Use this map locations page for Aunty, Bufo, Moss, Willow, route gates, resource anchors, and how to decide whether a blocked route is a map problem or progression problem.
Winter Burrow map locations are useful only when you pair the place name with route-state. Aunty, Bufo, Moss, and Willow are not just dots on a picture. Each one sits behind a different stage of home repair, tool progress, warmth safety, and quest wording. If you can see a region on a community map but cannot enter it, the usual answer is not "the map is wrong." It is more often a tool gate, NPC hand-in, key, tunnel state, or route you have not learned yet. Use this page as a location triage sheet: identify the destination, confirm the gate, pack for the route, then open the dedicated guide if the blocker is specific.
Aunty: early story and home-station progression.
Bufo: pies, key steps, Pollywog, and mining progression.
Moss: Shadow Pines, hood, Heavy Key, and Pinesap chain.
Willow: notebook, tunnel, shovel, artifact, and late cleanup.
Use the anchor map to choose a region. Use route-state to decide whether you can actually enter it now.
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Aunty and the Early Home Loop
Aunty is the safest first location family because it teaches the real structure of the game: repair, cook, talk, carry, and return. If you are searching a location around Aunty, check home readiness first. Do you have the cooking station repaired? Did the current objective ask for stew or a hand-in? Are you carrying route food and warmth, or are you relying on pickups? Early Winter Burrow is not about sprinting across the full world. It is about turning the burrow into a reliable base so later location checks do not collapse from hunger or cold.
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Bufo and the Mining Route Family
Bufo is the location family that explains why many resource searches feel like softlocks. Players see Granite, Pickaxe, Flint, or Pollywog wording before they understand which gate is active. The correct check is sequence. Bake or carry the required food, finish Bufo dialogue, confirm the route gate, then test the tool interaction. If the rock or log will not respond, do not farm random screens. Check the Bufo chain and the exact tool state. The most efficient path is a short confirmation run, not a long mining haul.
Landmarks such as grass bands and logs are practical route checks. They are more useful than vague compass directions.
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Moss and Shadow Pines
Moss is where a map stops being enough. Shadow Pines repeats turns and the important objects can look like background detail. If your target is Moss, the hood, Heavy Key, or Pinesap, slow the route down. Leave in daylight, carry tea, note which axe or pickaxe gate has reacted, and use the landmark in front of you rather than a memory of the whole map. If vines do not cut, solve the axe path. If stone does not break, solve the mining path. If you keep reaching ordinary forest instead of the old-tree or cart landmark, you are not at the correct route-state yet.
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Willow and Late Route Checks
Willow searches usually mean the player is late enough to have several overlapping systems: notebook, shovel, tunnel, spider thicket, artifact, and hazelnut follow-up. That is why the Willow route is not best handled by a single static pin. Read the objective text, then match it to the next physical check. Notebook means hand-in. Shovel means home-side digging. Tunnel means inspect promptly. Artifact means a thicket sweep after Willow progression. If the route is cold or long, do not continue exploring after the target appears. Pick it up, return, and hand it in.
Objective text is part of the location. Willow routes change depending on notebook, shovel, tunnel, and artifact state.
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How to Use This With Dedicated Guides
Use this page when you do not know which destination family you are in. Once you know the blocker, move to the narrow page. Open the Granite guide for resource availability, the Pickaxe guide for tool sequence, the Pinesap guide for Shadow Pines navigation, the Mole Artifact guide for Willow thicket cleanup, or the tunnel guide for shortcut and dig-state problems. This is how the site avoids content overlap. One page helps you classify the location. The route page solves the exact task.
Supply Tip 1
Classify the destination before following a long route.
Supply Tip 2
If a gate does not react, check quest and tool state before searching another map.
Supply Tip 3
Use dedicated pages once the blocker is Granite, Pickaxe, Pinesap, Willow, or tunnel state.
