Talk:Ancient Valley/@comment-24.185.162.148-20131124233759/@comment-5127476-20140429023527

You have found what I've come to call the artifact gate. This one has always been there, but has not had any function.

Post artifact patch every area has one of these on it (in at least one variant of the map) and in every case I've seen but one, the artifact will spawn on top of it (although some require trigger conditions). I have yet to figure out what the trigger condition for this map is and have seen nothing out of the ordinary, unlike on Magma Baracks where there is a new feature as well that I believe relates to unlocking that area's artifact, but I have not solved the whole puzzle.