Antiquities Codex complete.

Thoriorz · May 9

Hi, I started playing ESO in April 2024 and I'm really enjoying the game. I was farming skill points, dungeons and all that stuff and looking for a build that I would enjoy, figuring out how to have a stable income and all the things new players do...
At the same time I was looking for a "thing" to do and have as a "primary activity".
I found the Antiquities system and found out what it was, how it worked (google was a good friend of mine) etc and I started to like it.
I learned the necessary skill lines and found out that Antiquities and "hunting" codex entries is what I enjoy a lot (I would say the most) in ESO and pretty quickly this became my primary activity.

So along with grinding skill points/gear/leveling alts etc etc I slowly worked on Antiquities and eventually when I was done with alts and everything else Antiquities became my activity I did almost every day.
Until I got to the target point where I have codex entries for all Antiquities stuff on 3/3.

My Antiquities Codex:

Aldmeri Dominion:

Khenarthi's Roost:

Auridon:

Grahtwood:

Greenshade:

Malabar Tor:

Reaper's March:

Daggerfall Covenant:

Stros M'Kai:

Betnikh:

Glenumbra:

Stormhaven:

Rivenspire:

Alik'r Desert:

Bangkorai:

Ebonheart Pact:

Bleakrock Isle:

Bal Foyen:

Stonefalls:

Deshaan:

Shadowfen:

Eastmarch:

The Rift:

Coldharbour:

Craglorn:

Eyevea:

DLC Areas:

Wrothgar:

Hew's Bane:

Gold Coast:

Vvardenfell:

Clockwork City:

Summerset:

Artaeum:

Murkmire:

Northern Elsweyr:

Southern Elsweyr:

Western Skyrim:

The Reach:

Blackwood:

The Deadlands:

High Isle:

Galen:

Telvanni Peninsula:

Apocrypha:

West Weald:

For me this is a huge success and farming those codex entries took countless hours.
Antiquities will also be added in the next update (or season as it's called now) and I'm looking forward to hunting them! I'm planning to keep a record of Lead drops, a little stats on how long it took for a Lead to drop, etc. and then share it here.

This thread is meant to be in a positive spirit, where I would like to show my personal success and at the same time show people who also compose codex entries that it can be done and it has encouraged them a bit.
So please no negative replies, we're adults and if you're not interested in Antiquities or don't like my thread, just move on.

Thanks for reading and good luck and have fun in the game.

RealLoveBVB · May 9

Nice one! Especially doing everything in just one year.

What was your most annoying or frustrating lead?

I am on 99% too. Just missing some treasure map leads and a few from dungeons...
Had to run some dungeons more than 60 times for all 3 entries. Did you had similar amounts?
How many treasure maps took it for you to finish telvanni and West weald leads?

Decimus · May 9

Very impressive, congrats!

This is something I've also been working towards on the side, but still missing quite a bit.

The weekly Archive/IC vendor leads made this a bit easier to do, but there's a lot tied to treasure maps etc that take a lot of effort to dig up.

katanagirl1 · May 10

Congrats! I would love to have 3/3 but for a lot of them I have to settle for at least 1/3.

oldbobdude · May 10

I cannot begin to imagine the grind. Congrats on an amazing achievement.

BahometZ · May 10

Some of those leads are insane, so gg. I'm curious to know which you found the most challenging.
For me, the southern elsweyr psijic nodes and alikr treasure chests have probably been the most time consuming. Some of the dungeon/trial ones are annoying but not as bad i think from a time spent perspective.

Djennku · May 10

HUZZAH!!! Another joins our ranks! Congratulations! It's not an easy accomplishment.

Now that you are up to date with your antiquity codex collection, all you need to do is add to it when new stuff gets added, which usually isn't super difficult niw thatnyou aren't playing catch up ^^

Thoriorz · May 10

RealLoveBVB wrote: »

Nice one! Especially doing everything in just one year.

What was your most annoying or frustrating lead?

I am on 99% too. Just missing some treasure map leads and a few from dungeons...
Had to run some dungeons more than 60 times for all 3 entries. Did you had similar amounts?
How many treasure maps took it for you to finish telvanni and West weald leads?

The most annoying/frustrating, well, probably the most annoying were the two that come to mind now. Lead from DSR (Sea Elf Galleon Helm), it took more than 60x DSR before I put this on 3/3, the next one (and this is probably the winner in the worst category) was the furnishing thing Apocryphal Well, this Well consists of a total of 3 gold Leads that have a chance to drop from Treasure Maps in T. Peninsula and Apocrypha, here I had about 500 maps open in total and I was on 1/3 codex and from the second codex I had 1 Lead and I had a series of more than 300 maps without a single Lead. I completed it thanks to the event (Tamriel Pan) which was where the chances of Leads from treasure maps were increased, I only needed 60 maps during this event in total and the codex get to 3/3, without the event I don't know...
These two I still remember because it was a pain, especially the mentioned Apocryphal Well.
Then of course for example Leads in N. Elsweyr and S. Elsweyr which drops from dragons, it also took a long time (I know that it took more than 100 dragons in N. Elsweyr and about the same number in S. Elsweyr for 3/3).
And Leads from Apocrypha (practically from IA, because all the drops are there), I spent more than 300 hours on this one before I put everything together on 3/3. That's a lot of work too.

As for Leads from dungeons, I've had some that took a long time to farm, but honestly 60x for one drop I probably wasn't. I know that for some 2/3 and 3/3 codex it was necessary to go +-20x some dungeon etc. but 60x to go something for one drop, I don't think that happened to me..

And furnishing from West Weald Treasure maps, for this I needed around 350 maps in total(+-), I won't tell you exactly because I didn't keep records but I know it was around 350 maps.

Thoriorz · May 10

BahometZ wrote: »

Some of those leads are insane, so gg. I'm curious to know which you found the most challenging.
For me, the southern elsweyr psijic nodes and alikr treasure chests have probably been the most time consuming. Some of the dungeon/trial ones are annoying but not as bad i think from a time spent perspective.

Yeah, RNG for some of them is so crazy that sometimes you think it's a bug...

When you talk about Lead from the chest in Alik'r Desert, yeah yeah, I remember that, just for last codex entry it took me 6 hours to open the chests. I had my “route” and I opened a lot of chests.

Thoriorz · May 10

Djennku wrote: »

HUZZAH!!! Another joins our ranks! Congratulations! It's not an easy accomplishment.

Now that you are up to date with your antiquity codex collection, all you need to do is add to it when new stuff gets added, which usually isn't super difficult niw thatnyou aren't playing catch up ^^

Yeah, I saw the new Antiquities on the PTS so I'm looking forward to it.

Dack_Janiels · May 10

That is an amazing accomplishment. Reminds me of a comment I read while looking at ZOS’s code.

-- Spread the seeds far apart because seeds that are very close to eachother typically have the same first number, then throw out the first number for good measure
    -- This will allow for 20 lore per antiquity with 20k antiquities (numbers we "should" never hit)
    -- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00564.html
    local seed = (loreEntryIndex * 100000000) + (antiquityId * 1000)

https://github.com/esoui/esoui/blob/live/esoui/publicallingames/antiquities/antiquityloredocument_manager.lua#L249C5-L252C69

katanagirl1 · May 10

Dack_Janiels wrote: »
That is an amazing accomplishment. Reminds me of a comment I read while looking at ZOS’s code.
-- Spread the seeds far apart because seeds that are very close to eachother typically have the same first number, then throw out the first number for good measure
    -- This will allow for 20 lore per antiquity with 20k antiquities (numbers we "should" never hit)
    -- http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00564.html
    local seed = (loreEntryIndex * 100000000) + (antiquityId * 1000)
https://github.com/esoui/esoui/blob/live/esoui/publicallingames/antiquities/antiquityloredocument_manager.lua#L249C5-L252C69

More like “make sure nobody gets anything good”.