Maple Island is the starter region of the Maple World. Every new character spawns here as a Beginner, walks east through a sequence of small training fields and tutorial towns, and eventually boards Shanks's boat at Southperry to leave for Lith Harbor on Victoria Island (300 mesos one-way). All 1st-job advancement happens on Victoria Island, not here, so Maple Island's role is purely to teach the basics: movement, combat, the dialogue UI, the quest journal, inventory management, and the level-up loop.
Contents
Canonical playthrough
A new character walks the island roughly west-to-east along the Maple Road thoroughfare. The main quest-line moves the player through these maps in order:
- Mushroom Town - West Entrance (spawn map): Heena and Sera run the first dialogue tutorial via Borrowing Sera's Mirror.
- Mushroom Town (Roger): Roger introduces the Use tab via Roger's Apple (quest).
- Mushroom Town (Nina): Nina sends the player into Mushroom Town Townstreet (her son Sen's house) via What Sen wants to eat and Returning to Nina.
- East Entrance to Mushroom Town: Todd runs the first combat-and-loot tutorial against three Tutorial Jr. Sentinels via Todd's How-to-Hunt.
- Snail Hunting Ground I: Sam hands out Sam's Suggestion (ten Snails), Robin sits as a Q&A info NPC.
- Snail Hunting Ground II and Snail Hunting Ground III: no NPCs, more snail variants.
- A Split Road: Maria starts the courier chain Letter for Lucas → Lucas' Reply, and Mai runs the Sam's Suggestion turn-in, Mai's Training, and Mai's Final Training.
- The Field West of Amherst: hub map with six side hunting grounds branching off: In a Small Forest, Dangerous Forest, Mushroom Garden, Snail Garden, Hunting Ground Middle of the Forest I, and Hunting Ground Middle of the Forest II.
- Amherst: Lucas (turn-in for Letter for Lucas, giver of Lucas' Reply), Pio (gives Pio's Collecting Recycled Goods), Rain (runs the seven-question Rain's Maple Quiz).
- Southperry: Biggs (gives Biggs's Collection of Items), Shanks (boat to Victoria Island), plus Yoona and Bari as ambient NPCs.
Monsters
Leaving the island
Once a character has enough mesos for the ferry, speak to Shanks on Southperry's dock. He charges 300 mesos for a one-way trip to Lith Harbor on Victoria Island, after which the player picks a 1st job (Warrior, Magician, Bowman, or Thief) by traveling to the appropriate town and speaking to that branch's 1st-job instructor. See Lith Harbor for the inbound side, and the Beginner article for the level/stat requirements per job.
There is no return ferry to Maple Island from Victoria Island.
Region notes
- Maple Island has no shops that sell HP/MP potions; the player's first Apples come from quest rewards rather than a merchant.
- No PvP, no bosses, no Free Market access, no cash-shop interactions on the island.
World map
See also
- Victoria Island: the next region, accessible via Shanks's ferry
- Beginner: the starting class, required for every Maple Island quest
- Shanks: the boat captain
- World map: the illustrated chart of the Maple World, and how to read it.