Quest for the Archipelago — SoD

Overview

Written from the facts in this map's file

Quest for the Archipelago is a medium-sized map for three players, each controlled by a human, with no teams and random factions for Blue, Green, and Purple. It is played on the surface across a 72 by 72 grid, and the sea covers roughly 65 percent of it, with lava, swamp, and grass making up most of the remaining land. The difficulty is set to hard. To win, a player must capture a specific town, and the game is lost if time runs out after 168 days. Along the way, players will find nine towns, six heroes, 32 mines, and a number of relics, including the Ring of Vitality, the Centaur's Axe, and the Skull Helmet. The map also includes 28 random monster stacks, five seer huts, three creature banks, and 23 monoliths and portals.

Author's description

Your boat has stranded in what appears to be the middle of nowhere. But you're not alone here. You've heard about a town where you can build boats good enough to make it past the ocean, capture it and maybe get home one day.

Version:SoD
Size:M (72×72 tiles)
Difficulty:Hard
Players:3 human / 3 total
Alliances:No (Free for all)
Levels:Surface only
Water %:65.20%
Victory condition:Capture a specific town — at (60, 3, surface) (AI can win this way too)
Loss condition:Time expires — 168 days

Terrain

Water65.2%
Lava9.0%
Swamp8.3%
Grass8.2%
Rough4.8%
Dirt3.8%
Sand0.4%
Snow0.3%
SurfaceSurface minimap of Quest for the Archipelago
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On the map

Towns & Settlements

  • Random(Blue) × 2
  • Random(Green) × 2
  • Random(Purple) × 2
  • Random(Neutral) × 3

Heroes

6 placed heroes on map

Wandering Monsters

Random Monsters

  • Level 116 monsters
  • Level 22 monsters
  • Level 31 monster
  • Level 57 monsters
  • Level 61 monster
  • Level 71 monster

Artifacts

Scrolls & Random Relics

  • Random artifacts4
  • Spell scrolls1

Map Objects & Structures

Resource72Mine32Random Resource13Flotsam13Treasure Chest10Two-way Monolith9Shipyard8One-way Monolith Entrance7One-way Monolith Exit7Sea Chest6Seer Hut5Buoy5Shrine of Magic Incantation3Creature Bank3Learning Stone3Mermaid3Magic Plains (2)3Fiery Fields3Quest Guard2Evil Fog2Holy Grounds2Lucid Pools2Magic Clouds2Pandoras Box1Shrine of Magic Gesture1Obelisk1Stables1Campfire1War Machine Factory1Mystical Garden1