Archaeologist’s Map Guide - BDFoundry (2024)

Introduction

The Archaeologist’s Map is a very rare treasure to collect. It requires you to grind monsters to collect 4 rare items to craft it and can take hundreds if not thousands of hours to acquire all three pieces so just be aware that this is not something you should expect to get quickly if you do decide to go for it. It’s also recommended to use Item Drop Rate increase buffs as much as possible to increase your chances and try to make the grind a little faster.

The Archaeologist’s Map allows you to teleport to the nearest town and then back to your original location. Simply right-click the item to use it.

• You can only return back to your original location within 30 minutes from teleporting to town
• If you leave the town, you can still teleport back to your original location as long as you are in a safe zone
  
• Cannot be used during a node war or siege
• Cannot be used during Red Battlefield or if you are in jail
• The map has a cooldown of 6 hours and has a separate cooldown from the Traveler’s Map, allowing you to use both
  

Creating the Archaeologist’s Map

The Archaeologist’s Map requires the following items to create it:
Archaeologist’s Map Piece (Grinding monsters at Roud Sulfur Mine)
Archaeologist’s Map Piece (Grinding monsters at Roud Sulfur Mine)
Archaeologist’s Map Piece (Grinding monsters at Pila Ku Jail)
Archaeologist’s Map Piece (Grinding monsters at Pila Ku Jail)
Blood Ruby (craft using processing or buy from the central market)
Ocean Sapphire (craft using processing or buy from the central market)
Gold Topaz (craft using processing or buy from the central market)
Forest Emerald (craft using processing or buy from the central market)

Once you have all 8 items you must place them in the following pattern using Yaz’s Combinables Pouch to create the Archaeologist’s Map

How to Identify the Map Pieces

When the parts drop, they all have the exact same name and icon:
Map of Unknown Piece

This can be frustrating because in each grind spot, two different pieces can drop and you won’t know which one you have unless you check your system chat to see which mob it dropped from.

You can identify the parts by taking them to the Caphras’ Journal at the Caphras Cave node near Florin.

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The Caphras’ Journal can be a little hard to find so refer to the images below for help.

Once you get to the Node Manager in Caphras Cave, follow the left path going down into the cave. Keep following until you reach the bottom of the cave where there is a pit in the middle called the “Caphras’ Seal”. On the right of the seal, there is a doorway that you must hit to destroy and enter the secret part of the cave.

After entering the secret part of the cave, you can find the Caphras’ Journal on the table in the middle of the room.

Interact with the book and choose the “Exchange” option to identify any map pieces you have. This will change their name and icon, allowing you to distinguish which piece you have.

Obtaining the Map Pieces

Roud Sulphur Mine

Roud Sulphur Mine is where you can obtain two of the pieces for the map. Roud Sulphur Mine is a fairly easy grind spot for level 58+ and has a recommended AP of 210 and 250 DP. In this grinding spot, you do NOT get the desert disease and there is a Villa nearby which also has a daily quest to kill monsters at Roud Sulfur Works.

Map Piece	How to Obtain
“Tukar piece”	Drops from the following monsters at Roud Sulfur: Lava Tukar (0.003% drop chance) Afuaru (0.003% drop chance)
“Devourer piece”	Drops from the following monsters at Roud Sulfur: Lava Devourer (0.002% drop chance) Afuaru (0.002% drop chance)

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Pila Ku Jail

Pila Ku Jail is where you can obtain the other two pieces for the map. Pila Ku Jail is a slightly harder grind spot for level 58+ and has a recommended AP of 230 and 290 DP. In this grinding spot, you do NOT get the desert disease and there is a Villa located just north of Pila Ku Jail, which also has a daily quest to kill monsters there.

Map Piece	How to Obtain
“Warder piece”	Drops from the following monsters in Pila Ku: Iron Fist Warder (0.0025% drop chance) Afuaru (0.0025% drop chance)
“Deportee piece”	Drops from the following monsters in Pila Ku: Sordid Deportee (0.005% drop chance) Afuaru (0.005% drop chance)

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I would recommend grinding at the “11 Sordid Deportee” rotation (check the video below) because the Sordid Deportee drops the rarer treasure piece out of the two, and this is the best rotation with the most Deportee monsters in it. Make sure you also kill the Iron Fist Warders in the rotation as well, it is likely you will get the Warder piece first here, but if not you can easily find videos for the best Warder rotations as well.

Other pieces (gems)

You also require 4 gems to craft the Archaeologist’s Map. These can either be processed by yourself, or you can buy them from the central market. They are usually in stock or you can try placing a pre-order and waiting.

If you would like to craft them yourself you need to press [L] to open the Processing window, then select the Shaking option. Use the recipes below to craft:

How to make Blood Ruby
Obtain Rough Ruby by mining Process (L) > Grinding Rough Ruby x5	→	Process (L) > Grinding Ruby x5	→	Process (L) > Shaking Resplendent Ruby x7 Gem Polisher x3	→	Blood Ruby

How to make Ocean Sapphire
Obtain Rough Sapphire by mining Process (L) > Grinding Rough Sapphire x5	→	Process (L) > Grinding Sapphire x5	→	Process (L) > Shaking Resplendent Sapphire x7 Gem Polisher x3	→	Ocean Sapphire

How to make Gold Topaz
Obtain Rough Topaz by mining Process (L) > Grinding Rough Topaz x3	→	Process (L) > Grinding Topaz x5	→	Process (L) > Shaking Resplendent Topaz x7 Gem Polisher x3	→	Gold Topaz

How to make Forest Emerald
Obtain Rough Emerald by mining Process (L) > Grinding Rough Emerald x5	→	Process (L) > Grinding Emerald x5	→	Process (L) > Shaking Resplendent Emerald x7 Gem Polisher x3	→	Forest Emerald

Treasure Event

During the “Treasure Event” only, the treasure item pieces can also drop at additional grind spots.