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id: rpg-grind--procedural-expeditions
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title: Procedural expeditions
summary: 'The same objective repeats across changing routes, encounters and resources.'
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  - id: source-6f1679c4523261ce
    title: Final Fantasy XIV
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      https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/deepdungeon/
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Procedural expeditions
    description: >-
      The same objective repeats across changing routes, encounters and
      resources.
    image:
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      width: 274
      height: 322
      game: Final Fantasy XIV
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        https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/deepdungeon/
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        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or
        publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT
        and CC BY 4.0.
      caption: The current floor map in Palace of the Dead
      alt: The current floor map in Palace of the Dead
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          label: Rooms and passages define this attempt’s route
    tips:
      - Keep the objective recognisable as routes and encounters change.
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      - title: Final Fantasy XIV
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          https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/deepdungeon/
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  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
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---
# Procedural expeditions

id: rpg-grind--procedural-expeditions
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--procedural-expeditions
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--procedural-expeditions/

The same objective repeats across changing routes, encounters and resources.

## At a glance

![The current floor map in Palace of the Dead](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-ffxiv-deep-41.webp)

[Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/deepdungeon/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Rooms and passages define this attempt’s route

- Keep the objective recognisable as routes and encounters change.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/deepdungeon/)

## How it works

The same objective repeats across changing routes, encounters and resources.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="procedural-expeditions-options"></a>

- Explore newly assembled dungeons. <a id="procedural-expeditions-option-1"></a>
- Choose a route from randomized nodes. <a id="procedural-expeditions-option-2"></a>
- Take temporary upgrades within a run. <a id="procedural-expeditions-option-3"></a>

## Design example

Each mine expedition changes its forks, while its ore contributes to one long-term building project.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/contentsguide/deepdungeon/) (id: source-6f1679c4523261ce)

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