Material caches
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Material caches are scenery that each yield one single type of material used in Archaeology. Materials are used to restore damaged artefacts. Unlike excavation hotspots, material caches do not contain artefacts. Excavating material caches located at dig sites can also yield the soil of that dig site.
Caches are not instanced and can be interacted with by multiple players. Material caches deplete similarly to trees; when a cache is depleted, it's unavailable to all players for a short time. Material caches cannot deplete on the first two gathering actions. The higher level the cache, the longer it will take to respawn. The Refined perk and cadantine incense sticks have a chance to prevent a cache from depleting. The Scraps perk provides one extra material when a cache depletes.
The player's Archaeology level, as well as the focus stat of their mattock, will affect their chance of successfully gathering a material from both excavation hotspots and material caches. The Honed perk and the material manual buff also increase the rate at which materials are gathered.
However, unlike trees, the rate of yield does not depend on the level of the cache; a low-level cache and a high-level cache yield different materials at the same rate, given that everything else remains constant. With level 80+ Archaeology and an imcando mattock, material caches would yield 400+ materials per hour. This is in contrast with excavation hotspots, which yields less materials if the hotspot is of higher level.
Most materials have at least two distinct cache locations: one within a thematically-related dig site, and one outside of a dig site. Certain cache locations outside of dig sites require quests to access.
List of material caches
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Update history
[edit | edit source]- update 13 April 2026 (Update):
- You now cannot "expire" a Material cache on the first two gathers from it.
- patch 8 June 2020 (Update):
- Fixed an issue where some material cache frames could be temporarily hidden.
- patch 26 May 2020 (Update):
- Material caches with quest requirements have had these requirements clarified in the Archaeology skill guide.
- patch 27 April 2020 (Update):
- Material caches will now appear as depleted inside quest instances.
- Corrected a Zarosian insignia material cache in Kharid-et that was floating.
- The Yu'biusk clay and vulcanised rubber material caches near the Warforge! are now considered part of the dig site and will award players earthen clay while excavating at them.
- Fixed a light in Kharid-et that was causing material caches to appear as two separate colours.
- Fixed some material z-fighting issues at Stormguard Citadel
- Fixed a light in Kharid-et that was causing material caches to appear as two separate colours.
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