Explore instead of reopening
You open the World Map in a new 128-by-128-tile sector. That sector can give one exploration skill check. Closing and reopening the map in the same sector does not give repeated checks.
Cartography
Exploration · Skill guide
Crafts navigation maps, decodes five coloured Treasure Map tiers and rewards genuine world exploration.
MAX SKILL120with Power Scroll
SKILL GROUPExploration
PVPCheck guide
PVMYes
TRAININGSee route
How do I train this skill?
Recommended activities for Cartography at each skill range.
View the training tableHow It Works
Make ordinary navigation maps, decode five tiers of Treasure Maps and learn through exploring new parts of the world.
Skill summary, training and related paths
Power Scroll and cap information
Maximum skill: 120 with a matching Power Scroll. It starts with a 100 cap. Scrolls unlock 105, 110, 115 or 120; you still train the points and keep the same shared total of 720.
Understanding effective skill
Which value counts? These numbers use the effective skill: the value after applicable skill bonuses or penalties. This can differ from your trained base value. Bless changes your stats; it does not directly add trained skill points.
How to use it, step by step
If a step says to use a skill, open your character window, choose Skills and use the button beside that skill. If it says to use a tool, double-click the tool in your backpack. Passive benefits work automatically.
- For mapmaking, carry cartography tools and the required blank map or scroll.
- Double-click an undecoded Treasure Map in your backpack when you meet its Cartography requirement.
- Follow its pin, surveys or landmark clues; for exploration training, travel into a new area and open the World Map.
What changes as your skill rises
Read the conditions above each table. A percentage may describe a chance, a damage component or a multiplier: those are different things. The other values stay fixed unless the table says otherwise.
What the skill affects: These numbers use the effective skill: the value after applicable skill bonuses or penalties. This can differ from your trained base value. Bless changes your stats; it does not directly add trained skill points.
Detailed formulas and comparison tables
Example recipe: City Map
Ordinary recipe, standard materials, all other requirements met, no success bonus from equipment. Minimum skill 25; full ordinary success at 85. This is the chance to make the item, not the chance of exceptional quality.
| Effective skill | Success chance |
|---|---|
| 80 | 91.67% |
| 90 | 100% |
| 100 | 100% |
Each recipe has its own difficulty. Reaching 100% on this recipe does not give 100% on all recipes. Open the item in the crafting menu to see its own chance, materials and additional requirements.
100–120 scaling: what you gain
100–120 scaling: what you gain
Only the skill in the first column changes unless the table says otherwise. Each extra trained point still uses one point from your shared total of 720.
World Map crafting
One Blank Map, no equipment success bonus. The live recipe window is 39.5–130.0.
| Cartography | Craft success chance |
|---|---|
| 100 | 66.85% |
| 110 | 77.9% |
| 120 | 88.95% |
Treasure Map decoding
Decoding is separate from normal Cartography training and awards no skill gain. Meeting the threshold unlocks decoding; it is not a hidden percentage roll.
| Tier | Required Cartography | Search route |
|---|---|---|
| Common | 0.0 | Exact pin |
| Uncommon | 40.0 | Three surveys |
| Rare | 65.0 | Three-point triangulation |
| Epic | 90.0 | Three landmark clues |
| Legendary | 110.0 | Three fragments, then three clues |
World Map remains a real crafting check at 119.9 and can produce the final gain to 120.0. Cartography 120 does not add a sixth treasure tier. Skill above a fusion source tier improves that fusion by 0.3 percentage points per point, while the final chance remains between 5% and 95%.
Examples in play
Easy examples
Skills that work with it
Advanced notes
Things to remember
- Crafted navigation maps and PvM Treasure Maps are different items.
- Only one decoded Treasure Map hunt may be active at a time.
- The exploration check is tied to a 128×128 sector and does not repeat forever in the same place.
Training and Skill Progression
TRAINING / SKILL PROGRESSION
One recommended activity for each skill range, with a short note on what you need.
Before you start: set Cartography to Up and leave room under the shared 720-point total. Set an unwanted skill to Down if the total is full.
NPC training: when the trainer listed for this skill offers a lesson, the fixed price is 300 gold and the lesson can reach 50.0 if both the individual and total caps have room.
Training area: supported Academy actions receive 5× normal gain through 80.0. An action still needs to run a real skill check; the Academy bonus cannot make an automatic or blocked action train.
Beyond 100: consume the matching 105, 110, 115 or 120 Power Scroll first. A scroll raises only the individual cap; it grants no trained points and does not increase the shared 720-point total.
Recommended training
Repeat the single activity listed for your level. These are practical training choices; the ranges are recommendations, not new unlock requirements.
| Your skill | What to repeat | Quick note |
|---|---|---|
| 0.0–49.9 | Buy an NPC lesson | 300 gold when offered; optional, with room under your skill caps. |
| 50.0–120.0 | World Map | 1 Blank Map; the same recipe stays eligible through 119.9. Recipe check: 39.5–130. |
A failed craft can still give a gain check. Change recipe before its check becomes automatic; bonuses can make displayed success reach 100% earlier. Unlock the matching Power Scroll before training above your cap.
Cartography uses the Standard 100% Ironveil gain rate.
Decoding Treasure Maps checks the required Cartography value but does not train the skill.
Rules and numbers
World Map uses a 39.5–130.0 crafting window. Treasure Maps retain decode requirements of 0/40/65/90/110; Common uses an exact pin, Uncommon and Rare use surveys, and Epic and Legendary use landmark clues. Repeating a recorded exploration sector cannot produce another exploration gain check.
Listed amounts describe the stated conditions. Equipment, target rules, damage, healing limits and other effects can change the final result. An example of a chance is never a promise of the same outcome on every attempt.