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Commento di Zurr

The book that teaches the ability to track fishing pools. Looted from boxes found from fishing, most commonly from pools of floating wreckage.

Commento di Ismat

Awesome for players with no gathering skill—at last the minimap becomes useful!

Commento di Morrow

Where i can get it easy?

Commento di 30549

Patch Day: 11-13-07, found one in my first AND second Heavy Supply Crate in Zangarmarsh from a Steam Pump Flotsam debris spawn. The Book itself is BoP, however the crates are not. Look before you loot (turn off that auto-loot feature you have your fishing mod do) and then you may be able to sell it. This post is too early to tell how much it will go for on market, but it seemed easy enough to get to not be worth the hassle of an AH.

Commento di quthar

You cannot see the book if you've already learned the skill. I had 3 crates with books in them and I used one of them, then when I looked into another again it dissapeared.

You can, however, send all your crates to an alt who doesn't have the skill. The alt needs to have 1 or higher fishing skill to see the book. (Needs to have trained fishing.)

Commento di Chirri

Well, I fished up a bunch of Curious Crates on my main (who'd already learned fish tracking) and tossed them in the mail to my banker, on the off chance that I might find another journal IF someone besides my main opened the crate.

The good news is, I did find one. I left it safely in its crate, because my banker only has a fishing skill of 1. I asked in Trade if anyone wanted it, got a response, and a trade followed. Curiously (ha) the Curious Crate appeared empty to my client, and she told me so. I had no issues returning her money, and she traded the Crate back to me. It seems she didn't have any fishing skill whatsoever (that's the impression I got). I checked the crate once it was back on me, and the Journal remained safely in place. I tossed it to another alt of mine, again with fishing skill (a mere 4), and that character could see the Journal as well.

I think this item is much like the BoP recipes found throughout the Outlands. If you don't have the skill, you can't see the prize. That means you CAN buy this from another player, so long as it remains in the Crate that holds it. And, if you trade it to someone else and they claim they didn't get a Journal out of it, you should demand your Crate back, in exchange for their money. The Crate looks empty but remains in their inventory, and there's no good reason (as of my posting this) that they shouldn't be able to return it.

Commento di Samboda

Checked yesterday that pure water pools can be tracked, probably it will track pool of elementals in azshara.

Edit:Azshara pools of elementals can be tracked too

Commento di SunziWu

Was cleaning my bank alt today and found a Curious Crate lying around (must have been there for weeks). I peek inside it and see one of these journals :D
The 2.3 patch spawned this book inside my unlooted crate!
Mailed the box to my main double-time.

Commento di Therax

Consider the following when you first open a fished container.

Do you have fishing? If so, you have a random chance to find a journal.
Where did the container originate? Wreckage seems to yield containers with the highest chance of holding a Journal.
Do you already know Find Fish? If a journal exists, it will be deleted from the container, before displaying the contents.

Source
Approximately 40 containers fished from standard pools, like Feltail and Zangarian Sporefish did not contain any journals. After a few attempts at fishing from wreckage, a journal turned up, rather quickly. The source of the container seems to be significant.

Knowing Fishing
I'd mailed 30 unopened containers to a level 11 bank alt without fishing. No journals dropped. Then the character trained fishing level 1. The subsequent 30 containers dropped 6 journals.

Knowing "Find Fish"
After learning "Find Fish", on a higher level character, the next 30 containers provided no additional journals. The contents seem to be decided when the container is first opened. When mailed to an alt, the contents remained the same. With regards to Journals; does the game stop making the attempt to give you a journal, or does it simply delete them?

Knowledge deletes journals
Several journal containers were stored with the bank alt. Successful journal containers were emptied of all other items, like Fel Iron, and Netherweave Cloth. One of these journal-only crates was mailed back to the level 70 who knew "Find Fish".

When the skilled character peeked inside, the game displayed an error; "You do not have permission to loot." The container disappeared from inventory. The journal was lost. If you know "Find Fish", the game will normally quietly destroy the journal before revealing the contents. By removing the other contents, the game was forced to display an error.

Hopefully this clarifies the item's behavior.

Happy hunting!

Commento di Beefstick

I went to WoWHeads page for Curious Crates ( https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=27513 ) since that is reportedly the highest drop rate source. Made circles around the lakes in Zangarmarsh for about 30 min fishing the "Steam pump flotsam", had about 8 crates drop before I got the journal. Very easy to get, just a small time investment.

Commento di 31955

Not too long ago I fished up a crate while already knowing the "Find Fish" ability. Opened up the crate, nothing inside, but it didn't disappear from my inventory, so I thought it might contain the book.

Sent it over to a guildie and yup, it contained the Find Fish book. Im not kidding.

So unlike someone far above me mentioned (a post with about 30 + rating), you CAN fish up a crate with a journal inside and still sell it to someone else!

Commento di Gary13579

After some testing of my own, I'd like to change something about your statement.

Approximately 40 containers fished from standard pools, like Feltail and Zangarian Sporefish did not contain any journals. After a few attempts at fishing from wreckage, a journal turned up, rather quickly. The source of the container seems to be significant.

After fishing up 20 containers from standard pools (Curious Crates, in case you were curious... oh god, I made a pun!) that has fish tracking and sending them to a high level alt with level 1 fishing, 11 of them had a journal in them, roughly a 50% drop rate.

I will keep sending them to an alt to try and confirm this, I plan on giving one to all my guildies that don't have it yet, and selling the rest.

Commento di 48099

ROGUES: Anyone have odds of getting it from lockpicking these boxes ???

Commento di Bizarre

My girlfriend and I are leveling Horde alts. Her fishing is ~170 and mine is ~100.

We swung over to Alterac to fish up some Raw Greater Sagefish for cooking. Within 20 minutes she had fished up 4 Iron Bound Trunks.

She started looking in the trunks and got her journal from the second one. She then traded me the remaining two trunks and I found a journal in the first one that I opened.

Don't trust the drop chance that is listed on Wowhead because people who already have the journal are skewing it as they will never see it drop again.

Commento di 140817

Can anyone sell me a crate or trunk with the journal in it, ill pay 3g
im Kinoko in burning steppes european.

Commento di 18651

got it by completing daily fishing quest

Commento di Fel4

i bought mine from trade for a lvl 15 alt with 160ish fishing.

i'm loving it!

Commento di 104074

wht are theese "wreckage pools"??

Commento di Allakhazam

Got the journal in a crate fishing a Darter pool, at the river next to Stonebreaker Hold.

Commento di Allakhazam

confirmed: it is a random world-drop. chances are about 1-2% accoring to thottbot.

For those who don't have it yet: it is SWEET! I hope you get it very soon ^^

Commento di Allakhazam

Well my boyfriend and I had found 1 while fishing about 3 months ago and didn't know what it was till we came here and looked it up. He got it, then we ended up deleting the toon it was on, we were upset but said oh well we will find it again someday then we went fishing about 2 1/2 months later in the same spot, and BAM he finds another one in a box in the same exact location lol that was about 2 weeks ago. Well today I was fishing in roughly the same area getting my fishing up and BAM I found another one. So we both have it now and which is great because we are trying to make complete toons.

Good spot, is the floating debris node that is right off the docks in menethil harbor

Commento di Allakhazam

I fished this up right in the middle of Booty Bay, from a school of stone scale eels. I forgot this existed, so you could have knocked me down with a feather.

Commento di Allakhazam

Fund a crate in highland mixed pool and had one in it.

Edited, Nov 16th 2007 8:59pm by MrMacragge

Commento di Allakhazam

I just picked this up today from the daily fishing quest reward! Maybe not as good as the Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat I was hoping for but still a nice reward.

Commento di Allakhazam

Found in trunk fished from "Floating Wreckage" in STV. 22,19

Commento di Allakhazam

got it from a water logged crate in stonetalon peak.

It was from an oil spill.

Commento di Allakhazam

I got mine from a trunk in the Wetlands

Commento di Allakhazam

Found one in a Curious Crate i fished out of Slimyr Lake NE of Shat.

Commento di Allakhazam

Fished mine out of Lake Jorune.
I fished less than ten pools and it was the first curious crate (or any kind of crate/box/etc. for that matter) which I fished up.

Commento di Allakhazam

After fishing this up on an alt in Dustwallow Marsh, I decided to get a copy for my main character and figure out the mechanics of how to get this book. While going about it, I managed to fish up 4 copies while fishing in Stranglethorn Vale over the course of an hour. It came in various chests that I fished up from debris as well as schools of fish such as oily blackmouths, firefin snappers, etc. Once I scribed it, I found out this not only picks up fishing nodes, but wreckage nodes as well. I also found out this other information:

1) If you don't immediately pick up the book from whatever chest it's in, you can fish up multiple copies of it.

2) If you don't immediately pick up the book from the chest it's in, you can also freely trade/mail the chest the book is in to other players. The receiving player can then pick up the book themselves and use it once their fishing skill is high enough.

3) If you pick up the book and learn the skill, any other copies you have in your possession will become invisible. However, invisible copies are still in whatever chests they came in, and if any of these chests are mailed/traded to other players who haven't already learned the Find Fish skill, copies of the book will be visible to them and they can freely pick it up if they wish.

4) Once you have the Find Fish skill, you won't come across another copy of this book via fishing nodes or debris.

Edited, Jun 1st 2008 2:04pm by Sigrah

Commento di Allakhazam

I fished this up in STV (30,28) on my very first attempt from a floating wreckage. Not sure if I am lucky or if it has a good drop rate. My brother fished for like an hour in Zangarmarsh for it with nothing.

Commento di Allakhazam

Just recieved it out of a curious crate fished from a feltail school in the center lake

Commento di Allakhazam

Found mine in a Heavy Supply Crate fished from Steam Pump Flotsam located at 63,60 in The Lagoon of Zangarmarsh, just now.

Find Fish doesn't just show locations of various fish schools but also fishable objects such as Floating Wreckage and Steam Pump Flotsam. Should be quite helpful during the Extravaganzas.

Edited, Nov 14th 2007 4:53am by Striegyr

Commento di Allakhazam

While the book itself is BoP, the box (Curious Crate, etc) that contains it is not. You can mail, trade, or sell the box and the new owner of the box can loot the book from it.

Update:
Incidentally, just a moment ago I fished up a Curious Crate containing this book from a Feltail School in Zangarmarsh at 61,41.

Edited, Dec 27th 2007 7:04pm by WhitePhantom

Commento di Allakhazam

Is this item available only with the expansion?

Commento di Allakhazam

I pulled this item from the Bag of Fishing Treasures (from the fishing daily quest).

Commento di Allakhazam

Just got mine inside a curious crate from a Steam Pump Flotsam node in Zang. :3 I was extremely excited, as I had heard of the book, but didn't know how to acquire it or even what it was called. Kind of a shame it's BoP though.

Commento di Allakhazam

I was running up and down the coast looking for a debris pool and didn't find any. So I started fishing up the firefin pools....I quickly got 2 tightly sealed trunks and the first one of those I opened had the journal and a blue ring!

Commento di Allakhazam

Selling on Firetree (ally) for 100g. Pst Melida.
Selling on Coilfang (horde) for 70G. Pst Ley.

BTW what's it going for on other servers?

Commento di Allakhazam

I just fished this up in STV while skilling. Yesterday I fished the whole day and now I fish like 15 mins and I find this. Never heard of it but it's super. I'll be using this ability a lot!

This must give a great advantage in the Fishing extravaganza.

Edited, Jan 7th 2008 7:11pm by Muscleduck

Commento di Allakhazam

Got this just now. Was fishing for it without knowing droprate or in what places it drops. I got it from my 8th .

The best part is that it dropped in Wetlands. Was a bit worried I'd have to fish my ass off in outlands or higher level places, but obviously you don't :)

Edited, Nov 16th 2007 7:25am by pissilie

Commento di Allakhazam

Got this from fishing up a mithril bound trunk in Steamwheedle Port.

Commento di Allakhazam

As stated before, the journal is BOP, but if you turn off your auto-loot or hold down the shift key, while your right clicking on the trunk or crate, you can view the items without picking them up. That way you can see what is in the crate then send the crate onto another alt or toon. I do this all the time when I'm fishing so that I can leave all the items in the crate rather than have them cluttering up my bags. Then I just unpack them at the bank.

I have fished the Journal out from the pond just south of Tarren Mill, 3 times on three different toons. The last one I sent on to my alt for his fishing pleasure since I already had the skill.

Enjoy!

Commento di Allakhazam

Found today inside a crate fished from high-level pools in terokkar forest. I'm assuming since it's Fishing(100) that you can find it in lower level pools. I guess blizzard put this in the game for the last patch. Man is it helpful, find fish faster and more mindlessly - just like finding thorium :-) Should be helpful on sundays in STV.

Commento di Allakhazam

Just got this in Zangarmarsh at the cords of 60,55 from a random school (it was in a crate).

I had spent aprox an hour fishing random schools in nagrand and zangar before I got this drop, wasn't going for it but I'm not complaining!

And yes its BOP.

Commento di Allakhazam

Just got mine fishing floating debris on the beach North of Theramore

Commento di Allakhazam

Wow, I just got mine fishing for Pure Water at the elemental plateau. Came in a curious crate. Very nice. It makes fishing much easier. You don't have to watch for the pools of fish, just check your map. Probably going to be very handy for the fishing contest.

But, how rare is it?

Edited, Dec 4th 2007 3:56pm by Darvell

Commento di Allakhazam

Got mine in a watertight trunk in a sagefish school off the bank in Astranaar.

Commento di Allakhazam

i got this while trying to get mr. pinchy, and i didn't know what it did with little reasearch i found out, it is still in its crate, so i can sell it but no one will belive it is in the crate, so how much do you think i should sell it for, if they believe me?

Commento di Allakhazam

I was fishing in Mystral Lake right beside Silverwind Refuge in a Sagefish circle. It came in a Watertight Trunk.

Commento di Allakhazam

Fished up from an oil spill in stonetalon mts, dont think its limited to any one zone in the world, apparently a random drop in fishing spots everywhere. As noted it is BoP which stinks as I was on an alt and would rather have it on my main, lol.

Commento di Allakhazam

got mine just now and sooooo happy with it!

Fished it from pure water node on elemental plateau..
First crate i found contained this item and it works like a charm..
Gonna use it to finally win contest in BB

Commento di Allakhazam

I have gone to pretty far flung regions in search of floating wreakage (after I realized it had to be a "floating wreakage" spawn, as opposed to just pieces in random water) and after many trunks still no luck. At this point it had become one of those nagging things I wanted even if I didn't NEED it. I was getting a few casts in waiting for the boat on the pier in Booty Bay, and got a Mithril bound Trunk. I opened it later, and there it was, Practically no effort-Wow.

31 Tauren Druid
225 Fishing

Commento di Allakhazam

I played a Pally for 2 years and spent way too many hours with fishing since some fish sold very good on our server.

However, I never came across this book.

Now I play a rogue on lvl 43, and the first time I fished out a random floating wreckage in STV, I found this in a mithril bound trunk.

However, the ability doesn`t change that much, the fish schools are clearly visible in the water anyway *doh*.

Commento di Allakhazam

Hahaha i just got one on my hunter!
i was fishing and thinking that a spell like this should be in the game, like for higher lvl fishermen but I like how they implemented it.

Blizzard should make more spells like it.

Commento di Thottbot

I got it from an Iron Bound Chest from Shadowprey Village in Desolace off my 4th or 5th chest. It is BOP. My fishing was 145. Good Luck

Skycindia- Horde Arthas

Commento di Thottbot

2.3 Changes -El's Extreme Anglin' - WoW Fishing Guide
about half way down the page...

Tracking Journal
Minimap with Find Fish ability active.

Drysc (Blizzard) originally announced, "Fishermen, and Fisherladies, will be able to track fishing nodes, similar to herbalism and mining. The ability will be learned from a journal you can find in fished-up crates."

The new "Find Fish" ability is taught by a Weather-Beaten Journal. The ability makes "nearby fishing nodes appear on the minimap" - just like tracking abilities for minerals and herbs. The journal binds when picked up, so cannot be traded (unless the original crate is traded and the journal remains unseen). A fishing skill of 100 is required to learn the ability. The picture shows the ability being used to highlight the location of nearby pools. The only pools the ability does not show are Schools of Tastyfish, found during the Stranglethorn Extravaganza (likely a bug).

The table below summarises the crate types Weather-Beaten Journals can be found in. Sample catch sizes are very low, so read the results with caution. Once you have a journal in your inventory, or have learnt the Find Fish ability, you will no longer be able to find journals within crates. However, Torgon informs me that if you already know the Find Fish ability and catch a trunk/crate that would have contained a journal, the container will remain in your inventory. It can then be traded to someone that does not know the ability, and they will be able to retrieve a journal (again presumably another bug). All the tests were done by destroying journals as soon as they were found.

Crates with Weather-Beaten Journal Crate	Sample catches	Percentage of crates with Weather-Beaten Journal
Curious Crate	30	43%
Heavy Supply Crate	43	11%
Iron Bound Trunk	28	11%
Mithril Bound Trunk	38	21%
Watertight Trunk	28	25%

Thanks to Graargh for confirming Heavy Supply Crates as a source. Tightly Sealed Trunk very rarely contain journals (thanks Thayer). Coastal lock-boxes were not tested.

Curious Crates seem to give the best catch rate, with almost half of all crates containing a Weather-Beaten Journal. Curious Crates are caught from any pool in Outland - about 4% of the catch (this may have been increased slightly, since I got 7-8% on the test server, however the sample is very small so prone to error). No pools primarily contain Curious Crates, which means that if you specifically want a journal, it may be easier to fish the pools of wreckage in Azeroth containing Iron Bound, Mithril Bound or Watertight Trunks.

For those with little fishing skill, the easiest source of journals are Watertight Trunks, which are found in floating wreckage pools in Ashenvale, Hillsbrad Foothills, Stonetalon Mountains and Wetlands. All these areas requiring just 55 skill to cast, 150 to stop get-aways. Experienced fishermen and women should find a journal easily, while fishing pools for other fish - they aren't terribly rare!

Commento di Thottbot

I've caught this out of a chest while fishing in Dustwallow marsh on 3 different alts.

For all you lower levels who can't fish in Dustwallow just yet, I caught it with my level 15 hunter....if you go all the way up the shore from Ratchet toward Dustwallow, there are 3 spawn spots between North Watch Hold and Dustwallow that spawn Dustwallow level loot. That's where my low level 'toon caught hers.

Commento di Thottbot

I caught mine in Desolace in a node of Firefins ... my hunter was 24th level, fishing skill 125 ish

Commento di Thottbot

I can find ze fishes!

Dropped from a curious crate- fished up out of a teensy lake to the immediate east of shatt. Did not spawn from a pool of any sort- came right up out of the lake.

Commento di Thottbot

I fished up two of these in two days along the west coast of Westfall.

I thought the second chest was bugged when it showed an empty loot box but wouldn't despawn. So I mailed it to my main and turns out it had another journal in it.

So if you find a chest that looks empty and you already have the Find Fish skill, it may have a hidden journal inside.

Commento di Thottbot

Note these can be caught fishing anything, not just crates.

Commento di Thottbot

i got my one w/o any chests. i fished somewhere in STV left and down from nesingways. i fished from trash whripool and i pulled it to land. find fish is VERY useful for those who acivity fishes. (sorry about bad english and crap i wrote)

Commento di Thottbot

I farmed the pools containing Furious Crawdad in Terokkar Forest for TWO days resulting in only 4 curious crates (none of which containing a Weather-Beaten Journal). I went to Zangarmarsh by Serpent Lake and skimmed the top of the water looking for debris (looks like wood on water). I got the journal on my second cast off of a Heavy Supply Crate. Highly recommend going there.

Commento di Thottbot

Personal experience fades in the face of averages.

Commento di Thottbot

Yeah. I flew around Zangarmarsh fishing every single school I found and after 5-6 Curios Crates, I found the journal.
The schools are spread out, so fly along the shores of all the lakes there to speed up the process.

Commento di Thottbot

Got it form a watertight chest in the wetlands, didnt even know something like this existed

Commento di Thottbot

Before you spend a lot of time trying to farm this you might want to just do the new daily fishing quest a few times. I got it today as part of my quest reward!

Commento di Thottbot

Hah, so I was reading this yesterday and decided that last night I would go and try to get this. I hit up Hillsbrad (which was appropriate for my fishing skill). I was tracing the river down to the ocean, saw a school of fish so I tossed my line in. My first pull on that school of fish I got a chest with the book in it. I was dumbfounded. I think I got really lucky heh.

Commento di Thottbot

Went through Silverpine forest today, knocking down a few local nasties for a Quest, ended up on the coast north of the Sepulcher. Found some Floating Wreckage and remembered hearing something about being able to find boxes in them by fishing. I had always before assumed the floating junk was just eye candy on the realm, and had never bothered with it. This time, I figured I'd take a shot at fishing for a Box. I fished the floating junk until it disappeared, ended up with 5-6 fish and 5 Tightly Sealed Trunks. Opened them up back in Thunder Bluff, annnnddd... There was a Journal in one of them! So the Book CAN be had in very low level trunks and areas. Lucky day for me, first time ever deliberately fishing for any kind of box and got a Journal in one.

Commento di Thottbot

Got it on my 1st chest that was the "Iron Bound Truck"! After Checkin here for spots to fish this thing, i went to desolace and start fishin firefin snaper and oily blackmouth schools! at the 3rd pool here goes the chest and the book inside it! i ll upload a pic soon too!

P.S. Someone said that is possibly to loot another chest and have the same book, and if you open it and have the book allready you dont lose the truck! Now, you lose it,so just mail to someone else or i dunno! have fun!

Commento di Thottbot

Just got one in a Mithril Bound Trunk in the Forgotten Coasts of Feralas.

Commento di Thottbot

I finally found mine fishing Desolace shore at coords 36, 31.

I have tried everywhere, I have the opposite of luck most of the time, just as an indicator, I'm at level 300.

Commento di Thottbot

Foung mine in a water-tight chest fished out of a node in STM.

Commento di Thottbot

Just found mine in a Tightly Sealed Trunk that I fished out of some Floating Debris. It took me about nine hours of farming in Darkshore. Definatly worth it though.

Commento di Thottbot

I don't think they nixed it. I got two earlier this week and was able to sell them both, still in the boxes. I haven't found another one yet, but I think that's just cuz they're not supposed to be really easy to find.

Commento di Thottbot

I got my journal on the second cast, at cood 35, 31 in desolace from a Iron Bound Trunk while fishing in a school of Firefin Snapper.

Commento di Chonkwe

Found this in a Mithril Bound Trunk I had on my character BEFORE the pre-patch launched. Confirmed that they drop from those types of containers and also confirmed containers don't have assigned loot until you open them.

Commento di Arxroth

This is dropping now in TBC:Classic pre patch content, got it while doing normal fishing around.

Really handy ability to have.

Commento di Amandur

Also can be found in Mithril Bound Trunk. It's not included here. I just found one.

Commento di CrusaderSjonne

Looted from a Watertight Trunk found while fishing from a Sagefish School in Hillsbrad Foothills - Fishing Skill was 130.

Commento di MulchDiggums

Got one out of an Iron Bound Trunk while fishing in Stranglethorn Vale

Commento di YungGnome

Got one from a School of Deviate Fish

Commento di ohhdangnickson1

found mine in crate from booty bay

Commento di TheLightWay

Found mine in Northern Stranglethorn in Iron Bound Chest from Mixed Ocean School with Fishing Level 43

Commento di TheKruk

I had randomly found one of these on my 70 alt. So I learned the skill, very excited. Fishing skill is at like 370 now.

I sent every single crate I fished up to my bank alt (level 6). I turned off auto-loot, and carefully opened each crate, hoping to get another copy for another alt with 300 fishing.

I didn't see a single copy show up among many crates, Curious or Heavy Supply. Whether coincidental or not, I don't know, but I decided to go learn Fishing on my bank alt. And I fished to skill level 10. I thought maybe having Fishing learned would make the book appear.

I then went back to my mailbox on my bank alt, with Fishing skill 10, and the 3rd Curious Crate I opened had a Weather Beaten Journal inside. Since auto loot was off, I can close the crate and send it to my other alt.

So...if you have a character with Find Fish already learned, send the crates to an alt or bank alt that also knows Fishing. Turn off auto loot and peek inside the crate. I have a feeling you need to know Fishing to see this journal at all.

Commento di 509794

Is it legal to sell these? If I sell a box I fished up that has one of these in it, is that an exploit?

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Weather-Beaten Journal

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Binds when picked up

Richiede Fishing (100)
Usa: Teaches you the fine art of fish finding.
Nearby fishing nodes appear on the minimap. Only one form of tracking can be active at a time.

Weather-Beaten Journal

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