Help:How to edit item acquisition
In Path of Exile there are quite a few items dropping in various places, some are random and some are restricted to certain areas. As the number of items and areas where it drops increases the harder it is to maintain multiple pages with the same information. To minimize the number of pages to manually edit it's been decided to store drop restriction information on the item pages only. Other pages then have to query for that information from a database. This will reduce repetitive edits across the wiki and increase accuracy for less popular pages.
Get the area id
Before being able to specify how an item is acquired (say from a map), you will need to make note of the place's area id.
It can be found on the wiki page for the area, in an infobox beside the Id column. For example, for Graveyard Map the id is MapWorldsGraveyard.
You cannot add the item into the area, instead you add the area to the item.
Edit the item page
To add or modify where an item is acquired, you must edit the Item infobox on that item's page (e.g. Her Mask).
First edit the page using Edit Source or Edit (make sure to switch it to Source Editing in the editor dropdown menu)
File:Her mask edit buttons.png
Edit the Item infobox data
Find the section starting with {{Item, and the first line that reads map_area_id =.
This is a comma separated list of area ids. Add the new area id you made note of above (say MapWorldsGraveyard for the Graveyard Map) to the list.
Save your changes
Save your changes, specifying where you got the information in the Summary box (e.g. Personal drop)
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