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Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest is an early buried-treasure quest on the starting island in Windrose. Per method.gg, primagames, Boostmatch, and allthings.how, completing the dig rewards 50 XP, 4 Silver Ingots, 5 Guineas, and 2 Pearls. The quest is not a weapon reward; earlier wiki drafts misattributed the Rapier of a Thousand Cuts to this quest, but that rapier is tied to a separate Traveller's Camp buried-treasure dig (the 'Twist of Fancy' note line).

Trigger

The quest is triggered by looting the Blurry Sketch of the Island curio from a Decrepit Chest at a shipwreck on the eastern coast of the starting island. Picking up the curio automatically marks the dig location on the journal and begins the quest.

The Dig Site

The dig site is the marker placed on the journal by the Blurry Sketch of the Island curio. Travel to the marked spot on the starting island, equip the Shovel, and dig at the pin. The red-rag-tree dig described in older drafts of this article belongs to a different starting-island treasure quest triggered from a Traveller's Camp note, not from the Blurry Sketch curio.

Required Tool: Shovel

Digging requires a Shovel, which is crafted at the Workbench for 3 Copper Ingots + 10 Wood. Because Copper Ingots are a mid-early-game milestone (they require the Smelting Furnace and Charcoal Kiln pipeline), most players unlock this quest's trigger during the Islander tutorial but do not complete it until after they have the smelting infrastructure running. Equip the Shovel and press X to enter Dig mode, then interact with the marked ground at the base of the leaning tree.

Reward

Attribute	Amount
Experience	50 XP
Silver Ingots	4
Guineas	5
Pearls	2

Tips

Craft the Shovel as soon as you have Copper Ingots; it unlocks this quest and the worm-dig for Fishing
Loot every shipwreck Decrepit Chest you see on the starting island's east coast; the Blurry Sketch of the Island is the curio that starts the quest
Follow the journal marker after the curio is picked up; the dig spot updates on the map automatically
Budget the 50 XP, 4 Silver Ingots, 5 Guineas, and 2 Pearls as an early-game boost; the quest does not reward a weapon

Quest Name Origin

"Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest" is a line from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, where it appears as a fragment of a pirate song sung by Billy Bones. Stevenson invented the line based on a real location, Dead Man's Chest Island in the Virgin Islands. Windrose's quest takes its name directly from the song, positioning it in the pop-culture lineage of pirate treasure fiction.

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