Island Rumours & Mapping
What each tavern rumour actually decodes to — the island it points at, its remnant/mod gimmick, the layout, and whether it's worth running. Ratings run S+ (drop everything) down to F (skip). Several "old layout" islands keep infinite revives, which is great for grinding remnants. ⚠️ Crowd-sourced from the community; map names and ratings shift between patches, so treat this as a starting read and verify in-game.
Island Rumours
Match the rumour phrase to its island. Sorted best-to-worst by community rating. The Notes column carries the layout and remnant gimmick.
| Rumour | Island / Map | Remnant / Mods | Rating | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fallen Stars | Something Moor | Runestones | S+ | Unique expedition. No enemies — a chain explosion adds rune sockets to one huge singular remnant. Top-tier. |
| Cold as ice… | Frigid Bluffs | Old Expedition | A+ | Great general monster-buffing remnants. Old layout, so infinite revives. |
| Sulphite! | Scorched Cay | Increased Rarity | A | Good layout with rare-buffing remnants. |
| Nothing to drink | Stagnant Basin | Oil | A | Decent open layout. Oil-derrick remnants that do big explodey damage. |
| Endless Cliffs | Craggy Peninsula | Rarity / Rogue Exiles | A | Good open layout. Kin-totem remnants for rarer items; boss arena holds two Rogue Exiles. |
| Something Fishy | Bleached Shoals | Gold | B+ | Bad layout. Remnants give an all-resistance amulet. |
| Unknown Ruins | Exhumed Ruins | Precursor Leylines | B | Many-stairs layout. Explode three leylines to activate a beacon → reveals a nearby Expedition logbook area, inheriting the sagas used to spawn the ruins. |
| It's Warm | Lush Island | Exp / Beyond / Hoards | B | Openish layout. Increased-exp remnants; 30% chance to summon Beyond monsters on the beach; Arohangui's Hoard chests drop a lot of currency. Old layout, infinite respawns. |
| It's dry at least | Sloughed Gully | Monster Effectiveness | D | 20% monster-effectiveness remnants, poor layout. |
| Wild / Roaming Free | Grazed Prairie | Azmeri Spirits | D | Azmeri-spirits layout. Bad remnants, good layout. |
| Bleak and Awful | Barren Atoll | Strongbox | F | Good open layout, strongbox-gimmick map, gold-chest remnant, old layout (infinite revives) — but rated a skip. |
Unique Maps
Rumours that resolve to a unique map instead of a standard island.
| Rumour | Map | Reward / Mods | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reflective Waters / Fractured… | Lake of Kalandra | Ring Bases | A |
| All that Glitters | Castaway | Gold | A |
| Almost paradise | Untainted Paradise | Exp | C |
| A good fellow | Moment of Zen | Seer | C |
Boss Rumours
Boss-island rumours, the island they spawn on, and which pinnacle boss waits there.
| Rumour | Island | Boss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Origin of the Fall…" | Obscure Island | Olroth | A |
| "Stardrinker" | Secluded Temple | Uhtred | B |
| "Last to Fall" | Mournful Cliffside | Vorana | B |
| "End of the Circle" | Sprawling Jungle | Medved | B |
Sagas
Sagas used to spawn content. Aldur's buffs Expeditions but is a gamble; the boss sagas drop a guaranteed boss node.
| Saga | Location | Effect | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldur's | — | Buffs Expeditions | S+ (is a gamble) |
| Olroth | Obscure Island | Boss node | A |
| Uhtred | Secluded Temple | Boss node | B+ |
| Medved | Strange Jungle | Boss node | B+ |
| Vorana | Mournful Cliffside | Boss node | B+ |
Boss sagas inherited into Exhumed Ruins (the "Unknown Ruins" rumour) carry over to the revealed Expedition logbook area.