Isle of Dread (and its secrets) discussion thread (spoilers beware)

So is it like the chest in forest biome? Or is it actually worth going after?

@Okielos quote:

So is it like the chest in forest biome? Or is it actually worth going after?

I've just done it, and it's totally worth your time. 

@Okielos quote:

So is it like the chest in forest biome? Or is it actually worth going after?

You get a purple flair and a mess of gold ;)

@Paloverde zfogshooterz quote:

Holy! It's actually done! Thanks big time to you and Lagmonster and many more too! Congratz! 

Sequencing definitely did not cross my mind!

Okie, so..here's the secrets that we've found (in the order of its findings) :

1. Eldritch/Old One thing appearing at the crystal in a secret cave as a result of losing the map.

2. An eerie drawing of a menacing crystal with eyes and wings on top of the to right tower.

3. The sequence of activating the hanging skeletons with hats to enact "The Pirate Chantey" which will spawn the captain secret chest that you could use the key for. *Biggest secret so far*

Hmm...I wonder now, are they more secrets?

I guess this is a good time to bring up the fact that there are two pirate chantey audio files... 

Just some side notes :

The Skeleton captain's hidden chest will be spawning at the "dig" spot that will says "you dig and don't find anything of value" when you interact.

Also if we attempt this secret again after the first time, the chest will just only give the gold.

And.....

@gotrunks712 quote:

I guess this is a good time to bring up the fact that there are two pirate chantey audio files... 

Whew! That might be something.

For peeps who are curious on how the new flair would look, here's how it is:

(and it come with a small lore!)

(Man, I always wanted something tiki in this game! The island warboar and orc nailed it too. I hope there's more of that in the future.)

Since this is a great find, this (secret) might be featured on twitter in a day or two. It's pretty awesome that this thread did a week or two ago.

Well theres still a lot to figure out.
One of it being how we should have found the right sequence without shooting Skeletons in a random order.
Also what was the Crystal drawing?
Was it just an easter egg or should it mean something?

So theres still some cleaning up to do aside from perfecting the above named sequence.

Guess this thread will live a while longer in case we find stuff or get stuff confirmed by Trendys

I'm curious to know who at trendy won the in house bet ;)

@Randomroxas quote:

Well theres still a lot to figure out.
One of it being how we should have found the right sequence without shooting Skeletons in a random order.
Also what was the Crystal drawing?
Was it just an easter egg or should it mean something?

So theres still some cleaning up to do aside from perfecting the above named sequence.

Guess this thread will live a while longer in case we find stuff or get stuff confirmed by Trendys

Don't think this thread is going down anytime soon actually, gotrunks said that there two pirate chanteys, maybe there's another sequence to go?

I'll be quite intrigued if the drawing actually have a secret mechanic at the tower. Seems more like a teaser of what's coming in the future. But then, the flair's lore did explains what's the old one doing in the island. So maybe another secret may explain this. Yep you're right, quite some cleaning up to do.

@Paloverde zfogshooterz quote:

@Randomroxas quote:

Well theres still a lot to figure out.
One of it being how we should have found the right sequence without shooting Skeletons in a random order.
Also what was the Crystal drawing?
Was it just an easter egg or should it mean something?

So theres still some cleaning up to do aside from perfecting the above named sequence.

Guess this thread will live a while longer in case we find stuff or get stuff confirmed by Trendys

Don't think this thread is going down anytime soon actually, gotrunks said that there two pirate chanteys, maybe there's another sequence to go?

I'll be quite intrigued if the drawing actually have a secret mechanic at the tower. Seems more like a teaser of what's coming in the future. But then, the flair's lore did explains what's the old one doing in the island. So maybe another secret may explain this. Yep you're right, quite some cleaning up to do.

Just to save you all some headache, there is indeed another chant in the sound files. However, there is a whole lot of unused audio in those sound files as well. Elandrian confirmed today in Discord that once you find the flair you are done with the secret. So everyone get some sleep finally :P

I'm also here to save you all some headaches with this quick post, everything that we have found in game (and in files) ties in nicely with the current solution. The second chantey too, which I was able to trigger in-game.

Full post coming up soon.

Phew! That's nice to know.

I once was thinking that the secrets would be at one of the small body of lands outside of the island! Well since one of them is shown clear at the trailer. But didn't seem to make sense later as you can't get past the collision of death.

Hey everyone! I was supposed to post this a bit earlier, when the topic was still relevant, but couldn't find enough time.
Here is the story behind finding the secret along with the credits, in a chronological order. For the sake of finishing this list today, mostly major discoveries are included.

• Paloverde zfogshooterz posted first screenshot of the Old One appearing in the cave crystal whenupon loosing the map.
• gotrunks712 posted first screenshots of the interactive black hats and the digspot at the gold pile.
• Sophisticus posted first map with black hat locations marked.
  
• Random Persson posted a comparison of Treasure Hunter's map and Plunderer's Paradise minimap, a more accurate map of black hats and marked all of the skeletons on the map.
  
• luuk_111 posted Trendy's twitter post that confirmed Random Persson's map comparison.
• luuk_111 found that some of the hanging skeletons have red hats .
• Nigiri_Toro found that skeletons with hats have hitboxes.
• Shogun0607 aka Akanbar aka Sho was first to trigger the skeleton animation.
• Random Persson posted a map of the hitbox skeletons; found a ladder that you can walk up, which helps a lot in getting around the map.
• Random Persson created Discord server - Mystery Squad.
• Randomroxas started posting regular updates on recently tried ideas and todo list.
• Shogun0607 aka Akanbar aka Sho triggered the skeleton animation again, it turned out to play a song too.
• We agreed (in Mystery Squad Discord) that the Treasure Hunter's map shows the locations of 5 hanging skeletons with hats and digspot at the gold pile.
• Lawlta posted a helpful hint.
  
• We finished putting together captions for the Pirate Chantey in the Discord.
  
• Shogun0607 aka Akanbar aka Sho got 2 words in Lawlta's hint.
  
• Jose is disappointed in us.
• luuk_111 figured out the Lawlta's hint.
  
  
  
• Lagmonster figured out a reliable way to trigger the chantey after analyzing Sho's stream, then applied Lawlta's mega hint and solved the secret of the Captain's Chest.
  
  (screenshot made by Nigiri_Toro)
• Lagmonster and Nigiri_Toro narrowed down the sequence to one shown below.
• Random Persson put the solution into a number sequence and made a map for it.
  
  With the solution being 2 4 1 3 4 2 1 5 (as of October 8, 2018 - real solution in the post below).

 

Special credit goes to monodust and SDiarc for helping with technical side of the mystery.

And, of course, credits to people in the Mystery Squad Discord, who participated in the journey:
Lagmonster, SDiarc, monodust, Randomroxas, Random Persson, Snek (Luuk)🐍, Nigiri Toro, OxBow, Succ the Fabled, WizardWizard, Soxan, Big D_N_Lil J, moted, Shaidan, Sophisticus, undercoverturbo, Juicebags.

Lastly, a more personal thank you to SDiarc and Nathalie for help with composing and formatting this post.

 

If there is something I misspelled or you think it should be included, please complain about it below, I'll try to fix it whenever I can.

 

Stay in drugs, don't do vegetables and eat your school,
  Random Persson

Edited March 24, 2020 by Random Persson
Fixed links - were broken by forums being recoded

Last post, I swear.

I've tried a few more options and narrowed down the sequence to the shortest possible one. This is the true sequence:

Since it's 5 actions long I've marked it on the image. No need for a code this time.

Nice. Now it does make more sense on how this can be "Trial and Error-appropriate".