Story routes and farm planning
Anime Expeditions Maps and Drops Guide
The permanent Story route is consistently reported as five maps unlocked in sequence. Use the table as a research index, then confirm the exact act, difficulty, drop preview, Mastery access, and current equipment requirement in the client before starting a long farm.
| Order | Reported map | XP food | Standard gear | Unit-linked items | Farm purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | School Grounds | Cursed Boba | Kunai | Promise Ring; Technique Amplifier | Opening Story progression and early equipment research |
| 2 | Flower Forest | Red Flower | Katana | Hell's Flower | Second Story route and Hollow-linked equipment research |
| 3 | Rose Kingdom | Frown Fruit | Magic Orb | Emperor's Attire; Webbed Fruit | Flame Emperor and String Demon equipment research |
| 4 | Fairy King Forest | Delicious Pie | Warrior's Axe | Boulder; Calamity's Eye | Lady Giant and Puppet equipment research |
| 5 | King's Tomb | Mana Flash | Magic Book | Elven Battle Staff | Late Story route and Elf Mage equipment research |
Anime Expeditions maps FAQ
How many Story maps are in Anime Expeditions?
Current overlapping map indexes consistently report five permanent Story maps in the order shown here. Confirm the current Story menu because updates can add maps, rename stages, or change unlock requirements.
What is the first Anime Expeditions map?
School Grounds is consistently reported as the opening permanent Story map. The current client remains the authority for act count, first-clear rewards, and unlock requirements.
Which map should I farm?
Farm the map whose live reward preview contains the item blocking your next useful upgrade. Prefer the highest repeatable act or mode that clears consistently rather than the hardest option you often fail.
Do Story maps drop unit equipment?
Current guides consistently associate Story and Mastery routes with standard and unit-linked equipment. Exact act, difficulty, rate, pity, and crafting alternatives must be checked in the current reward and equipment panels.
What is a Mastery Stage?
Mastery is reported as a post-clear route tied to Story maps and unit equipment. Confirm how it unlocks and what the current reward preview lists before farming.
Is Villain Invasion a permanent Story map?
Villain Invasion is Update 0.5 limited-event content rather than one of the five reported permanent Story maps. Check the live event timer and availability before planning a farm.
Maps: the short answer
Clear permanent Story maps in the order shown by the current client, then return only when a displayed food, standard equipment, unit-linked item, first-clear reward, or Mastery reward advances the account. Map popularity is not a farming goal.
Reported permanent Story order
Current indexes agree on School Grounds, Flower Forest, Rose Kingdom, Fairy King Forest, and King's Tomb as the five permanent Story maps. Treat that sequence as a navigation aid rather than a substitute for the live menu, because a future update can extend or reorganize it.
How to read the drop table
Food items are reported as unit-leveling resources, standard equipment as broadly usable gear, and unit-linked equipment as items associated with named units or evolved forms. The table records associations only; it does not claim that every act, difficulty, or clear can drop every listed item.
Story progression before farming
Prioritize first clears and unlocks while the current roster can advance. Repeating an early map too soon can delay access to later rewards and modes. Stop progression only when the next act exposes a measured damage, control, survival, or upgrade problem that a targeted farm can solve.
Choose a map from the required item
Open the target unit, equipment, crafting, or evolution panel and write down the exact displayed item. Then locate the same name in the current reward preview. If the names, form, or quantity do not match, do not begin the farm from a third-party table alone.
Mastery and unit equipment
Mastery stages are consistently reported as post-clear map content connected to unit equipment. Before repeating one, confirm the current unlock condition, eligible item, difficulty, pity display if any, and whether crafting offers a better route. Do not turn an unverified drop percentage into a session budget.
Map geometry changes unit value
Long straights, bends, overlapping lanes, short routes, and separated paths reward different attack shapes. Razorjaw benefits from testing aligned path coverage; Cursed Immortal needs enough travel time for reported sustained pressure; Dark Mage needs useful area uptime; Crow needs durable targets for persistent damage. These are test directions, not guaranteed map rankings.
Limited and event maps
Villain Invasion is separate from the permanent Story sequence and is reported as a four-act Update 0.5 event route. Read the live timer, acts, modifiers, event shop, banner, and reward preview before prioritizing it over permanent progression. Event availability and rewards can expire independently from this page.
Efficient map testing
Use the same team, level, equipment, trait, upgrade order, and difficulty for several runs. Track full session time, success rate, useful rewards, and whether the map advances the chosen unit. A lower stage with consistent clears can outperform a harder stage when failures and setup are included.
Common map-farming mistakes
Do not farm a map because a tier list names a unit, assume every difficulty shares the same table, confuse standard and unit-linked equipment, trust a fixed pity without seeing it, or ignore map geometry. Start with the live requirement and reward preview, then measure repeatable results.
What remains unverified
Exact act counts, unlock stars, Challenge modifiers, first-clear totals, drop rates, Mastery pity, crafting costs, daily limits, and event rewards are intentionally omitted. The table should shorten research, not replace the current Story and reward interfaces.
Related guides
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