Treasure Hunting.
Items Required: Map Satchel, Treasure Maps, Shovel
Items Obtained: Uncommon and Rare Loot, Traveler Cap hats, Mushroom Cap hats, Fossil Skull hats, more hats, Treasure themed furniture
Items Obtained: Uncommon and Rare Loot, Traveler Cap hats, Mushroom Cap hats, Fossil Skull hats, more hats, Treasure themed furniture
To treasure hunt, you must have the Map Satchel. If you do not, then read the "Owl's Nest" part of the "Destiny" page. If you completed that, you should also have your first Treasure Map.
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Treasure Hunting on Graal Classic is a 3 step process: you have to collect Treasure Maps, decipher the maps, and find the treasure location. Each part of this page will walk through each step in detail.
Collecting Treasure Maps.
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Deciphering Treasure Maps.
However, you can't even read the Treasure Maps on your own! You need to get them deciphered to be able to find the treasure.
Each successive map doubles the price of the previous map. So your 10th map in one day will cost 6,400g (plus the cost of the other 9...). But don't worry. These prices reset every day. Every day will restart with one free map. The point of this is to limit how fast you are able to do this.
I suggest only deciphering 3-4 maps per day. I also suggest deciphering one map at a time, finding your treasure, and coming back.
I suggest only deciphering 3-4 maps per day. I also suggest deciphering one map at a time, finding your treasure, and coming back.
The Actual Treasure Hunting Part.
After Mercator deciphers one of your Treasure Maps, equip the map from your inventory. Open it shows a sepia image of a piece of the overworld. It is a magnified 14x10 tile area that coordinates to a certain small area on Graal Classic.
The maps can reference any accessible area on the main gmap, inside the rail caves, certain outdoor levels such as Angel Clan, and Balamb Island. |
Your goal is to find the exact location pictured in your map, and dig in that area to find the treasure chest. Touch the chest open it. If you dig anywhere within the box in the picture, the chest will appear. So you don't have to keep digging around in the same area. If you didn't find the chest, you either weren't inside the map's boundary, or you have the wrong spot.
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Since this is a GraalOnline Classic walkthrough and guide, I could post pictures of every Treasure Map and tell you each location, but that would take all the fun away from this activity. So this is the one thing I will not help you with. I will give you general hints.
A lot of this is just common sense. After studying the Treasure Map, open your world map and begin narrowing down possible locations.
A lot of this is just common sense. After studying the Treasure Map, open your world map and begin narrowing down possible locations.
- Snow Town locations are always the most obvious.
- It's usually easy to tell if the map is showing inside a rail cave. If it shows a certain railroad corner or a long straight rail, use the rail cave map to narrow down places. Also, there are very few places in the rail caves that have grass or water.
- Long grass: if there's a lot, it is Swamp Town. If there's only a little bit of long grass, it could be in Master Li's Woods.
- Cliffs: use the direction of the cliff, wether it is at the top or bottom of the cliff, and wether the ground has grass or dirt at the top/bottom to help you narrow down locations.
- Brick/Dirt Paths: if the map has a brick path, it is in Graal City, MoD, Onnet, or Destiny. Use the world map to search for the path's direction and corners etc. Dirt paths in a grassy area are also easy to find. There are only a few long dirt paths on the map.
- Houses: any type of building is a good hint.
- Trees: trees are also good landmarks. Master Li's Woods and MoD Town have areas that have specific tree patterns. Red trees (Destiny) will be a darker color of sepia than green trees. Dead trees are a giveaway to Deadwood.
- Water: If the water is off a cliff, check all up and down the river. York Town and Destiny have beaches. Ponds are giveaways.
- Basically, the best hints in the map are major tile transitions: dirt to cliff; grass to cliff; dirt to grass; long grass to tree; grass to water; etc. Maps that have 3 major tile areas are good giveaways (dirt grass tree; grass cliff water; etc.).
- Vague Hints: sometimes, all you get is an area of all grass and tiny glimpse of a cliff at the edge of the picture. Then you are forced to look at the details in the pattern of the grass or dirt.
Rewards.
These treasure chests can contain hats, furniture, or uncommon or rare loot items.
There are several other hats.
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Loot: Treasure Hunting chests only contain uncommon and rare loot items. These loot items can be sold for 75-150 gralats, except for the graal replicas (30g). Because there is a limited number of hats and furniture, most of your buried treasure chests will be uncommon loot items. For this reason, it would be wise to pay attention to what you are getting and what you are paying Mercator.
I suggest only deciphering 3-4 maps per day. What I do is keep track of how many gralats I am earning from the treasure versus how much I am paying for the maps. To do this, you have to know the sell prices of certain rare loot items.
For example: If my 1st map is a Red Graal Replica (+30g), I made enough gralats to pay for a 2nd map (-25g), and profit 5g. If my 2nd map is a Gold Necklace (+75g, profit = 80g), I can pay for a 3rd map (-50g, profit = 30g). If my 3rd map is an Odd Gem (+150g, profit = 180g), I can pay for a 4th map (-100g, profit = 80g). Let's say this time I dig up a hat. I know that a 5th map will cost 200g, so I will NOT buy the 5th map since it will cause me to lose gralats.
For example: If my 1st map is a Red Graal Replica (+30g), I made enough gralats to pay for a 2nd map (-25g), and profit 5g. If my 2nd map is a Gold Necklace (+75g, profit = 80g), I can pay for a 3rd map (-50g, profit = 30g). If my 3rd map is an Odd Gem (+150g, profit = 180g), I can pay for a 4th map (-100g, profit = 80g). Let's say this time I dig up a hat. I know that a 5th map will cost 200g, so I will NOT buy the 5th map since it will cause me to lose gralats.
I did not put this page under the "Making Gralats" section because this activity is not meant for you to be able to earn a lot of gralats quickly. However, you do want to pay attention so you aren't losing gralats from buying too many maps from Mercator in one day.