The BIGGEST BOAT in Sea of Thieves

[@fulcrum2867]

I've found a really useful tool for taking down an unmanned blade is using scattershot while shooting top deck skellys with standard cannons. The skellies seem to prioritize offense, meaning while they scramble for the cannons, loading the hull full on many low tier holes is able to flood the lower decks relatively quickly

[@RoundusMongus]

I haven't really found a problem with an unmanned blade, it's basically a weaker skelly galleon since it likes using the non-damaging flamethrower over the cannons. A manned blade however...

[@y0ucantremember]

My friends and I did the FoF and just hit it with two ancient black powder kegs and a few cannon shots and it was ours 😂

[@voidninja4936]

10:04 It's almost perfect how they left evidence of the knife. And it being guardians, the enemy of Flameheart, is the cherry on top. If it wasn't left in such a random spot, I would have thought they left it on purpose.

[@KrakenTheHull213]

7:00 The most evil laugh cliff has ever let out.

[@liamlangan6329]

Cliff the Villain Guy?

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Villain Arc engaged

[@asherplays123.]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy oh no

[@demonsekiro102]

he started his villain arc be ready

[@angryeliteultragree6329]

@@CliffTheStoryGuyyou earned it, Admiral.

[@LondorShade]

To know someone is secretly sabotaging your effort to help Flame Heart and discover it a Guardian of Fortune is too perfect.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

cinema

[@Shadowraith-eu6pp]

BIRDY AND BRANDON ARE BACK!!!! I can’t remember the last video I saw them in

[@WidgetSkullster-pz6qh]

We love Brandon and birdie

[@cptpandaa5873]

the kings are back!!

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

it's been like a year 😅

[@Bananaboi_Yeet]

Omg same

[@bolikde9389]

I believe ,,The Shores of Gold'' broke them.

[@gubblio]

I was solo slooping reapers when I spotted a fort of fortune that I really needed to get to level 50 of reapers emissary, and as soon as I completed it, the burning blade spawned by the fort and so I use the Athena kegs to blow it up, but by then the burning blade had already done enough damage to my ship and it sunk and to make matters worse, other players were right there, ready to attack, so I had no other option to solo crew the burning blade and I defeated the players (a galleon and brig). It’s like Cliff says, sometimes you can get into journeys that are so unexpected and take you on such thrilling rides.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

That's such a good story!! When life gives you lemons type beat

[@gubblio]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy🫶🫶🫶

[@bucketts1208]

7:48 I'm so happy to see them again! The videos with them were always my favorite

[@niklasmirrazeghi3560]

Finally Cliff has posted about the Burning Blade. Our souls heal a little knowing he's always got us.

[@arcaneopossum]

Finding the Athena Emissary throwing knife was something straight out of a movie. Then making it your objective to hunt that same Athena stealing your camps was awesome. Felt like I really was watching a pirate movie!

[@kamengotsev2890]

Find me if you can, Mister Holmes

[@anivonatoll5319]

My experience with Sea of Thieves, Burning Blade Ship and Chest of Fortune so far: TLDR: A new player 5 days into the game gets 4 Chests of Fortune in 2 days. Bought and installed the game 5 days ago. Had some fun island hopping, met some cool dudes who gave me some good tips and took me on some good voyages to make some good gold. Bought my own sloop. Story 1: Yesterday, log on and hop on my ship. A dude joins my crew who's a hardcore old-time player. He sees a Brig on the map and suggests we go harass it. As we go to it at a Fort, there's another Sloop that pulls up. Instead of attacking, we make friends and forge an alliance between our three ships. The old-timer shares some good tips, helps us get some commendations, we all have a great time. Then the old-timer leads us to a fort map and shows us a Burning Blade that's already got someone crewing it. We all board our ships and give chase. Two sloops and a brig coming after one Burning Blade, with the Old-timer leading the charge. They gave us a tough fight (and my game crashed once, but I managed to rejoin in time), and eventually we manage to sink it. The old-timer negotiates it so that we get both the Chest of Fortune, and the Blade of Souls, and everyone else gets to split the rest of the treasure. By the end of it, basically the whole server's pulled up and we're all chilling, making friends and having fun at the outpost. A skelly ship shows up and gets obliterated in no time flat, we're all enjoying the time. Story 2: Today, I boot up the game and another old-timer experienced player shows up. Suggests we go hunting for a Burning Blade ship to command it. We server-hop to find an unclaimed one. The experienced player basically takes all the combat role, I'm just trying to keep the ship afloat and on course. Again, it was a tough battle, but the player basically carried me and we claimed the ship. Unfortunately, he had to leave right after, so I got myself a BB all to myself. I decide that I alone can't really do much in terms of rituals, so I just go to sell all the treasure from it, including a Chest of Fortune, and go messing about. Some players attack me, I try to steer it so the skellies can get a shot back, and hide in a barrel when they board, kinda just messing around. They eventually sink the ship, I board theirs, play them a shanty, all's good and well. Story 3: New server, and I'm alone, stocking up at an outpost. Suddenly I see on the map there's an unclaimed Burning Blade right there passing by the outpost. I recall a tip the old-timer from story 1 gave me, that you can just hop on, steal the Chest of Fortune, and dip. So I set sail, ram into the BB, hop over, run over to the hold, grab it and book it. They sunk my ship, but it was close to an outpost so I just swam over. In the meantime, another crew decided to claim it. As I get to the outpost, literally as I'm at the dock about to grab onto the ladder, I GET KILLED BY A SHARK I respawn on my ship at a nearby island and head back over to the outpost. I had little hopes, but as I get back, I find the Chest of Fortune sitting right there at the bottom waiting for me. Story 4 New server yet again, and this time I'm with a guy that's not as experienced. We decided to give it a crack anyway and try to take over a BB. In the middle of the battle, as we take damage and try to get away from it to patch up, the "Burning Blade Defeated" sign shows up. We didn't see another ship so we were confused what was going on. We two noobs couldn't put 2 and 2 together, even when it said "Crewed by Pirates of the Flame" we didn't realize what it meant. So we keep attacking it, and another player joins us, saying his ship sunk (yeah, even then we couldn't put 2 and 2 together). He pretended he was helping us, but eventually he turned out to be a saboteur and killed us as his crew sunk our ship. We server hop, and I say "Now we do it my way". We secure a harpoon rowboat, and we find another BB. The plan is to get it to chase us, and use the rowboat to get on it and then to get away, so that the sharks won't be such a problem. We aggro it, and as it attacks I unfortunately get knocked off the ship without the rowboat. I improv and get on the BB. They manage to sink my ship, but my buddy secured the rowboat and latches on the BB with the harpoon. I get in, grab the Chest of Fortune, and skidaddle like there's no tomorrow. I get out with a sliver of health left, and my buddy picks me up onto the rowboat. He goes to respawn with the ship, I row to the nearest outpost. So yeah... Sorry for the long read, but even as a complete freshman to the game, I have so far enjoyed every minute of it. And the way I found out about the game was through Cliff The Story Guy's channel, so THANK YOU!!!

[@nameless6228]

I aint reading all that! I am happy for you though or sorry that happened

[@jameskarg3240]

That guardian is my hero XD He straight up left a calling-card taunting you

[@Abraham_the_pierra]

Detective game villain ahh players.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I respect it ngl

[@Itscraft3506]

This is the earliest I have ever been to a Cliff video

[@majawilczewska1101]

@@Itscraft3506 same

[@Elavery1]

@@Itscraft3506 same

[@mirage6101]

Same

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

literally earlier than myself ain't no way

[@kish45]

0:27 I am tempted to use that as a strategy against pvp players.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I've actually done it a few times, even in some videos lmao it's really funny against swabbies especially

[@lobster.boy68]

It’s a very common strategy, I recommend using too it’s really funny

[@EwieChewy]

It's great 😂 they try cannoning u from infront you shoot them with fire, if u have a cannon rowboat, and they attack u from behind, u can shoot them from behind, then theirs skeletons using the side cannons 😂 360° defense

[@leviweyna1124]

Cliff videos are comfort food for my eyes and ears

[@HJ1427.]

7:05 I swear I’ve never heard him sound so happy and laugh like that

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

villain arc hits different fr

[@dorianpiastowski89]

i cannot wait for ARK with Cliff's story telling

[@tamir_shenar]

Try out welyn

[@laneleach]

Same!

[@aidanjackson5084]

My only exposure to ARK has been from Neebs Gaming. Definitely looking forward to seeing Cliff's perspective on the game while playing. Should be fun

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

@@aidanjackson5084 Neebs Gaming has been a huge inspiration in the infancy of my channel :)

[@borgthepig]

11:11 how has no one noticed this gem of editing right here?? 😂

[@carsonhawley8838]

I actually got my hands on this ship the other day. As a solo player, I didn't really know what to do with it, haha. I called in my buddy for reinforcements and we cruised around, doing rituals and sinking ships. 10/10 spicy boat.

[@delinquenter]

0:18 - 0:25 So, what you are saying is, you're living the authentic pirate experience? I approve of that, considering the history behind pirates.

[@OvidiuRDLSC]

Hey Cliff, here'a an advice for the burning blade. If it happens for you to go in front of it spam blunderbombs, that ship is made out of cardboard and very sensitive and blundies

[@Easter-ei4cd]

I never expected for you to go to ark as a different game then sot but I can't wait to see how you do. Also no flyers until you kill the first boss is cruel

[@skeetSoT]

the iconic music at the end HITS

[@UnknownMelodies0]

Imagine you could do the hourglass with the burning blade.

[@Yoshyyy.]

Ye that would be sick

[@dillonlongland8995]

i think theres a way to glitch it, i read it somewhere

[@graysonburns4500]

you can against sloops, brigs, and galleons depending on your ship you were previously using(its gonna be patched for sure though in the next update)

[@Its_A_Me_Callie]

you could for the first week that the burning blade was out; rare patched it in the post season launch update though.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

you can always butt into hourglass fights you spot on the map lmao

[@feeblebee5031]

8:29 Yeah they just shadow buffed the hitboxes like crazy, they are unironically the strongest weapon in the game right now.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I'm not crazy right, they're actually WAY bigger now

[@Shaowolf]

@@CliffTheStoryGuythey already fixed and nerved it sadly😢

[@bucketts1208]

9:01 how do you get your voice to sound muffled when you're under water? I noticed it echoes when you're in caves too.

[@DOOM-potato]

He does it in editing

[@bucketts1208]

@@DOOM-potato got it

[@MasonL7708]

I love watching you decimate others one The Burning Blade. Sadly, last couple times my Crew and I captained the Blade, everyone left the server.

[@Hoovy00]

Ooh an Ark video from Cliff. That will be interesting

[@Silas-po2cn]

Omg, I have been daily checking my notifications for This. Very. Video. Also, thank you for making custom captions for your videos, makes the experience so much better being a naturally a bit hard of hearing!

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Glad the captions help!

[@Lord_Nexus]

A another Tell of Great Adventure, Can't Wait for More Glorious Stories to be Tolled, for all Sailors Across the Sea of Thieves

[@MRpotatoHead234]

top tip while doing the ashen winds method get 1 person to sail to the centre of the map as the burning blade has a 100% spawn rate there

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

that feels like a myth

[@HawkeyeNinja-ue2hc]

I have waited long for this fine video

[@pirnda9186]

the burning blade is probably one of the best things they've added in the last year so i'm happy to see cliff use it!

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

it is super cool

[@mosreal0000]

Does anybody know the name of the music that starts at 1:50?

[@RobDeter-zp8nh]

YESSSSSS CLIFF. Ark is one of my favorite games and have always wanted to return but no one plays it anymore. Youve done your job and cured my boredom. super excited!

[@danielzainal]

i dont play this game at all, but cliff is truly a story guy. been enjoying watching the content for a game i dont play. kudos cliff

[@FakeFoxSR1]

Me and 3 friends got a burning blade for the first time about a week ago and for an hour and a half it was the most fun we ever had. We fought: 2 separate sloops (1 escaped, sunk the other) 1 galleon (sunk) However the 2 ships we sunk returned and teamed up on us. We started booking it because the galleon was definitely more skilled than we were. Alas we were eventually bested and sunk despite all the we all agreed that was the most fun we ever had on the game

[@donotsparethechildren1152]

i find the fact that the orb of secrets costs twice as much as the Gold Hoarders Skull absolutely hilarious

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

it's kinda ridiculous for how little effort it takes to obtain lmao

[@King_Melon165]

Yo I’m so happy to see your still posting man

[@CaptainRed22447]

Nice to see Birdie and Brandon back, now the three OGs of the Story Guy Crew are back.

[@warmen6582]

Really glad that Birdy and Brandon are back. And happy to know that they will be on future videos.

[@TobyLecat]

0:25 gives off the same vibes as waking your mom up in the middle of the night to tell her you puked

[@lockjaw36]

Always great having the classic crew back together!!

[@evilevandjosh2272]

The burning blade is a great feature for pvp players or even pve players who are sick of the regular ships

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Agreed

[@redmist7826]

HELLLLL YESSSSS MY FAVOURITE KZbinR IS ABOUT TO PLAY MY FAVOURITE GAME! PLEASE DO A PLAY THROUGH OF ALL THE MAIN STORY MAPS!

[@soprando5315]

Like button smashed. Good to see the boys again! W video, Cliff

[@cheesyfreedom]

Just to let you all know, the new ships design is kinda based on the ship you see cursed William Turner on at the beginning of pirates of the Caribbean: dead men tell no tales. Just before it goes back underwater. And the skeleton crew is based on the first pirates of the Caribbean: the curse of the black pearl

[@Shoshiji]

Just rediscovered your channel couple days ago and have to say watching your videos re-sparked my urge to play Sea of Thieves again

[@DCletsplay]

happy to see them back! keep up the good work. you are the sea of thieves GOAT! greetings from germany

[@timtheproto450]

The orb of secrets selling for 20k each has been one of my main ways to level up the factions. Simply because of how quick you can finish them on your own.

[@Senan_is_cool24]

Reputation wise isn't very good In my opinion

[@Thatsaltypirate]

This guy makes everything about sea of thieves enjoyable and entertaining 👍

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

👍

[@ITZ_SWAY_]

Cliff best story teller I watched his vids before I started playing. He is the reason I play❤❤❤❤❤

[@JustRego]

How do you perform a ritual? I still need the burning blade reborn ship set

[@sislmace]

Cliff is the best SOT youtuber yet ❤ and the burning blade is easiest to sink from afar and DONT be in its broad side!

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Funnily enough, a human controlled Burning Blade that can be anchored, really struggles with Sloops being right up against it because the cannons don't go low enough lmao

[@sislmace]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy Lol but with skeles on board, they can only shoot so far from my understanding, which means since the burning blade is a bigger target, you can prob hit your canon shots from farther away

[@Genghis_Sean]

There’s a much faster way of searching for Burning Blades than completing world events. Just dive to the basic gold hoarder voyage (2 chests), dig once on each chest to complete the voyage, and then dive again to the same voyage until you get a server with a blade.

[@andrewchapman2039]

Oh that teaser at the end. Cliff you have me hook line and sinker sir!

[@sauliusm3110]

The crew is back and i am here for it!

[@DanteSonOfDeath]

we need more big boat videos and with more crews than just 2

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I'll try and see if I can cook something up

[@DanteSonOfDeath]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy 🤝🏻🤘🏻

[@ferencpalcsi8342]

I only have one question. If you spawn with a chest of fortune, it is every time someone claims the ship or every time the world event appears? So if you claim the ship first, after it spawns, than you sell the chest instantly, do you need another burning blade event or just lose and re-take the ship?

[@demoworldplayer]

Personally, I'd love to see a frozen region. With that increase of map size, having a new ship with a larger crew could work very well.

[@kracowski1523]

great to see the og boys back

[@JohnyCanoni]

With an Emissary the secret orb can sell up to 50K gold which is INSANE!!

[@ScurvySnyTV]

the sloop being chased by the bb happened to me yesterday. by luck I came across another sloop and we teamed up to slay the beast. ensued a three way battle with a third sloop for the loot. lots of fun!

[@CullodenCowboy]

Tracking down a rival crew based on a lone throwing knife in the bowels of a fort is the kind of shit that makes this game so special.

[@niktrisvoltaris2151]

OH FUCK YES! -my favorite story telling style creator -my favorite survival game -my favorite ark video style -the best trio I have ever watched in SoT I think I just lost bro XD

[@introvertswag6494]

I haven't played SoT for a few months, due to a lack of interest and time. However, after seeing the big ol' flame boat I need to get my friends this weekend for a long session lol

[@minikatze7388]

For me, its the first time in years that i picked up sea of thieves. Your videos are very helpfull to get back in. Thanks for that. And great Video. On of the many things i didnt know

[@danielvogler4033]

Another banger, I have been waiting for cliff to get an epic play on the burning blade. Half a mil is crazy money for the turn in though!

[@danielvogler4033]

Like this comment if you want more ledge the tale dude

[@beebsthebidoof]

Thank you so much for uploading a lot cliff 😭(in a not weird way, are you German?)

[@fuNdy-0]

I was hoping cliff would make a video on this ship BEST SOT KZbinR

[@muccamaniaca3740]

Cliff im a newbie here, i was wondering where did u get that outift especially the upper part

[@Notrightmeow]

When i saw the whole team go into the skeleton camp right before u gun powdered kegd them i was thinking "wow they all just went down?? my trust issues could never id need someone watchin the ship" LOL

[@Basilbasilisk]

the strat i use is go on a raid voyage shoot the blade once then get on the blade hide until it is claimable and then steal it from another crew who did all the work

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

a devious lick

[@PandaMonium84871314]

03:50 That happened to me today! I was going port to port in my Sloop selling goods for the Merchant Alliance. Going from Ancient Spire to Morrow's Peak the BB followed me, sunk my sloop and got me, but not before I sold 8 of my 10 crates of goods and lowered my Emissary flag.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

it has a mind of its own

[@richardbudge9416]

Well it appears a keg attack on the burning blade isn't as much of an achievement as I thought. That's not going to stop me

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Do your thing, king

[@flame9486]

Finally, we’re not gonna need a bigger boat.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

at long last

[@atomiczap]

I thought it was me, but the Burning Blade does chase you down if you have its loot . I’ve stolen some Chests of Fortune from these and found they will try and run you down, even launching cannons at the outpost docks.

[@Onepire]

What is the ship set Cliff uses at the beginning of the vid? Looks pretty cool

[@Plumplori]

@Onepire he uses parts of the merchants shipset combined with a newer set which is at the outpost shop quite far down. And i think the New cannons

[@giannaraskar7161]

CLIFF: "sees burnig blade chase a sloop" Why are you chasing a sloop CLIFF later in the video: prossedes to chase a sloop

[@Ben-de6rb]

I still caught this in the first 24 hours, looking forward to another tale

[@HarryClark-hu3yd]

0:00 video starts as always

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Thanks for keeping us updated

[@spacecat5619]

Cliff and his crew are very nice in SoT but seeing the three of them in Ark will be a fun adventure xD

[@TheSillybigman]

Question, does solving a skelly camps summon the burning blade? I've seen it happen twice while finishing getting the secret orb and then the burning blade was outside blowing up my ship. Maybe a coincidence but twice in a roll and it was the skelly crew not reapers

[@az-kalaak6215]

no, the burning blade is an event, meaning it can only be played when no other is currently on map. the event spawn is random

[@TheSillybigman]

So it was a coincidence that it showed up a 3rd time after completing a camp? I switched servers when this happened

[@az-kalaak6215]

@@TheSillybigman it should be yeah. however, I noticed it had increased spawn rate when it came out

[@jonathongreinke7008]

The first burning blade that you encountered was chasing my sloop, I managed to sell most of my loot and drop my Athena emissary flag before they sank me, I am glad to know to terrorized them for a few minutes

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

I tried 😅

[@SussyRandomName]

Finally I have been waiting for this for so long

[@dueg200]

I'm so hyped for Cliff and the boys to play ARK lets gooooooooooo

[@Jakeknife1046]

I’ve been waiting for this video since season 13

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

[@Tech_guy10]

LET’S GOOOO BIRDY, BRANDON AND CLIFF ALL PLAYING ARK IS GONNA BE HYPE 🗣 🗣 🔥 🔥

[@Dragons67786]

Not see of thieves? (Insert The Rock meme) That really got me thinking. I recommend Subnautica Below Zero bc the multiplayer mod is better on that one.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

Not crazy about Subnautica personally tbh, I did watch playthroughs for the original and below zero tho

[@Dragons67786]

Then I recommend Halo or Ark Survival Evolved

[@bolikde9389]

Grabs the Orb. A new Hand touches the Beacon.

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

is that a reference to something?

[@bolikde9389]

@@CliffTheStoryGuy A Skyrim refrence

[@Gamer-lj5cc]

NOOOO not the beacon

[@sharkfan0902]

Oh noooooo

[@LarrythePlatypus23]

I’ve been waiting for this vid

[@sp33dbumpreal73]

Watching Cliff while in school. Nothing better to ease the bordem

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

You better pay attention in class

[@PizzaBorb]

5:51 I also yoinked a burning blade once, I was with my friend but he couldn’t get on the ship because he was an ok distance away, so I made him leave the game, I voted to captain and he joined back.

[@Novahri]

I'm very happy that your videos have appeared in my feed again, tempting me to reinstall the game now.

[@odeIoten]

3:08 what spyglass is this and how to get?

[@MolinaKojima]

I’m excited for more videos with the boys no matter the game

[@Gekke_Ollander]

What spyglass do u have equipt Cliff?

[@demonsekiro102]

when you see a reaper flag and ritual count on the burning blade it means it is taken by a pirate and you cant clam it again you have to sink it to get the burning blade {sword type item} which can set anyone on fire if he got attacked by it {oh and cliff if you are reading this commant remember that i have watched every last video of yours so comment on this one so i know you have seen my comment plzz}

[@DOOMGUY-1st]

Finally the story teller is back with another story.🗿🗿🗿🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣

[@DragonDemonCJ666]

Just finished my third burning blade run. We had 13 rituals completed and nearly earned one million gold that and i almost got my 50th level in reapers bones for my second level 50 faction for unlocking pirate legend

[@CliffTheStoryGuy]

BIG

[@Holy_Hellish]

Now I can't wait to see the chaos that is them playing Ark