Sea of Thieves Hungering Deep Guide - How to Solve All Riddles and Find All Merrick’s Journal Entries

The Sea of Thieves Hungering Deep update gives you a brand new adventure to launch on, representing something of a main story in the game for the first time since it launch earlier in 2018. In this Sea of Thieves riddles guide, we'll be walking you through how to solve the Hungering Deep riddles, so you can make it to the end of the quest line and face the terror of the high seas.

In case you need anything else on the brand new content drop for the pirate game, head over to our full Sea of Thieves Hungering Deep guides hub. It’s here that you’ll find out how to locate Merrick in the first place, as well as how to access all the various new items including the Speaking Trumpet that come for free with the DLC update.

Sea of Thieves Hungering Deep Quest Guide

When you first locate Merrick on the southwestern side of Shark Bait Cove island, he’ll spin you a merry tale of his various injuries and seafaring stories. After you’ve exhausted every conversation option with Merrick, you’ll want to kick off the Hungering Deep quest line by heading to the middle island of Shark Bait Cove.

Here, you’ll find Merrick’s Journal located on a rocky outcrop. Read every entry within the diary, and you’ll come across someone who Merrick describes as “red haired and fair of face.” But who could be be referring to?

Sea of Thieves Hungering Deep Riddle Solutions

Merrick is referring to Tina, the barmaid at the tavern located at the Golden Sands Outpost. You can find the Golden Sands Outpost roughly around square D12/E12, and you’ll want to sail north there straight away.

Speak to Tina, and ask her if she remembers any notable drunks lately. She’ll begin talking about Merrick, and you’ve now got your next riddle to solve in the Hungering Deep quest line.

Tina might be bad at remembering place names, but for the next stage of the quest you’ll want to head to square L14 on the map. This can be found roughly between Fool’s Lagoon and Twin Groves, and you’re looking for a small island within square L14.

You’ll know you’ve found the unnamed island if it has a mast sticking up from the water. Climb to the very top of the mast, and you’ll find the second of Merrick’s Journals to read.

Once you’ve exhausted all the diary entries available to you in Merrick’s Journal, you’ll need to sail to Dagger Tooth Outpost at square Q8.

Once at Dagger Tooth Outpost, you’ll have to speak to Teri who mans the tavern. You’ll now need to sail to a small island in square S16, located right between Shark Tooth Key and Old Boot Fort.

You’ll need to locate the small, unnamed island in square S16, and make landfall on the northeastern side. Now find a small stone archway, and swim underneath it, until you’re in a cave. You can now read the final Merrick’s Journal item, which will lead you all the way back to the man himself at Shark Bait Cove.

This actually concludes the main quest line portion of the Hungering Deep update for Sea of Thieves. You can head over to our Sea of Thieves Megalodon guide, for all the information you need on how to take down the fabled beast at the end of Merrick's quest line.