Essentially, gas veins can blow up, and if they are above the antiquity this will destroy it outright. Remember to be mindful of your Time!Īs you take on more difficult Leads you’ll start to notice purple gas clouds in your digs: these are underground gas veins that can be used to your advantage, but can also lead to failure if not triggered correctly. Because the Heavy Shovel only knocks down the highest level of dirt within its area of effect, use the Hand Brush to equalize as many layers as you can before using it. One you unlock the shovel you want to use it in tandem with the Hand Brush to clear as many grids as possible. The Trowel won’t destroy the treasure outright if you do this, but keep an eye on the red health bar below your Time gauge.

The Trowel can used for this purpose as well, but will damage the antiquity if you use it on dirt that is less than three layers deep (the thick, rocky grids are three layers deep, moderately rocky two, and no rocks are one). You need to level up your Excavation skill-line to access the other tools (though the Trowel is grabbed early on at level 2), so at the start you will want to zone in on those Green grids and use the Hand Brush to push away the dirt covering the antiquity. Don’t stress too hard over this: you can find the digsite again without having to scry the Lead. Run out of time before finding your treasure and you will fail the dig. Every use of a tool other than the Antiquarian’s Eye will consume your “Time” resource, or the light-yellow bar at the top of the screen.

In the beginning you will start off with only a Hand Brush, which removes one layer of dirt per use. Once you have either located a Green grid or have run out of charges for the Antiquarian’s Eye it’s time to start digging. The best way to “Augur” is to start with the four corners of the site and then the center – this will not only help you hone in on the loot, but identify which quadrants are best ignored. The crystal next to the Eye indicates how many charges you have before you can no longer use the eye, so if you don’t find a Green grid before running out you will want to dig around the Yellow grids. Red means you are 5+ grids away from it, Orange means you are within 4 grids of it, Yellow means you are within 2, and Green means you are right on the money. Selecting a grid with the eye will bring up a color, which represents how close you are to the treasure.

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