Bigg's Dig
Bigg's Dig was a new area that was added Sep 1st, 2010. It was currently a mysterious location in the Plains with 100 sections each with 100 sub-sections, which themselves each have 100 possible dig spots for a total of 1 million possible dig spots.
Bigg's Tent was the companion location for it, also accessible from the Plains. Inside was Renatus C. Bigg himself, who prompts players who have not dug to begin doing so and tallies the number of excavated artifacts for players who have.
On September 6th, Bigg and his Dig disappeared from the Plains after the third layer was fully excavated.
The current significance of Bigg's Dig is unclear as of yet, but presumably Jick will reveal all soon.
Main Level
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2 (30.5%) |
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(100%) | 10 (49.2%) |
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(100%) | 38 (60.2%) |
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| (100%) | 42 (54.4%) |
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52 (82.5%) |
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(100%) | 55 (32.7%) |
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(100%) | 63 (51.9%) |
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(100%) | 96 (26.4%) |
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Sections
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(100%) | 17: 33 (98%) |
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(100%) | 17: 43 (99%) |
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| (100%) | 17: 72 (23%) |
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(100%) | 17: 90 (24%) | ||
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Digging
With the advent of the second layer of the dig, an archaeologing shovel must be equipped in order to excavate artifacts. One shovel per person per day can be obtained from from Bigg; additional ones can be obtained by getting waterlogged crates from the sea floor and having Bigg open them. Each shovel breaks after 30 excavations.
Each dig spot yields a fossilized bone, an unearthed potsherd, a pile of volcanic ash or, sometimes, the rare item. Moreover, a number of specially-marked spots exists which only wield fossils or rares.
Smoked Potsherds
It has been discovered that pasting together volcanic ash and unearthed potsherds produces smoked potsherds. Using the smoked potsherds from inventory in groups of 5, 7, 8, 9, or 11 will produce a piece of a new pottery outfit.
| Outfit Piece | smoked potsherds required | Effect: |
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| pottery yo-yo | 5 | +5 Hot Damage |
| Pottery hat | 7 | Slight Cold Resistance +5 Hot Damage |
| pottery club | 8 | +5 Hot Damage |
| pottery shield | 9 | +5 Hot Damage |
| pottery training pants | 11 | All Attributes +3 +5 Hot Damage |
Zapping a pottery yo-yo will yield a pottery barn owl figurine.
Reanimated Fossils
Assuming the adventurer possesses enough fossils to reassemble full skeletons of the excavated creatures, one can use a fossilized skull used from the inventory to fight a reanimated version of the skeleton. The reanimated creatures are extremely powerful and, similarly to Frosty, only take one hit point of damage from each source. Fighting them can be facilitated by equipping the pottery armour - the more of the set you wear, the easier it (presumably) is. Additionally, equipping a pottery weapon will help overcome their physical resistance.
| Skull type | Resulting ML | Parts needed |
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| fossilized bat skull | 50 | 2 fossilized wing |
| fossilized serpent skull | 100 | 3 fossilized spine |
| fossilized baboon skull | 150 | 4 fossilized limb, 1 fossilized torso |
| fossilized wyrm skull | 200 | 2 fossilized limb, 2 fossilized wing, 1 fossilized torso, 3 fossilized spine |
| fossilized demon skull | 250 | 4 fossilized limb, 1 fossilized spike, 2 fossilized wing, 1 fossilized torso, 1 fossilized spine |
| fossilized spider skull | 300 | 8 fossilized limb, 8 fossilized spike, 1 fossilized torso, |
Defeating your first reanimated monster will produce a fossilized necklace. By default the necklace does nothing, however defeating further skeletons results in it being augmented with with monster teeth to provide bonuses to spell damage, weapon damage and stats. The benefits of the teeth are capped at 5 teeth of each monster on the necklace. You can add more teeth to the necklace, but more than 5 gives no benefit.
Non-Combat Adventures
Sweet, you dug up a fossilized skull!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized baboon skull |
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Sweet, you dug up a fossilized skull!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized bat skull |
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You unearth a fossilized limb of some sort!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized limb |
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Sweet, you dug up a fossilized skull!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized serpent skull |
or (from the second layer)
You unearth an ominous-looking fossilized spike...
 | You acquire an item: fossilized spike |
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You unearth a fossilized spine!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized spine |
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You unearth a fossilized torso, pelvis and all!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized torso |
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You unearth a fossilized wing!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized wing |
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Sweet, you dug up a fossilized skull!
 | You acquire an item: fossilized wyrm skull |
or (on the third layer)
Sweet, you dug up a fossilized skull! It's... horrifying.
 | You acquire an item: fossilized demon skull |
or (on the third layer)
Sweet, you dug up a fossilized skull! It's... beyond horrifying.
 | You acquire an item: fossilized spider skull |
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You dig and dig, and just when you're about to give up, you discover an ancient shard of pottery. Whee!
 | You acquire an item: unearthed potsherd |
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You dig and dig, and just when you're about to give up, you unearth a pocket of smoldering volcanic ash. Hot!
 | You acquire an item: volcanic ash |
or rarely (on the first layer)
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 | You acquire an item: unearthed volcanic meteoroid |
or rarely (on the second layer)
You unearth a red-hot medallion. How lucky! Or... unlucky?
 | You acquire an item: red-hot medallion |
or rarely (on the third layer)
Whoah. You unearth a crazy-looking stone tablet.
 | You acquire an item: sinister ancient tablet |
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You don't have time to do any excavatin', for a mine or otherwise.
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Uh oh, looks like somebody beat you to that spot. Try somewhere else!On the second or third layer, without an archaeologing shovel equipped:
- This layer of the dig is too difficult to dig into without the proper tools. You should go talk to Bigg.
Notes
- You can still adventure here whilst falling down drunk.
- Approximately 5 hours after the Dig's initial unveiling, all 1 million spots had been dug up and there was nothing more to be done in the zone. The second layer was opened around 14:00 GMT on Sep 2nd, featuring limits on the daily number of excavations, one new fossil and a different rare item.
- The second stage of the dig was completed before the September 3 rollover. R. Bigg stopped giving out shovels as a result while he prepared for the next stage of the dig.
- The third stage of the dig was completed before the September 6 rollover. R. Bigg has vanished (the tent is now empty), and the dig site is gone entirely.
References
- The name of the location refers to the Big Dig, a major highway-construction project in Boston, Massachusetts.
- It is also a reference to social news website Digg, which was the subject of a major upheaval during the week preceding Bigg's Dig.
- Bigg himself is named after René Descartes, the French philosopher, mathematician, and creator of the Cartesian coordinate system of coordinate geometry.
- The message you get when you don't have any adventures left is a reference to the folk song, Oh My Darling, Clementine: "In a cavern, in a canyon / Excavating for a mine."
