Explore

Exploration lets you leave the city in a vehicle, travel to remote locations, and bring the supplies you find back to your Stronghold. It is unlocked once you have built and upgraded the Garage far enough to obtain a vehicle.

Unlike Scavenging, exploring is a journey: choose a destination, prepare your vehicle, wait for the trip to finish, work through the location's zones, and then travel back to the city.

Explore areas allow PvP

Other players can scout and attack you at every Explore location. After winning, an attacker can steal up to 5 kg from your vehicle cargo. Carry only what you are prepared to risk.

Choosing a location

Open the Explore page and choose a destination. Locations are grouped into Easy, Medium, and Hard categories. Each entry shows its difficulty, travel time, and travel cost. Locations inside each category are ordered by travel time and then difficulty.

Travel time and fuel cost can change with your active vehicle and its upgrades. A faster vehicle reduces journey time, while better fuel efficiency reduces the fuel required, to a minimum cost of 5 fuel.

Preparing to travel

Select a location to review it before leaving. The location screen shows:

• its zones and whether each zone is locked or unlocked;
• discovered activities and their current state, including active timers, cooldowns, unlocks, and rewards ready to collect;
• recommended items for the activities at that location;
• location effects; and
• the contents and weight of your vehicle.

Use the Load to Vehicle button to move any available recommended items from your inventory into the vehicle. You can also add or remove items manually. Recommended items are based on the location's activities, so checking this list before setting out can save a return trip.

Your vehicle has a weight limit. If it is overweight, travel is restricted until enough cargo is removed. When ready, select Travel. The required travel items are consumed and the Traveling screen shows your destination and remaining journey time. Travel can only be canceled during the short cancellation window shown there.

At the location

After arriving, explore the available zone and complete its scavenging, hunting, combat, gate, and other location activities. Some activities run on timers or cooldowns, and later zones may remain locked until their unlock conditions are met. Activities you have not discovered yet appear as Undiscovered.

Loot is stored in your vehicle, so keep its remaining capacity in mind. You cannot travel while the vehicle is overweight. When you have finished, use Return to City and wait for the return journey to complete. You can unload the vehicle once you are back in the city.

All locations

Easy

Location	Difficulty	Travel time	Travel cost
Open Meadow	0 / 10	15 minutes	5 × Fuel
Reclaim Zone	2 / 10	15 minutes	10 × Fuel
Fishing Reserve	2 / 10	15 minutes	10 × Fuel
Logging Camp	4 / 10	15 minutes	10 × Fuel
Fuel Depot	2 / 10	30 minutes	15 × Fuel

Medium

Location	Difficulty	Travel time	Travel cost
Construction Yard	7 / 10	30 minutes	25 × Fuel
Demolition Site	7 / 10	30 minutes	25 × Fuel
Oil Refinery	7 / 10	45 minutes	55 × Fuel
Research Facility	7 / 10	1 hour	30 × Fuel
Abandoned Quarry	7 / 10	1 hour 15 minutes	30 × Fuel

Hard

Location	Difficulty	Travel time	Travel cost
Data Center	10 / 10	15 minutes	50 × Fuel
Military Base	7 / 10	30 minutes	25 × Fuel
Industrial Foundry	0 / 10	1 hour 20 minutes	60 × Fuel
Junkyard	10 / 10	1 hour 30 minutes	30 × Fuel

Outposts

Many explore locations contain Outposts that provide production bonuses. Outposts can be taken by other players, so ownership is not permanent. Taking over an unoccupied outpost requires at least 1 Explosive.

Location	Outposts
Fuel Depot	9
Construction Yard	65
Demolition Site	63
Reclaim Zone	11
Fishing Reserve	14
Military Base	64
Data Center	21
Open Meadow	9
Research Facility	18