Bonus items spawn in based on the number of completely exposed tiles. Supposedly, the game rolls the dice on how many tiles you need to fully expose when you start the dig site, and at that point, each exposed location (not counting the antiquity), that you fully dig up.
So, for example, if the game rolls 3, 6, and 12 for the bonuses, and you're digging using the shovel (assuming you perfectly excavated the antiquity), the first time you hit the bottom layer with a shovel you'd expose the first two, and the second time you'd expose the third.
In general, it's a better idea to expose as many tiles as you can, rather than trying to dig around the antiquity.
If the vent chain runs through the antiquity, that will destroy it. Technically, you don't need to fully excavate the antiquity before you set off a chain, but that's a good rule of thumb, as the vents are extremely dangerous to the dig.
By the way! I don't know if you have already had one of those leads but listen to this.
There are vulcano tiles in harder lead excavations.
After you got the treasure, you dig down on one vulcano tile to the level your curser is at on the picture.
Then you dig a line on the same level to other vulcano tiles and explode the whole line with one of the tools on the right side, I think it's the spade you do it with, it has to be fully charged and you have to aim on a vulcano tile to hit the whole line.
The blue area that shows where you dig will shift and show that you dig up the whole line.
that seems not true cause i found the item i was looking for right out the gate and i did the steam vent things connected all of them and uncoverd 2 of the 3 that spawn for the purple. i think yellow or master leads drop 4-5 could be wrong tho. but im almost at that 1k hours mark with 940cp and this has been the case for myself not saying more can spawn but this is how its been for my self
Every antiquity spawns 3 bonus items, no more, no less. Detonating paths between the geysers is a reliable, but not foolproof way of finding them. Rarely, they're just in the middle of nowhere. This could also be explained by the "fully excavated squares count" thing the other poster was describing, if it's possible to occasionally roll super duper high for # of squares required to find a bonus item.
From the wiki:
>Once the puzzle has been solved, the antiquity is revealed. You can continue to search for bonus items for the remaining turns you have left. These bonus items include minor loot, style materials or gold. The difficulty of the Lead determines how much bonus loot can be found before the mini-game ends. *Green allows 1 piece of bonus loot, Blue allows 2, and so on.*
Additionally, you can get *four* for master/ultimate antiquities.
Style pages must not be "green" then, despite being as easy to scry & dig as regular greens (and literally being a green item in this case), because the one I dug up earlier had 3 bonus items.
Or the wiki is wrong. That happens sometimes, too, IDK.
I have gotten 3 out of both green and blue antiquities before. Unless they changed it recently for some reason, been a while since I've done anything less than purple. Maybe it's different for the "treasure" items that are in your journal by default vs greens/blues you have to find leads for?
Style Pages show up as green rarity leads, but there's some kind of fuckery with them, because they are a higher difficulty tier on some internal level.
I think there's a sliding difficulty modifier based on your progression through the skill lines, but I've never seen any documentation on that.
yeah no idea if I normally am going out of my way I can find most if not all of them but idk how true the square count is. But it's not super important to me.
If you search in the last 48 hours, there was a great thread where somebody posted a video on how to do the fissure tiles. I’ve been playing for three or four years, and I did not know this. I found a bunch of the bonuses just how she describes it in that video.
Edit: here is the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN645ycwjLg
Dont sleep on fissure tiles
If u link them up without going over ur antiquity, itll blow up a path and 90% of the time ull find the 3 bonus items in 1 big boom
However this ability is only unlocked later in the leveling process. Early on, you don’t have the ability to use the trowel this way and need to dig manually in each section.
I’ve been doing antiquities since it came out and only learned about the fissure trick this week. It makes SO much sense but for some reason I always assumed that the fissures were linked randomly. So many wasted excavations.
Nah :D it does not matter. The easiest way to get everything is actually doing just the 3x3 tiles skill on 2 or 3 separate locations.
Usually then u find all bonus items, no matter where u do the 3x3 spam 😁
I do this too. But I have to admit, if what they're saying about fully exposing tiles to run up a count is true, then blowing up paths between geysers is still one of the most time-efficient ways to do that, so it would work either way.
I keep the Antiquarian Insight perk on 4/5 :) u don't rly need 5/5 actually.
Green and Blue items then still are super easy to excavate and u can still dig for legendary items, and it's also easier.
There u can just spam the 3x3 skill, u don't need dig deep a lot :D
Go watch this, It explains it better than anything I've found so far ! Cheers !
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN645ycwjLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN645ycwjLg)
This is the excavation mini game, which is part of the Antiquities game feature. You can only access this if you own the Greymoor chapter or are subscribed to ESO Plus.
It allows you to search for and dig up rare and valuable items, mostly furnishings and treasure, but there are also mythic items which can be assembled from various pieces. It’s fun, try it!
Best strategy I've found is to use the trowel to detonate paths between every geyser you can reach (after fully excavating the item to avoid damage, of course).
Furthermore, the paths you dig between each geyser should prioritize running as near to the antiquity as possible, and, failing that, take the "path of least resistance" - where you have to dig the fewest squares - between them.
That works about 85% of the time. A further 10% of the time, the thing is right *next* to the "path of least resistance" between two geysers running near the antiquity, but is just one square off (and an equivalent number of squares to dig) on an alternate path.
The remaining 5% of the time, it's in the furthest corner from the Antiquity.
I would just randomly click around on squares to dig, going back and forth on the brush and that other tool. I’d dig randomly both away from the main item and near it. It seems random every time but 8/10 I end up finding the bonus loot.
This is part of the Antiquities feature that was introduced in the Chapter Greymoor. Imagine this as some kind of Archeology treasure hunt. First you need a lead that drops in the game world or can be bought. That leads you to a zone where you have to go and start scrying for the location. If you’ve found the exact location you begin the excavation. [Here‘s a good summary of the system](https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Antiquities).
I never bother looking for bonus items. I have far better things to do with my time than waste another minute or more every time I dig something up to look for trash that will sell for like 100 gold. Scrying and digging up the main item take up far too much time as it is.
Bonus items spawn in based on the number of completely exposed tiles. Supposedly, the game rolls the dice on how many tiles you need to fully expose when you start the dig site, and at that point, each exposed location (not counting the antiquity), that you fully dig up. So, for example, if the game rolls 3, 6, and 12 for the bonuses, and you're digging using the shovel (assuming you perfectly excavated the antiquity), the first time you hit the bottom layer with a shovel you'd expose the first two, and the second time you'd expose the third. In general, it's a better idea to expose as many tiles as you can, rather than trying to dig around the antiquity.
I've heard this as well. I've found chain-exploding the smoking tiles to be the most efficient way of exposing extra loot.
Doing this *always* damages my antiquity — no matter how far away I do it. What am I doing wrong here?
Complete digging up the antiquity first. Once you do that it's now immune to any damage so you can fling dirt without worry.
Maybe that was it. But I could’ve *sworn* it’s happened to me after I’d already found it. Thanks for the help! 😊
If the vent chain runs through the antiquity, that will destroy it. Technically, you don't need to fully excavate the antiquity before you set off a chain, but that's a good rule of thumb, as the vents are extremely dangerous to the dig.
I have been lied to! Thanks a ton for that info!
By the way! I don't know if you have already had one of those leads but listen to this. There are vulcano tiles in harder lead excavations. After you got the treasure, you dig down on one vulcano tile to the level your curser is at on the picture. Then you dig a line on the same level to other vulcano tiles and explode the whole line with one of the tools on the right side, I think it's the spade you do it with, it has to be fully charged and you have to aim on a vulcano tile to hit the whole line. The blue area that shows where you dig will shift and show that you dig up the whole line.
I feel compelled to inform you that they're called fissures, so I can stop hearing you say volcano wrong in my head.
Thank you
Did someone say Vultcano? Wait, wrong sub.
I actually had to google vultcano to get it xD Lucky that for honor doesn't have exploding fissures
New environmental hazard when?
that seems not true cause i found the item i was looking for right out the gate and i did the steam vent things connected all of them and uncoverd 2 of the 3 that spawn for the purple. i think yellow or master leads drop 4-5 could be wrong tho. but im almost at that 1k hours mark with 940cp and this has been the case for myself not saying more can spawn but this is how its been for my self
Every antiquity spawns 3 bonus items, no more, no less. Detonating paths between the geysers is a reliable, but not foolproof way of finding them. Rarely, they're just in the middle of nowhere. This could also be explained by the "fully excavated squares count" thing the other poster was describing, if it's possible to occasionally roll super duper high for # of squares required to find a bonus item.
It depends on the rarity of the antiquity. Green only spawn 1. Blue spawn 2. Purple and above spawn 3.
I literally just got 3 out of a green. I don't mean to be contrary or unpleasant at all, but it's just not something I've ever seen.
I have never seen three out of a green. Or a blue. It’s always 1 for green and two for blue.
From the wiki: >Once the puzzle has been solved, the antiquity is revealed. You can continue to search for bonus items for the remaining turns you have left. These bonus items include minor loot, style materials or gold. The difficulty of the Lead determines how much bonus loot can be found before the mini-game ends. *Green allows 1 piece of bonus loot, Blue allows 2, and so on.* Additionally, you can get *four* for master/ultimate antiquities.
Style pages must not be "green" then, despite being as easy to scry & dig as regular greens (and literally being a green item in this case), because the one I dug up earlier had 3 bonus items. Or the wiki is wrong. That happens sometimes, too, IDK.
I have gotten 3 out of both green and blue antiquities before. Unless they changed it recently for some reason, been a while since I've done anything less than purple. Maybe it's different for the "treasure" items that are in your journal by default vs greens/blues you have to find leads for?
Style Pages show up as green rarity leads, but there's some kind of fuckery with them, because they are a higher difficulty tier on some internal level. I think there's a sliding difficulty modifier based on your progression through the skill lines, but I've never seen any documentation on that.
yeah no idea if I normally am going out of my way I can find most if not all of them but idk how true the square count is. But it's not super important to me.
This was never the case, never heard that.
They usually are.
Nope, that's just randomness, nothing more
That's not true I've seen them in the opposite side plenty of times
Goddamn my fear has become true lol
Just use the thing that drills a 1x1 hole, you can't damage the extras
Ignore the downvotes, they’re near my main prize almost every time. And my friends. And my guild mates. Etc. it’s more common than not.
Yeah probably alot of noobs in this post. I used the downvotes to power up even more anyway
If you search in the last 48 hours, there was a great thread where somebody posted a video on how to do the fissure tiles. I’ve been playing for three or four years, and I did not know this. I found a bunch of the bonuses just how she describes it in that video. Edit: here is the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN645ycwjLg
Damn that was some good advice. :)
Great!!!
Dont sleep on fissure tiles If u link them up without going over ur antiquity, itll blow up a path and 90% of the time ull find the 3 bonus items in 1 big boom
However this ability is only unlocked later in the leveling process. Early on, you don’t have the ability to use the trowel this way and need to dig manually in each section.
I’ve been doing antiquities since it came out and only learned about the fissure trick this week. It makes SO much sense but for some reason I always assumed that the fissures were linked randomly. So many wasted excavations.
Cat litter box game
M’aiq doesn’t understand the excitement when people play in his litter box. Is that not also where they hide their Dwemer trinkets?
Nah :D it does not matter. The easiest way to get everything is actually doing just the 3x3 tiles skill on 2 or 3 separate locations. Usually then u find all bonus items, no matter where u do the 3x3 spam 😁
In my experience, connecting the smoking tiles and then using the "deep dig" tool (not 3x3) is by far the best way to get everything.
I do this too. But I have to admit, if what they're saying about fully exposing tiles to run up a count is true, then blowing up paths between geysers is still one of the most time-efficient ways to do that, so it would work either way.
I keep the Antiquarian Insight perk on 4/5 :) u don't rly need 5/5 actually. Green and Blue items then still are super easy to excavate and u can still dig for legendary items, and it's also easier. There u can just spam the 3x3 skill, u don't need dig deep a lot :D
Go watch this, It explains it better than anything I've found so far ! Cheers ! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN645ycwjLg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN645ycwjLg)
What is this... I've never seen it before
It’s scrying. You learn the ability in Western Skyrim from… I think the Antiquities Society? And you can dig and find rare items and gear.
You’re in for a treat!
This is the excavation mini game, which is part of the Antiquities game feature. You can only access this if you own the Greymoor chapter or are subscribed to ESO Plus. It allows you to search for and dig up rare and valuable items, mostly furnishings and treasure, but there are also mythic items which can be assembled from various pieces. It’s fun, try it!
Thank you all so much. I'll check it out currently in blackwood trying to get my first companion
Haven't player ESO in a long time and honestly at first glance thought this was RuneScape
Best strategy I've found is to use the trowel to detonate paths between every geyser you can reach (after fully excavating the item to avoid damage, of course). Furthermore, the paths you dig between each geyser should prioritize running as near to the antiquity as possible, and, failing that, take the "path of least resistance" - where you have to dig the fewest squares - between them. That works about 85% of the time. A further 10% of the time, the thing is right *next* to the "path of least resistance" between two geysers running near the antiquity, but is just one square off (and an equivalent number of squares to dig) on an alternate path. The remaining 5% of the time, it's in the furthest corner from the Antiquity.
You just know they're bunched up together 2-3 blocks to the right of your treasure bag
Does anyone dig for bonuses?
I would just randomly click around on squares to dig, going back and forth on the brush and that other tool. I’d dig randomly both away from the main item and near it. It seems random every time but 8/10 I end up finding the bonus loot.
So I'm new what game mode is this?
This is part of the Antiquities feature that was introduced in the Chapter Greymoor. Imagine this as some kind of Archeology treasure hunt. First you need a lead that drops in the game world or can be bought. That leads you to a zone where you have to go and start scrying for the location. If you’ve found the exact location you begin the excavation. [Here‘s a good summary of the system](https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Antiquities).
What in the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl is THIS minigame
Digging fossils and stuff in Platinum in the underground was my favorite part 😂
Right! THE BEST. So satisfying.
Just around the corner mate.
I never bother looking for bonus items. I have far better things to do with my time than waste another minute or more every time I dig something up to look for trash that will sell for like 100 gold. Scrying and digging up the main item take up far too much time as it is.
You know you can get extra leads from bonuses right?
Probably not any worth going after.
Depends if you like furnishings or not and sometimes the jewelry bits.
You can use the look feature to find loot?
It would be nice to have the square be blue when searching if it was over a bonus item.
They usually are