Surveying
Surveying
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Skill Type: | Trade Skill
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Max Level: | 80
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“Analyzing the land to locate valuable resources or important locations. Surveying has many uses, but is most commonly used to make resource maps for Geology and Mining.
Surveying Overview
Surveying is a skill that produces surveys that lead to gems and minerals. Creating surveys increases the Surveying skill, while using the surveys increases Geology (mineral surveys) or Mining (mining surveys).
In-Game Description
Analyzing the land to locate valuable resources or important locations. Surveying has many uses, but is most commonly used to make resource maps for Geology and Mining.
Training Surveying
- Jaime Fatholm will teach you surveying when you become Comfortable with her. This can be done by completing her 2 initial favors. Once she's Comfortable with you, Jaime will give you a few starting ingredients and teach you the recipe for Serbule Redwall Crystal Survey and Serbule Hills Redwall Crystal Survey. In the Recipe window, you can see that they require 1 Simple Parchment, 1 Basic Ink, and 1 Redwall Crystal (only a 20% chance to consume the Crystal). The parchment and ink can be bought from Jaime.
- Once you get all three ingredients you can create a map by pushing the 'Survey' button on the recipe. The survey map will be placed in your inventory. You will need to be in the area (ie Serbule or Serbule Hills) for which you want to create a survey.
- Urzab in Amulna will unlock levels 51-60 and teaches 51+ recipes. He also unlocks levels 61-70 and teaches recipes of those levels.
- Dachak the Digger unlocks 71-80.
- Glowing Sphere in the Yeti Cave is willing to teach surveying recipes for Kur Mountains to travelers willing to help out with a task.
Connected Skills
Sub-Skills:
- None
Secondary Skills:
- None
Related Skills:
Synergy Levels:
Bonus Synergy Levels for Surveying can be obtained from the following skills and levels:
Surveying Complete Recipe List
Click "Expand" on the box below to view a complete list of Recipes for the Surveying skill.
Lvl | Name | First-Time XP | XP | Ingredients | Results | Description | [Expand] Source |
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Surveying Mechanics
Using A Basic Survey
Right click a survey in your inventory and a little red spot will temporarily blink on the minimap (it can be difficult to see if it is on a bright area, it seems to blend in). An on screen message will also give you approximate distances, though it is less practical. It can also help to enlarge your map window, by dragging the lower right corner.
Once you are near enough to the location indicated by the red spot (inside the 100x100 meter box around the treasure), you click the survey map again, and you will get your crystal or mining reward. At that time you will also get XP in either Geology or Mining, depending on the kind of survey.
Getting attacked while trying to use a survey will cancel it and force you to re-click, so try to kill any annoying mobs around you first.
Tip: A common technique for running multiple surveys is to sort the maps by the "quadrant" they're in on the map, and then run through each quadrant! Another helpful technique can be to mark the (closest) survey destinations with a Pin (Point of Interest dot) on the map; Once you are close to the dot you can right click the surveys to see if you are close enough. (Note be sure to remove the Pin after you collected the survey).
Speed Bonus
Whenever you finish a survey, a short timer starts. If you finish another survey within that time, you are rewarded with a speed bonus that gives you random minerals, ores, or other ingredients. The pool of random options depends on what zone you are in and what type of survey you're doing (mineral or mining). For example, completing a mineral survey in Serbule will be more likely to reward green or blue minerals, while Eltibule will likely reward orange and white. If you want to take advantage of the bonus, it is recommended to create a few Surveys, take a look at their locations, and plan which one should be done first, second, third, etc. in fast succession.
For Serbule and Eltibule, the timer is randomly chosen from a number between 1.5-3.5 minutes. In Kur, it's 2.5-4.5.
Mining Speed Bonuses
Map Type | Possible Speed Bonus |
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Mineral Speed Bonuses
For mineral (gem) maps, the speed bonus is determined by location
Location | Bonus |
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Serbule Hills Serbule |
Blue or Green Gems and, more rarely, 'Ilmari' gems |
Eltibule Kur |
Orange or White Gems and, more rarely, 'Ilmari' gems. Bonus Ilmari gems - poor return in Eltibule; best return is Kur Green surveys. |
Using A Motherlode Map
Motherlode maps are more difficult than normal surveys, but give much greater rewards. When you use them, no red dot will appear on your minimap, and won't be given the exact location. You'll only be told the distance to the motherlode. If you're 1000 meters away, the motherlode could be on any point in the 1000-radius circle around you. When you find the motherlode, you'll be rewarded with 15-30 slabs, with a mean of 22 per motherlode survey.
Motherlode bonus ores
When you complete a motherlode survey you will receive slabs plus a bonus of a small amount of ore, slabs, dust, or other materials. The following table shows which materials you are likely to receive, arranged approximately from most likely to least likely.
Survey | Possible bonus ores |
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(~2/survey), (~1-2/survey), (~1-2/survey), (~1-2/survey), (rare, < 0.5/survey) , (rare, < 0.5/survey) | |
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Geology Survey Maps
Recipe | Surveying Lvl | Geology Lvl Req | Geology XP Gain | Map Leads To | List of Crystals Obtainable by the Survey |
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1 | 1 | 25 | |||
1 | 1 | 25 | |||
5 | 3 | 25 | Orange Crystals | [Expand]
List of Orange Crystals | |
10 | 5 | 40 | White Crystals | [Expand]
List of White Crystals | |
15 | 8 | 40 | Blue Crystals | [Expand]
List of Blue Crystals | |
20 | 13 | 55 | Green Crystals | [Expand]
List of Green Crystals | |
25 | 20 | 50 | Orange Crystals | [Expand]
List of Orange Crystals | |
30 | 20 | 85 | White Crystals | [Expand]
List of White Crystals | |
35 | 27 | 60 | Blue Crystals | [Expand]
List of Blue Crystals | |
40 | 35 | 80 | Green Crystals | [Expand]
List of Green Crystals | |
45 | 50 | ??? | Blue Crystals | [Expand]
List of Blue Crystals | |
45 | 50 | ??? | Green Crystals | [Expand]
List of Green Crystals | |
45 | 45 | ??? | Orange Crystals | [Expand]
List of Orange Crystals | |
45 | 45 | ??? | White Crystals | [Expand]
List of White Crystals |
Mining Survey Maps
Recipe | Surveying Lvl | Mining Lvl | Mining XP Gain | Map Leads To |
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7 | 1 | 25 | or or | |
15 | 10 | 55 | ||
25 | 15 | 70 | ||
* | 28 | 23* | 255 | and ![]() |
35 | 27 | 100 | ||
* | 33 | 28* | 300 | and ![]() |
* | 43 | 38 | 390 | and ![]() |
45 | 35 | 130 | ||
* | 48 | 43 | ??? | and ![]() |
50 | 45 | 160 | ||
* | 53 | 48 | ??? | and ![]() |
* | 58 | 53 | ??? | and ![]() |
60** | 58 | ??? | and ![]() | |
60** | 58 | ??? | and ![]() | |
65** | 63 | ??? | and ![]() | |
70 | 68 | ??? | and ![]() | |
75 | 74 | ??? | and ![]() | |
80 | 80 | ??? | and ![]() |
*Motherlodes require 5 more mining levels than the survey to actually mine them despite what the survey says.
**Higher level Motherlodes require 2 mining levels below the survey to mine them so the required surveying level is higher.
Surveying Stat Bonuses
Level | Bonus | [Expand] Totals |
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Surveying Level Up Rewards
Level | [Expand] Reward |
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Surveying Experience Table
Click Expand to view the Experience Table for Surveying
Trivia
Players (in raven form or with flight potions) used to be able to use surveys while flying hundreds of feet above the ground! Now, you must be on the ground to actually dig up your reward.
Gallery
A Druid learns that you can't complete a survey in the air.