Map Device

Map DeviceHideout ItemCreates an object in your hideout2 Variations

Metadata
Item class: Hideout Decoration
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/HideoutInteractables/StrDexIntMappingDevice

A fully upgraded Map Device with 5 slots (bottom), with map crafting interface that allows players to select extra map modifiers (top left), ability to add scarabs and map fragments (bottom). The current Atlas watchstone and sextant modifiers are displayed that will affect the map (right).

The Map Device is a world object that allows the player to access certain areas by placing items such as maps, map fragments, or other map-related items inside it.

Accessing the Map Device

The first interactable Map Device the player encounters is located in The Chamber of Sins Level 1 in Act 7 to use quest item to enter Maligaro's Sanctum. This Map Device cannot activate any other map.

In the Epilogue, players will gain access to a fully functional map device in the Karui Shores. After completing the mission A Call to Arms, the player will also receive a personal Map Device decoration which can be placed in your hideout and used instead. This personal Map Device can then be used by any character that has completed Act 10.

Mechanics

In order to activate the device, maps, one or more map fragments, and/or miscellaneous map items need to be placed inside the Map Receptacle. Generally, only one item is required, but for certain map fragments the player may be required to arrange the fragments in a certain order (typically as keys to an endgame boss).

It is also possible to place other map-related items alongside a map for bonuses:

• Map fragments adds increased item quantity o the area
• can be used to collect Pantheon souls from certain map bosses
• Blood-filled VesselBlood-filled VesselCan be used in a personal Map Device alongside a Map to add the monsters stored from a previous Ritual Altar to a Ritual Altar in that Map.s will cause a Ritual to spawn in the map containing the captured monsters.
• Scarabs add various encounters or effects to a map

By default, the map device has 4 items slots. A fifth slot can be unlocked by completing the Domain of Timeless Conflict with four Timeless Emblems, as shown in the Atlas quick guide.

The map device can also add one of several different modifiers to map areas, including a boost to item quantity up to 8% as you complete maps (the default), guaranteed previous challenge league encounters for the price of a couple s (also known as Kirac mods, unlocked as your complete maps), or rarely other mechanics such as Monstrous Treasure through the use of several Atlas passive skills. It also adds the ability to add a Master mission to a map.

Later on, upgrades to the map device may be used to complete the Atlas questlines, and eventually advance progress with the Maven or the Eldritch Horrors mechanics by Maven witnessing the Map Boss or adding Eldritch influence to your maps respectively.

Six portals to the map area are opened when the Map Device is activated. Each portal can only be used once.

List of Kirac mods

This list applies to non-unique maps during version 3.21.0:

Kirac Mods in 3.21

Modifier	Effect	Cost
Default	(1 to 8)% increased Quantity of Items found in this Area	Free
Fortune Favours the Brave	One of the below options will be applied at random, including those you have not yet unlocked	3x
Abyss	Area contains an additional Abyss	2x
Essence	Area contains 3 additional Essences	3x
Ambush	Area contains 4 additional Strongboxes	4x
Metamorph	Area contains Metamorph Monsters	5x
Heist	Area contains 2 additional Smuggler's Caches	6x
Expedition	Area contains an Expedition Encounter	10x
Harvest	Area contains The Sacred Grove	12x

The first use of each modifier is free, and additional free uses may be obtained via Shaping the Mountains.

Other map-like items

Main pages: Map fragment and misc map item

These items can be used on a Map Device to open an instance to an area. They are classified as Map Fragments by item class.

• Breachstones
• Emblems (in combinations of 2~5 factions)
• • A single Sacrifice Fragment or Mortal Fragment opens a portal to a Vaal side area.

These items can be used on a Map Device to open an instance to an area. They are classified as Misc Map Items by item class.

• Vault keys
• Maven's Invitations
• Eldritch Invitations
• ,

s cannot be opened using the map device, and instead must be opened through Dannig.

Lore

Players encountered 2 Map Devices in throughout the Act 1 to 10. The Ancient Reverie Device in The Chamber of Sins Level 1, which was repaired before Act 7 and allowed the player character to use during Act 7. The device is disabled afterwards for reason outside the in-game lore (the dev disabled that device to prevent multi-boxing of map instances). The player also encountered another map device in the Eternal Laboratory subarea of The Solaris Temple Level 2. That map device (known as the Reverie Device) was made by Malachai and seems a copy of the device in the Chamber of Sins. That map device was also functional (in Merciless difficulty only) until version 3.0.0, which the dev disabled it to make way for the device in The Templar Laboratory.

A third device was located in The Templar Laboratory which is made by Valdo Caeserius. However, this part of the story and area despite still assumed to be canon, it is not in-game anymore. This map device was exploded at the very first quest of Conquerors of the Atlas's epilogue. The map device in The Templar Laboratory was functional from version 3.0 until 3.9 but the dev decided that only hideout is the place to map.

In previous expansions, Conquerors of the Atlas and Echoes of the Atlas (version 3.9.0 to 3.16.X), player made the fourth device from spare part as part of Picking Up the Pieces quest; In pre-version 3.9.0 timeline, a personal Map Device was given by Zana so that the player can either mapping in hideout or in The Templar Laboratory.

The fifth device was seen during Sirus boss fight, which is located on the Cathedral rooftop (same rooftop as The Cathedral Rooftop (Act 10)). In that instance of area, the map device at the Templar Laboratory was repaired so that the player character can travel though the portals from Cathedral rooftop to the Templar Laboratory in order to chase Sirus. (All these areas are grouped into 1 map frag only map known as Eye of the Storm.) Despite the Sirus boss fight is still accessible in-game, the boss encounter is considered an interactable "memory" that generated by the power of the Atlas.

Finally, in the current expansion, Siege of the Atlas, in post-version 3.17's Karui Shores, there is 3 Map Devices in the main room (despite only 1 is interactable by the player), and according to Commander Kirac, they (Citizen Vanguard), have secured at least 3 map devices. More decoration that similar to personal Map Device, can be seen in the Kirac's Vault subarea of the Karui Shores. The player also uses their own map device in the hideout. The dev also changed the coding of the game so that in either Karui Shores or hideout, the area would opens the same number of portals to the currently opened map (or map like items) so that there is no chance of multi-boxing of maps. It is not certain that those 3 devices are the devices from the aforementioned The Chamber of Sins, the Eternal Laboratory, the Templar Laboratory and The Cathedral Rooftop, or yet another 3 map devices from other areas, as Kirac's dialogue did not disclosed the details.

It is not directly seen by the player, but when opening a map that contains Smuggler's Cache as part of Kirac's Atlas mission, he claimed that the smugglers (or in his own word: "criminals") may possessed their own map device.

During Synthesis league, the hub Memory Nexus also contains a decoration that resembled to a map device, presumably another map device made by Valdo Caeserius for the High Templar Venarius (now purchasable as mtx). However, since Synthesis league is not added to the core game, but unique Synthesis maps existed as itemized "memory" of the Atlas (which the boss encounter of these maps may contain a non-interactable map device as part of the boss fight animation). There may be more Map Device in the current canon.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.19.0	The Map Device now remembers which Map Crafting option you last used, and is automatically selected if it is available and you have the relevant currency.
3.18.0	Fixed a bug where the Map Device would deselect Map Crafting modifiers after opening a Map alongside a Fragment or Scarab.
3.17.0	Players can map in the epilogue area again. The town Karui Shores now has an interactable map device. It can still benefited from the 3.16.0 change that the portals of current map that opened elsewhere, will carry over with the players. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
3.16.0	In addition to the Guild improvements noted above, we've also made improvements to Hideouts in Path of Exile: Scourge. If a Hideout closes with portals still open, it no longer prevents access to the Map. Instead, whenever a player joins a Hideout or Guild Hideout, any previously opened portals are reopened if the destination Map still exists. Map Portals to empty Map instances will not expire so long as the Map owner remains in either their Hideout or Guild Hideout.
3.11.0	Added an option to prevent other players from using your Map Device portals in your hideout.
3.9.0	the map device at The Templar Laboratory has been removed. [Undocumented This change was not documented by any official sources. It was discovered through player testing or datamining.]
3.7.0	You can now unlock a special fifth slot in the Map Device.
3.5.0	The Hideout Map Device now has several art variations to select from, including that fancy one in the Templar Laboratory.
3.2.3b	You can no longer use the map device in the Chamber of Sins Level 1 in Act 7 to open Maps.
3.0.0	The map device in The Eternal Laboratory is now decoration only. The new area for opening maps is The Templar Laboratory.
1.2.0	Zana allows you to open end-game Maps at a personal Map Device in your hideout. Mods can be purchased that affect the Map as it is opened.