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The Witcher 3 Guide
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Treasure Hunt: What Was This About Again

By Max Roberts, Jack K., Jon Ryan, +35.8k more
Updated: Jan 3, 2025 9:18pm UTC

Walkthrough

This page contains the walkthrough for Treasure Hunt: What Was This About Again, a side quest in The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine.

You can start this treasure hunt side quest by looting a corpse and reading ship captain's log, which is found north of Plegmund's Bridge, west of the Trading Post signpost, and southwesth of the Arthach Palace Ruins.

Once at the location, there will be some drowners that you'll need to kill with your crossbow. At the bottom of the ship, you will find a corpse which contains a key and a log. Read the log and it will lead you to a nearby cave.

Dive into the cave and it will lead to an underground cavern. Deeper into the cavern, you'll come across a shaelmaar.

On the southern side of the cavern there will be a ledge you can jump onto. This will lead to the treasure chest that you can unlock with they key found earlier.

Video Walkthrough

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild HuntCD Projekt Red
Initial Release: May 18, 2015
ESRB: Mature
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