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Screenshot of the Goemm's Lab jumping puzzle in the Metrica Province

Environmental puzzle is an unofficial collective term for various areas, usually in the open world, that feature many puzzle or platforming elements along the way to the final reward, usually some sort of a large chest. The rewards for solving the puzzle typically reset daily and are per character. Many environmental puzzles also give an achievement on the first completion. While most environmental puzzles are fairly linear, many of them can feature hidden chests outside of the main path or false endings.

There are several different types of environmental puzzles, although the boundary between them is often vague. Jumping puzzles tend to focus mostly on platforming, whereas minidungeons focus more on combat and other puzzles. Some mastery insights or vistas could also be considered as environmental puzzles.

List of environmental puzzles[edit]

Jumping puzzles[edit]

This is a list of all environmental puzzles called jumping puzzles in the game or other official sources.

Puzzles with 0No in the Gliding or Mounts enabled columns give the player Gliding Disabled.png Gliding Disabled and Mounts Disabled.png Mounts Disabled effects, respectively, or they disallow their usage by other means, such as by the puzzle being underwater. 1Partially indicates that gliding or mounts can be used for some advantage, such as in the jumping puzzle's beginning or to save oneself from falling damage by gliding just over the ground, but they cannot be used for the main parts of the puzzle.

Jumping puzzle Zone Nearest
waypoint
Gliding
enabled
Mounts
enabled
Achievement
category
Notes
Ascalon
Loreclaw Expanse Plains of Ashford Waypoint (map icon).png Loreclaw Waypoint 0No 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Entrance under the water east of the waypoint, or up the cliff southeast of it.
Crimson Plateau Diessa Plateau Waypoint (map icon).png Redreave Mill Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Rock structure south of the waypoint, entrance is on its southeast corner.
Grendich Gamble Diessa Plateau Waypoint (map icon).png Blasted Moors Waypoint 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Just north of the waypoint. This ends with a Rich Silver Vein, no chest.
Wall Breach Blitz Diessa Plateau Waypoint (map icon).png Breached Wall Waypoint 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Southwest of the waypoint (part of nearby vista). This ends with a Hero Challenge, no chest.
Branded Mine Fields of Ruin Waypoint (map icon).png Tenaebron Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Southwest of Varim's Run.
Behem Gauntlet Blazeridge Steppes Waypoint (map icon).png Behem Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Behind the spider cave east of the waypoint.
Craze's Folly Blazeridge Steppes Waypoint (map icon).png Terra Carorunda Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Northeast of the waypoint.
Chaos Crystal Cavern Iron Marches Waypoint (map icon).png Old Piken Ruins Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles West of the waypoint, down a deep pit.
Pig Iron Quarry Fireheart Rise Waypoint (map icon).png Severed Breach Waypoint 1Partially 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Northeast of the waypoint on top of the island.
Kryta
Troll's Revenge Lion's Arch Waypoint (map icon).png Fort Marriner Waypoint Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Start off at the Fort Marriner Waypoint, run along the bridge until you reach the last archway on the right side. The jumping puzzle starts after jumping over the barrels to the wooden planks on the left.
Urmaug's Secret Lion's Arch Waypoint (map icon).png Guild Bluff Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In the northeast, starting behind Urmaug.
Weyandt's Revenge Lion's Arch Waypoint (map icon).png Farshore Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In the Sharkmaw Caverns, starting behind Tokk's Mill.
Demongrub Pits Queensdale Waypoint (map icon).png Godslost Waypoint Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In the southeast.
The Collapsed Observatory Kessex Hills Waypoint (map icon).png Cereboth Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In the southeast.
Swashbuckler's Cove Gendarran Fields Waypoint (map icon).png Cornucopian Fields Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Roughly south of Stonefish Beach point of interest.
Not So Secret Gendarran Fields Waypoint (map icon).png Broadhollow Waypoint 0No 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Follow the noises south of Broadhollow Waypoint to a mechanical jump pad.
Fawcett's Bounty Harathi Hinterlands Waypoint (map icon).png Arcallion Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles North of Arca Lake. If you fall into a pit near the start, you will earn the Jumping Puzzles.png Fawcett's Revenge achievement.
Professor Portmatt's Lab Bloodtide Coast Waypoint (map icon).png Sorrowful Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles West of the waypoint. The whole puzzle is underwater.
Skipping Stones Southsun Cove Waypoint (map icon).png Lion Point Waypoint 1Partially 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In the cave south of the waypoint.
Under New Management Southsun Cove Waypoint (map icon).png Pearl Islet Waypoint 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles East of the waypoint.
Heart of Maguuma
Egg Bearer Auric Basin Waypoint (map icon).png Forgotten City Waypoint 1Yes Auric Basin.png Auric Basin In the Inner Chamber of Tarir.
Highest Gear Auric Basin Waypoint (map icon).png Westwatch Waypoint 1Yes 0No Auric Basin.png Auric Basin Just past the Ancient Golem Part hero challenge.
Maguuma Jungle
Dark Reverie Caledon Forest Waypoint (map icon).png Spiral Waypoint 0No 1Yes Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Immediately after the Morgan's Leap jumping puzzle, inside the Dreamdark Enclave.
Morgan's Leap Caledon Forest Waypoint (map icon).png Spiral Waypoint 1Yes 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles At the Morgan's Spiral hero point.
Spekks's Laboratory Caledon Forest Waypoint (map icon).png Gleaner's Cove Waypoint 1Yes 1Yes Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In Sandycove Beach, follow the river west from Bay Haven to its source.
Spelunker's Delve Caledon Forest Waypoint (map icon).png Astorea Waypoint 1Yes 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles South of the point of interest Danador's Kennel. Follow the road south through the Jungle Trolls.
Goemm's Lab Metrica Province Waypoint (map icon).png Cuatl Waypoint 0No 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles South of the waypoint, hidden by trees; entrance between rocks.
Conundrum Cubed Mount Maelstrom Waypoint (map icon).png Govoran Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Through a small passage directly north of the waypoint.
Hidden Garden Mount Maelstrom Waypoint (map icon).png Criterion Waypoint
Waypoint (map icon).png Avernan Waypoint
Waypoint (map icon).png Oxbow Isle Waypoint
Waypoint (map icon).png Irwin Isle Waypoint
1Yes 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Accessed through the Mysterious Portal, after killing one of four Keepers.
Hexfoundry Unhinged Sparkfly Fen Waypoint (map icon).png Darkweather Waypoint 1Yes 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles In the southeast.
Maguuma Wastes
Prospect Valley Crash Site Dry Top Waypoint (map icon).png Prosperity Waypoint Dry Top.png Dry Top At the center of Crash Site.
Drydock Scratch The Silverwastes Waypoint (map icon).png Drydock Grotto Waypoint The Silverwastes.png The Silverwastes Starting in the Drydock Grotto at SS Topsy-Turvy.
Ring of Fire
Skip up the Volcano Ember Bay Waypoint (map icon).png Castaway Circus Waypoint 1Yes 0No Rising Flames.png Rising Flames Also known as Chalice of Tears. Inside the Sopor Titanum volcano starting at the Chalice of Tears.
Ruins of Orr
Vizier's Tower Straits of Devastation Waypoint (map icon).png Lone Post Waypoint 1Yes 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles On the island directly east of the waypoint. This ends with a hero challenge, a vista, and, if it's not on cooldown, an Orrian Chest that can be triggered to activate an event that spawns a Grand Chest.
Antre of Adjournment Malchor's Leap Waypoint (map icon).png Valley of Lyss Waypoint 1Yes 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles A tunnel in the water north of the bridge directly east of the Valley of Lyss Waypoint.
Scavenger's Chasm Malchor's Leap Waypoint (map icon).png Valley of Lyss Waypoint 1Yes 1Yes Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles South of the map near Hope Falls point of interest you can drop down to a Mithril Ore.
Buried Archives Cursed Shore Waypoint (map icon).png Shipwreck Rock Waypoint 1Yes 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles On the west shore of Mausollus Sea, about midway between the Cathedral of Silence and Mausollus Sea.
Shiverpeak Mountains
Shaman's Rookery Wayfarer Foothills Waypoint (map icon).png Zelechor Hot Springs Waypoint 0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles North of The Osenfold Shear.
King Jalis's Refuge Snowden Drifts Waypoint (map icon).png Snowhawk Landing Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Central east area.
Griffonrook Run Lornar's Pass Waypoint (map icon).png False Lake Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Southwest of the waypoint. Entrance is in the water south of the waypoint - look for the purple glow to the right of the wooden house ruins.
Tribulation Caverns Dredgehaunt Cliffs Waypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Embrace WaypointWaypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Embrace WaypointWaypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Embrace Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Immediately after the Tribulation Rift Scaffolding jumping puzzle, a cleft west of the vista.
Tribulation Rift Scaffolding Dredgehaunt Cliffs Waypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Embrace WaypointWaypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Embrace WaypointWaypoint (map icon).png Sorrow's Embrace Waypoint 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Southwest corner at the vista.
Coddler's Cove Timberline Falls Waypoint (map icon).png Okarinoo Waypoint Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Inside Mellagan's Grotto: the entrance starts directly south of the Okarinoo point of interest.
Only Zuhl Timberline Falls Waypoint (map icon).png Foundation 86 Waypoint 0No 1Partially Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles North of the waypoint, inside a big cave.
Shattered Ice Ruins Frostgorge Sound Waypoint (map icon).png Ice Floe Waypoint Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles East of the waypoint, starting underwater.
The Mists
Obsidian Sanctum Obsidian Sanctum Waypoint (map icon).png Obsidian Sanctum Waypoint (Blue)
Waypoint (map icon).png Obsidian Sanctum Waypoint (Green)
Waypoint (map icon).png Obsidian Sanctum Waypoint (Red)
0No 0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Accessed from the three keeps in Eternal Battlegrounds or the World vs. World panel.
Mistwrought Vault Alpine Borderlands Waypoint (map icon).png Blue World Citadel Waypoint
Waypoint (map icon).png Green World Citadel Waypoint
0No Jumping Puzzles.png Jumping Puzzles Depending on the specific Borderlands map, this puzzle is also known as Emerald Sanctum (Green) or Sapphire Sanctum (Blue). Since the permanent introduction of the Red Desert Borderlands, the analogous Garnet Sanctum (Red) has been retired.
Mistlock Mountaineer Fractals of the Mists Waypoint (map icon).png Fort Marriner Waypoint Fractals of the Mists (achievements).png Fractals of the Mists In the Mistlock Observatory.
Special Events
Winter Wonderland Enchanted Snow Globe Waypoint (map icon).png Crown Pavilion Waypoint 0No 0No Wintersday achievement.png Various Accessible during Wintersday only.
Mad King's Clock Tower Mad King's Realm Waypoint (map icon).png Trader's Forum Waypoint 0No 0No Shadow of the Mad King.png Various Accessible during Halloween only.

Minidungeons[edit]

This is a list of all environmental puzzles called minidugeons in the game or other official sources.

(Another table here)

Miscellaneous[edit]

This is a list of other areas that fit the general definition of environmental puzzles but don't have an official label.

(Another table here)

See also[edit]

Trivia[edit]