Post Sections ⇅
- Buried Treasure Event Dates 2024
- Be Considerate!
- Treasure-Hunters Picks, Cave-Claws and Dowsing Gems
- Berries – 15min Cooldown
- Treasure Hunt – 15min Cooldown
- How Buried Treasure ‘Rounds’ Work
- Buried Treasure Event Rewards
- Buried Treasure Token Rewards
- Rich! Plugin
- Cave-Claw Wrangler Deed Title
- TL;DR All sorts found in the ground during the LOTRO Buried Treasure Event!
The LOTRO Buried Treasure Event is a great way to spend down time from questing, or life! A repetitive chance at unearthing tokens, cosmetics and sometimes even mounts.
I suggest you pick a couple of characters to do it at the same time so you always have something to do. But let’s follow the Dwarves to the Low-lands of Ered Luin and see what we can find!
Buried Treasure Event Dates 2024
As per the LOTRO Events Schedule, the dates for 2024 are:
- From: 4th April 2023 at 10am /servertime, To: 10th April 2024 at 3am /servertime.
- From: 7th November 2023 at 10am /servertime, To: 13th November 2024 at 3am /servertime.
For the May event it means the last full day is the 29th May. And for Autumn, the last full day is the 27th November.
Be Considerate!
- Please do not stand, mounted or otherwise, over the Quest-givers or Vendors. It can make interacting with them very difficult.
- If you see someone heading to a bush for Berries, don’t race them for it.
- If a player is releasing a Cave-Claw in an area of dig sites, try someplace else.
- Please dismount at the base camp. It can get crowded and anything that helps it load quicker for players is good for everyone.
- Please also consider limiting, or not using: Cosmetic Pets, Lore-Master Companions and Captain Heralds. They take up space and increase load time.
- Please don’t use involuntary Emote items around quest givers (e.g. mass fainting – e.g. Such as Essence of Toad and Swamp-Cabbage).
Treasure-Hunters Picks, Cave-Claws and Dowsing Gems
Treasure-Hunter’s Picks
Obtaining Treasure-Hunter’s Picks
- If your character has never done the LOTRO Buried Treasure Event before, you have an intro quest that grants 10 Picks.
- After that, the best way to amass them is to speak to Quest-Giver Aldúlf. You can complete Treasure Hunt every 15 minutes. You receive 2 Picks for this quest.
- Every 15 minutes you can interact with the Cave-Claw Quest-Giver and obtain the Berries Quest, which also grants 2 Picks
- You can also find Picks when out digging for Buried Treasure.
- If you wish to, you may purchase extra Treasure-Hunter’s Picks from the LOTRO Store, but you really don’t need to
Using Your Picks
Right-click on a Dig Site to use one of your Picks. You may also add them to your quickbars and use them that way.
You could also consider using the Rich! Plugin to keep all your Buried Treasure items in one separate window:
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Trained Cave-Claw Cages
Obtaining Trained Cave-Claw Cages
- You receive 1 × Cave-Claw by completing the Quest Berries
- Cave-Claws may be purchased for 5 ×
Buried Treasure Tokens from Sigtír. If used properly you often dig up more tokens than you spend on them! - Extra Trained Cave-Claws may also be dug up from Dig Sites
How Do I Use Cave-Claws?
- Only use Cave-Claws early in a Round
- Releasing a Cave-Claw within a ‘circle’ of Dig-sites minimises your chance of wasting one.
- Ensure you release one when there are a good number of dig-sites nearby
- If another player is near you and appears to be releasing a Cave-Claw, I advise you head somewhere else on the map. Both the Cave-Claw Cages and Dowsing Gems uses a kneeling emote/action.
How Far Can Cave-Claws Sniff?
Opinion: It is far better to wait for a new round to start than release a Cave-Claw in an area with few Dig Sites remaining.
How They Detect Dig Sites
Trained Cave-Claws will tell you what size dig site it is: Small, Medium, Large or Huge.
It is rarely worth using your Picks on Small Dig Sites as at best they give you a couple of tokens, maybe three at a push. Other sized dig sites are worth using your picks on, for their token yield – and sometimes grant you cosmetics, or additional Treasure-Hunter’s Picks/Trained Cave-Claws/Dowsing Gems.
Dowsing Gems
You can use a Gem on a single Dig Site and it will return a “reading”. Here’s how they equate to the size of dig site:
- Very Weak Reading: Small Dig Site
- Slight Reading: Medium Dig Site
- Strong Reading: Large Dig Site
- Very Strong Reading: Huge Dig Site
Weirdly, the Dowse Emote is far more interesting than what happens when actually dowsing for treasure!
Berries – 15min Cooldown
Pick Up the Quest
To get Treasure Hunting items, all you need to do is speak to the ever-hungry Cave-Claw at base camp.
Collect Buries
Then head out into the Treasure Fields and collect 5 × Berry Bushes. These are not open tapped so you may need to run around a bit, or wait for the bushes to respawn.
Note: You can pick berries while mounted. But please be considerate of those who choose to be on foot. The berries respawn. There is no need to race other players to them.
Get Supplies
Once you have all 5, return to the Cave-Claw.
Rewards:
Treasure Hunt – 15min Cooldown
Ingenius quest name don’t you think?! You pick up this quest from the Dwarf Aldúlf.
All this quest requires you to do is speak with another dwarf Halthor Goldeneye. He is at the Event Barterers.
However to manage cool-downs on this and Berries, do not turn it in straight away. Complete Berries, then turn in “Treasure Hunt”.
- 2 × Treasure-Hunter’s Picks (remember you can get 2 every 15 minutes).
How Buried Treasure ‘Rounds’ Work
A round lasts until someone has found a Huge Dig Site.
There is a short delay while the Field re-sets.
Don’t use your items or picks after you receive the on-screen text of Current Round Has Ended. You may waste your precious!
Buried Treasure Event Rewards
Unlike other LOTRO Events, you can get some rewards at the Barter Vendor, but others can be found in Treasure Caches that you unearth. as well.
Treasure Cache Rewards
Inside treasure cache’s you can receive various things
- Buried Treasure Tokens
- Various Cosmetic Items
- Housing Items: Treasure Chest, Dig Site
- Mounts: Cave-Claw Steed, Treasure Laden Goat and Treasure-Laden Steed.
Note: Some of the cosmetics available at the Token Vendor, may drop in Treasure Caches. Therefore it’s best to put off buying the cosmetics with tokens until you’re sure you’re done with the event.
Treasure Cache Steeds
Update: As of Update 25.4.5, Treasure Cache steeds are Bound to Account not bound on acquire so if you dig up a steed in a box (ew!) feel free to gift what you dug up to another character of yours.
Misc Treasure Cache Rewards
Note: if your current character already has an Emote they have dug up, you can send it to another one of your characters. They are Bound to Account, so share the love!
Pro Tip: If you have a Rune-Keeper, the Treasure Hunter’s Satchel doubles up as Rune-Keeper’s Satchel. It is technically a “back” item but it appears attached to your belt.
Emotes
Some emotes fall from treasure caches, some from the Barter Vendor and some can be obtain via either of those methods. I’ve recorded ones I have so far. If you want to see these Emotes in action, I’ve given videos below.
Counterfeit Emote
Command: /counterfeit
Not Available for Event Tokens
Gem Inspection Emote
Command: /inspectgem
250 TokensLarge Cache Rewards
Rich Emote
Command: /rich
300 TokensHuge Cache Rewards
Coin Flip Emote
Command: /flipcoin
Not Available for Event Tokens
Dowse Emote
Command: /dowse
30 TokensMedium Cache Rewards
Other Emotes available:
- Gold Panning: 100 Tokens, Medium Cache rewards
Buried Treasure Token Rewards
Mount: Harvest-Brew Goat
There are a LOT of things available from the Barter Vendor. There is, however, just one token-barter mount:
Cosmetics
All cosmetics listed here can be acquired from Treasure Caches. So only use tokens to purchase them near/at the end of the event so you can use your tokens for other things. For more information see my Buried Treasure Cosmetics page, or click/tap into one’s you’re interested in.
Pets
As Hobnanigans pets were imported into the Buried Treasure Event, there are now loads of pets to collect!
Cave-Claw Pets
All Cave-Claw Pets cost 500 × Buried Treasure Tokens:
Chicken Pets
The Dwarves have imported the chickens from Hobnanigans, and there are six different chicken pets to acquire.
- White Chicken
– 150 Tokens - Red Chicken – 225 Tokens
- Dorking Chicken – 300 Tokens
- Scrapper Chicken – 375 Tokens
- Black-Foot Chicken – 450 Tokens
- Orange Wyandotte Chicken – 525 Tokens
Carrying Chickens
Each of the six Chicken Pets comes with an equivalent “Carrying Chicken”. As the name says, it’s a consumable that lets you carry a chicken for quite a long time. As a bonus, if you “consume” 50 × Carrying Chicken of the same variety, you get the permanent skill for that bird.
- White Carrying Chicken: 5 Tokens Each (250 Tokens for the Deed)
- Red Carrying Chicken: 6 Tokens Each (300 Tokens for the Deed)
- Dorking Carrying Chicken: 7 Tokens Each (350 Tokens for the Deed)
- Scrapper Carrying Chicken: 8 Tokens Each (400 Tokens for the Deed)
- Black-foot Carrying Chicken: 9 Tokens Each (450 Tokens for the Deed)
- Orange Wyandotte Carrying Chicken: 10 Tokens Each (500 Tokens for the Deed)
Facepaint Stencils
Facepaint is like a temporary tattoo. There are 8 Facepaint designs and cost 5 x Buried Treasure Tokens each. Here are the facepaint stencils available at the Buried Treasure Event.
Facepaints have a 20-second cool-down but last for 1 hour each usage.
PS: the last Bullroarer session showed these had 2-hour durations.
Facepaint Deeds
Facepaint Consumables have related deeds. If you use the same stencil 50 times, that character will get a permanent skill for that stencil!
As Facepaints only cost 5 × Buried Treasure Tokens each, you can get a stack of 50 for 250 Tokens. Easily doable over a weekend.
Motes of Enchantment
You can barter 200 Buried Treasure Tokens for 300 × 
Motes of Enchantment.
Decorations
Since 2020, previous Hobnanigans decorations have been made available at the Treasure Hunt. Full details, screenshots and token prices of these can be found at Déco Du Milieu .
Cooking Recipes
Buried Treasure Tokens Recipes for 5 × Buried Treasure Tokens
Buried Treasure TokensWhat’s an Unearthed Sack?
Good question! For a mere 500 Tokens you can get a mysterious Unearthed Sack. This is basically a “lucky dip”, so its contents are random. You can see a selection of possible items over on the Wiki. I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it’s worth the price tag!
Rich! Plugin
* Click/tap to enlarge
plugin is very useful at this event. It- Tracks the cooldowns of Berries and The Treasure Hunt quests
- Lets you see how many Tokens you have
- Provides an easy toolbar enabling you to use the event consumables
- Allows you to open unearthed chests without opening your bags.
To use this plugin, either download it from LOTRO Interface and install it manually or see my LOTRO Plugins and Addons page for an easier installation process.
Once it’s installed, use the /showrich command to, well, show rich. The /rich command relates to one of the Emotes you can earn during the event.
Cave-Claw Wrangler Deed Title
- Barter for single-use Domesticated Cave-Claws
- Hug one of each type (target the cave-claw and use the /hug command, or quick-slotted emote from Collections.
If you find another player’s cave-claws you can also hug theirs to advance the deed!
TL;DR All sorts found in the ground during the LOTRO Buried Treasure Event!
From tokens, to cosmetics – from homestead decoration to free mounts, the LOTRO Buried Treasure Event is full of rewards. If you’re patient! And one final tip: Play some music in the background so that the looping Dwarf-tune doesn’t send you loopy, enjoy!
About the Author
I have been playing MMOs for about ten years and began writing guides to The Lord of the Rings Online in 2017. I've only been creating content about Final Fantasy XIV since 2022, but I am glad for the mix. My current games include LOTRO, FFXIV and the occasional Palia session too.
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