Dam Battlegrounds Map: Every POI, Resource and Field Depot

Every POI on Dam Battlegrounds

Read the area by landmark: Power Generation Complex anchors the industrial route, Water Treatment Control borders the swamp, and Research and Administration provides a separate indoor quest stop. A straight line between markers can still cross exposed ground or end on the wrong floor.

Find the Right Building Before Climbing

Zoom in around Pattern House to find the tall, patterned building used by Our Presence Up There. Also zoom in for Raider Outpost East. That is the outpost described as northern in Celeste's Journals, not a reason to search for a second building named Northern Outpost.

At Water Treatment Control, separate the locked interior used by Greasing Her Palms from the Flood Spill Intake outside. For Source of the Contamination, find the concrete pool and leaking barrel along the north exterior. You do not need to enter the building to reach that interaction.

Keep Room Objectives Separate

Research and Administration contains Lab 1 for A Balanced Harvest and a medical room identified by a white cross on green for Medical Merchandise. Its upper electrical loot route is a different stop again. Check the room and prompt instead of assuming that reaching the building ticks every objective.

Ruby Residence is the destination to follow for The Major's Footlocker. Pale Apartments is useful residential loot context, but it is not a confirmed alternative memento spawn in this guide. Do not choose an apartment floor from conflicting floor numbers alone.

Keep Formicai Outpost’s flag objective separate from the Raider Outpost East journal route. References to red water do not establish that the two outposts overlook the same named lake. The POI table retains these distinct destinations rather than merging them.

Key Rooms on Dam Battlegrounds

Match your key to its named building on Dam Battlegrounds before choosing a route. The keys and keycards guide covers drops, storage and consumption. Here, the important distinction is which doorway you are trying to reach.

Dam Staff Room Key

A Staff Room search can start at Research and Administration, the large two-wing building. Check for a staff-room entrance and read its key requirement before committing to an unlock. A staff-only sign or visible lockers are not enough to identify the matching door.

Keep this search separate from the central Control Tower route below. Do not make a tower detour solely because you have seen a staff-room doorway mentioned in a tower walkthrough.

The Stench of Corruption rewards the Dam Staff Room Key. That quest takes place on Spaceport, but its Staff Room reward is for a later Dam visit, not another door along the Spaceport quest route.

Dam Surveillance Key

The Dam Surveillance Key opens the locked surveillance room inside Water Treatment Control. Use the named building facing the swamp as your landmark, then take the interior route and look for the door requesting this key.

Do not follow the outside waterline expecting it to lead to the lock. The Flood Spill Intake on the building's exterior is a separate destination for Source of the Contamination. Its concrete pool identifies the outdoor objective, not the surveillance-room entrance.

Greasing Her Palms from Celeste supplies the Surveillance Key as an access grant, rather than a completion reward. Follow that walkthrough for the locked-room objective. An exterior contamination stop can share the building visit, but it does not replace entering the quest's room.

Dam Control Center Tower Key

Look for Dam Control Tower Key in your inventory. That is the item name corresponding to the Dam Control Center Tower Key wording. Head to the Control Tower on the dam structure and look for its key-locked access, not the surveillance room in Water Treatment Control.

Read the interaction at each doorway along the climb. A breachable door is not the same access point as a door requesting the tower key. Keep the climb toward a rooftop objective separate from your search for the matching lock.

This is not Control Tower A6 on Spaceport. The Spaceport Control Tower Key and the Lost in Transmission route belong to that other tower.

The Trifecta rewards the Dam Control Tower Key. A Dam tower visit can also fit an Eyes in the Sky route, but opening a door does not replace the scanner objective described in that walkthrough.

Dam Testing Annex Key

The Dam Testing Annex Key opens a locked room in Testing Annex, not Research and Administration. Recognise the Annex by its multi-level laboratory interior, with lab equipment and blue drawers on the upper levels and a flooded area below.

Use those features to orient yourself, then check the interior doors for the Testing Annex key requirement. The lower pool is a building landmark, not a marker for the keyed door. Do not descend to it simply because you are searching for the key room.

A Lay of the Land from Shani rewards this key after a Spaceport quest. Bring it to Dam for the Annex visit rather than searching Spaceport for a matching laboratory door.

For a medical-material search alongside the key-room visit, check your remaining Doctor's Orders requirements. Treat that as a separate search through the building, not a promise that the locked room contains every item you need.

Resource Locations on Dam Battlegrounds

Field Depots

Use these approach images to recognise the six depot buildings. Check for the active depot prompt when you arrive.

Look for rectangular metal Field Depots with a small rooftop antenna and blue tarp, rather than a large blue tent. Six documented search areas give you alternatives when your first approach is blocked.

For Off The Radar, the roof antenna is the objective. For Untended Garden, check the upload interaction inside. A missing prompt does not, by itself, prove the entire depot is inactive. Check the correct terminal and active quest before moving to another site.

A Field Crate is carried to the depot’s delivery machine, not stored like ordinary backpack loot. Plan the return path before lifting it, and do not confuse delivery with the antenna repair.

Used by: Off The Radar, Untended Garden and Down to Earth. Compare their different interactions in the Field Depots guide.

Lemons and Apricots

Check residential wicker baskets for Lemons and Apricots while passing through Ruby Residence and Pale Apartments. Fruit is not guaranteed, so keep these stops optional instead of planning a raid around a single basket or tree.

Where you find a fruiting tree, check the ground around it and use the available interaction, then collect the dropped fruit. Move on when the tree or basket is empty. For a fruit-led trip, compare Olive Grove on The Blue Gate instead of repeatedly circling Dam’s industrial buildings.

Used by: Scrappy training. Keep the fruit you need for the upgrade before consuming or recycling the rest.

Mushrooms

Search for Mushrooms around Hydroponic Dome Complex, on trees near Central Swamp Lift and along the pipes at Water Treatment Control. Check the growth itself, not just loose items on the ground.

1. Start at the nearest of those landmarks and sweep the accessible tree trunks, pipes and shaded edges.
2. Collect visible mushrooms before entering a busy building for optional loot.
3. Continue toward an available swamp-side exit instead of retracing the entire route for empty spots.

Used by: Scrappy V training, which calls for 12 Mushrooms. They are consumable healing items too, so keep upgrade stock separate from anything you use during the raid.

Call Stations and Supply Drops

Check open ground around Hydroponic Dome Complex, the Central Swamp Lift approach and the Research and Administration area for Call Stations. These are supply-drop callers, not Field Depot delivery machines.

Inspect the station’s interaction prompt before treating it as usable. Calling a drop sends a visible signal that can attract other Raiders, so choose nearby cover and a way out before committing. A marked station does not mean an unclaimed drop is already there.

Do not wait at an exact pin for a promised arrival time or rely on a specified flare colour. Watch the actual signal and landing area instead. Treat the reported hum as an extra clue, not a substitute for finding the device.

Used by: A Better Use. The Call Stations guide keeps calling a drop separate from collecting its contents.

Sentinels

Look upward for Sentinels when checking Dam’s industrial roofs and raised structures, rather than searching the swamp floor for a resource node. The Sentinel Firing Core comes from a destroyed Sentinel, not from a guaranteed ordinary crate.

The recorded guide shows candidate Sentinel structures at The Breach, Floodgates and the exterior staircase of Research and Administration. The map shades those building search areas, not exact enemy coordinates. Identify the firing position from cover and check whether the Sentinel is present in your raid.

Used by: the Gunsmith III upgrade. Keep needed Sentinel Firing Cores before recycling them, and distinguish a Sentinel from the different ARC targets in The Right Tool.

Raider Caches

Search the ground and small covered recesses along your existing Dam route for Raider Caches, using the reported ticking sound as a reason to stop and look. They are small loot containers, not the large Field Depots with rooftop antennas.

A recorded Hurricane route searches the Electrical Tower approach east of Testing Annex. Use the shaded approach as a candidate sweep, not a fixed cache spawn or live event indicator. Follow the cache sound and check nearby cover rather than expecting the same container in every raid.

Used by: general equipment and material gathering. Retain electrical finds needed by Trash into Treasure instead of treating every cache item as sale stock.

Weapon Crates

Recorded Weapon Case searches cover Power Generation Complex, Research and Administration and Hydroponic Dome Complex. The shaded map areas locate the approaches or building footprints, not every case. Search accessible rooms and containers without treating the recording as guaranteed weapon loot.

At the Control Tower, the documented interior approach passes the Dam Staff Room door, turns toward a breachable door and reaches a vertical zipline. Check above the ascent for a Turret before committing. That route does not establish that every locked room can be entered without its own key.

Used by: equipment upgrades for your loadout. Check the key guide before taking a room-specific key, and keep an extraction route when looting above ground level.

Prickly Pear

Prickly Pear comes from fruiting cacti, so check dry, exposed ground on the edges of Dam’s industrial routes rather than the flooded mushroom areas. Look at the cactus for a harvest prompt and inspect the ground for fruit.

Native Prickly Pear pickups are shown on the north Generator Hall approach and north of Hydroponic Domes, east of Ruby Residence. Check the cactus patches along those two recorded approaches and match the pickup prompt. These are search areas, not an exhaustive cactus route or guaranteed fruit spawns.

Used by: Scrappy training. Keep the required fruit before consuming or selling it.

Great Mullein

The recorded Great Mullein route follows the wooded drainage channel west of Hydroponic Domes. Look for the native Harvest Great Mullein prompt along that approach. The footage does not establish a plant spawn inside the Testing Annex pool.

For Doctor's Orders, you also need a Syringe, Antiseptic and Durable Cloth. The building offers appropriate places to look, not a guarantee that all four items remain in one raid. Check containers and the plant prompt rather than expecting a fixed number of flowers.

Used by: Doctor's Orders, Antiseptic crafting at the Refiner and Herbal Bandage crafting at the Medical Lab. Check the current crafting or upgrade screen before setting aside a larger stock.

Wires and Batteries

Search electrical containers, computer areas and server equipment at Research and Administration, Power Generation Complex, Control Tower and Electrical Substation for Wires and Batteries. Choose the nearest suitable facility rather than visiting all four by default.

Electrical Substation is a smaller alternative when the central buildings are inconvenient. At Research and Administration, check the upper route reached from behind reception, but listen before using a zipline that commits you to a room.

Bring four Wires before starting Flickering Threat. Finding replacement materials mid-raid is a fallback, not a reliable preparation plan. For Trash into Treasure, follow the distinction between looting and merely owning an item rather than assuming a purchased stack will register.

Used by: Trash into Treasure, Flickering Threat and the requirements explained in After Rain Comes, Eyes On the Prize and Clamoring for Attention. The latter quests are not all Dam objectives.

Lush Blooms

Lush Blooms is a map condition, not a permanent plant location. When you select that condition, natural resources and baskets become relevant to your gathering plan, but a normal-raid marker does not promise the same opportunity.

Used by: nature-resource and Scrappy gathering. Check the condition guide before choosing a fruit route.

Baron Husks and ARC Materials

Old Battleground and the area northwest of Water Treatment Control are documented starting points for Baron Husk searches. A husk is the large wreck itself, not a small ARC patrol or ordinary cache.

When breaching a husk produces fire, step away and wait for the hazard to finish before trying to loot. An already searched wreck may still offer an interaction, but do not assume it will satisfy your particular quest until the objective updates.

The Breach and South Swamp are additional search leads. Start with a wreck you can identify rather than making a full-map detour to reach a particular husk count.

Used by: Dormant Barons and A New Type of Plant. Keep useful ARC Powercells for requirements such as A Prime Specimen and ARC Alloy for Clearer Skies.

Extraction Points on Dam Battlegrounds

Calling a cargo extraction makes a distinctive sound that nearby Raiders can hear. Clear the approach, identify cover and keep watching the entrances after you call, rather than treating the wait as the end of the raid.

The table gives four documented cargo exits and four hatch route areas. It does not mean all eight are usable in your current raid, and two hatch labels still differ between references. Read the live extraction marker before committing to the final approach.

1. Open the in-game map and choose an exit that is available with enough time left to reach it.
2. Check that a planned hatch is allowed in the selected condition and that you actually brought a Raider Hatch Key.
3. Use cover while the cargo extraction is being called and watch for a second approach or another player’s call.
4. Confirm the return completes before treating your carried loot or quest items as secured.

This page does not assign universal closure minutes to these exits. A timed shutdown shown by your client takes priority over any route description. For Broken Monument, collecting the items is not the finish line: keep the one-round collection and successful-extraction requirement together.

Quests on Dam Battlegrounds

The quest list covers 29 Dam routes and flexible objectives, with several sharing a building. It includes both dedicated Dam tasks and objectives that can be completed on more than one map, so the number is a coverage count rather than a limit on what you can progress here.

A Rising Tide includes a Dam leg at Power Generation Complex’s Controlled Access Zone. Its foreman’s apartment belongs to Buried City. Do not move that apartment onto Dam just because the same quest appears in this table.

Check your quest walkthrough for the exact item, single-round and extraction requirement. Gathering materials, visiting a landmark and completing a named interaction are listed separately rather than being treated as interchangeable quest credit.

Stacking Quests on Dam Battlegrounds

Power Generation and Pattern House

Pair Flickering Threat with Paving the Way when both are active, then add Our Presence Up There at Pattern House only if your exit plan still works. The first needs four Wires, while the Pattern House route includes its own power and antenna interactions.

The Controlled Access Zone step of A Rising Tide can be another industrial stop. Electrical looting for Trash into Treasure or After Rain Comes is preparation, not proof that those quests have a dedicated objective at every building in the complex.

Research and Administration With Testing Annex

Combine A Balanced Harvest in Lab 1 with the medical-container searches in Medical Merchandise. Add electrical looting upstairs for Trash into Treasure, then use Testing Annex for the plant and medical supplies in Doctor's Orders if the route remains manageable.

Nearby Fireballs may make The Right Tool relevant, but do not turn a supply run into a hunt for every enemy type. Search by room and keep the exit route clear before adding another floor.

Water Treatment and the Swamp

Group Source of the Contamination, A Toxic Trail and Paving the Way around Water Treatment Control. The contamination quest uses the outside barrel interaction, while A Toxic Trail first uses proximity at the intake before sending you onward.

Add the locked interior for Greasing Her Palms only after checking the key and active objective. A nearby Field Depot can serve Off The Radar or the upload after Untended Garden, but these use different parts of the depot.

The Southern Collection Route

Pair Broken Monument at Scrap Yard with Keeping The Memory around Formicai Hills when your spawn and exit make that practical. After searching a collection point, look for the dropped item and confirm it enters your inventory.

Check the helmet interaction early. If it is unavailable, do not sacrifice a carried Broken Monument collection to repeated attempts at a shared-object problem. A Symbol of Unification is another southern objective, but its stationary flag interaction deserves a cleared approach rather than a rushed add-on.

Match the Remaining Tasks to Your Spawn

The Water Towers route can advance The League through its goal photo, Deflated Football behind the goal and Bicycle Pump by the bicycle. Water Troubles and What We Left Behind need their own named destination, so check those walkthroughs before treating nearby scenery as the objective.

A northern or residential route can instead pair Straight Record and Echoes of Victory Ridge with a later visit to Ruby Residence for The Major's Footlocker. Celeste's Journals crosses between separate outposts, so avoid adding it casually to a short loot run.

Take Eyes in the Sky into account before climbing Control Tower. Add Dormant Barons, A New Type of Plant, Into the Fray or A Better Use only when you find the required husk, Leaper or Call Station on a route you can still finish.

A Pattern House visit may also fit Back On Top. Follow its active objective rather than assuming that every visit to the roof counts.

Dam Battlegrounds Threats

Industrial Buildings and Open Approaches

The Control Tower ascent is a commitment point: check the documented Turret position above the zipline before climbing. Around Power Generation Complex and Hydroponic Dome Complex, scan for ARC and other Raiders before crossing between buildings.

Fireballs, Wasps and Hornets are relevant threats on Dam routes. Keep room entrances and retreat paths in view rather than assuming small ARC cannot follow you indoors. A Rocketeer reported near Central Swamp Lift is a reason to scan the sky, not a promise that it patrols there every raid.

Do Not Treat a Quiet Route as a Safe Route

The centre, Ruby Residence and the dome complex combine valuable loot with quest traffic. Water Treatment Control is not a guaranteed quiet route either. Stay alert to other players, your spawn timing and nearby objectives.

Bring healing for combat and traversal mistakes. The polluted appearance of the swamp is not evidence that ordinary rain or every pool passively drains health. React to an actual hazard indicator rather than assuming all water is toxic damage terrain.

Matriarch and Other Condition Threats

Matriarch is a condition-dependent boss encounter, not a permanent enemy waiting at a normal-raid pin. Harvester, Husk Graveyard and Night Raid can also change the reason to visit an area and the risks of staying there.

Read the active condition’s rules before following a boss or event marker. Keep an ordinary gathering run separate from a boss attempt unless your loadout and available exit support the change of plan.

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