Field Manual
The Broken Plate
Somewhere in your world the Ancients left an outpost. They wrote down where it is on a thin stone plate, and the plate broke into three pieces.
The three pieces
Hold a piece and use it to read what is still on it. Each one makes sense alone, but only all three together give an exact spot.
Where they turn up
The pieces lie in the oldest places people still go to. Open chests and brush old sand as you explore, and one may turn up.
Classified Exactly where the pieces are hiddenclick to read
- kept in a village: every chest inside a village's buildings has its own chance, so each one is worth opening
- brushed out of desert sand, in desert pyramids and desert wells
- brushed out of trail ruins
- sunk with ocean ruins
Each piece exists once per world. Once it has been found, it turns up nowhere else, and only the pieces still missing can be found.
Putting it together
Craft the three pieces together and the plate is whole again.
1× Plate Piece: the Bearing, 1× Plate Piece: the Distance, 1× Plate Piece: the Ground
Classified What the whole plate tells youclick to read
Use the whole plate and it gives the x, y and z of the way in. It points at a patch of snow over a ladder: clear that one block and climb down.
Next: The Ancient Outpost.