Folklore Forest

Folklore Forest is a region released on 26 July 2022.
It consists of an area in the north-west region of the map, surrounded by Furoma and Bristle Woods to the north, Gnawnia and Whisker Woods to the east, and Sandtail Desert to the south.

There are six locations in this region:

• Foreword Farm

Tend these fertile fields to grow a bountiful harvest of Parable Papyrus!

Rank requirement: Archduke/Archduchess

Map piece: Legendary Looking Glass

• Prologue Pond

Push off from shore, cast your line, and go fishing for Inspiration Ink!

Rank requirement: Archduke/Archduchess

Map piece: Legendary Looking Glass

• Table of Contents

Protect the history of Gnawnia by writing the longest books that you can in an effort to outwrite the devious and dastardly Mythweaver!

Rank requirement: Archduke/Archduchess

Map piece: Legendary Looking Glass

• Bountiful Beanstalk

Climb this massive, towering beanstalk to reach the impressive, lucrative, and dangerous Castle in the Clouds!

Rank requirement: Viceroy

Map piece: Tale of the Bountiful Beanstalk

• School of Sorcery

Prepare to hit the books and study hard so that you can graduate from a lowly Apprentice to a powerful Master Sorcerer!

Rank requirement: Viceroy

Map piece: Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice

• Draconic Depths

Do you dare to descend into dark and dangerous depths where dread, despair, and desolation dominate a devastatingly dismal den of destruction? Beware, here be dragons!

Rank requirement: Viceroy

Map piece: Tale of the First Dragons

History and Trivia

• 5 July 2022: The Legendary Looking Glass was introduced in the Cartographer in Floating Islands as part of the Folklore Forest pre-release period.
• 5 - 26 July 2022: During the pre-release period, several tasks named under The Subterranean Underpass Mystery could be performed to give the Hunter a head start on the region. The tasks had to be done in order.

• Task 1: Catching a Bookborn Mouse using Extra Rich Cloud Cheesecake in Crystal Library

• Related loot: 1 Enchanted Page and 10 Draft Derby Curd
• Doing so generates a journal entry:

I found the mouse that had been snooping around the Empyrean Sky Palace and was greatly rewarded for my efforts! This strange looking page that it dropped might contain a clue as to what this mouse was up to. Many of the notes around the margins appear to have been scribbled hastily and are therefore difficult to make out but there is one that is just barely legible, it reads:

"I must find a way to lure out a guide from that suffocating subterranean underpass..."

• Task 2: Catching a Silth Mouse using Wicked Gnarly Cheese and Spore Charm, Super Spore Charm, Extreme Spore Charm, or Ultimate Spore Charm in Lagoon

• Related loot: 10 Ingenuity Grub
• Doing so generates a journal entry:

There was something unique about that Silth mouse! It emerged from a subterranean underpass and was covered in the same spores that make up the charm that I was using so it must have been drawn to that.

The entrance to the underpass is too narrow and too deep in the water for me to be able to explore but it looks like it opens up into a much longer underground tunnel! For a brief moment, I saw another Silth mouse down in the tunnel but it quickly descended deeper and out of sight. There must be another entrance somewhere else in Gnawnia that isn't flooded.

• Task 3: Catching a Silth Mouse using Wicked Gnarly Cheese in Fungal Cavern

• Related loot: 10 Papyrus Seed
• Doing so generates a journal entry:

Catching that Silth Mouse revealed a hidden tunnel that it must have been using to travel back and forth between the Lagoon!

I peered through the rubble and it looks like this tunnel extends a long way North of here and then branches off to the Lagoon in one direction and somewhere else in another direction. This must be the secret path to the mysterious Folklore Forest!

I wanted to explore this exciting new region but the tunnel didn't look safe enough for anything larger than a mouse to traverse. I informed the King of this amazing discovery and he immediately dispatched an excavation crew to secure the tunnel and make it safe for the hunters of Gnawnia to explore.

By his estimates, the excavation should be complete on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 3:00pm UTC!

• 26 July 2022: Foreword Farm, Prologue Pond, and Table of Contents were released as part of a new region, Folklore Forest.
• 25 April - 9 May 2023: Prior to the release of the Bountiful Beanstalk location, several scavenger hunts could be completed to give Hunters a head start.
• 9 May 2023: The Bountiful Beanstalk was released as a new location within the Folklore Forest region.
• 16 April 2024: Prior to the release of the School of Sorcery location, Hunters were able to loot the Tale of the Sorcerer's Apprentice from M1000.
• 23 April 2024: The School of Sorcery was released as a new location within the Folklore Forest region.
• 24 July 2024: Prior to the release of the Draconic Depths location, Hunters were able to purchase the Tale of the First Dragons from Ronza's Traveling Shoppe Cartographer while participating in the Dragons' Ascent: The Battle for Ronza's Airship pre-release event.
• 13 August 2024: The Draconic Depths was released as a new location within the Folklore Forest region.

Links and Images

• Log in page background to promote the release of Folklore Forest

To move to a new hunting location within the game, click on the TRAVEL button. The map will show all your unlocked locations, as well as any special considerations of note in a specific location. It will also show the minimum rank required to hunt in that location.