thieves website, you can claim The Hunt for the Hoarder’s Golden Key Voyage from Larinna. You can find Larinna at any active Outpost across the Sea of Thieves.

Once you find her, speak with her and browse her stock. Then, choose The Hunt for the Hoarder’s Golden Key and purchase it for 0 Gold. With the voyage in your inventory, you are ready to embark on this mysterious voyage!

You can purchase this voyage as many times as you like throughout the Mystery, so don’t worry if you need to try it more than once.

Head to your ship’s Captain’s Table and propose the voyage. You’ll receive a Mysterious Treasure Map in your Quest Radial as soon you vote to start it.

Open up your Quest Radial and select the map. It will be an X Marks the Spot map for an island nearby with one X. Once you figure out which island the map is for, sail over to the island to dig at the X!

Once on the island, head to the area with the X and dig. You’ll need to be precise to find the exact spot!

When you’ve dug in the correct spot, you’ll uncover a Mysterious Journal. You will add it to your Quest Radial as soon as you pick it up. Open up the Mysterious Journal and read through the pages. You’ll see you have a riddle to solve!

As you read through the pages, you will learn that you’ll need to visit the Ferry of the Damned to start. So, grab some Blunderbombs, jump off the crow’s nest, or get eaten by a shark to make your way to the Ferry.

Now you want to count the cannons (metal DRAGONS) and beacons (CAGES FOR WOOD) on the Ferry. You should count five cannons and six beacons. Add the one bell (MUSIC MAKER) to eleven for a count of 12. We’ll use 12 to measure the squares for the WEST to EAST part of the riddle.

Go to your Map Table and start at the map coordinates A1. From there, go South 14 squares and then East 12 squares. You should be at the map coordinates L14, where the Fort of the Damned is.

See exactly where the pages are on your map:
Missing Pages on Fort of the Damned

Open up your newly added Missing Pages and start to decipher the riddle. The pages will direct you to head inside the main fortress where the six Flames of Fate statues are.

Walk over to the one that holds the White flame on the East side of the room and stand behind its lantern. You want to line up the red candles on the other side of the room with the holes in the lantern. Once you have lined up the candles, equip your compass to get your heading. You’ll be heading West by North West to Castaway Isle.

Once on Castaway Isle, head to the Southern part of the island and face North. You’ll walk through a stone arch and follow the path to a palm tree with two skulls staked into it.

Stand close to the skulls and face them. Then, rotate so you are facing the profile of the right skull. Off in the distance, above the right skull, through the trees, is your next destination, The Reaper’s Hideout!

You’ll walk past more red lanterns to head inside. Once inside, stop at the chalice and turn around.

Walk back outside and stop on the middle of the small bridge. You’ll be able to line up more red lanterns with a small diamond cutout in the banner by the bridge. once you do, you’ll be in the right spot to line up an island between two posts tied with a rope. The island in the distance is Wanderer’s Refuge.

Head in that direction and walk through the stone tunnel to the center of the island.

Up on the hill you will come across two functional Resource Barrels and one that is destroyed.

Stand on top of them and look up the hill to the North. You should see the very tip of the bell on top of the island.

Make your way to the bell and dig at its base to find more Missing Pages.

See exactly where the pages are on your map:
Missing Pages on Wanderer’s Refuge

Dock your ship by the South East jetty. Walk on the jetty and stop at the end. Look to your right, and you will spot a lantern on top of a Resource Barrel.

Walk over to the Resource Barrel to find your following location. From the Resource Barrel and busted chest, look to the North East, and you’ll see a cannon in a fort gatehouse. Walk up to the cannon and face North up the hill to the main fortress. You will see a lantern hanging from a post. You’ll be digging underneath the scaffolding from which the lantern is hanging.

The scaffolding just to the East of the main entrance and has a red Cannonball Barrel next to it.

See exactly where the pages are on your map:
Missing Pages on Hidden Spring Keep

Dock your ship on the North West side of the island. Hop off your ship onto the island and walk East under the arch. As you walk through the arch you’ll see a wooden bridge further East. Go over to it and walk under it to find a shipwreck for you to climb. Make your way up the shipwreck’s mast and look down to the South. You will see the broken hull of another shipwreck.

Drop down and stand on the middle spine of the shipwreck. Face away from the island along the spine to find your next island, The Crooked Masts.

Starting on the West side of The Crooked Masts, make your way up to the middle of the island and look South for the bell. Walk over to the bell and keep walking up the hill, past the torches, and through the cave. From the two torches on the other side of the cave, you’ll walk to the right on top of the cave, past the white flag, and across the bridge to the North spire.

Make your way up to the cave and face toward the opening to the West. Then use your spyglass and line up the panhandle on the cooking spot with the peak in the back. When you have them lined up, equip your shovel to dig up the final set of Missing Pages!

See exactly where the pages are on your map:
Missing Pages on The Crooked Masts

Dock your ship on the Eastmost Isle and jump on the dock. Tucked away are two chairs. Sit in the chair closest to the rock, and you will see a post line up with another Isle in the distance.

Swim over to that Isle and climb up the ladder on the mast to the cannon. The cannon is facing toward Kraken’s chicken head mounted on the tavern. Jump in the cannon and shoot over!

Now you’ll want to peer into each window until you find a table with pouches of gold. Once you do, turn around, and you’ll find another Isle with a cannon across the way. Jump down and make your way over to the Isle. Once there, stand on top of the ship’s wheel, equip your spyglass, and look through the scaffolding to find a light up high on the main structure.

Jump down to that Isle and stand just in front of the pile of barrels at the back of it. Line up the white candles with the golden beach to find your dig location! Shoot yourself over and dig to find the chest!

Your dig spot is on a small beach on the North East side of the main rock structure below the jumping path.

As soon as you dig up the chest, you will complete the voyage and complete the last stage of the Mystery! Congrats on solving every one puzzle and riddle ‘H’ could throw at you!

Make sure to sell the key to the Gold Hoarders for extra gold!

See exactly where the pages are on your map:
Bullion Gold Key on Sea Dog Tavern