Buried treasure hunting represents one of the most rewarding exploration mechanics in DYSPLACED, offering players hidden loot, progression items, and completionist satisfaction across the game’s expansive regions. This comprehensive guide details every currently known treasure location, the mechanics required to access them, and the significant story content that can be unlocked through this system.
The Treasure Hunting System Explained
For players familiar with 10tons’ previous title Dysmantle, the buried treasure mechanic in DYSPLACED will feel comfortably familiar yet expanded. Hidden across the world are secret loot spots buried underground, invisible to players until they unlock specific skills. Unlike surface loot or chests found in structures, these treasures require dedicated tools and abilities to locate and excavate, creating a distinct layer of exploration that unfolds as players progress through the game.
Treasure hunting becomes available during the early-mid game, typically after players have established their basic survival capabilities. This delayed accessibility serves a deliberate design purpose: it encourages players to revisit previously explored areas with new capabilities, effectively transforming familiar landscapes into fresh hunting grounds. The system creates a rewarding loop where progression unlocks new exploration opportunities, which in turn provide resources that fuel further progression.
Required Skills and Tools
To begin treasure hunting, players must invest skill points in two essential abilities that become available as they level up. These skills are gated behind level requirements, ensuring players cannot access the treasure system too early in their playthrough.
Treasure Hunting (Level 6)
This foundational skill unlocks the Shovel, the primary tool required for excavating buried treasure. Without this tool, even if players stumble upon a treasure location, they cannot interact with it. The shovel becomes a permanent addition to the player’s inventory once the skill is unlocked, though it only functions at specific buried treasure sites.
Treasure Locator (Level 10)
The Treasure Locator ability represents the second crucial component of the system. When activated with the shovel equipped, this skill scans the nearby area for hidden treasure, revealing their locations on both the main map and minimap. This functionality transforms treasure hunting from random digging to targeted exploration, significantly reducing frustration while maintaining the thrill of discovery.
Tracking Your Discoveries
DYSPLACED includes a sophisticated tracking system for buried treasures that helps completionist players monitor their progress. After successfully digging up a treasure, several things occur simultaneously. The location marker on the map changes color to green, providing immediate visual feedback that the treasure has been claimed. More importantly, the discovered location gets added to the Points of Interest section within the Collections tab of the game’s interface.
For treasures that remain undiscovered, the system displays them as question marks in the Points of Interest list. This elegant solution allows players to see exactly how many treasures they have left to find in each region without spoiling their specific locations. The combination of map markers and collection tracking creates a satisfying meta-game of treasure hunting that extends beyond the moment of discovery.
Regional Treasure Breakdown
The treasure distribution across DYSPLACED’s regions varies significantly, with some areas containing only a few treasures while others offer substantial hunting grounds. Each region presents unique environmental challenges and treasure placement strategies that affect how players should approach their exploration.
Centricos: Future Treasure Sites
Centricos currently contains only 2 buried treasures, but both remain unreachable in the present version of the game. Located at coordinates 33′ 139′ and 31′ 140′, these treasures appear to be placeholders for future content updates. Players should note these coordinates for later reference, as they will likely become accessible through upcoming patches or expansion content. This situation suggests that 10tons plans to expand the treasure hunting system beyond the current game boundaries.
Keimai: The Beginner’s Hunting Ground
Keimai offers five accessible treasures scattered across the region, making it an ideal starting point for players who have just unlocked the treasure hunting system. The coordinates for these treasures are: 126′ 363′, 83′ 292′, 155′ 191′, 351′ 330′, and 299′ 308′. What makes Keimai particularly friendly for new treasure hunters is the placement of several spots along common travel routes, allowing players to discover treasures naturally as they complete other objectives in the region.
The terrain in Keimai tends to be more open and navigable than other regions, reducing the frustration that can come from hunting treasures in complex environments. Players exploring this area should develop the habit of activating their Treasure Locator whenever they enter a new section of the map, as several treasures sit just off the beaten path rather than in obvious hiding spots.
Sanctus: The Progression Hub
Sanctus contains seven buried treasures, but one stands out as particularly significant for players interested in story progression and hidden content. The treasure locations in Sanctus are: 417′ 84′, 371′ 340′, 225′ 412′, 117′ 309′, 126′ 376′, 464′ 277′, and 397′ 411′. While all offer valuable loot, the second treasure at the Marble Quarry location holds special importance beyond typical rewards.
The Marble Quarry Glyph
The Marble Quarry treasure contains a glyph, a special item category in DYSPLACED that serves as a key to unlocking hidden areas and progression paths. This specific glyph can be used to activate a portal inside the Shipwreck Survivors Cave at coordinates 214′ 424′. Once activated, the portal transports players to a puzzle room that must be navigated to reach another portal in the south-west corner islands of the map.
This secondary portal area contains the Harbour Master, an important figure or location that advances the game’s narrative and unlocks additional content. This treasure-to-progression pathway exemplifies how DYSPLACED integrates its exploration mechanics with core gameplay elements, rewarding thorough players with meaningful advancement opportunities rather than just consumable loot.
Northern Sanctus: Compact Hunting
Northern Sanctus represents a smaller region with three buried treasures at coordinates 68′ 93′, 291′ 164′, and 175′ 220′. These treasures are relatively straightforward to locate with the Treasure Locator active, but their placement encourages players to explore corners of the map they might otherwise ignore while traveling between major objectives. The compact nature of this region makes it ideal for players who want to quickly check off several treasures from their list.
Ananke Region Treasures
The Ananke region, divided into Southern, Central, and Northern sections, contains the majority of DYSPLACED’s buried treasures, offering extensive hunting grounds for dedicated explorers.
Southern Ananke: Unusual Placements
Southern Ananke’s seven buried treasures include some of the game’s most creatively placed loot spots. The coordinates are: 333′ 570′, 221′ 587′, 184′ 699′, 94′ 830′ (inside the boat), 312′ 757′, 226′ 817′, and 140′ 806′. The treasure located inside the boat structure has proven particularly confusing for players, as it requires careful investigation of the vessel’s interior rather than simple surface scanning.
This region demonstrates how DYSPLACED’s treasure placement encourages players to think beyond simple ground-level exploration. The boat treasure specifically teaches players to consider vertical space and interior environments when hunting, a lesson that proves valuable throughout the rest of the game.
Central Ananke: Natural Discovery Opportunities
Central Ananke spreads its six treasures across a wide area at coordinates: 432′ 333′, 539′ 533′, 386′ 700′, 449′ 480′, 588′ 493′, and 356′ 509′. The placement strategy here appears designed for natural discovery during normal exploration rather than dedicated treasure hunting. Many of these spots sit along logical travel routes between objectives, meaning players who develop the habit of frequent scanning will discover them organically.
This approach reduces the potential grindiness of treasure hunting while maintaining the satisfaction of discovery. Players exploring Central Ananke should prioritize scanning whenever they transition between different environmental zones or complete major objectives, as these moments often coincide with treasure proximity.
Northern Ananke: Perimeter Exploration
Northern Ananke contains seven treasure sites, many positioned toward the outer edges of the map region. The coordinates are: 664′ 382′, 816′ 481′, 893′ 241′, 709′ 273′, 606′ 288′, 646′ 490′, and 831′ 367′. This placement strategy serves multiple purposes: it encourages players to fully explore the map boundaries, it provides rewards for venturing into potentially dangerous perimeter areas, and it creates natural treasure hunting routes that minimize backtracking.
The terrain in Northern Ananke presents more navigation challenges than other regions, with elevation changes and environmental obstacles that can obscure treasure locations. Players hunting in this area should be prepared to approach coordinates from multiple angles and consider alternative paths when direct routes prove inaccessible.
Advanced Treasure Hunting Strategies
Beyond simply visiting coordinates, efficient treasure hunting in DYSPLACED benefits from specific strategies and approaches. Seasoned players have developed methods that maximize discovery while minimizing unnecessary travel and resource expenditure.
Scanning Discipline
The most fundamental strategy involves developing consistent scanning habits. Since the Treasure Locator has a limited range, players should establish a mental or literal rhythm for activation—perhaps scanning every time they enter a new named area on the map, every five minutes of exploration, or whenever they complete a combat encounter. This discipline prevents players from missing treasures that sit just off their immediate path.
Route Optimization
For players dedicated to finding every treasure, route planning becomes essential. Rather than hunting treasures randomly, efficient hunters group treasures by proximity and plan routes that minimize travel time between them. This approach is particularly valuable in larger regions like Ananke, where treasures can be widely separated. Many players combine treasure hunting with other objectives, creating multi-purpose exploration routes that address several gameplay goals simultaneously.
Environmental Awareness
DYSPLACED’s treasures are often placed in environmentally logical locations—near landmarks, at the base of distinctive trees, beside ruined structures, or in other locations that feel intentionally placed rather than randomly generated. Developing an eye for these environmental cues can help players spot potential treasure sites even before scanning, making the hunting process more immersive and intuitive.
The Completionist Perspective
For players aiming for 100% completion, the buried treasure system represents both a challenge and an opportunity. With 40 currently accessible treasures across all regions (excluding the two inaccessible in Centricos), the system provides a substantial but achievable completion goal. The tracking mechanics in the Collections tab offer clear progress indicators, while the region-based distribution allows players to tackle the challenge in manageable segments.
The treasure hunting completion journey naturally guides players through every region of the game, often revealing environmental details, minor narrative elements, and visual storytelling that might otherwise be missed. This incidental discovery represents one of the system’s greatest strengths: it uses loot as motivation for deeper engagement with the game world rather than as an end in itself.
Community collaboration continues to refine treasure hunting knowledge, with players sharing newly discovered locations, optimal routes, and strategies for particularly elusive treasures. This ongoing collective exploration mirrors the game’s themes of survival through cooperation and knowledge sharing in a fragmented world. As players continue to scour DYSPLACED’s landscapes, the treasure maps grow more complete, creating a living guide that benefits the entire player community while enhancing individual hunting expeditions with the knowledge that each discovery contributes to a shared understanding of the game world.
