Area diaries and the cape

Every map has a diary: 18 of them, from the Yard to the Deep Wild, each with four tiers (Easy, Medium, Hard, Elite) of three tasks. Finish a tier for a perk on that map, an XP lamp and a medal.

On this page: Getting started · What a tier gives you · Special tasks · The cape slot and the Grand Tour · Skill capes

Getting started

Open yours with L, or the book at the end of the row of icons above your inventory.
It opens on the map you're standing on, so the next thing to do is always one key away. "Whole diary" shows all of them.
What you'd already done counts. When diaries opened, everything your character had already done was ticked off quietly: quests, kills, catches, laps, the maps you've walked onto.

What a tier gives you

A tier is finished when every task in it is done, and every tier below it. Finishing one gives you three things:

A perk on that map: faster gathering, a price cut, a monster that hits softer, a free teleport there once a day, a boss's table rolling twice on your first kill of the day. Each diary lists its four.
An XP lamp: 1,000, 5,000, 20,000, 75,000 XP for easy, medium, hard, elite. Rub it on any skill at or above the map's own starting level.
A medal (bronze, silver, gold, platinum): the frame around that map's emblem in your diary.

Special tasks

An event task is done by whichever world event ends on that map while you're there.
The Wilderness and the Deep Wild have PvP tasks from Medium up; their Easy tiers never need another player.

The cape slot and the Grand Tour

Your paper doll has an eleventh square, under your feet, for a cape. A cape carries no stats: it's for what you've done, and everyone can see it on you. The first is the Grand Tour cape, for every Elite diary, the Wilds included. Wearing it: a free teleport to any map once a day from the Diary, and the title the Well-Travelled. It can't be traded, sold or dropped.

Skill capes

Every skill gets a cape at 99, each with a real perk, bought from that skill's own person for 99,000 tickets. The first is Agility's: the Runner's cape. Breeding's, from Nestor the Egg Man, in the Yard: your pets grow twice as fast, and your pen and hatchery run a quarter faster. Alchemy's, from Rashid the Caravaneer, in the Golden Sands: your potions last twice as long, and 20% of brews make two. Archery's, from Wren the Ranger, in Cloudreach: your bow reaches a tile further, and 20% of arrows come back. Cooking's, from Salty Meg, on the Boardwalk: the food you eat heals a fifth more, and 20% of cooks make two. Fishing's, from Salty Meg, on the Boardwalk: fish bite 10% more often, and 20% of catches land two. Fletching's, from Wren the Ranger, in Cloudreach: every log gives a fifth more shafts, and 20% of arrow batches make two. Fungiculture's, from Yahsmeena, on your island: every harvest from a fungus bed gives one more mushroom, and the compost bin makes a fifth more. Harvesting's, from Yahsmeena, on your island: every harvest gives one more crop, and your plots grow a tenth faster. Hitpoints's, from Sister Morrow, in the Boneyard: 50 more max health, and out of a fight you heal four times as fast. Magic's, from Morwenna the Mage, on the Thunderhead: your spells reach a tile further, and 20% of pages are kept. Melee's, from Vince the Bouncer, in the Fight Pit: 5% more Melee damage, and you take 5% less. Mining's, from Bronny the Foreman, in the Yard: 20% of ores come up double, and gems turn up a quarter more often. Smithing's, from Old Pickett, at the landing in the Depths of the Mountain: 20% of smelts take no ore, and a Kindled Diamond costs 1% less gem dust. Thieving's, from Odile the Clerk, in the Thieves' Guild's top room: a catch doesn't break your clean run, and its stun is half as long. Tinkering's, from Sprocket Sal, at the Scrap Bench in the Yard: a Masterwork on 20% of builds, and a tenth more parts from every salvage. Wizardry's, from Volta, at the Thunderhead's storm altar: 20% of prints keep their ink. Woodcutting's, from Darla, in the Trailer Park: 20% of logs come up double, and your trees fall half as often. You can wear one cape at a time.

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