[@Little_ninja]Maybe I'm wrong (I won't question you) but I'm pretty sure I read about a marshland on the 1st floor the last time I read the novel. But it's been ages since then, so maybe my memory is a little fuzzy. Anyway, Progressive has a lot more info about that and the 2nd floors, I should get go read it ASAP.

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Looks like I'm just a little of, it may not be a marsh, but there's at least wet land: 
 
[quote=From SAO wiki]Unlike the higher floors of Aincrad, the 1st Floor does not have a particular theme or dominant geography. As the starting location of all new players, the great expanse of the 1st Floor is quite diverse.

The Starting City is located on the southern end of the floor and rests over the edge of the floating castle. The metropolis has a diameter of approximately 1km and is the focal point of the floor, featuring the teleport gate in the central plaza. The city wall forms a semi-circle to the north.

Grasslands surround the Starting City, and they are populated primarily by boar and wolf-type monsters. Worms, beetles, and wasp-type insect monsters also inhabit the grasslands surrounding the Starting City.

To the northwest of the Starting City, there is a deep forest region. The northeast is a lake region. Players must pass through either of the two regions before reaching a significantly more dangerous mountainous region containing ruins, valleys, and more difficult monsters.

The 1st Floor Labyrinth is located on the far northern edge of the floor. It begins at part of a large 300 meter wide by 100 meter tall tower that is a portion of the dungeon that leads to the 2nd Floor. This Labyrinth has twenty floors before the boss room on the 20th floor of the Labyrinth.[/quote]

[@Asuna Yuuki]We have to way until [@PKMNB0Y] Fujiwara's answer before continuing, wait just a little longer. I'll have a reply ready in a few more hours (gotta go work now) even if he hasn't posted yet. If you to go on by yourself just say we reached the area we are going to and I' already looking for ore, 'cause even if he doesn't come that's what's gonna happen, anyway. ^^ Sorry if this is bothering you.