You only need cart to decipher the map. You decipher the map, soulstone off cart, soulstone on mining. Your template doesn't have to change at all. You can dig up maps without cart.
I think we are speaking the same language but maybe with different accents...
My old template was
120 tame lore vet
115 Margery
110music
110 peace
100 lock picking
For a total of around 795 skill points....it is a very full template.
I spent years running the THB on cats doing shard hunts as well as soloing any map I wanted to.
I would swap out lp and put cart on.....decode tattered maps by the chest full then go swap back the skills and get to work digging. I had a rune library of all map locations in fel and tram and would use the treasure map archive to locate the exact spot of the chest.
When they nerfed maps and made them random locations that all changed.
I spent hours overlaying maps and comparing pixels... Overlaying maps gets me close but close doesn't cut it when you have zero mining.
So now I put GM mining and drops music and peace.....I have 100 extra points so I will throw cart on for now....not sure what to do with the 100 points long term yet.
But yes I can dig maps again....and yes I can do the thing I love in UO again.
I am not sure if I can solo the big maps without area peace....but I will see.
But no one has been able to explain why they changed the system. What was going on that made devs say....we need to randomize maps???
Petra I have read a lot of your guides and found them to be excellent...I just can't get the scales to line up to a point where the overlay technique works 100% for me.
I also found your maps pin pointing some general map locations on the other facets....this will be invaluable when I start making map books for those locations.....that information needs to be clearly linked and identified in a treasure hunting FAQ...
Other thinks and pages need to be removed because they just are so totally out of date. I found a link In Dreads FAQ that leads to a page that explains how to treasure hunt....pre paladins and chiv. Lol interesting read but totally outdated.
Been busy the last few days but I will post a list of links for your review in the next few days.
Thanks for all the help and advice folks...
TW