Buried Treasure

[Aa-ron]

Is anyone else having it say 1 more guard to kill before you can dig up treasure but there are no more guards to kill? This has happened to me twice now... idk what to do

[BigBombz]

Yeah, that's pretty normal, guards spawn inside cliffs and rocks or fall through the mesh and you can't find that single guard that prevents you from digging up the treasure.
Try going out of render distance and wait for half an hour orso so that the treasury resets, then kill the guardians and hope that you get them all that time.

[wildbill]

Happens to me very rarely. Sometimes a guard is forced under the terrain when you attack it or when it spawns in.

So some of the maps are just bugged and will never work, but most times I leave the area for at least 5 minutes (not sure how long is needed) and it resets the map. I then go back and try again. It almost always works the 2nd time. If not, oh well, do a different one.

I don't shoot for doing 100% of the maps. I skip the ones my tiger or bear can not get to. I skip ones that seem to be bugged out (although this happens way less often than having it be inaccesable).

For me, half the fun is finding it. So I don't let stuff like this ruin the fun.

[Aa-ron]

Damn, maybe is casue both of these are on the same island.. the first two ive done, ive done both like 4times.. ♥♥♥♥ me

[vanflyhightanzek]

Originally posted by BigBombz:

Yeah, that's pretty normal, guards spawn inside cliffs and rocks or fall through the mesh and you can't find that single guard that prevents you from digging up the treasure.
Try going out of render distance and wait for half an hour orso so that the treasury resets, then kill the guardians and hope that you get them all that time.

you are correct but dont need to wait that long just a few mins should do it

[Aa-ron]

Do ya'll ever die while fighting them?

[wildbill]

Originally posted by SouthernGuns601:

Do ya'll ever die while fighting them?

I don't fight them directly. I use a bear or tiger to fight them. The main problem I have is that the tiger or bear doesn't have enough melee to kill them before they go under the ground. Because of that, I stick to maps less than about level 12.

When I do die, it is usually one of two things. Some other wild creature decides to join the fight. I had a lion jump me while almost done killing the SotD. It drags me off my tiger and kills me. My tiger finishes off the SotD and the lion. I have to travel back on foot and get my loot bag and also the treasure. The other way I die is it is too hot, so I'm only wearing cloth armor. I get in too close and one of the warriors gets in a few hits on me while I'm on the back of the bear or tiger. I die before I notice I'm getting hit and move back.

[SaTaN]

I've noticed if you die in the middle of fighting the group and come to kill the rest after you re-spawn the number to kill will reset but not the army of the dead themselves. Now its only happened to me once like that so you may need to kill them all without dying in order to keep it from happening again. But I haven't tested that out and I do remember a few times like the other person said one of them being way off and under ground somewhere else. If its just one try running in circles and making bigger and bigger circles out from the center until you find him?

[TheGonz]

it happens because you must have the map in your hotkeys the whole time you are killing them. if you die, pick it up and place it back into your hotkeys before you kill anymore.

[TheGonz]

any you kill while not in possession of the map will not count and you will get that message. happy treasure hunting!

[MightyMonte88]

Welcome to atlas lol, this is a day 1 bug that they still haven't fixed, there's an overwhelmingly long list of bugs the devs either dont care, or just simply don't know how to fix.

[Aa-ron]

thanks for the replies everyone!

[>@]

Yep, if you kill all of them but die to one last guy, then even if you respawn and kill him it'll say 1 guardian remaining (or however many were alive when you died)

Can't tell you how many t-maps I thrown on the ground from aggravation for this reason and others.. like the spawn being on top of a huge, very tall mountain or being in the middle of a player puckle infested base lol (if you play on a pvp server)