Please check your subscription settings and purchase a Gold membership as needed. When playing on an Xbox One console, you need an Xbox Live Gold membership to play online. Ensure your Xbox Live status is connected and then sign in and try again. You must be signed into Xbox Live to play Sea of Thieves.

Navigate the menu and join a game as usual.

Re-launch Sea of Thieves from your Pins, Recent or My Games & Apps areas of your console.

Press the Menu Button (to the right of the Guide Button on your controller).

Press the Guide Button on your controller.

We were unable to connect you to the game. If you're registered as an Insider, you may be invited in the future – keep an eye on your registered email address.

You have not been invited to play the Sea of Thieves Technical Alpha.

Please sign all other accounts out of the console, and only launch the game with the one account that has been invited to play.

You have more than one Gamertag signed in to your console.The Servers Are Closed – We are not running a play session when you tried to log in, so you cannot play Sea of Thieves right now.This can be caused by any of the following:

Sea of thieves lavender beard