Synopsis
A lost Viking settlement… an island unstuck in time… a magical map with power beyond understanding… and a devious plot that could unravel the very fabric of Poptropica! Join Mya, Oliver, and Jorge for a thrilling new adventure that lifts the veil from the greatest secret of all: the origin of Poptropica!
For walkthroughs on Mystery of the Map Island, scroll down.
or June 11, 2015 (for all)
Common Room: Vikings’ Grotto
Preceded by: Galactic Hot Dogs Island
Succeeded by: Timmy Failure Island
Resources on this page: Island Extras | Synopsis from Poptropica | Video Walkthrough | Written Walkthrough | Album Photos | Trivia
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Video Walkthrough
For a written walkthrough with pictures, scroll down on this page!
Written Walkthrough
Walkthrough and pictures by Brave Tomato
Meet Octavian
You’ll start off by the triumphant return of the Poptropica blimp as you find yourself on a tropical landscape. Go the right and you’ll run into a man trapped in a tree in a hot air balloon. His name’s Octavian, and he needs your help in getting him down. He’ll pass you a corner of the Map he has.
This map is essential to go places during the quest. You can access it by either following one of the signs on the edge of the screen or directly in your inventory.
Open the map and select the camp. You’ll traverse places Indiana Jones map travel style and you’ll find yourself at a camp a random Viking made. Yes, there are Vikings here, nothing special. Go a bit to the left and grab the Shovel.
Next, head back to the jungle via the map and go to the right until you end up at a beach. Go over to the mound of sand by the Viking ship and use the shovel. Upon digging through the sand like a pro, you’ll find a Viking Battle Axe. Return to Main Street, and use the axe to get Octavian down.
Go back to where you found him and use the axe on the tree. You’ll chop the tree down and as you make your way to talk to Octavian, you’ll grab some Rope. Upon talking to him, you’ll realize that the map he gave you was only a piece of a larger one that showcases all of Poptropica. He claims to be robbed of the rest of the map by his “traveling companions” and he believes them to be at the Viking fort “selling it off”. He promises to split any proceeds he finds with you as he runs off.
Making the Rock Slide
You should get into the Viking fortress to investigate these traveling companions, but you can’t just walk into the front door. You’ll have to enter the garbage chute and to do that- you have to make a moat for the Viking fortress. You already have one part of how to make that happen, the rope. The next thing you’ll need is gunpowder.
Go to the camp again, and you’ll notice that the Viking guarding the camp is now asleep so you can check out the entire area now. Not too far from the campfire, there’s a bag of Gun Powder. Go ahead and grab it – the Viking is not going to notice because he’s busy taking a nap.
The final part of the process is for you to get a lens. However, it’s not as simple as swiping the gunpowder. First, go to the Viking Fortress and over to the garbage dump to the left. A fancy golden Goblet will drop out. Grab it- you’ll see why in a bit. Go to the waterfall and go into the water. Click use on the goblet and you’ll hold it in your hand. With that in hand, click on one of the fish swimming around and you’ll scoop it up with your goblet.
The lens is over in the Dodo area. Go there and you’ll find Dodo birds being protective of their territory and guarding their nests. To lure them away, use the fish right by where the animal bones are and all the dodos will come chasing after the poor fish. Go up to the top nest and grab the Lens.
Go back to the waterfall, but this time, jump your way up to the top of it. You’ll find a rocky area with a bunch of rocks on the left that look like they’re ready to fall. First, place down the gunpowder. Then, place down the rope. And finally, use the lens to direct the sunlight towards the rope, causing an explosion that’ll cause a rockslide. Upon jumping down, you’ll realize the rockslide redirected the river, which means you can get into the fortress now.
Playing as Servant
Go over to the fortress area and swim to the left. Use the Battle Axe again to chop down a tree in order to access the garbage chute (gross). Enter through it and you’ll find a Viking demanding you to serve drinks to everyone. Go a bit over to the right and click on the drink tray. First, pass over a drink to the big guy, and then pass the rest to the other two Vikings at the table.
While the big Viking is eating at the seat, you can grab the coat of Furs hanging off his chair. You can’t put it on now, but you’ll see what’s up later. Go back to the kitchen and grab the bucket of Drippings that is on a shelf over the fireplace. Also gross. Grab the drink tray again, but this time, use your goblet and put it on the drink tray. Go over to the left and enter the throne room of Erik the Red.
Erik the Red will accuse the Vikings standing before him of stealing his goblet and he just wants someone to hand it back, no judgement. He’ll then close his eyes and count in order to give them a chance to confess. Pass the drinks out to the Vikings and you’ll give the goblet to Thorlak, the Viking at the front of the line.
When Erik turns around, he’ll see Thorlak, the Viking carrying the large goblet, and feel utterly betrayed. Despite his promise of “no judgment”, Erik unleashes his fury at Thorlak and tries to throw his Viking helmet at him as he runs away. Go ahead and pick up the Helmet. You can’t wear it now, but again, you’ll need it later.
Rescuing Mya, Oliver, and Jorge
Your servant duties are done now. Go all the way to the right into the pig pen area. There, you’ll see Octavian, the man from before, insist to a trio of kids to give him back the map. That trio of kids are the protagonists from the graphic novel: Mya, Oliver, and Jorge.
Speaking of, if you have read the graphic novel, you are probably already aware of the fact that Octavian is not a nice man. You’ll hide behind a bale of hay as Oliver gives Octavian the map. Despite the kids pleading him to be let go from the cage, he ditches them because he already has what he needs. Slipping on a disguise, he then runs off.
A guard will then come over and taunt the pigs with slop. Use the Drippings on the guard and he’ll be covered in the stuff, causing him to be chased by a stampede of pigs. Karma’s annoying, isn’t it?
Go over to the cage and use the battle axe to break down the wooden door keeping the kids in the cage. Jorge will thank you by giving you an already bitten Candy Bar.
Oliver and Mya note that they can’t just leave the fortress like normal – they need a disguise. Luckily, you have one. Use the Viking helmet and you’ll place it on Oliver’s head. Then use the gigantic fur coat and you’ll put it over Jorge. The four of you will then stack together to make one tall Viking disguise.
As the role of the legs, it is your objective to make sure the four of you stay balanced as you head over to the garbage chute. Move forward a little bit at a time; wait for Oliver to tilt slightly forward, move forward a little, wait, move, and keep doing this to until you reach the garbage chute at the end of the hallway. Be careful not to be too unbalanced (it’ll be indicated by Oliver’s facial expression), otherwise you’ll have to start over.
Upon reaching the garbage chute, the real big Viking will arrive and you and the kids will be busted. The three of you will escape through the garbage chute and ride the log down the river. Now it’s time to find Octavian before he leaves the island!
Escaping the Vikings and Finding Octavian
You’ll end up in a chase scene down the river, and you’ll have to dodge the rocks as you go downstream. However, another obstacle comes in the form of the large Viking hurling boulders at you. A good strategy to use is to keep to the left of the screen to give yourself time to notice the river rocks, and allows you to more easily dodge the Viking’s thrown rocks.
You can only take 4 boulder hits before you have to start over — each boulder hit knocks out one of the kids. After a minute of successful dodging, you’ll be able to escape by falling down a waterfall.
Upon landing, you’ll find Octavian just about ready to leave and he proclaims that no one can stop him from leaving this island and therefore having everyone else be trapped on this island. You’ll notice the Dodos also wandering around right nearby. In order to get Octavian away, use the candy bar Jorge gave you, and you’ll toss it to Octavian. The Dodos, loving food, will then go up to Octavian and chase him away from the scene.
The trio will thank you and offer you to join them on their journey home, but of course, you have your own adventures in store. As thanks anyway, Mya will give you the medallion. Congratulations, you’ve completed Mystery of the Map Island!
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Album Photos
These pictures appeared in a former feature known as the photo album.
Trivia
- Mystery of the Map Island is Poptropica’s 43rd island, and it was released to members on May 21, 2015 and June 11, 2015 for non-members.
- Mystery of the Map Island was re-released for Steam on May 25, 2022.
- Common room: Vikings’ Grotto
- Mystery of the Map Island tells the story of Poptropica’s origin. This story was conceived in the form of a screenplay by Jeff Kinney, Poptropica’s founder, around 2013.
- There is an official graphic novel based on this island, also called Mystery of the Map, which you can read on the PHB’s Comics page. A page of the book was published every day on the Creators’ Blog in the days leading up to the announcement of the island.
- The graphic novel is the first in a series of four graphic novels. The other Poptropica graphic novels are The Lost Expedition, The Secret Society, and The End of Time.
- The Mystery of the Map story takes place in a time period where Vikings (c. late 8th to 11th centuries) and dodo birds (now extinct) roamed the earth.
- Previously, members could get a Dodo Bird and Pig Costume in the Poptropica Store, while everyone could get Viking Shields.
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This guide’s gonna be very helpful for me when I complete MoTM Island.
lol as soon as i looked at this island and the guide i was like no way cuz it looked way too long for me!! :)D
Geez, l thought this island was going to be hard, but it was EAS-Y!
Hard for me.. I Got stuck at the moat part of this guide bc Im dumb… Yay!!!
this was a shorter island than ushawal
what do i do wen i “lean”to the left
It means you tilt your character a little by lightly clicking in that direction. Balancing requires you to lean back and forth in both directions. Watching the video guide at the top might help give a sense of what that looks like.
hay!
I know this sounds like a dumb question, but where is the garbage dump place? 👌🏼 Please help.
At the bottom of the moat, all the way to the left at the fortress
Sometimes I use video guides, and sometimes I use written guides. For this one, I’m DEFINITELY using a written guide 🙂 Yes, that was a compliment 😀
(:whispers: SO DETAILED!)
yeah but video guides are way easier
beacause ur fingers will hurt if you type i bet ur fingers were sore after you typed the whole entire thing
Sometimes I use video guides, and sometimes I use written guides. For this one, I’m DEFINITELY using a written guide 🙂 Yes, that was a compliment 😀
(:whispers: SO DETAILED!)
Thank you! Been waiting for AGES! 5 star rate from this girl!
The candy bar bit is ridiculous,IMO.
what does IMO stand for?
In My Opinion.
I’m in love with this guide. x looks up, clasps hands together, goes on knees and lisping x Thank you, PHB Authors!!!
I don’t like Octavian…..that roman…only Percy Jackson fans will get this.
At least MOTM’s Octavian doesn’t sacrifice stuffed animals.
True.. I don’t like both Octavians, but to be honest, I like MOTM’s Octavian a little bit better..
Me too
this was SO glitchy! Also when the girl wanted me to break them out of the cage I said, ”What am I gonna use? The battle ax?” then i tried it and it worked! I did not expect that to happen.
Actually Octavian the Roman HAS to sacrifice stuffed animals. Without sacrifice – how will he get all those prophecies? I think he is pretty cool. This Octavian is also a little unstable. So…I, all in all, like BOTH Octavians EQUALLY.
PS. Nico, Leo and Reyna RULE!!!
typIical of you.
stay on topic plz :))
Yeah! He took Percy’s panda pillow pet! What a tongue twister. Can’t say that 5 times fast. Leo is my favorite. +Reyna+Percy+Annabeth+Nico
i totally agree i don’t like octavian in the heros of olympus series
i agree but he does end up being a hero no matter how mean he was
i need to read more percy jackson. im reading sea of monsters right now
Omg truth!
ikr
me to
when i gave the helmet to the kid he kept saying give me good costume well slip i even gave them a fur coat
You are right, Lara 22079. Though he kills himself in the end. In blood of Olympus.
Spoiler
truee
OH MY GOD YESSSSS!!!! THE POOR PANDA PILLOW PET MY HEART!
OH MY YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Love poptropica
that roman indeed. *salutes*
YASSS I LOVE U
YESSSS!
LOL! I get it!
DON’T EVEN MENTION OCTAVION. HE SHOULD HAVE DIED IN BOO, PERCY’S POOR PILLOW PET, NOOOOO…
Lol! Poor Percy!!!!! : ( !!!!!
hey i read percy jackson 2
lol yes I am a Percy Jackson fan and right now I am reading the Mark Of Athena and I HATE OCTAVIAN too so don’t worry girl I got ya
Yassss
lets face it we all hate octavian
Octavian is psychopath that sacrifices stuffed animals to gods and starts wars. Not the kind of guy you want to meet, if ya know what I’m saying
I AGREED THAT Octavian!!!
LOL
cant wait till i can play. btw, do u know when that is?
Non-members will be able to play June 11, so for now they can play a demo.
(Also, for now on I have a link to my Avatar Studio in my name.)
Coooooooool
Ok so dis is first day 4 non-memberz!!!! 😀
Ugh…. For me, it is impossible to get past the table without getting busted…. Way too hard for me…. It is becoming annoying…. As soon as I start to walk past the table, I start to tip and have to walk all the way back to the entrance to where the pigs were… I could really use the help…
Well, I’ve given up for now….
In response to my previous comment, nevermind…. I got past… I watched Captain Crawfish’s walkthrough and that helped….
You know you could just walk super quick and then you won’t tip. Try it! It worked for me!
Yeah me too, it took me a couple times but I finally did it
I just wait until im totally leaning forward then i RUN.
I really wish you could have gone with them at the end.
when I try to pass out the goblets i am in the motion of giving a viking a goblet but it stops and starts to load and won’t stop loading and I can’t click on anything in the game. I have to restart it and log in and then there will be one less cup but i can’t do anything. Can anyone help??
I actually experienced the same glitch the first time I played through. All, I could do is restart the island. When you reach back to the fortress, try not to grab the bucket of drippings over the fireplace. When I didn’t grab that bucket, it was working again.
The helmet (the one Oliver wears) looks a lot like the winged Viking helmet from Club Penguin. XP
Anyway, thanks for the guide! 😀 (I placed #5,425 on the worldwide rankings, and #127 on Pennsylvania’s rankings :P)
im just wondering, who is that girl on this island it has been perplexing and im just to curious
+ buddy me my name is my username
If you’re talking about the girl in the yellow shirt, her name is Mya. She’s one of the three leading kids in the graphic novel.
What r we talking about? Percy Jackson or the island?? COME ON PEOPLE STAY ON TOPIC!!!
analol, they’re talking about the island.
I can’t get to do the island either cause my computer internet is slow or it does not even work 😦
I really hope there will be a Harry Potter island or a Percy Jackson island
Sadly, there probably will not. I’m pretty sure Charlie and the Chocolate factory is now in the public domain, so they could make that island, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid was made an island because the author of the series (Jeff Kinney) made Poptropica 🙂
Yeah. I really do want to Harry Potter island. Imagine urself going to Hogwarts and Hogsmeade (oops, spoiler alert)! And being able to do magic whenever u want! 😯
they already have made a charlie and the chocolate factory island on poptropica
Same Here. 😛
they mad charlie and the chocolate factory island in probaly in 2012
I wish there was a Dork Diaries island.
yeeeeeah but it will probably be like super hard
that was for Silver Dolphin
I solved it (getting past Viking guards) by walking in the wrong direction (when Oliver grits his teeth SO HARD and starts to sweat) and then running to the left, so I got to the garbage chute in time! 😀
This is my favorite island now. 😀
can you have us do more adventures with Mye, Oliver, and Jorge?
Anyone else having a problem with passing the drinks out to the Vikings?
I had an issue with that – what I did was pick up the drink tray, put the goblet on it, then passed the drinks out to the Vikings being interrogated in the throne room. The last one took the goblet. However, either before or after, you’ll also need to give a drink to the big Viking in the dining hall so he’ll be distracted and you can take his fur coat.
Cool i solved this island using the guide
ur guides r awesome!!!!
I’m done with mysteryofthemap
awesome! i got 150 credits!
Hello! PHB STAFFs this island is so cool and awesome,thanks guyz for the walkthrough,and oh slippery raptor my name is red raptor in poptropica
PLZ be my friend guyz my username is: chua11254 ….. nice to meet all of u!!!! bye
i think this was a gr8 island but when i was on this island and i had my inventory and all the items in it then suddenly i opened it for an item and there was nothing in there talk about a glitch plz fix this!
This has to be the easiest island, next to Early Poptropica.
WHAT NO WAY!! EARLY POP IS MUCH EASIER!!!
I said NEXT TO EARLY POP
very, VERY helpful. I got through it on my first try! Thank you.
Whenever i get to the garbage chute i go to galactic hot dog island. ;(
where in galactic hot dog?
That’s just weird. That hasn’t happened to me.
when i enter the game i already have furs and drippings. Is that a glitch?
It’s possible. If you have all the rest of the items minus the candy bar, you might have gotten through part of it already. If you can, try restarting the island. It may take away the glitch.
Maybe you’ve been on the island before a long time ago but you just did didn’t know.
I miss the tough islands, like Cryptids, Mystery Train, Steamworks, etc. Now those would take hours to finish. This one… well, it was TOO fast. And nothing to really draw the player in. I’m not quite sure what was up with the vikings being there anyway.
Cryptids and Mystery Train are easy,i have completed them so try to complete them and as for Steamworks i’am working on it.
I can’t chop down the tree to get to the garbage chute. What’s going on, Brave Tomato?
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thz i completed the isand.I did every thing and also every hard par in the game.Thx so so much….:)
Feh. I fell this island was way too short.
when you put the Viking disguise on, I cant seem to walf, failed every time, I need a video or someone to help!!!
D-:
me too!!!
i keep falling back:((((
same
the part when the u have to blance your slef is to hard
ikr
yea thts wat it keeps doing 2 me 2
hi i like this guide but where is the rocks that are about to fall because i cant find where they are but thanks a lot i really like it thanks!
Here’s a tip for when you are in the disguise: Walk the OPPOSITE direction to the one you’re falling in. (For example, if you are leaning to the left, walk right until you are completely straight again) Also, if you are bent a lot, RUN!
i love poptropica mystery of the map but how do you get into the game
slantedfish: You can find MotM Island on Poptropica Original – click the button in the top corner at Poptropica.com!
HELP!!1 i chopped down the tree and did all the steps but now when i try to go into the garbage chute it says,”thats one place i hope to never go again!” please help!!!
whops!sorry i didn’t notice i had already completed the island!sorry!!!!
the game where you try to keep your balence in a disguise is so hard!!!D:< any tips?
nvr mind
Just finished MOTM Island and I did it pretty fast. *hums lyrics of City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2* Just waiting for the MOTM graphic novel to come out.
*whispering* Man, this is gonna be awesome!
slantedfish: You can read the MotM graphic novel on the PHB’s Comics page. 😉
When I went to the “Camp” there was an angry Viking guy there. How do I get rid of him?
I walked right of the fortress and now im in mythology island?
You accidently hit the ad just go back to MOTM
what do u do when ur person tilts backwards?
I cant get past the part where we have to pretend to be the big viking and we have to keep balance HELP PLZ plz help me plz
The goblet thing isn’t working 😐
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I loved the island! It was very fun!
8D love it
Hey My phone glitches or something but it doesnt show the goblet in my inventory what do i do?
Never mind I just restarted the island and it worked
I needed help for a couple mounts for this and i figured it out YAY!
I love It!!!
I glitched and Oliver and Jorge have the costumes but they wont let me use them plz HELP!!!!!!!!!!!! :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{ :{
Same thing happened to me where Oliver and Jorge had the costumes but wouldn’t follow me, for me I just had to exit through the barrel and they were on the raft
I thought that completing this map will reveal the old ones! But sadly it did not. Please help me get the old islands back for me!
Here’s our guide on how to play the old islands with the mobile app and Flashpoint!
well I love this island Why do they have to remove this Island no matter I can Install In on play store it’ll be available