Every piece of the 22 Archaeology sets, where it drops and the renown it pays
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Errol’s museum in The Narrows takes 105 artifacts, five to a set, across 21 sets. The Dig Site Material Set makes 22, and it is the odd one out: it wants Clay, Peat, Sod, Shards and Shard Mass. Donating every artifact pays 1,085 renown, which feeds your Town Rank. The Dragon Artifact Set from the Ancient Ruins pays the most at 150. Most sets come from a single place, so find the right dig site and keep swinging. 6 sets drop nothing until you buy an Archaeology, Fishing or Mining perk, so budget Essence for those. Tick pieces off below as you donate: the checklist remembers them in this browser.
Dig sites turn up on grass, sand and dirt. Hit one with a pickaxe or shovel. What comes out is unidentified: hold the interact button on it before you can donate, sell or gift it. The Western Ruins always has some sites. Western Ruins Scholar (Archaeology 1) and Eastern Road Scholar (15) each add a daily site in their area, and they’re the cheapest way to speed up the early sets. Museum Quality I to III tilt the odds toward uncommon, rare and legendary finds.
Aquatic Antiquities (Fishing 1) lets you reel in the Aquatic set, and Sunken Secrets (Archaeology 1) puts the Sunken set in dive spots. Grab both early. They’re cheap. Well Placed (30) adds the Oopart pieces to every overworld dig site. Former Farmers (45) puts a daily dig site on your farm with the Vintage Farm Tools. Mist Sight (60) opens one Mist Spot a day, and each pull costs 10 Essence. The Ritual set needs the Mining perk Lost to History (45) before Ritual Chambers start showing up.
Rewards go by how many Archaeology sets you’ve finished, not which ones. The first gets you a Wooden Treasure Box, the Explorer’s Hat and the Artifact Replicator in the museum. The next three finish the Explorer outfit. After that each set adds a treasure box plus a furniture recipe, up to a Golden Treasure Box and the Mistril Forge at 21. The Upper Mines set is the easy first one: you’re on floors 1 to 19 anyway, and four of its five pieces are common or uncommon.
Duplicates are good gifts. 44 artifacts are on somebody’s loved list: Olric loves every Perfect gem and ore, and Stillwell loves six artifacts. Open a piece to see its fans. Otherwise run spares through the replicator. Every replica sells for 75t, more than 56 of the 105 artifacts fetch raw. Back in Vogue (30) and Back in Vogue II (45) add 25% each to artifact prices, but you won’t get rich off any of it. The Perfect Pink Diamond tops out at 325t.
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Dig sites and the beach fish trap. Open from day one.
50 renown · The Narrows
50 renown · The Eastern Road
50 renown · The Western Ruins
50 renown · Sweetwater Farm
55 renown · The Beach
50 renown · The Beach
50 renown · The Deep Woods
Clay, Peat, Shard Mass, Shards and Sod. They’re materials, so there’s no renown figure for them here.
Dig sites, gem and ore rocks, and Ritual Chambers on the way down.
50 renown · Upper Mines, The Tide Caverns, Deep Earth, The Lava Caves, Ancient Ruins
50 renown · Upper Mines, The Tide Caverns, Deep Earth, The Lava Caves, Ancient Ruins
35 renown · Upper Mines, The Tide Caverns, Deep Earth, The Lava Caves, Ancient Ruins
30 renown · Upper Mines
30 renown · The Tide Caverns
45 renown · Deep Earth
75 renown · The Lava Caves
150 renown · Ancient Ruins
Nothing in these sets drops until you buy the perk named on the card.
50 renown · The Narrows, The Eastern Road, The Western Ruins, Sweetwater Farm, The Beach, The Deep Woods, The Summit, Mistria, Your farm · Needs Well Placed
45 renown · Your farm · Needs Former Farmers
35 renown · Mines Ritual Chambers · Needs Lost to History
50 renown · Fishing · Needs Aquatic Antiquities
35 renown · Mist Spot · Needs Mist Sight
50 renown · Diving · Needs Sunken Secrets
Tide Cavern Artifact Set · Common
When you hold it to your ear, you can hear the sound of water flowing through deep caves.
Feed a spare Stone Shell into the museum’s replicator and you get Replica Stone Shell, a decor piece for your house or farm.
Maple