The Roc's Egg
Rumours
They say the Roc nests on a tall mesa - a golden mother hen the size of a house. Herders hear her clucking and crying over an empty nest. Look for a mountain with a flat top.
Who: The Roc
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 Roc nests on a mesa: a tall mountain with a flat top. Go near it by day, and the meeting will happen all by itself.
Hint 2
Watch the sky: where the vultures circle, that's where the Roc's lost thing lies.
Hint 3
The egg is baking in the sun. A big fan palm leaf will shade it, and palms can be shaken.
Hint 4
Nobody can carry such a whopper by hand: the egg needs a net. Nets are knotted at the workbench from rope and papyrus.
Hint 5
Rope is twisted from palm fiber: strike a date palm's trunk with a sword. Papyrus grows by the water, in oases.
Good to know
- The Roc only comes for you by day: at night she sleeps in her nest.
- Each plant gives its leaf, fiber or papyrus only once a day, so gather ahead. Don't drill papyrus: a drilled clump is gone for good.
- In a world with other players, only one of you helps the Roc at a time: if another player is already on it, or someone already helped her today, come back tomorrow.
Full solution
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This is the whole story of the quest, to the very end.
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Find a mesa with a flat top and go near it by day. The Roc swoops down, grabs you in her claws, flies you to her nest and sits on you to keep you warm: she has lost her egg. You promise to find it, and she carries you back down. Look where the vultures circle.
From Cubby's diary
Down from the sky came the Roc, big as a house! "My egg!" - she grabbed me, flew me to her nest and sat on me. I'm a cubby, I told her. A storm took her egg; I promised to find it: where the vultures circle.
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Watch the sky for vultures and head to where they circle: at the foot of a dune, half buried in the sand, lies the egg. Stand by it and press E (on a phone, the glowing action button): it's so hot it needs shading from the sun with a big leaf.
From Cubby's diary
Found the egg! Half buried at the foot of a dune, vultures circling over it. So hot it's about to hard-boil! I must shade it from the sun with a big leaf.
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Find a fan palm, stand by its trunk and press E (the action button on a phone) to shake it: a huge leaf comes down. Walk up to it and press E to take the Palm Leaf. Each fan palm drops only one leaf a day.
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Go back to the egg with the leaf and press E (the action button on a phone) to shade it. Now it's in the shade, but to carry it you'll need a Net.
From Cubby's diary
Shook a fan palm, and down came a huge leaf. I stuck it over the egg like a parasol: shade at last. But how to carry such a whopper? I need a net of rope and papyrus.
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Palm Fiber: hold a sword and strike a date palm's trunk (click, or the action button on a phone). A strip of fiber peels off and drops: walk over it to pick it up. Each date palm gives one strip a day, and you need twelve.
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At the workbench put three Palm Fiber in a column to make a Rope. Make four ropes.
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Papyrus grows by the water, in oases. Swing a sword at a papyrus clump to cut one stem: the clump stays and gives a new stem tomorrow.
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At the workbench knot the Net: four Rope in the corners of the 3×3 grid and the Papyrus right in the middle.
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Go to the egg with the net and press E (the action button on a phone) to wrap it. Wait nearby: the Roc swoops down, picks the egg up in her claws and flies it home to her nest.
From Cubby's diary
Netted the egg and called the Roc. Down she swooped: "Cluck-cluck! My egg! In a net!" - and flew it home in her claws. Come soon, she says: the chick is coming!
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Come to her mesa by day: the Roc lands beside you. Press E (the action button on a phone) to climb onto her back, and she flies you to the nest, where the chick hatches. As thanks she gives you a Roc Feather: hold it and jump from somewhere high to float down like on a parachute.
From Cubby's diary
The Roc flew me up to her nest on her back. The egg rocked, cracked - and out popped a chick: "Peep!" Its mum cried for joy. And she gave me her golden feather.
Reward
The Roc's feather: hold it in hand and jump from a height - it catches the air and I float down like on a parachute, and can even steer. With it no mesa is too tall to jump from.