Traveler's Camp is an abandoned camp on the southwest section of Windrose's starting tutorial island. The camp consists of a single tent, a decrepit chest beside the tent, and nearby trees. One of those trees is marked with a red flag that points to a buried second chest. For the recurring camp type that appears on islands across the archipelago, see Travellers Camps.
Location
Head southwest from the initial beach and crew camp. The Traveler's Camp sits in a small clearing near the shoreline; the tent and the red-flag-marked tree are the most visible landmarks. Players typically stumble on the camp during the broad tutorial-island exploration arc.
The Two Chests
The camp hosts two distinct chests:
Visible chest beside the tent contains the Curio called 'Twist of Fancy', which is the first entry in the Traveler's Journal Collection.
Buried chest west of the camp located near the whitish tree marked with a red cloth. Stand on the southwest side of the stump and dig with a Shovel. Rewards include 5x Healing Potion, 5x Great Healing Potion, and 10x Homemade Gunpowder (exact counts vary between community reports; some are randomized).
How to Reach the Buried Chest
Craft a Shovel at the Workbench (3 Copper Ingot + 10 Wood).
Open the visible chest beside the tent and read the Twist of Fancy Curio in your Journal.
Follow the clue, head directly west of the camp until you see the tall whitish tree stump with a red cloth tied around it.
Equip the Shovel, press X to enter Dig mode, and look for an orange circle on the southwest side of the stump.
Dig and recover the second chest.
Related Quests
Twist of Fancy the seven-note Traveler's Journal Collection chain that begins at this camp.
Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest a separate buried-treasure quest on the eastern coast of the starting island, triggered by a different curio.
Tips
Do the visible chest first, reading the curio unlocks the dig-site marker for the buried chest.
If you do not have a Shovel yet, mark the location and come back after your first copper smelt run.
The buried chest rewards include enough healing potions to carry most players through the Revenge Is Best Served Cold boss fight.
See Also
Travellers Camps the archipelago-wide recurring camp type
Dig Mechanics: Orange Circle and Depth
When the Shovel is set to Dig mode and you are standing on a correct tile, an orange interaction circle appears on the ground. That circle is the confirm indicator: if you do not see it, you are in the wrong mode, on the wrong tile, or both. Approach the red-cloth tree from the southwest and sweep the camera across the base of the trunk until the circle lights up.
The chest is buried two clicks deep. Digging once reveals nothing visible; dig a second time on the same tile to actually surface the chest. If two clicks produce no result, move a few paces around the trunk and try an adjacent angle. The buried chest has a small positional tolerance, but it is not unlimited.
Why the Chest is Missed
The Traveler's Camp second chest has one of the most common "missing content" search patterns in the early game, and almost every case traces to a small procedural mistake rather than a bug. The common failure modes:
Shovel in Weapon mode. The Shovel cycles between Weapon, Dig, Raise, and Flatten with X (or Z). Only Dig triggers the interaction circle. Swinging the Shovel in Weapon mode at the dig spot does absolutely nothing, and the default equipped mode is not always Dig.
Digging at the note, not the tree. The Twist of Fancy note is in the tent chest. The buried chest it references is a separate object west of the camp at the red-cloth tree. Digging around the tent or where the note was picked up will not surface anything.
Only digging once. The chest sits two clicks deep. One dig reveals nothing visible, which many players read as a wrong spot. A second dig on the same tile is what completes the surfacing.
Playing at night. The red cloth on the marked tree is significantly harder to spot in the dark, and the whitish trunk blends with other pale trees when lighting is low. Wait for in-game morning if the landmark refuses to resolve.
Going the wrong cardinal direction. The note specifies west of the camp. Compass checks at the tent entrance make the direction unambiguous. North and south variants of the camp layout do not contain the marked tree.
Another documented loot result for this chest is five Elixir of Cruelty plus a Gold Temple Jug, which confirms that the buried loot set is randomized across runs. Any list of "what the chest contains" should be read as a possible outcome rather than a guaranteed drop.
The Pattern Beyond the Starter-Island Camp
The starter-island Traveler's Camp documented above is the most polished example of the layout, but Traveler's Camp is also a recurring point-of-interest type that appears on islands across the archipelago. Map icons for those later camps follow the same convention as the starter camp: the icon shows the chest count (for example 1/2 found) and only fully closes once every chest in the camp is opened. A camp that shows 1/2 with one easily visible chest beside the tent is almost always missing a buried chest in exactly the same configuration as the starter camp.
The shared dig clue. Whenever a Traveler's Camp icon shows an unfilled chest count, sweep the trees within roughly twenty paces of the visible tent for a trunk with a strip of red cloth tied around it. The buried chest sits at the base of that trunk, and digging on the southwest side of the marked tree is the standard interaction position. Two consecutive Shovel digs on the right tile surface the chest, exactly as the starter camp works.
Why the dig clue often appears without a note. The starter camp gift-wraps the system by leaving a written note in the visible chest that explicitly tells the player to look for a red-marked tree. Most later Traveler's Camps do not. The note appears in only a fraction of the procedural placements, so a camp can be missing a chest with no journal hint at all. The pattern, not the note, is the reliable cue: if the icon says 1/2 and the visible chest is already cleared, the buried chest exists and the red cloth tree is the marker. Sweeping the perimeter for that one detail is faster than any other diagnosis.
When the buried chest does not exist. A handful of Traveler's Camp variants are placed with only one chest by design and show 1/1 on the icon from the start. Those camps have no second chest to find, and no red-marked tree spawns nearby. The map icon is authoritative here: trust the chest count printed on the icon rather than assuming every Traveler's Camp must have two chests.