Lost At Sea sends you after the wreckage of the Annabel Lee, then asks you to fish it up — and that is where it broke for players in early October. In reports dated 3–10 October 2026 the marker floats over empty water, the water gives ordinary fish and junk, and a treasure beacon appears where the wreck should be. Update #3 on 5 October 2026 patched a treasure-fishing conflict that fits the symptom but never names the mission, and the thread's latest replies (17 October 2026) say the quest is doable if you cast at the ring indicators.
1. Getting the Quest and Who Gives It
Not verified by our team as of 2026-10-19. The thread describes returning to the person who handed out the mission at the end, but never names them, and no patch note or store page identifies the giver. We are not going to guess a name to fill the gap.
What is clear is that the quest is a boat mission: you are searching open water around the Oil Rigs, sohaving a motorboat and knowing the waterwaysis the practical prerequisite.
2. Objectives in Order and Where They Happen
The three objectives below are the ones the poster lists, in their order. Location notes come from the same thread.
| Step | Objective | Where | Status in reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Search for the wreckage of the Annabel Lee | Open water around the Oil Rigs | Completes |
| 2 | Find the shipwreck near the Oil Rigs | Oil Rigs area — marker floats above the surface | Completes, marker stays |
| 3 | Fish for Wreckage | Same marker; a treasure beacon reportedly appears just above it | Reported broken 3–10 Oct |
Step three is the one that eats runs. Players describe casting at the marker and pulling up ordinary fish and junk, with nothing that reads as wreckage, then watching the marker persist afterwards.
3. When the Fishing Objective Does Not Tick
This reads as a "wrong thing on the hook" failure rather than a frozen counter: players are fishing, and the cast keeps returning ordinary fish and junk. Why that happens is a hypothesis, not a confirmed mechanic — a loot-table clash or a quest-flag conflict would both fit the reports, and no source we checked names the cause. Two practical points follow regardless of which explanation is right.
- Do not burn a whole in-game day there. The 10 October reporters kept fishing and got junk until curfew, and one lost the marker entirely afterwards. The step is not a patience check for them.
- Watch the ring indicators. The newest reply in the thread (17 October 2026) says the quest is doable: cast where a ring indicator disappears once something is hooked — usually a plastic item — and if the indicator does not disappear, that spot belongs to a different quest. That is one player's account and we have not reproduced it.
- Keep the save from before you started casting. If a future patch changes the quest stage, you want a save that has not already advanced the marker.
- Hide the marker if it follows you. Update #4 (9 October 2026) added Quest Marker Filtering, and the official wording makes the effect conditional on having it enabled. Turn the option on first, then unpin the quest: with filtering enabled, the HUD, compass and map only show quests you pinned, so unpinning hides the floating marker. It does not fix the objective.
One player reports a working completion route: locate the Sang-ha sign, talk toSalt Pete, then return to the quest giver. Another says they finished the quest but the marker never cleared. Both are single accounts from the same thread and neither is confirmed by us.
4. Rewards and Unlocks
Not verified by our team as of 2026-10-19. The mission is built around treasure fishing, so a reward is clearly implied by the design, but no source we checked states a credit amount, an item or an unlock. The thread talks about a treasure beacon and "first treasure", which suggests the payout is tied to the treasure-fishing system rather than to a flat quest reward.
If you want the mechanics behind that system rather than the quest, ourfishing guide covers the simulated fish population and why the wrong spot returns the wrong catch.
5. What We Have Not Verified
- The quest-giver and the official objective wording.
- Whether the Update #3 treasure-spot line refers to Lost At Sea specifically.
- Whether the Sang-ha sign / Salt Pete route is required or just one player's path.
- Any reward amount, item or unlock.
- Whether the quest still fails on the current build — the latest replies say it is doable, but we have not re-tested it.
The mission is worth starting for the boat run and the wreck search. The junk-fishing reports we found are all from the first half of October, and the newest reply says the ring indicators are the way through — but nobody on our team has re-tested it, so keep a save before the marker and check the quest hub for the latest stamp.
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🔗Related Nivalis Guides
How the physical fish simulation works, which is why fishing the wrong spot returns fish instead of quest items.
Reaching the Oil Rigs and the open-water markers without wasting a run.
The dock figure a player names as the next step after the Sang-ha sign.
Mission Slumlord, Where Is Ava and the patch timeline behind every quest stamp.