Finds, buried chests and treasure maps.

Crates and what is inside

A crate left in the world, such as one in a ruin or a cache, holds goods when you open it. The first time you open a crate you get a small reward of experience and a research point. A crate now and then holds a recipe scroll, which unlocks a recipe for you. About 8 crates in a hundred do.

Buried chests

A buried chest lies three blocks under the ground, below a flat stone on a patch of loose gravel. Dig down through the gravel to reach it. Its contents are the goods of a crate, plus one or two gems, sometimes a second gem, and a hot meal or fuel. Buried chests are more likely to hold a recipe scroll, about 4 in 10. Opening a buried chest gives more experience and research than an ordinary crate.

Dig-spot hints

When you come near ground that hides a buried chest, you are told so. The message depends on how near you are:

• Within about 14 blocks: "This ground has been dug and filled in. Something may be buried here."
• Further out, within about 28 blocks: "Something may be buried near here: look for a flat stone on loose gravel."
• With Keen Eyes (a perk), the hint gives a rough direction and a distance, such as "about 20 m north-east, a few blocks down".

You are told about the same chest no more than once an hour.

Rare gems and rare ore

A gem you break in the ground counts as a rare find, and so does a gem from a vein. The first time you break one of the gem-vein gems (opal, lapis lazuli, turquoise, jade, amethyst or topaz), you have found it in the Collection.

Treasure maps

Treasure maps are found in some crypt chests, about 35 times in a hundred. A map is a piece of paper that remembers where it was found. Read it (use) and an X appears on the shared map. The X lies 140 to 520 blocks away from where the map was found, and it marks the nearest buried chest that nobody has dug up yet. The land round the X is uncovered on the map.

Go to the X and dig for the buried chest. A treasure chest holds more than an ordinary buried chest: several gems from the rare veins, a few more gems of the precious kinds, and 4 to 10 gold. The pin is marked as dug up for everyone, and you are paid for it.

If the world has no buried chest within reach of the X, the ink has run and the map shows nothing.

Shared map pins

The map fills in as you explore, and everyone on the same world shares it. You can drop your own pins, with a name and an icon. The icons are home, danger, ore, treasure, dig, dungeon and a custom one. Each pin is coloured for the player who dropped it. A world can hold 96 pins, and one player can drop up to 40. Only the player who dropped a pin can rename or remove it, unless the host changes it.

Tips

• Walk slowly over flat stone and gravel patches. A buried chest is often under them.
• Read a treasure map as soon as you can, so the X shows on the map for your party.
• Use a pin with the dig icon to mark the spot of a hint, so you can come back.
• Crypt chests are the best place to look for treasure maps. See Dungeons and the Guardian.

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