What the achievement asks
Find twenty-seven named treasures across Zereth Mortis. Ten points, account-wide, both factions.
Almost none of them is simply lying there. There are jumping puzzles, consoles to press in order, a key with a one percent drop rate, and three that cannot be opened at all until research finishes that takes real weeks.
Start the research before anything else
This is the part that decides how long the achievement takes, and it has nothing to do with skill.
Three treasures need Pocopoc upgrades bought with cypher research: Dealic Understanding, then Sopranian Understanding on top of it. Each is a research that runs on a clock, roughly a week apiece, and the second cannot start before the first is done.
Set both researching the day you arrive in Zereth Mortis. Two weeks is the floor for this achievement, and every day you delay the research is a day added to the end. The other twenty-four treasures can be collected while you wait.
You also need Pocopoc himself, which comes with chapter 3 of Secrets of the First Ones. Without him, none of this begins.
The full lap
The twenty-seven
| Treasure | What it takes | Video |
|---|---|---|
| Fallen Vault | North at Antecedent Isle. Jump down the cliff | Watch |
| Domination Cache | Locked. The Dominance Key drops from Mawsworn Inquisitors nearby, at about one percent | Watch |
| Mawsworn Cache | Kill the adds around it and take it | Watch |
| Protomineral Extractor | Needs chapter 6 of the campaign, or a way through the crypt | Watch |
| Architect's Reserve | Needs Sopranian Understanding and the Finding Tahli quest | Watch |
| Damaged Jiro Stash | An easy climb up the pillar | Watch |
| Pilfered Curio | At the top. Start the climb from around 60.6 43.1, or fly | Watch |
| Overgrown Protofruit | The path up starts on the east side, around 36.7 44.6, then a jump | Watch |
| Template Archive | Press the orb on the far side of the room | Watch |
| Offering to the First Ones | Simply picked up | Watch |
| Syntactic Vault | Inside the cave, entrance around 76.1 59.5. Six runic syllables are scattered to the east | Watch |
| Symphonic Vault | Four consoles around it, to be pressed in the right order | Watch |
| Crushed Supply Crate | Take the repair tool from the pillar above it, then speak to Hiu Fi | Watch |
| Stolen Relic | A jumping puzzle. Start from the south-west, around 37.7 65.8, or fly | Watch |
| Stolen Scroll | The path starts in the Haven base, behind the tent | Watch |
| Forgotten Proto-Vault | Needs flying, or the climb that starts at 63.4 73.2 | Watch |
| Drowned Broker Supplies | Needs Dealic Understanding, then Pocopoc, from around 34.5 70.6 | Watch |
| Protoflora Harvester | On a floating orb. Jump to it from the mountain at 53.3 72.2 | Watch |
| Mistaken Ovoid | Gather five Lost Ovoids and bring them to the missing ones | Watch |
| Submerged Chest | Opened with a Dangerous Orb of Power | Watch |
| Gnawed Valise | Climb the mountain from the Cradle entrance, around 40.9 74.4 | Watch |
| Ripened Protopear | Needs Sopranian Understanding and its quest | Watch |
| Library Vault | Four tablets in the Lexical Glade unlock it | Watch |
| Grateful Boon | Pet every animal on top of the mountain | Watch |
| Undulating Foliage | Four teleporter locks to press | Watch |
| Filched Artifact | Reached by jumping across orbs | Watch |
| Bushel of Progenitor Produce | Stack Creation Catalyst Overcharge five times | Watch |
The three behind research
- Drowned Broker Supplies needs Dealic Understanding.
- Architect's Reserve needs Sopranian Understanding, plus the Finding Tahli quest.
- Ripened Protopear needs Sopranian Understanding and its own quest.
Nothing about the coordinate tells you this. You arrive, the chest is there, and it does not open.
The one that is pure luck
Domination Cache is locked, and its key drops from the Mawsworn Inquisitors around it at roughly one percent. There is no alternative source and no way to improve the odds.
Kill inquisitors whenever you pass rather than making a farming trip of it, and expect this to be among the last of the twenty-seven.
Three that need a way up
Forgotten Proto-Vault, Pilfered Curio and Protomineral Extractor all sit somewhere you cannot walk to. Flying settles all three. Without it, each has a route: the vault has a climb starting at 63.4 73.2, the curio one from 60.6 43.1, and the extractor comes through the crypt as part of the campaign.
Several others are jumping puzzles rather than climbs: Stolen Relic, Gnawed Valise, Filched Artifact and Protoflora Harvester. Flying skips the puzzle in every case, and the coordinates above are the treasure itself rather than the start of the route.