Northern Expedition

Northern Expedition
Information
Inhabitants	Merchant Hikers 1-12 Summit Inn Keeper 1-4 Shipwright
Locations	Northern Expedition Northern Summit Overgrowth Caves Frigid Cavern Cryogenic Canal Glacial Grotto

Overview

The Northern Expedition is a newly added area in update 1.11.0 during Fischmas 2024. The island can be accessed by entering a large portal in the South West region of the map. When the player enters the portal, they are teleported into the middle of the ocean in a new area. Going forward (facing South East), the player can reach one of the new areas: Northern Summit. The new island presents the player with the challenge of scaling the mountain in its entirety.

Here, a new mechanic is introduced called Temperature. Throughout the journey, the player needs to be aware of their Temperature and their Oxygen while climbing, as it gradually drops. As the Temperature lowers, the screen slowly begins to "frost", indicating that they're getting colder. No effect occurs when Oxygen levels lower. When either of them run out, the player dies, and respawns at their last home point.

• To help with this, the player can buy Oxygen Tanks (Basic, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced) and a Winter Cloak. It's recommended to buy the Winter Cloak (C$7500), as it can keep the player warm indefinitely. The cloak's coordinates are X: 20173, Y: 335, Z: 5724
• There are also campfires at campsites to keep players warm and refill stations to replenish oxygen levels.

The player needs be weary of an Avalanche, which is an event that rarely occurs naturally or can be started by an Avalanche Totem. In the event of one, snow blocks begin to spawn randomly across the mountain and fall to the bottom. If the player is hit by one, they are ragdolled for a few seconds and can easily be knocked down. Getting hit by any block does not damage the player at all. There's also the event of a Blizzard occuring, which can occur both naturally or via Blizzard Totem. When one does happen, sounds of loud and rough wind can be heard and it freezes the player quicker.

While scaling the mountain, the player can find 4 new areas in total, those being Glacial Grotto, Overgrowth Caves, Cryogenic Canal, and Frigid Cavern, all of which have spots where the player can fish. Each of these areas have their own set of bestiaries that can be completed and fish to be caught. More notably, each of these areas have unique features about them, those being able to obtain the Green Energy Shard in Overgrowth Caves, finding the vault to Heaven's Rod in Cryogenic Canal, obtaining the Green Energy Crystal from an NPC named [[??? in Frigid Cavern, and more. For more information, you can visit each area's respective pages.

When the player eventually reaches the top, they're greeted with a small campsite and a shrine with four large different colored crystals: Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow. Each of these crystals rested on platforms have a section where a smaller crystal can be inserted. These crystals can be found across the mountain, where if all collected and placed inside the shrine, the player opens a vault lower down the mountain. This unlocks the entrance to the Heaven's Rod, where similar to the entrance to Ancient Archives, they can slide down a rope into a hole where the rod flies over a small body of water. The coordinates for the entrance of of the Heaven's Rod is: X: 19988.5, Y: 913.3, Z: 1411.7.

Notes

In the original Northern Expedition release, due to bugs, 4 Fishes were Unobtainable. These were: Frozen Taco , Frozen Mammoth Tusk , Frigid Antlers and Frigid Crab. This has been fixed in the v1.12 update and the Overgrowth Caves and Frigid Cavern Bestiaries can now be completed.

• Prior to update 1.11.1 there was no shipwright in the Northern Expedition
• The coordinates for the portal to Northern Expedition are X: -1733, Y: 137, Z: 3820.
• If the screen is positioned correctly, the player can see each island's labels from the distance when in the middle of the ocean in the new area.
• This is the 3rd island in the game that contains a vault in it, the other two being the Vertigo, and Ancient Isle.
  • However, despite having a key hole in the vault, there is no key required to open the door.
• This is the 3rd area in the game that teleports the player into a new area, the first one being the Vertigo, and the second one being The Snow Globe. This does not include using a Conception Conch, as its teleportation depends on where the player has set their spawn point.
• Ironically, even though the name of the new area is called Northern Expedition, the direction the player must go to access the portal to the area is South.
• Strangely, this area reuses dialogue from some of the NPCs seen during the Fischgiving event.
• Before, when the player was running low on oxygen, there was no visible effect to their screen. Now, when their oxygen levels deplete, the edges of their screen begin to turn red.

Gallery

Northern Expedition Portal

Northern Summit Island

The Summit of The Mountain

First Campsite or Basecamp

Second Campsite

Third Campsite

Fourth Campsite

Final Campsite

Temperature Bar and Oxygen Bar

Frosted Screen

Entrance to Gate of the Heavenly Rod

Area where all 4 energy crystals can be inserted

Heaven's Vault