The Surveyor Crane
Rumours
They say a striped pole stands by the water or out on a meadow, and a lanky bird in spectacles paces round it counting: "One pace, two paces, a frog, three paces..." It must have fallen behind its flock.
Who: Crane
Hints
Open them one at a time — from a gentle nudge to plain advice. "Good to know" is about what might trip you up.
Hint 1
The crane draws maps, and he's run out of paper. There's a tree in the forest whose bark will do instead.
Hint 2
A map takes three things: something to write on, something to make ink from, and something to write with.
Hint 3
Birch bark is knocked off a birch with a sword — white bark with black dashes. One birch gives one sheet a day.
Hint 4
Blueberries make the ink. And a crow or a magpie drops a feather if you run up and startle it.
Good to know
- At night the crane sleeps — you can wake him, but he'll grumble.
- Walked off while he was writing? No matter: he still updates your map — check the treasury.
- In a shared world only one player takes a quest at a time: if someone else is helping now, wait your turn; if someone already helped today, come back next morning.
Full solution
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This is the whole story of the quest, to the very end.
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Find a striped surveyor's pole by the water or on a meadow — a crane in spectacles paces beside it. Walk up and press E (on a phone, the glowing action button): he needs two sheets of birch bark, three blueberries and a feather.
From Cubby's diary
Met a crane in spectacles! He fell behind his flock and measures the forest in paces - he draws maps, but he is out of paper. He wants two sheets of birch bark, three blueberries for ink and a feather. Not his own - he needs them to fly.
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Hit a birch trunk with your sword (left click; on a phone, the action button) — a curl of Birch Bark springs off; pick it up. One birch gives one sheet a day, so find another birch for the second.
From Cubby's diary
Hit a birch with my sword - the bark sprang off in a curl! One sheet a day per birch, so I had to find a second. The crane is pleased: smooth as a fresh field, he says. Kroo!
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Blueberries grow on little bushes all over the forest. Cut a bush with your sword or drill — it gives three berries.
From Cubby's diary
Picked blueberries - blue berries on little bushes, you can't miss them. The crane will make ink from them for the whole forest. As long as he doesn't peck them all first...
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Find a crow or a magpie and run up to it: the startled bird flies off and sometimes drops a Feather. Pick it up.
From Cubby's diary
Ran at a magpie - it flapped up in a fright, and a feather came down, right into my hands! The crane says it is just the thing for small handwriting.
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Hand the crane what you've gathered — a bit at a time is fine: walk up and press E ("Crane · give ...").
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When everything is handed over, the crane writes for a moment — wait beside him. The Treasure Map in your house comes alive (if you had no map, the crane hangs a birch-bark one in your treasury).
From Cubby's diary
The crane wrote it all down - and the treasure map in my house came alive! It shows all I have seen: caves, lakes, the chests and keys I left lying. And at dawn the crane flies over the forest and rings in red where something glints underground.
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The map hangs in your house's treasury: walk up and press E. It shows everything you've seen — caves, lakes, the chests and keys you left lying — and every dawn the crane rings in red a spot where something glints underground.
Reward
The treasure map hangs in my house's treasury - walk up to it and press E. It shows all I have seen: caves, lakes, the chests and keys I left lying. Every dawn the crane flies over the forest and rings in red a spot where something glints underground. A ring's not an X: the digging is mine.