–Red Dead Redemption in-game description
–Undead Nightmare in-game description
A Treasure Map is an item found in both Red Dead Redemption, the Undead Nightmare DLC, Red Dead Redemption II and Red Dead Online.
Characteristics
Treasure Maps highlight terrain features that hint to the location of undiscovered treasure. Explore the world to find landmarks that match the treasure map, and search the area for signs of a buried chest. One treasure leads to another on the Treasure Hunter Challenges.
The maps crudely depict settlements, forts, outposts and geographical features, sometimes indicating the location of a treasure, but in other cases being outright wrong and misleading, such as the first map. As a result, the player must search the general area. If found it is obvious that X does not always mark the spot.
The treasure map is stored in the player inventory as a Kit item.
Acquisition
Red Dead Redemption
The first map is obtained from a random event of a treasure hunter being attacked by criminals. Once the player saves the treasure hunter, or loots his corpse, the player obtains the first treasure map. Each subsequent map is found as a part of the previous map's treasure.
Undead Nightmare
The first map is obtained from looting chests left behind after Random Encounters. There is no specific encounter that spawns the initial map, but it will show up very early in the game. Sometimes, the player can get the first treasure map again after they have gotten all the treasure, and if the player goes to where the first treasure is found, it will be like it was untouched, but it can not be inspected.
As with the main storyline, a subsequent map will be found in each opened treasure chest.
Red Dead Redemption 2
Contrary to previous titles in the series, in Red Dead Redemption 2 multiple independent treasure maps can be found, including:
- The first Jack Hall Gang Treasure Map can be found at the beginning of All That Glitters stranger mission on the hands of Máximo Cristóbal Valdespino west of Flatneck Station.
- The first Poisonous Trail Treasure Map can be found at Cairn Lake inside the cabin.
- The first High Stakes Treasure Map can be obtained in a random encounter by hogtying or killing the man to loot him. The man can be found between Diablo Ridge and Riggs Station, but only after meeting Maximo.
- The Le Tresor des Morts Treasure Map can be found at Limpany with the digital versions of the game pre-ordered through the PlayStation Store and the Xbox Store prior to August 15, 2018.
- The first Landmarks of Riches Map can be found west of Owanjila lake, south of the Trapper location on the very west side of the map.
- The Elemental Trail Map becomes available after the epilogue is completed. The first map is located on the shores of the Sea of Coronado, southwest of Tumbleweed.
- The first Torn Treasure Map can be found in a drawer inside the cabin of the Hermit Woman near the source of Little Creek River, or inside the cottage of the special character Hermit at Manito Glade, north of Annesburg.
- The Sketched Map can be found in Reed Cottage, a small cottage north of Annesburg.
Red Dead Online
Treasure Maps can be obtained by either reaching every increment of 5 Ranks, looting NPCs, particularly deceased bandits after clearing gang hideouts, and from rare random encounters (by taking a map pinned to a tree or buying/stealing a map from a treasure hunter). Players also receive a Treasure Map every time they complete 28 days streak of daily challenges.
Treasure maps in Red Dead Online aren't "physical" documents and can't be viewed. List of obtained treasure maps can be found in the Documents section of the satchel, where one of the maps can be selected and opened. When the player opens a map, instead of viewing it, in-game map opens and zooms in to the area where the treasure chest has spawned. The whole area is highlighted in yellow with a treasure icon in the middle of it. There are 29 fixed treasure locations across the world and each area has a name. Each location has 4 fixed treasure chest spawn points, and the chest will randomly spawn in one of them when the corresponding map is opened. The player must search the highlighted area and find the chest (it's easier if the player is familiar with that treasure map and knows exactly where the 4 possible spawn points are, in that case they can be checked directly one after another). Utilizing Eagle Eye will help to find the chest – it emits gold sparks when the player is close enough. In the chest, the player will find random amounts of gold (0.6–1.8 bars) and cash ($50-$200), and usually also a box of ammo and some item like a tonic (very rarely a pamphlet for Special Health Cure or Special Horse Stimulant). When the treasure is found, the map is erased from the treasure maps list in the Documents section of the satchel.
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