An Easier Way to Find the Whirlpool?

[GrapeVruit]

Recently in one of my beta worlds, I decided to finally go out to sea and find the giant whirlpool leading to the sanctum, and by proxy, the vault. However, after spending roughly 5 days sailing across the ocean, I wasn't able to locate it at all. I wasn't sure if it spawned in the deep or calm parts of the ocean or to look out for specific landmarks like the yellow paint leading near the monkey island, so I spent a lot of my time just aimlessly exploring the ocean without any clue as to where I needed to go.

With this area being paramount to completing the shadow arc, it needs to have some type of way to locate it easier. I imagine there could a trail of boat debris leading out to the rough parts of the ocean, broken boards or sails, which would then lead the player towards the whirlpool. I feel like it wouldn't need the astral detector or some magical lunar item to find whirlpools in the ocean, as it'd be pretty natural to see some when boating. I dunno how they'll do it, I just hope Klei can give us a way enter the sanctum a lot faster.

Edited Wednesday at 03:00 PM by GrapeVruit

[ArtiTheFool]

From what I've experienced it spawns in the same icy area that frost jaw's arena spawns in (though it could just be multiple coincidences) and regardless i do agree that there should be a more obvious hint at where it has spawned

[GrapeVruit]

5 minutes ago, ArtiTheFool said:

From what I've experienced it spawns in the same icy area that frost jaw's arena spawns in (though it could just be multiple coincidences) and regardless i do agree that there should be a more obvious hint at where it has spawned

I assumed the same as well, happened to stumble upon in my Wes world in the main branch, but when doing the same as Wanda, no dice. I assumed the boat debris you see occasionally in the ocean would be a good hunt, but alas, no luck.

[Mr.Oshiro]

It should be generated not far from Lunar Island. Directly below Lunar Island is the Lunar Grotto, followed closely by the Archive, and the sanctum is located above the Archive. These connection relationships are fixed.
I think spawns whirlpool near lunar offshore islands is a good choice.