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Destiny 2 Season of Plunder is here, and with it a lot of new weapons, armor, the long-awaited Arc 3.0 subclass, and two new activities called Ketchcrash and Expedition. Once you familiarize with the new content, you must head to the H.E.L.M. to meet this season's vendor.

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The Star Chart is a machine that will help you to find numerous Buried Treasures and expand on your Crewmates, for further benefits that will aid you during your many piracy-related activities. You will have to invest time and effort into upgrading the Star Chart, but the bonuses it provides are certainly worthy of it.

Updated September 10, 2022: We've updated this guide to include a video that breaks down everything you need to know about Star Chart Progression.

How Do I Upgrade The Star Chart?

To upgrade the Star Chart you can either level up its Reputation Rank or unlock the Pirate Crew Bonuses. To increase the reputation rank, you must participate in Expedition and Ketchcrash missions, Star Char Bounties, and complete Seasonal Challenges. You can do this with no limit per week, and every few ranks you will unlock different bonuses or items such as Engrams, Treasure Maps, Map Fragments and Buried Treasures.

However, to properly unlock the Pirate Crew bonuses, you need to obtain Repute, the new currency this season introduces specifically for this purpose. Repute can be obtained by fulfilling some specific weekly challenges, and you have a limited amount per week available, so you won't be able to fully upgrade this vendor from the beginning. The challenges you must complete to obtain Repute this way are the following:

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Challenge Week Name Description
Week 1 Successful Expedition
  • Open 1 Expedition Treasure using a Treasure Map at the end of an Expedition activity.
  • Obtain 3 Plunder Umbral Energy.
Antiquarian 1
  • Return the first Relic to the H.E.L.M.
  • Defeat combatants in Europa. Combatants defeated with Fusion Rifles will award bonus progress.

Once you have obtained enough Repute, you can go to the Star Chart and open the Pirate Crew Menu. There, you will be able to invest your currency into any of the three available trees called Quartermaster, Navigator, and Swashbuckler. These trees will unlock different pirate crew members for you to recruit and some bonuses that will affect you during the activities introduced during this season. These go as follows:

Quartermaster Navigator Swashbuckler
Hire Scur-V The Servitor
  • Summons this crewmate from their pirate banner during Ketchcrash and Expeditions missions. Scur-V grants you slightly increased reload speed while they're in combat.
  • Unlocks Armor Focusing, allowing you to decrypt Umbral Engrams into Season Of Plunder armor pieces once you have added them into your Collections.
 Hire Halsiks The Sniper
  • Summons this crewmate from their pirate banner during Ketchcrash and Expeditions missions. Halsiks grant you slightly increased precision damage while they're in combat.
  • Unlocks the ability to occasionally find Treasure Coordinates after defeating combatants.
 Hire The Skiffblades
  • Summons this crewmate from their pirate banner during Ketchcrash and Expeditions missions. The Skiffblades grant you slightly increased melee damage while they're in combat.
  • Unlocks a random bonus reward when you emote with your crew at the end of successful Ketchcrash and Expedition missions.
Captain's Share
  • Earn bonus Glimmer at the end of an Expedition.
 Armor Treasure Map
  • Unlocks the Plunder Armor Focused Map in the Captain's Atlas.
 Floating Debris
  • Increases the chance to earn Season Of Plunder gear by completing Ketchcrash missions.
Focused Weapon Spoils
  • Grants the ability to decrypt Umbral Engrams into Season Of Plunder Weapons once you have added them into your Collections.
 Weapon Treasure Map
  • Unlocks the Plunder Weapon Focused Map in the Captain's Atlas.
 Magnetic Drill
  • Increases the chance to earn Season Of Plunder gear from the chest at the end of Expedition missions.
First Mate Scur-V
  • Promotes Scur-V to First Mate in the Captain's Atlas to get improved buffs while they're in combat.
  • First Mate Buffs:
    • Increased Reload Speed
    • Faster Class Ability Recharge
 First Mate Halsiks
  • Promotes Halsiks to First Mate in the Captain's Atlas to get improved buffs while they're in combat.
  • First Mate Buffs:
    • Increased Precision Damage
    • Faster Grenade Recharge
 First Mate Skiffblades
  • Promotes the Skiffblades to First Mates in the Captain's Atlas to get improved buffs while they're in combat.
  • First Mate Buffs:
    • Increased Melee Damage
    • Faster Melee Ability Recharge
Double Perk Weapon Spoils
  • The first time you focus a Season Of Plunder weapon each week, it will roll with an additional selectable perk.
 Under One Banner
  • Earn bonus Treasure Coordinates by completing ritual activities with other guardians that have Season Of Plunder access.
 Hidden Compartment
  • The first Ketchcrash mission completed each week rewards a weapon with Deepsight Resonance.
Double Plundered Umbral Energy Map
  • Unlocks the Double Plundered Umbral Energy Treasure Map in the Captain's Atlas.
 Boastful Crew
  • Increases the Savvy earned by completing Season Of Plunder activities.
 Precise Cartography
  • Increases the Plundered Umbral Energy found using Treasure Maps.
Bargain Armor Spoils
  • The first time you decrypt an Umbral Engram into Season Of Plunder Armor each week, it doesn't consume Plunder Umbral Energy
 Plunder Windfall
  • Ocasionally earn Plundered Umbral Energy by completing Strikes, Crucible, Gambit and other activities.
 Rumored Treasure Map
  • Once a week, you can use a treasure map your crewmates heard rumors about.

Where Do I Find Plundered Umbral Energy?

If you want to farm the necessary Umbral Energy of this season to focus on engrams and roll for new weapons and armor pieces, you must complete Expedition missions. These will involve activating a drill and fighting numerous enemies until it digs out enough treasure for you to transport, and fighting more enemies after that until you safely secure your treasure. Right after finishing an Expedition, you will see several treasure piles where you can spend a previously built and equipped Treasure Map, to reveal the extra rewards that will give you this new material.

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