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SAUCY JACK'S GUIDE TO ANTIQUITIES: HOW TO SCRY AND EXCAVATE
Rather than some big to-do of an intro, let's get into it! (NOTE: the actual opening quest for this seems buggy at the moment; if a step doesn't seem to be working, some people (including myself) found it fixed itself if we exited the game completely and restarted fresh. YMMV.)1. Start by getting the "Antiquarian's Eye" tool from the Antiquarian's Circle, located between the Bard's College and the Blue Palace in Solitude:2. Once you've got the Eye, in order to scry something, go to your journal, to the Antiquities tab, highlight what you want to scry, and press E to scry. NOTE: if your scrying skill level is too low for an item, it won't let you scry it. If you're not in the same zone as an item, it also won't let you scry it.3. In the scrying screen, you have (at the lowest skill level, anyway) TEN CLICKS (the meter of which is shown by the arrow) to highlight all of the shining hexes.4. You start from the bottom center; with each click, you highlight the "patch" of connected tiles all with the same symbol. Every subsequent click must be on a "patch" of similar tiles that border the tiles you've already highlighted.5. The more shining hexes you can highlight, the more the false digsite areas will be whittled away. If you manage to highlight them all, only one digsite area (the true one) will show up on your zone map. If you don't like how you did, you can choose to re-scry the item (step 2) and attempt it again, with (currently) no penalty. ***NOTE: WHEN YOU SUCCESSFULLY SCRY AND IT SHOWS YOU THE DIGSITE ON THE MAP, PRESS E! OTHERWISE YOUR MAP WILL BE BUGGED OUT WHEN YOU TRY TO PORT OR USE A WAYSHRINE.***
6. You can hotkey the Eye by going to inventory to set your quickslots; one of the subcategories will be "Tools" and the Eye is there.7. Once you're actually within the digsite area blue boundary, use the the quickslotted Eye and a blue orb will appear above your head. It sort of has a comet-tail-looking thing, and that indicates the direction to go to find the actual digsite. The digsite will look like a treasure map mound, except that it's glowing. (NOTE: sometimes no orb will appear; use the "exit completely and restart" method to fix this - again, YMMV.)8. Once you start excavating, you have X amount of clicks (shown by that beige bar at the top - it's 40 clicks at the lowest skill level; you get more with passives) to find AND dig up the artifact. Using the augur on the right, you're essentially playing a one-boat game of Battleship to find WHERE the artifact is. Red means cold; orange means warmer, yellow = hot, green = a square containing part of the artifact itself.9. The brush tool on the left (press W or click on it to use) is for actually digging up the artifact. Keep in mind that the more clicks you used to find it, the less clicks you'll have to dig it up. Each square contains multiple layers of dirt, so digging up a single square could take up to four clicks (from what I've found so far, anyways.) As you grow in skill level, you'll get other tools that dig up more ground per click. Once you've dug up the artifact, the rest of your clicks can be used to dig up random squares to find bonus items. It seems that even if you still have clicks left, if you dig up all bonus items, the minigame ends. In this case, I found all three bonus items, because Snugglorr the Magnificent, King of the RNG and Nirn's one TRUE god, smiled upon me this day.10. Hooray! You did it, you antiquarian, you!
Edited by Saucy_Jack on May 28, 2020 6:19PM ALL HAIL SNUGGLORR THE MAGNIFICENT, KING OF THE RNG AND NIRN'S ONE TRUE GOD! Also, become a Scrub-scriber!
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