Markers
Place explosives so their radii cover the monster, chest, remnant, or underground-area markers you want to excavate.
Encounter mechanic
Expedition
Place a connected chain of explosives across a Kalguuran burial site to unearth monsters, remnants, underground areas, and rewards.
How it works
An Expedition encounter gives you a limited explosive chain. Each blast excavates markers inside its radius, and remnant modifiers apply from the blast that destroys them to later explosions in the chain. Plan the order before detonating because the same chain controls both difficulty and rewards.
- Core action
- Place and detonate explosives
- Campaign introduction
- Forgotten Bounty
- Atlas access item
- Expedition Logbook
How an Expedition encounter works
The explosive order determines which buried targets are opened and which remnant effects propagate.
Remnant order
A remnant affects monsters and chests excavated by its own explosion and every later explosion in the chain.
Detonation
Start the chain at the detonator, then defeat the monsters released by each blast.
Grand Expeditions
Use an Expedition Logbook on the Atlas to reveal ocean areas containing larger Expedition encounters.
Connected systems
Current Expedition progression also connects to Verisium rewards and its own Atlas side tree.
Verisium Remnants
Inscribed Runeshapes select a reward recipe, then waves of empowered monsters must be defeated.
Atlas passives
The Expedition side tree changes encounter frequency, remnants, explosives, monsters, and rewards.
Current league state
The maintained reference records Expedition as temporarily disabled in permanent leagues during Runes of Aldur. Campaign and league-specific appearances are separate from that permanent-league status.
Guides using this page
1Related pages
Continue with the exact quest, item, area, or tool.
The Grand ExpeditionFollow the current endgame questline through all five Expedition bosses.
Forgotten BountyThe Act 4 quest that starts with the four Torn Map Pieces.
Expedition LogbookReveals an Ocean Biome on the Atlas.
Verisium RemnantSearch every current ordered Runeshape reward recipe.
Expedition Atlas treeInspect and plan the current Expedition side tree.