Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Updated: Feb 25, 2025
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Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

This will serve as a guide to offer players who want to expand their knowledge in treasure hunting! In this guide, we will walk you through the functions of Treasure Map, how to get them, how to locate them, and gain access to the buried valuable treasure for you to discover and take! Let`s go on an adventure!

What are Treasure Maps?

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Maps are items that can be consumed to give you a hand in pinpointing the hidden treasures found across the map. These treasure chests contain valuable rewards that players will benefit from them. Treasure Maps has a rarity that goes from common up to Legendary. The higher the rarity of the map, the higher the loot.

Restored Maps

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

This is the common type of Treasure Map that when Acquired can be used immediately to locate the treasure across the map. It has the rarity of Common to Legendary

Faded Treasure Maps

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

These maps are like broken maps that can be restored through crafting. it has the rarity of Common to Legendary.

How to Restore Faded Treasure Maps

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

To restore the Faded Treasure Map you will need Paper and a Red Ink. The paper can be bought in the general store alongside water that will be needed in crafting the required materials.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

To acquire Red Ink. Go to an alchemy station and the materials for the red ink would be Ruby Powder, (which can be crafted in the same station) and Water. which can be bought easily at a General Store Vendor. Make sure that the Red Ink that you would be crafting matches the rarity of the faded treasure map.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Now if you have ruby powder you should be able to mix it with water to craft Red Ink. it takes a minute to complete.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Now that you have the necessary materials. It`s time to craft and restore the faded map. If Completed, The Faded Map can now be used and labeled as a restored map.

Excavation Kit

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Another requirement in our Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide is the Excavation Kit which is another consumable item that must be crafted before using a Treasure Map. This kit will enable you to extract the chest and reap the rewards inside. Take note that You must have the same rarity of Excavation Kit with your Treasure Map. For Instance, the Uncommon Excavation Kit will only work with Uncommon Treasure Map and so on.

Crafting an Excavation Kit

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

The excavation Kit can be crafted through Arcane Engineering Station. It requires Zinc Fragments, Copper Fragments, and Ash Timber. Be aware that crafting a higher Excavation Kit requires higher-quality materials. depending on the rarity you want to craft.

How to Locate your Treasure Chest by using Treasure Maps

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

To finally start your awaited treasure-hunting Adventure. Click on the consumable Treasure Hunting Map and It will be considered as a Quest in your Journal.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Open your Map and you will see a Multiple Circle in a specific location. The higher the rarity of the map used, the higher the number of circles will spawn.

Tips for Locating the Treasure Map Easily

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

To find the final location of the map, Pinpoint the overlapping area of all the circles. It feels like using a Venn Diagram. In that Area, is where your treasure can be found.

Find an unusual place or discolored surface on the ground

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

A dirt-looking appearance that is on the ground is what you are looking for. It looks like the one in the picture. Interact with it and a chest will pop up. Take note that if you don’t have the excavation kit, or using the wrong rarity. You cannot open up the chest so make sure to prepare that before going to the location.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Each chest contains different items inside including consumables, Small Gold Pouch or Copper, and many more depending on the rarity of the Treasure Maps used.

A Tool that will make your Treasure Hunting much Easier

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

You can visit our Interactive Map here: https://ashescodex.com/map This will help you locate the Treasure if you cannot find it manually.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Click the hide all button to hide all the icons which can be overwhelming for you. Then find the area you want to look for based on the circles the game has shown you.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

Click on the Treasure Mounds and there you have it! It will showcase the exact coordinates of a potential chest and go to every single point if the treasure chest is there. It will save you Hours and hours of time finding.

Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide 

That`s all in Ashes of Creation: The Ultimate Treasure Maps Guide on using Treasure Maps and reaping all the hidden rewards buried underground. I hope you have fun joining me in our adventure. If you have found this guide helpful, You could subscribe to Savvos YouTube for more exciting updates about Ashes of Creation. Also, Our Discord Server would welcome you as a fellow adventurer. Also if you are having a hard time playing Ashes of Creation.