The Ancient Artifact — better known to most players as the Purified Seed Separator — is one of those collectibles that seems simple until you actually try to track down all eleven of them. In this guide I’ll walk you through every location I know of, with actual directions rather than vague “somewhere in this area” hints, so you can knock them out without wandering the same corridors three times like I did.
The reason I’m writing this up is that when I was hunting these down myself, the seed locations I found were frustratingly unclear — just area names with no real sense of how to actually get there. So I’ve broken each one down room by room and landmark by landmark, based on the 1.04–1.010 SOP build of the game. If you’re stuck on a couple, hopefully this saves you the backtracking.
Where to Find Every Ancient Artifact
There are eleven locations I can recall, all listed in the table below with directions from the nearest recognizable landmark. One thing worth flagging up front: for the Dewy Star Drop Flower, the drop is simply RNG — you can farm it in front of Exile City if you don’t mind putting the time in, so don’t panic if it doesn’t show up right away.
| Location | How to Get There |
|---|---|
| Roseford, Back Alley → Church 2F (Stratos Observatory) | On the 2F of the church. |
| Layer 1, East Wing Confinement Room (Hall of Imprisonment) | This is the room where you first meet Max. Follow the waterway behind the single enemy in the room. |
| Layer 1, Demon Statue’s Hidden Passage | The room with the Dirty Shrine Maiden Statue. It’s the exit of the tutorial area, to the right of the Layer 1 doorway leading to Layer 4. From the Layer 1 lobby room (Peter’s quest), head northwest, then southwest to the sewers, west through the waterway, and northwest past the red enemy of the tutorial area. |
| Layer 1, Library Underground Passage | From Carmillia’s room (the magic teacher), take the east exit, then go west of the east library hallway. Alternatively, if you’ve already unlocked it, take the waterway shortcut east from the Layer 1 lobby room. |
| Layer 2, Sacrificial Mausoleum | In the Layer 2 main teleport room, next to Ed’s tent. |
| Layer 2, Crimson Sealed Cave | Head north of Swamp Camp (East), which is where the teleport trap shortcut drops you. |
| Layer 2, Hegui Village | In the middle of the village, southeast of Venomous Swamp. From Swamp Camp (East), take the northeast exit, then head middle-south. |
| Layer 3, Shrine Maiden’s Gravestone (Tombstone of the Priestess) | Behind Otto’s house in the Exiles’ village. Either finish his quest or steal it from his room using a Cloud Eye potion (invisibility). |
| Layer 3, Abandoned Village | From the Hidden Forest entrance, input Down, Up, Left, Up. It’s right after you exit the first house into the village. |
| Layer 3, Ash’s Treasure | From the Hidden Forest entrance, input Up, Down, Right, Up. You’ll need something like a map from Ash (the Wolfdog): gain enough trust, then talk to him at Shrine Maiden Village. |
| Layer 4, Chapel of the Cathedral of Oz | Where you meet Randel for the Hilda quest. Requires the Layer 3 entrance rather than the one from Layer 1 — from the Layer 3 teleport, go southwest twice, then turn east before the Abandoned Village shortcut. |
The Two You’re Most Likely to Miss
The Shrine Maiden’s Gravestone artifact behind Otto’s house is the one that tripped me up, because there are genuinely two ways to get it and neither is obvious. Finishing his quest is the clean route, but if you’d rather not wait, slipping in with a Cloud Eye potion and swiping it from his room works just as well — a nice option when you’re impatient like me.
The other one I’d double-check is Ash’s Treasure. It needs the map from Ash, which means building up enough trust through dialogue before he’ll hand it over at Shrine Maiden Village. Don’t make the mistake of assumed the sequence input alone is enough — without that map you can input the combination all day and it won’t do anything.
Don’t Overlook the Debug Shortcut
For the Library Underground Passage seed, I’d recommend unlocking the waterway shortcut east from the Layer 1 lobby room as early as you reasonably can. Once it’s open, the trip back to that spot becomes a quick detour instead of a full re-route through the library, and if you’re collecting these in a particular order, that shortcut pays for itself fast.
The two Hidden Forest entrances deserve a mention too — the directional sequences (Down, Up, Left, Up for Abandoned Village, and Up, Down, Right, Up for Ash’s Treasure) are easy to mix up. I wrote them out separately in the table above for that reason, so keep the two straight before you start plugging them in.
Conclusion
That’s all eleven I’ve tracked down, and with the table and the pointers above you should be able to clear every Ancient Artifact without the tedious guesswork. The RNG one will take care of itself if you don’t stress over it — the rest are just a matter of following the landmarks. Good luck collecting.
