Hey Chaaaarlie, we've found a map...

[utsa]

To Candy Mountain.

No wait, I mean north-eastern Wurm.

I overlaid our overworld terrain map on top of Kinoss' 8/23 mapping progress, and whipped up some crude airbrushed landmarks and general outlines for paths. This was after running from Arcadia to Bearback Mountain just tonight, making the journey across the Steppes for the third time and returning to NewTown the first time since arriving in Arcadia.

I got a few daylight screenshots of recent changes to the route, but the main thing is I got enough sense of the full route to make this map:



Though not extremely accurate (particularly in how I simplified many of the winding trails into diagonal lines) this should fill in the great many holes in available maps regarding locations of landmarks and directions when traveling to and around the regions surrounding Arcadia.

I have a .psd of the full map that includes all the way to Bearback (so just about everything but the furthest southern and western quadrants), which I can edit and include more locations if needed.

[thorgot]

nice

[zanetheinsane]

I'm almost done with a two-lane cobblestone-paved highway between Arcadia Lake and Arcadia Bay.

[akinos]

Hey Utsa, it looks like you have found some paths that would be better for the "Path" and maybe some better screenshots?

The account info for the guide I made is very generic, I'll PM you the info in case you want to edit it.

[utsa]

Yes, I did actually. I'll get some of them resized and posted here.

Stonegate has a rather major road project going on, presumably making a b-line for Newtown rather than our general Sanctum-PIR-Lost Valley route, which has given us a much better end leg of the journey from the 'crossorads' to the Dirt Field. It's far more level and currently paved in cobblestone.

On the other hand, the path from Hellside leading to Stonegat'es road is under some disrepair, with a couple incoherent trails leading off or through it. I think a more solid road should be formed by us from Rosewood that connects to Stonegate's, whether following the current path, cut through a straighter route, or simply utilizing wherever Stonegate's road is going. I suppose I'll check out their progress later this weekend.

[utsa]

Lost Valley, looking to the Northwest over the lake and the road that runs west along its bank until turning up and away to Price is Right.


This is the end of that lake road. To the left is Price is Right, the dirt continues on across the Steppes and up the hill to the Settlement of Fences along the edge of the woods. Sadly I recall this end of the stone road and the packed dirt is torn up right now, it really should be fixed.


Not the best or most useful image, but it shows how the 'blue cottage' of the previous guides is now becoming the Inn at Hellside. Not owned by the most pleasant or helpful of people from what I gather.



The fort in the road I discovered on the valley route; Stonegate's road veers left and up the large hill. This is all paved now excluding the effectively defunct right end of the path.

[thorgot]

utsa, can you post the whole thing? In two flavors:

One for me to post on the wiki, with "Made by Utsa of Arcadia" on it and without our mines on it. I can't see of any reason not to make it easier for people to find Arcadia,

The other with everything, for us to use.

[utsa]

I can whip up the former easy enough. The later I don't think is different enough for two versions (we all know the silver mine/future tunnel is at the dirt field, and the iron mine is roughly just ahead of the turn in the road).

Unless I went for a higher level of detail on the Arcadia region, like the level of detail used in my orchard map to demonstrate the location of plots along the top half of the south road.

EDIT: Oh yeah, the map.

Like I said, literally not everything. Just everything in reasonable relation to NT and us.

[regak]

That small bit of ocean showing on the map just NW of Arcadia leads to Arcadian Bay, my home away from home.

Eventually I plan to build a path to you guys.

[utsa]

Ahh, I was wondering where that homestead was.

The real questions are where exactly is it on the map and what do we call the other 'Arcadia bay'.

[rhesus]

The Arcadia Bay which is eat of Arcadia already has a sign. I propose we call the North-West bay North Bay.

[thorgot]

Regak made his homestead, Arcadian Bay, a while ago, though. So I think it would be most confusing to outsiders and best if we called the eastern one Bay of Arcadia instead of Arcadia Bay

[tgbob]

It's already confusing.

[rhesus]

For the east one: Arcadia Fjord? It's an inlet surrounded by steep sides.

[thorgot]

Does anybody else see a dog's head? The nose is connected to zane's road.