How to find Captain Bones' Special Recipe in Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life

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In the boondocks of Crewman's Grave in Bounding main of Thieves: A Pirate's Life, you volition find an intense and apparently eternal game of chess between two skeletons. You will observe this game in the bottom deck of a shipwreck, which you tin can discover an entrance to about the tavern. The two skeletons are at a standstill, so you will want to wake them upwardly past lighting the candle on the table with your Flame of Souls. One skeleton has some rum to drinkable, simply the other 1 is dry — it'll need Captain Bones' Special Recipe, which you'll need to retrieve yourself. You can then finish the chess game upwardly with the aid of Helm Cursed, so brand certain you still have his head.

Sea of Thieves Captain Bones' Special Recipe — Screenshot by Gamepur

To notice this "special" concoction, go back to the pulley-operated elevators you used to retrieve Captain Cursed; you can get in that location by walking on the bow of the split up shipwreck, going downwards to the water, swimming through the water and then through the cave. Take the elevator upwards — let become of the pulley and get off the elevator before it falls back down. Use the next pulley to lift up a new platform for y'all. Jump across, then go up the stairs on the correct to activate the adjacent pulley.

You will want to move the two platforms then yous tin bound into a hidden cavern from the right platform. Inside the cave is a bottle containing Captain Bones' Special Recipe. Grab the bottle, open the door from the within, and go dorsum to the chess game.

Cascade the Special Recipe in the tankard — the skeleton volition drink too much until its caput explodes, but at least you'll become the A Powerful Thirst commendation. After that, you will need to purchase into the game. Yous tin can but do so with Poor Dougie'south Medallion. Place it on the chessboard, and and then identify Captain Cursed on the headless skeleton; he will handily win the chess game.

Your reward will be a Transport'due south Central — return to the first pulley-operated elevator, then go upward to achieve the door it opens. You lot will get the Ship of Thieves citation for opening the door and tin can take all of the gilded that's inside. Earlier yous leave, be sure to bending the sails — this will allow yous to point the lighthouse at a beacon behind the sails to get to the Headless Monkey shipwreck.