Overview[]
Getting to Northern Summit[]
The Northern Expedition/Northern Summit can be accessed by entering a large portal in the southwest 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 Northern Summit. The island presents the player with the challenge of scaling the mountain in its entirety. The specific coordinates for the portal to Northern Expedition are: X: -1733, Y: 137, Z: 3820.
Mechanics to be aware of[]
Throughout the player's journey on the mountain, the player needs to be aware of two things: Oxygen and a new mechanic introduced called Temperature. After passing a certain height in Overgrowth Caves, the player's temperature and oxygen levels will become to lower. As the player's oxygen levels deplete, the edges of their screen begin to turn red. As the temperature bar lowers, the screen begins to "frost", indicating that they're getting colder. When either of them run out, the player dies, and respawns at their last spawn 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 (7,500C$), as it can keep the player warm indefinitely. The cloak's coordinates are X: 20,173, Y: 335, Z: 5724.
- There are also campfires at campsites to keep players warm and refill stations to replenish oxygen levels.
Weather to be aware of[]
The player may need be wary of Avalanche's, 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. However, getting hit by a block does not damage the player. 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 the player's temperature will decrease quicker.
Locations[]
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 Crystal 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, visit each area’s respective pages.
Overview of Glacial Grotto[]
When the player eventually reaches the top, they're greeted with a small campsite and a shrine with four large different colored crystals: Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. These crystals lie across a platform from each other with a multi colored section in between with the same colors as 4 crystals used to obtain the Heaven's Rod. There are small slots in each shrine for holding up the 4 respective crystals, Red, Blue, Yellow and Green, which can be found across the mountain. If all are collected and placed inside their respective shrines, 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 dark hole where the Heaven's Rod hovers over a small body of water. The specific coordinates to the vault are: X: 19,886, Y: 913, Z: 1412.
List of rods in Northern Expedition[]
- Arctic Rod (25,000C$)
- Crystalized Rod (35,000C$)
- Avalanche Rod (35,000C$)
- Ice Warpers Rod (35,000C$ (Base), 35,900C$-37,500C$ including requirements)
- Summit Rod (300,000C$)
- Heaven's Rod (1,750,000C$ (Base) 2,005,000C$-2,155,000C$ including requirements)
Trivia[]
- If the player looks from a certain angle, they can see each island's labels from a 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.
- Despite there being a key hole to the vault for Heaven's Rod, no key is required to open the door.
- In the original Northern Expedition release, due to bugs, 4 Fishes were Unobtainable. These were the: Frigid Crab, Frigid Taco, Frigid Antlers and Frigid Mammoth Tusk. This has since been fixed in the version 1.12.0 update and the Overgrowth Caves and Frigid Cavern Bestiaries can now be completed.
- 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.
- 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.
- The area reuses dialogue from some of the NPCs seen during the Fischgiving event.
- The Northern Expedition was added in update 1.11.0 during Fischmas 2024.
- Before, when the player was running low on oxygen, there was no visible effect to their screen.
- Prior to update 1.11.1 there was no shipwright in the Northern Expedition.
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