I’ve attached a zip file containing the first three zones in The Burning Lands. Stratos, Plane of Smoke, and Empyr. The maps are still very rough. I still have to go through and combine lines, fine tune colors, and much more. But, something is better than nothing. Right?
I’ll be doing updates to the files daily during beta, so check back at least once a day. If you follow me on Twitter, I’ll be sending out tweets after each set is published.
UPDATE: 10/30/18 11pm CST:
*Empyr – added all towers, cleaned up terrain, paths, and bridges
*Stratos – added more ledges, more npcs
*Smoke – added remaining details in SE lava area
UPDATES: 10/31/18
*Smoke – finished cleaning up SW water area, especially helpful with blinding mobs. Finished all main ramps. Second draft of teleport area in NE with labeled pads.
*Empyr- more path and terrain touch-ups
UPDATES: 11/2/18
*Smoke – added a missing ramp. Recolored the different platforms & teleporters in NE area. Color of the portal pads match the destination (lightning=yellow, water=blue, earth=brown, fire=red). If the portal takes you to a landing where the only exiting portal goes to the room, it is also colored in this same fashion. This way, if you see a red portal, you know if you take it, you will either go directly to the room, or a landing that only leads to the room.
*Stratos – added a few more hard to reach islands and landings below islands.
UPDATES: 11/5/18
*Stratos, Smoke, Empyr – minor geometry tweaks & npc additions. Still working to get to next set of zones.
UPDATES: 11/6/18
*Aalishai: Palace of Embers- Fellowship reached this zone last night, and spent the entire evening mapping it out; afterwards, I ran my line optimizer on the rougher portions of the zone. Didn’t realize until later that some of the houses on the west side of the zone are different sizes. Tonight, I’ll make some templates out of these houses and finalize the map. For now, the orientation markers I had done are red lines.
UPDATES: 11/7/18
*Aaslishai: Palace of Embers – Finished all the houses on west side. Also redid colors of ramps in the north. To make it easier to find the ramp entrances, I added the grey boulders at the bottom of each ramp. Hopefully tonight will get access to palace area and can finish off this zone.
UPDATES: 11/9/18
*Aaslishai: Palace of Embers – Finished mapping the palace area.
*Stratos – added more ledges below the islands.
UPDATES: 11/11/18
*Esianti: Palace of the Winds – First version of zone. Looks fairly good, but still need to optimize lines and other cleanups.
UPDATES: 11/12/18
*Esianti: Palace of the Winds – Optimized lines and did a few touch-ups. Map finalized.
*Doomfire, the Burning Lands – Did the quest from Doomfire last night. Not quite enough DPS to kill all the NPCs within the time limits, but fun to go back there. I had cleaned up the geometry in this zone earlier in the year. Added the full set of maps to this zip file.
UPDATES: 11/14/18
*Mearatas: The Stone Demesne – Partial map. Still working on some of the areas and you may see different colored markers as geometry placeholders. Hoping to finalize it tonight.
SUPER BONUS UPDATES: 11/14/18
*The Chamber of Tears: Made it to final zone tonight! Small part of zone mapped.
UPDATES: 11/19/18
*Mearatas: The Stone Demesne – Finalized map. Added all the NPC’s I could track.
*Stratos – added more NPC’s and adjusted their locations based on changes.
UPDATES: 11/26/18
*All – updated NPC’s to reflect updates to quests, raids, regular, and etc.
*Stratos – added more platforms below the main islands. Also added a few a second level below.
UPDATES: 12/10/18
* All – folded the maps into the core set of map files. I’ll leave the link below if anyone is curious on what they looked like during beta. Going forward, the maps will be maintained with the rest of the files.