If you fail at lockpicking, when you eventually pick the lock, a Grubber will spawn. A high skill level in Lockpicking is useful as it vastly reduces the number of lockpick attempts required. You can Remove Trap on a chest while the Guardians are still alive, prior to Lockpicking.The unexpected Frost Dragon can also really spice up the lives of wandering adventurers! This can be helpful in dealing with Frost Dragons and other high level spawn if you don't want to spend the time to kill them. Those that do not have the (Guardian) tag can be lead away instead of killed. Not all Guardians have the (Guardian) tag. Those must be killed before the lock on the chest can be opened. Some will have (Guardian) as a tag on their name. Once the chest has been dug up, a group of monsters will spawn. You can dig up a Trove chest with 0 Cartography, but it will most likely be Rusty and the 'treasure' inside equally poor. Cartography is not required to dig up a chest.At 100 Cartography, you will most likely get a Gold chest when digging Stash and Supply maps, but will still dig up Standard and even Rusty chests when digging Hoard and Trove maps. Higher Cartography increases the chances the chest will be of higher quality. A Gold chest has both higher numbers of stackable items and better quality items than a Rusty chest. The chest may be of three qualities: Rusty, Standard, or Gold. In the EC, the different ground states are also displayed in the targeting window. After a short pause at swing 14, the chest auto-magically rises to ground level and Guardians spawn.

Ground disturbance as a treasure chest is dug up at swing 1, swing 5, swing 9, and swing 14. Hiding, or executing a pre-cast Invisibility, in the short pause between swing 14 and the Guardian spawn is an excellent way to stay alive! After the chest appears there will be a short pause before the chest automatically rises to ground level and the Guardians spawn. It takes 14 swings to dig up a treasure chest. You will see a short animation and then either receive a message that you find no treasure, or the animation will repeat a few times, you will receive a message you found the treasure, and a chest will slowly appear out of the ground. Alternatively, use the context menu on the map and choose the 'dig treasure' option. To attempt a dig, double-click on a shovel (or pickaxe), then target the map you want to dig, then target the spot you wish to dig. With 0 Cartography, you must dig on the chest tile or on one of the tiles directly surrounding the chest. %Cartography talismans are used in the crafting of maps and do not affect the Cartography skill, digging radius, or quality of treasure chests.Legendary Mapmaker's Glasses increase Cartography, thereby also affecting digging radius and chest quality. Mining is no longer required to dig up a treasure chest.Ĭartography now provides bonuses to both the distance you can be from a chest while digging and the quality of chest dug up.Each profession has individual preferences as to what they might choose to bury as treasure. The treasure may have belonged to one of five types of adventurers: Artisan, Assassin, Mage, Ranger, or Warrior. Treasure maps require Cartography to decode, at which point the map will change from tattered to Blessed, revealing the location of a buried treasure chest. Maps can be obtained from various creatures and come in five types roughly corresponding to the difficultly of the creatures both possessing and guarding the map: Stash, Supply, Cache, Hoard, or Trove. Treasure Maps show the location where a Treasure Chest is buried.

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