How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?

Earning coin in Sea of Thieves can require some extensive legwork. Plundering unsuspecting ships, recovering chests for the Goal Hoarders association, and felling notorious undead captains for the Order of Souls all carry a considerable risk of death; however, for more pacifist pirates, shipping cargo and captured animals are equally worth their weight in gold. We’ve provided a quick reference guide to help you catch elusive chickens and secure them on board your vessel to help you unlock more rewarding voyages, cosmetics, and equipment items.

Purchasing a Voyage from the Merchant Alliance

Pirates can begin their Merchant Alliance adventure by speaking to a faction representative at any of the Outposts and browsing their wares. Available quests will include shipping cargo, so be sure to purchase the voyage that involves capturing animals.

Visit your ship’s voyage table to propose the mission, as doing so will unlock access to the coop. Merchant Alliance missions have a time factor that necessitates expediency, so you can track your progress via your pocket watch located in the inventory panel (hotkey “Q”). If a voyage requires several animals to be captured, you will ultimately need an equal number of coops on board.

Note: Just as there are different pigs and snakes in Sea of Thieves, chickens also come in variety: White Feathered, Red Speckled, Black Plumed, and Golden. Be sure to capture the correct one for the voyage to be completed.

Capturing a Chicken in Sea of Thieves

Merchant Alliance voyages that involve capturing animals do not provide locations, as opposed to Gold Hoarders or Order of Souls voyages. Instead, players will need to utilize their vessels to locate animals by searching islands throughout the map. While pigs are more ubiquitous than chickens, both can be found on islands with an abundance of greenery.

Capturing a chicken is relatively simple. Once you’ve anchored, bring your chicken coop onto the island and locate the animal specified in your Merchant Alliance mission. Walk toward the animal and press your activation key. With the chicken safely inside its coop, you can proceed back to your vessel.

Note: Chickens can drown if the cage is held underwater. Keep the animal above the waterline as you travel to your ship. If you accidentally captured the wrong animal, you will need to dispose of it by cutlass or pistol before selecting the correct one. (Sorry, pacifist pirates.)

Turn in your chicken coop to any Merchant Alliance representative to complete the voyage.

Known Chicken Locations in Sea of Thieves

Chickens can be found at the following islands in Sea of Thieves:

  • Barnacle Cay
  • Cannon Cove
  • Chicken Isle
  • Crook's Hollow
  • Marauder's Arch
  • Old Faithful Isle
  • Salty Sands
  • Shipwreck Bay
  • Thieves’ Haven
  • Twin Groves
  • Wanderer's Refuge

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Following these tips will help you earn reputation points for the Merchant Alliance (and gold) and make you a master chicken snatcher. Be sure to check back with GameSkinny for more on Sea of Thieves, and if you haven't already, view our other Sea of Thieves guides.

White Feathered Chickens are a type of Chicken in Sea of Thieves. The White Feathered Chicken can be caught inside a Chicken Coop and sold to the Merchant Alliance for Gold, Reputation (and Emissary Value when sailing as Trading Company Emissaries). Alternatively, chickens can be killed for Chicken Meat, which can then be cooked and eaten for Health or sold to The Hunter's Call for Gold and Reputation.

Contents

  • 1 Mechanics
  • 2 Rewards
    • 2.1 Un-commissioned
    • 2.2 Commissioned
    • 2.3 Chicken Meat
  • 3 Where to Find
  • 4 Notes
  • 5 Commendations

Mechanics[]

Chickens can be found roaming around in groups on Islands, minding their own business. Chickens have very little health and drop raw Chicken Meat when killed. Any Chickens that die to Fire or Explosives may leave behind Burnt or Cooked Meat instead.

Chickens are one of the three Animals that are valuable to the Merchant Alliance Trading Company. The Merchant Senior Traders on Outposts offer Merchant Voyages that may send players in search of Chickens to be captured and delivered to a specific Outpost by a specific time. White Feathered Chickens may be one of the Animals required for capture in a Merchant Contract. To capture a Chicken, players need to hold a Chicken Coop in hand and hold down the Primary Interact Button near them. Chicken Coops can be picked up from any Senior Trader at Outposts when Chickens are requested in the Merchant Contract. Chicken Coops can also randomly be found on Islands.

Chickens inside Chicken Coops can still die from any source of damage meaning that they need to be kept safe from any source of harm.

Chicken Coops cannot be sold empty and are only valuable with a Chicken inside.

Rewards[]

White Feathered Chickens captured inside Chicken Coops can be sold for an un-commissioned reward or a commissioned reward when a Merchant Contract for the chicken is issued. Alternatively Chicken Meat from a killed Chicken can be sold to The Hunter's Call.

Un-commissioned[]

White Feathered Chickens inside Chicken Coops can be sold to:

  • Merchant Alliance Senior Traders stationed at the docks of Outposts for Gold and Merchant Alliance Reputation and Emissary Value (if sailing as a Merchant Alliance Emissary)
  • The Servant of the Flame at The Reaper’s Hideout for Gold and Reaper's Bones Reputation and Emissary Value (if sailing as a Reaper's Bones Emissary)

The following is the reward chart for the sold un-commissioned Chicken:

Emissary GradeGold (Min.)Gold (Max.)Emissary ValueNo Emissary10 
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30 
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0I10 
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30 
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54II13 
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39 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
71.82III16 
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50 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
90.18IV20 
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60 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
108V25 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
75 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
135

Commissioned[]

If Crews have an active Merchant Contract Commission, requesting the delivery of a captured White Feathered Chicken to a specified Senior Trader by a set time, they can earn 10 times as much gold and 15 times as much Emissary Value for the delivered animal. This bonus does not apply when sold to the Reaper's Bones Company.

The following is the reward chart for the sold commissioned Chicken:

Emissary GradeGold (Min.)Gold (Max.)Emissary ValueNo Emissary100 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
300 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
0I100 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
300 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
810II133 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
399 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
1077.3III167 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
501 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
1352.7IV200 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
600 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
1620V250 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
750 
How do you catch the chicken Sea of Thieves?
2025

Chicken Meat[]

Cooked Chicken Meat can be sold to The Hunter's Call Representatives on any Seapost for Gold and Reputation with the Company.

The following is the reward chart for sold Chicken Meat:

Chicken Meat ValueRawUnder-CookedCookedBurntChicken meatX40 
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45 
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Where to Find[]

White Feathered Chickens can be found on any Island that has Chickens as their native Animal. The following is a list of all Islands that have a native habitat of Chickens:

How do you catch the golden chicken in Sea of Thieves?

Golden Chickens may be one of the Animals required for capture in a Merchant Contract. To capture a Chicken, players need to hold a Chicken Coop in hand and hold down the Primary Interact Button near them.

How do you get the white chicken in Sea of Thieves?

White Feathered Chickens can be found on any Island that has Chickens as their native Animal.

How do you catch a lost chicken?

Use a large pool skimming net or a fish-landing net to catch your chickens. It works best to let the chicken run into the net, but you can drop it over the bird as well. You should expect to do some gentle detangling, though, especially with fishnets, because of the larger mesh.