# \[not a bug\] Unable to play explore in Grosh Nak **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests and Game feedback\ **Created:** [November 19, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931 "2025-11-19T23:42:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/pim/32/72203_2.png) [@Pim](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Pim)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/1 "2025-11-19T23:42:49Z")
Not sure if this was intended or not, but the explore icon is gone from the Grosh-Nak kingdom and was replaced with the Underspire icon. I assume because Underspire features that kingdom this week. Are we supposed to not play explore during the week when Underspire is featured in the specific kingdom? Or should there be an additional button? ![10531](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/gemsofwar/original/3X/e/8/e820476932bb3fec55bb3bc8916c34f2b58c403d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/2 "2025-11-19T23:44:08Z")
- Is it happening after force closing the game and restarting? - Is it happening in all Kingdoms? ---
**Author:** ![Pim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/pim/32/72203_2.png) [@Pim](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Pim)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/3 "2025-11-19T23:46:28Z")
Yes, still the same after force closing, and seen with other members in my guild as well. So not device or user related, it’s in the code And no, it does not happen with all kingdoms. Just Grosh -Nak. It seems intended Jeto, perhaps a change in 8.9 that was not mentioned in the release notes ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/4 "2025-11-19T23:47:34Z")
but then how do you access explore, I’m reporting it to the team ---
**Author:** ![Pim](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/pim/32/72203_2.png) [@Pim](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Pim)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/5 "2025-11-19T23:49:43Z")
Exactly why I posted this. It’s a kind of ok idea to add a button for Underspire in the Kingdom when Underspire is held in that one, but there should be an additional button for the explore mode then ---
**Author:** ![Jeto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeto/32/101682_2.png) [@Jeto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jeto)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/6 "2025-11-19T23:53:20Z")
🫠 ~~feels weird if i have just totally missed this and its been around for a while that you just cant play Expore during the matched Underspire week.. if it’s a bug, i’ll report back and if it’s not~~ i’ll make a qol asap about not being able to access explore via the kingdom during the week ---
**Author:** ![Zuul-Emo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/67e7ee/32.png) [@Zuul-Emo](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Zuul-Emo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/7 "2025-11-20T00:40:56Z")
This has been around since underspire launched. A lot of us raised this issue immediately and never got an answer. It was suspected that it might be a bug, since it made no sense that underspire would prevent explore, but since we never got an answer, it was left unclear. We did also raise issues with the fact that if you have a lantern (bonus mythstones) on a kingdom before weekly reset, and that kingdom is the new week’s underspire, that lantern is “lost” until the end of the week. Not a huge issue, since we have 4, but it’s confusing. Either way, it would be great for them to finally make explore available alongside underspire. Thanks for passing it along. ---
**Author:** ![Snarko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@Snarko](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Snarko)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/8 "2025-11-20T05:23:10Z")
> [@7.0 Update: Underspire](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/7-0-update-underspire/80443/1): > > Underspire will replace Explore for the Weekly Kingdom (all other Kingdoms will still have Explore available). Definitely intentional. Not sure why. Explore and underspire have nothing to do with each other. Personally I think explore should always be available. ---
**Author:** ![Dinnossor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Dinnossor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Dinnossor)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/9 "2025-11-20T06:01:20Z")
The last camping task is related to kill orcs. Grosh-Nak have orcs. ---
**Author:** ![Supa-N00b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Supa-N00b](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Supa-N00b)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/10 "2025-11-20T12:30:24Z")
Well atleast you can get a few during today’s class trial. If you have the patience you can let them just keep summoning new troops. ---
**Author:** ![Shoombry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Shoombry](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Shoombry)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/11 "2025-11-20T18:27:51Z")
Yeah this is disappointing. Underspire blocks Explore, and then we have a campaign task to defeat specific troops–that are in the affected region. I’ve not gotten near enough from the class trial etc so will be unable to complete this. ---
**Author:** ![Stratelier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Stratelier](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Stratelier)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/not-a-bug-unable-to-play-explore-in-grosh-nak/88931/12 "2025-11-20T19:39:26Z")
I’ve completed the task … well, for the first tier only, turns out. Whoops! It is definitely a shame that Orcs are so limited to just one Kindgom – but that’s hardly unique to them, Goblins, Centaurs, and Merfolk are likewise mostly restricted to their one Kingdom too. > [@Jeto](#): > > i’ll make a qol asap about not being able to access explore via the kingdom during the week It’s more that the task quota on this _specific_ troop type is just too darned high relative to how poorly distributed (“farmable”) across different Kingdoms it is – there are a total of 32 Orc Troops in the game, **28 of which are found only in Grosh-Nak.** The others: - Bugbear (Zaejin) - First Mate Axelubber (Blackhawk) - Maze Cyclops (The Labyrinth faction) - Pyrophemus (Broken Spire) Yeah, that’s pretty bad without access to Explore on Grosh-Nak.