Hi dear game lovers, if you've read my previous gaming articles, you have some knowledge about Ultima Online and you understand how extensive it is. Today, In my article, will discuss the cartography system, which is another interesting system of Ultima Online world.

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Firstly, I'd like to say my own opinions about the cartography system. This system is one of the most enjoyable events of the game. You can take up the treasure map, especially if you have a group of friends. The more people you become, the easier your job is, the more you find the treasure and the shorter your time to open it.

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The maps come out of the bottle in the sea, and in the mines, under the ground. You can buy these bottles by trading from veteran fishermen and miners. Otherwise, you can not allocate these treasures from the game's own NPCs. The proportion of the bottles corresponds to the angling and the digging. So you may need to negotiate a strict price. Another consideration is the level of the map that comes out of the bottle. So the map in the bottle might even be unfounded sometimes. In such cases, you need to get help from masters who can read maps to increase your chances. The maps have stages ranging from 1 to 5. As these stages increase, the value of the loot from the Treasury increases and it becomes so difficult to unravel the talisman of the map. As in the real life you know, the Treasury has its protectors, and these protectors have a lot of difficulty with the treasure hunters. So, it will always be better to go to places like this with your treasure buddies.

What kind of trophies come out from the treasures ?

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The treasures are usually crystals for the construction of Ice - Flame - Energy robes, and you turn these crystals into robes with the help of tailors. Not without saying that robes add extra features to mage characters. For the warrior class, which is another main class of the game, there is a great deal of precious swords from inside the treasury.

Treasury Skills

• Cartography
• Mining
• Lockpicking

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Cartography

Firstly, the most fundamental skill you need to become a treasure hunter; Cartography. With this ability, you can teach your character to read the maps. To improve the cartography skill, you need to draw a map of the cities you know, the empty maps you bought from NPC's. In this way, your character learns the skill gradually. In the end, you can read and locate each various maps without difficulty.

Mining

Starting the map hunting is not limited to this skill, but you also need to learn the Mining skill. The purpose of this skill is the map hunting, which is where you locate the map and then arrive. You must dig 10-15 times in the area where the treasure is with the digging. For this, it is necessary to have your character's skill to learn Mining at least 80.0

Lockpicking

In addition to these two talents, you should definitely learn the ability of lockpicking. It's kind of a locksmith profession. The logic of this ability is to remove the treasure with the digging and then apply lockpicking ability to break the lock. You need to have an item associated with the lockpicking capability of 50-60 pcs. You must select the treasure by double clicking on this threshold. The first 2-3 trial will probably break your key, but don't stop trying, and you'll finally see that you've cracked the treasure lock. As soon as the lock is broken, the talisman is untied, and wizards and dragons appear around the treasure, and you need to get out of there and protect yourselves. And as soon as you solve the talisman, your character is poisoned at a deadly level and you have to treat this poison.

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The skill to open the chest in the dungeons. You need lockpick for this skill, you can generate tinker character from the tinker menu. If you click this item twice, a target will appear to mark the chest you want to open. When you try to open it by choosing chest with target the chest protector will emerge from the NPC, you can't open chest if you don't kill them all. The lock of chest can only open the person who first used Lockpick to release the creatures. After the creatures die, you must use Lockpick again. When you unlock, all players can get items in the chest. It's useful to make sure you're alone when unlocking.

The lockpicking skill I have described above is a different system that is independent of cartography in the game. So you can do treasure hunting using this system without cartography.

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