Secret Valley in Skyfire?

indiscriminate_hater · #1 10-09-2016, 01:36 AM

I was wandering around SF today on an alt and accidentally discovered some valley on the very west-most side of the zone. I was on the edge of what I thought was the zone line at roughly -1000, +3800 and kept moving west until I popped over the cliff and landed in some loosely-populated valley. The dimensions of the valley seem to be roughly 2000-3000 north-south units, and 500 east-west units. Has anyone seen this before?

This screenshot shows me at the bottom of this valley, with the LOC shown in the text window.

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This screenshot shows my character facing north, with the valley to the left and the rest of the zone to the right.

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Zekayy · #2 10-09-2016, 02:14 AM

Wth never seen that before don't know if there's a zone there they added later or what but that sure is strange

elwing · #3 10-09-2016, 05:12 AM

Classic, already went there on live... I have no idea if that's a geometry bug when the zone was created or if something can happen there... it's rather empty

EQBallzz · #4 10-09-2016, 05:41 AM

Reported for obvious hacking. Also, never seen that before. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

elwing · #5 10-09-2016, 06:00 AM

it can be seen there or on mapfiend, but mapfiend seems not to work correctly...
http://mqemulator.net/zone.php?name=skyfire

it's the bottom left part, entrance is near the green line

Borak · #6 10-09-2016, 07:33 AM

Oh yeah, it's been there for awhile. If memory serves, someone died there and had no idea how to get to their corpse so I went to retrieve it with travel song. After figuring out how to get there by going over what was ostensibly the zone wall, I spent some time looking inside the lost valley. It's weird, there are a few mobs that path back and forth down there, isolated from the rest of the zone.

DoucLangur · #7 10-09-2016, 08:34 AM

did anyone ever find out what the box on the floor near west zone wall was meant to trigger? you can click it and it turns, like a switch in other zones... but no effect implemented, I guess...

maybe related to some zoneline that was never implemented here?

Lemonhead · #8 10-09-2016, 11:03 AM

This one is obviously a bug, but in Field of bone you can get underneath almost the entire zone. Goto the valley that leads to warslik's woods. Then at about 1600, 3300 head north up the valley wall.

Be sure to have levi on, and find a cliff that leads down. You may have to go back and forth along the top there to find it. This will lead you deep under the entire zone. You can escape by going to the beach. I haven't been brave enough to drop levi, but I'd assume there is either a floor, or you'd pop to the evac point.

You can't do anything down there, but it's pretty trippy.

Jimjam · #9 10-09-2016, 12:43 PM

Fascinating find!

On a similar note, you can go over the cliff in everfrost that houses the tunnel to black burrow. You can then run above the roof of the tunnel and drop through the ceiling to an area behind the zoneline.

Silly Norrath!

Lemonhead · #10 10-09-2016, 12:52 PM

Oh nice, that one made me think of Mario. I found mine with auto-run/afk/Mysterious death. I had to employ a local necro to dig my corpse out of the hill.