Palia: The True Treasure Quest Guide

The True Treasure closes out the Prismbeard Treasure line in Palia, sending you across Elderwood to find six statues that trace a pirate’s life story before a locked room inside Shipwreck Cave hands over the loot. The riddles are vague on purpose, and the final puzzle uses compass directions rather than the layout of the room, which is where most runs stall.

Quick answer: Visit the statues in order at Mauvais Way (A4), Deep Woods (F6), De Mer Dock (B8), Central Stables upper walkway (F4), Mitana Grove (G2), and Shipwreck Cave (D8), speaking to Auni after each one. Then set the puzzle dials to Siren facing north, Kraken east, Leviathan south, and Charybdis west, and press the check button.

What you need before the quest will start

The True Treasure is a Discovery Quest handed out by Auni, and it triggers on its own the moment the previous quest wraps up. You cannot pick it up from a bulletin board, so if it is missing from the Discovery tab of your quest menu, one of the requirements below is still outstanding.

Requirement	Detail
Auni friendship	Level 2 or higher
Earlier quests	Adventure On The Horizon, then Prismbeard’s Lost Treasure
Equipped gear	Pirate’s Spyglass, slotted in the Quest Gear position
Inventory space	At least five empty bag slots for the final chest

The Pirate’s Spyglass is not optional. Statues and the purple trails around them are invisible without it equipped, so if you arrive at the right coordinates and see nothing, check your Quest Gear slot first. It disappears from your inventory once the quest is finished.

Get the Newspaper Clippings from Caleri

Travel to Kilima Village and find Caleri, the librarian. She is usually in the Restricted Section of the library beside the Furniture Store, though she also spends time around the Elderwood Central Stables.

Ask her about Prismbeard and run the conversation to the end. She prints you a set of Newspaper Clippings, roughly ten pages of articles and photographs from an old Akwindu Digest anniversary edition.

Open the quest section of your inventory, marked with the exclamation icon, and read the clippings. On PC, right-click the item and pick Read. The photographs on pages two, four, six, eight, and ten are the actual location hints.

Return to Auni and Nai’o and tell Auni what you learned. The objective updates to Prismbeard’s childhood home, and the statue hunt begins.

All six Prismbeard statue locations in Elderwood

Order matters. Stumbling across a later statue early does nothing, because each one only becomes interactive once the objective before it is closed out. After every statue, Auni and Nai’o will be standing somewhere close by, and talking to Auni is what advances the tracker.

Objective	Where to look	Grid
Childhood home	Mauvais Way, on the cliffs by a small shack	A4
Sailed his first ship	Deep Woods pond between Red Blossom Cave and Lilac Cavern	F6
First set sail	De Mer Dock, beside the fast travel point	B8
Where he was caught	Central Stables, upper walkway near the Umbraan Shrine	F4
Where he escaped	Mitana Grove, on the hexagonal dock	G2
Eobard’s Revenge	Shipwreck Cave, on the steps overlooking the wreck	D8

Mauvais Way (A4)

The first clipping places Prismbeard’s family in the forest outside Zendruu Outpost, which points to the Mauvais Way area. From the Central Stables, follow the Red Blossom Cave tunnels out to the cliffs. Climb the first rock ledge and the statue sits in an alcove ringed with purple light.

Palia quest tracker showing the objective to find Prismbeard's childhood home while exploring Elderwood — The tracker keeps the childhood home objective pinned until you reach the Mauvais Way statue. Image: Singularity 6

Deep Woods pond (F6)

Page four shows a pond with a wooden dock, the spot where a young Zayid floated toy boats with his brother. Head toward the Deep Woods entrance from Central Stables and the water sits on your right. The statue waits at the end of the broken bridge.

De Mer Dock (B8)

Fast travel straight to De Mer Dock. The statue stands just to the left of the arrival point, near the main gazebo, and Auni and Nai’o wait in front of the docks afterward.

Palia objective panel reading find where Prismbeard first set sail as the player runs toward the docks — The set sail objective resolves at De Mer Dock, a short run from the fast travel post. Image: Singularity 6

Central Stables walkways (F4)

This one is above your head. Climb the hanging nets on the central structure by the Central Stables fast travel point and follow the walkway around to the second level. The statue is next to the Umbraan Shrine, and it is easy to interact with the shrine’s offering prompt by mistake, so decline that and keep walking until you find the Prismbeard statue.

Shrine offering prompt in Palia with the Decline option highlighted next to a 0 of 1 requirement — The Umbraan Shrine offering window is not part of the quest, so decline it and look for the statue nearby. Image: Singularity 6

Mitana Grove (G2)

The final overland statue sits on the raised hexagonal dock in the middle of Mitana Grove, close to the waterfall pool. Interact with it, then find Auni to hear that the last clue refers to Eobard’s Revenge, the name of Prismbeard’s ship.

Reach the sixth statue at Eobard’s Revenge (D8)

Fast travel to De Mer Dock and head west along the cliffs toward the Okanaa Bog side of the map. Look for the small opening in the rock near the southwest Red Blossom Cave entrance, which leads into the hidden cave.

Inside, take the left path and slide down into the main chamber where the wrecked ship sits. Some gaps here are easier to cross with your glider than on foot.

Palia quest tracker reading Return to Eobard's Revenge as the character runs across a bridge — Once the tracker asks you to return to Eobard’s Revenge, the route runs back through the cave system. Image: Singularity 6

Take the stairs on the left, up the slope to the left of the door marked with the water symbol. The sixth statue stands on the platform overlooking the wreck.

Interact with the statue, then speak to Auni standing near the ledge. The purple patterns around the Secret Cave door light up and the door unlocks. Walk through it.

Prismbeard’s final puzzle solution

The room holds four rotating dials, each carrying four sea creature symbols, plus numbered scrolls on the floor. Every scroll names one creature and one compass direction. The catch is that the directions refer to the compass at the top of your screen, not to which dial faces the door, so face each dial and check your heading before you commit.

Creature	Symbol on the dial	Direction
Siren	Blue mermaid	North
Kraken	Teal squid	East
Leviathan	Purple serpent	South
Charybdis	Orange swirl with an eye	West

Rotate each dial until the correct symbol sits on top, then walk to the purple pedestal near the entrance and use the Check Guess prompt. A correct arrangement opens the inner door immediately. A wrong one simply resets the dials, so there is no penalty for guessing.

Turn prompt shown on a rotating symbol dial inside Prismbeard's puzzle room in Palia — Each dial uses a Turn prompt to cycle through the four creature symbols. Image: Singularity 6

Treasure chest rewards

Open the chest in the room behind the door to collect everything in one pull. Prismbeard’s Figurehead is a housing decoration, and the journal is the story payoff Auni has been chasing since the first quest.

Item	Quantity
Prismbeard’s Journal	1
Prismbeard’s Figurehead	1
Gold Bar	2
Emerald	1
Garnet	1
Pearl	1

After looting, speak to Auni and Nai’o one final time to close out the quest. The conversation may trigger automatically as you leave the cave, or you may need to catch Auni back in Kilima Village. Once the dialogue ends, The True Treasure moves to your completed list and the Pirate’s Spyglass is removed from your gear.

If a statue or the chest will not respond

Statues and purple trails are invisible while the Pirate’s Spyglass is unequipped. Re-equip it in the Quest Gear slot and reload the area if the trails still do not appear.
A statue will not activate if you have skipped the objective before it. Finish the current tracker step and talk to Auni before moving on.
The chest will not open with a full bag. Clear at least five inventory slots, then reload the area and try again.
If the quest never appears after Prismbeard’s Lost Treasure ends, log out and back in.

Auni’s closing line lands the point the whole chase has been building toward, which is that the journal and the trail of statues were always the real find. The gems and gold bars are a decent bonus, but the figurehead on your plot is the part that sticks around.