The Complete Genshin Exploration Guide

0:00 Intro
0:19 Prerequisites
2:14 Strategy & Map
4:01 Major Tips

[RicardsYtb]

Getting 100% on the map : 😇
Getting all achievements : 💀

[anintelligenttalkingcowtha]

Tip for purist explorers: be suspicious of *everything*, there are chests hidden behind dumb stuff like shooting all birds on the rooftops of the houses in a Fontaine village. If it makes a triangle or looks at you funny, check it out.
Tip for disorganized explorers (like me): if you're gonna explore freely or grab stuff on the way to a quest, mark down the stuff you get so you can check on the interactive map later, lord knows how many times I had to check empty places.
Tip for people with lives: don't, leave while you still can
Tip for those who know: the old world is dead, new horrors to be born, now begins the time of monsters

[LaLoutre]

If some people like me hate the fact that 100% on the map doesn't mean 100% of chests, then you're in luck. On the achievement category for each region you can see a certain number of chests collected, this counts as all chests on the map (not in domains), and I have the maximum number of chests you can get in each area of the map (keep in mind that there's some chests that were only available in some versions/events, and that you cannot get them anymore, your max number of chests will therefore be reduced) :

- Mondstadt : 518 (+1 if you played in 1.6 ; +1 if you played in 2.2) - Max : 520
- Dragonspine : 234

- Liyue : 1132 (+2 if you played in 2.2, +15 if you played in 1.3) - Max : 1149
- Chasm : 248
- Chenyu Vale : 333

- Inazuma 2.0 (Narukami, Kannazuka and Yashiori) : 357 (+1 if you played in 2.2) - Max : 358
- Inazuma 2.1 (Watatsumi and Seirai) : 204
- Inazuma 2.2 (Tsurumi island) : 169
- Enkanomiya : 185

- Sumeru 3.0 (Forest) : *_575 (+3 permanent in 4.6)_*
- Sumeru 3.1 (Desert part 1) : 354
- Sumeru 3.4 (Desert part 2) : 290
- Sumeru 3.6 (Desert part 3 / Blessed Hamada) : 256

- Fontaine 4.0 (Beryl, Belleau and Court of Fontaine) : 344
- Fontaine 4.1 (Liffey and Research institute) : 243
- Fontaine 4.2 (Morte and Erinnyes) : 207
*_- Fontaine 4.6 (Nostoi and Sea of bygone eras) : 151_*


*_Updated counts as of 4.6_*
There's some great guides that can help you get missing chests (especially those that are hidden). If you have these values as your number of chests then you got 100% of chests, or what I like to call 105% exploration.





(! Disclaimer ! - This comment is only for extreme completionnist who have mastered the art of not touching grass, if you know you know 😏)

[aleph.null]

Your channel is highly underrated lmfao, good to see such quality content though. No one has done a dedicated exploration guide to this quality. Thanks for putting in the effort to make such good videos man!

[rinkooo]

As a mobile player I’ve 100%ed Mondstadt, Liyue (without expansion or chasm), and Inazuma (without enkanomiya) all without the interactive map and just using treasure compasses lol 😭 (except I had to look up video guides for all the Oculi and some of the puzzles)

[akumamyuto]

I tried to start 100%ing Teyvat with the interactive map, burned out and left genshin for a month. Came back and decided to only use the int map for the oculi, and 100% the map without it (only the shown 100% not the actual 100%) Turns out i just want to have fun, playing the game, and not tab out for every single exploration item i collect.

[OfficialFo]

as someone who is very close to 100% genshin (not the map, like the actual full game 100%) i think this is the best guide for casuall players who want to see the nice 100% numbers on their maps.
however, and im sure you will talk about this when your teased achievement guide releases, if you only follow the things you talked about here, you wont even come close to a "true" 100%. the amount of stuff that is gated behind extremely obscure stuff in this game is insane. there are entire questlines, especially in inazuma and sumeru, that are gated behind a specific choice on a daily comission, or talking to a random npc, or for a specific example the hidden fortune slip questline in inazuma. most players will never do all of this, and alot of these things not only grant achievements at the end, but also chests. the only way to actually truly 100% this game is by going on the wiki and noting down every single wonders of the world achievement you dont have, then working on completing everything.
sorry for grammar and spelling just wanted to spit my take on this aswell, as someone mentally insane enough to literally farm everything in the entire game

[tbibdw]

A quick search on youtube will tell you that there are guide makers who have mapped out completed routes for every region and will show you exactly where every collectible is. It's certainly not the option for you if you think it takes away the fun of finding everything yourself, but otherwise, these are ten folds more time efficient than the interactive map. Also, the 100% indicator on the map is not true 100% (the worst case being the pyramid in the desert where 100% is actually 85-90%), and these guides will make sure you truly 100% everything.

[analyticaltomato]

As someone who plays (and explores) on two different accounts, and discovered the interactive map late into their Genshin journey, I have a small tip for people who’ve already started exploring regions and are close to 100% on the map, but haven’t reached it yet, yet they don’t find the missing chests: use the fanmade interactive map and exclusively select “mini-puzzle”, “buried chests” and “first time defeat enemies”. Mini puzzles are the hidden stuff for things that don’t appear on the map, like “kill all 7 hilichurls on the buoys in Fontaine” or “shoot a Hilichurl target practice near wangshu inn”. This helped me get 100% in Bishui plain and Minlin after one year of having them at 96 and 98% respectively because i hadn’t opened shrines of depths as a challenge to myself. I definitely still have tens of chests lying around in my world…

[catgirlconnoisseur]

My tip for map exploration using video guides:
If you have side mouse buttons(M4, M5 etc), you can bind those to play/pause media. This means you can pause the video when you need to(such as killing enemies for a chest), without wasting time to switch Youtube into focus and manually pause it, then switch back. I won't go in to depth on how to bind the play/pause, Google should help. I do know that Logitech G Hub has play/pause as an option to bind, so it's pretty easy if you have a logitech mouse.

[Mia.S]

If you don’t like using the interactive map (like me) I suggest using the treasure compass to get you to low-mid 90s and then searching “(the region) hidden chests”. This allows you to get all the ones the compass missed which in most places will then bring you up to 100.

[zynitra]

Personally I enjoy not unlocking Statues as it clearly shows me the border of the Areas and makes it easier to just focus on one after the other~

[abbyk]

I had no idea the mora boxes counted towards exploration I just walk past them half the time omg

[ritz_XD]

WAS EXCITED FOR A MOMENT thinking this was another achievements vid but this is good too! currently trying to explore sumeru after putting it off for so long.

[nimonthelord]

Trash Taste Pod iS GOATEDDDD (Anime podcast that doesnt talk bout anime) LESS GOOO

[fistawm]

I know that following map on your own is part of the experience but I just follow these particular channels' guides.
KimDaoGame: Great way to get all chests, no talk and music.
TakaGG: Great way for oculi, zoomed map and everything.

This is great way to just simply explore along with the vid, no hassle of reading and trying to find where chest is!

[kowore]

Adding on for Liyue exploration, if you don't wanna use geo traveler, albedo also works to activate those plates, and his E lasts longer than Amber's Baron Bunny! Zhongli also works, but I believe Albedo's E lasts the longest of all of them?
Source: I used him for every single one of those plates in the Chasm that starts a "Climb these random objects to hit the objective marker" trial

[cazzie]

please do more videos or stream, your voice is so nice listening to you i love just turning the genshin 100% map video on while i go to bed and fall asleep :3

[kasam]

when I discovered water boxes I finished the whole map no compass no interactive map I even did Chenyu vale when it released

[SweeeetLovex]

never seen someone make an exploration guide before, that’s handy - thanks a bunch!