Avernum 6 Annotated Maps

Strategy and Tips

Small tips:

• Habitually hit Quick Save (F3) often.
• If you see something that is Not Yours but in sight of a friendly, you can sometimes get away with stealing it anyway. Quick Save (F3) before you try; if they get hostile, you can Quick Restore (F4) and go on your way.
• At the beginning of the game, pick up every object that you can without getting caught for stealing. Once your cash flow begins to grow, just loot those objects that have a high cash value. This way you’ll be saving some major space in your inventory.
• Never sell anything if you have 15000 gold. That is the limit you can carry and saving objects for when you’re low on cash is a good plan. If you want to free up your inventory just drop them while close to a dealer. That way you can pick them up later if you need to.
• In the early game, battle rage OFTEN. One spell caster covers the whole party.
• Most important stats: Strength - on all characters. affects the weight of items you can carry (good armor is heavy) and damage you can absorb via hardiness.
  Nature Lore - avoid those wandering encounters. Some nature lore is needed to open the caches hidden around the place. The better the reward, the higher skill is needed to open it.
• Tool use is still important for traps, no matter how good your unlock doors spell is. Build it up.
• Don't bother with potion making at first, but keep those ingredients. Potions have a higher re-sale value than their constituent ingredients. You probably don't need to make potions to use - only some invulnerability and restoration and energy is useful, only in the last levels of the three major quests.
• Don't bother with food except as an item to sell - it only helps a little bit and the only way to fully recharge is by entering a friendly town.

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Construction places:
Use the items listed to make some new equipment for your party. The best recipe is acquired late in the game, and is the production of knowledge brews from all herbs. The limiting reagent for knowledge brews is mandrake root, so save them up for a late-game bonus to your stats.

Fort Draco:
Hrank
 2 healing herb                           = healing potion
 1 healing herb                           = curing potion
 1 healing, 1 spiritual, 1 energetic herb = speed potion

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Spell and Trainer list

Mage spells:
  Lark (Slightly Expensive)- Fort Monastery
Bolt of Fire
Call Beast
Spray Acid
Daze
Haste

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Trainers
Note that you can only improve a skill by up to two points, and only if you haven't already increased the skill by two points. Some skills are definitely more worthwhile to wait off on than others. One point skills aren't really worth holding off on unless you have money to burn or are otherwise so inclined. Cecil can be reached fairly early, and you should definitely use him to increase your mage's and priest's magery skill, and possibly their spellcraft as well. Shrum should be used to increase everyone's bow or sharpshooter skill, since he's the cheapest in the game.

KEY:
  Trainer- Location (cost)
Skill (saved points)    coins

  Townshend- Formello (expensive)
Arcane Lore    (1)         1400
Spellcraft     (3)         2800

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Spell book Locations
As before, spells aren't greatly benefited by increased levels. Some spells must be bought, most notably return life. Most all other spells can be found in the game for free, and these are summarized below.

Priest spells
  Minor Heal: Bandit Ruins

Mage Spells
  Call Beast: Aranea runes near Chitrach Caves