Great game! I mapped the desert because I had a very hard time orienting myself there. From the 1st room ( not counting the room you're in ) go 5 rooms North to the Zat guard and the stone totem, 3 rooms East to the parched bones, 2 rooms South to the cactus, 7 rooms West to the chest ( compass and 77 gold )- if you follow the compass from there you have to keep going back into inventory and using the compass on Cpt. Zaron to get out. OR, from the chest go 3 rooms South, 4 rooms East and 1 room South to exit the Desert.