Frostpunk The Arks Scout Locations
The table below shows the rewards and areas unlocked by visiting every location.
Tips
Utilizing the following strategies can increase the effectiveness of your scouts:
- Scouts travel faster to known locations. If a scout is being sent after returning to your city, it’s often faster to send them to the nearest known location first.
- Outpost Teams travel faster than scouts. If you have an outpost team available, you can send them along with your scouts to make locations known, even if the Outpost Team itself cannot search the location. Once the Outpost Team finds the location, resend the scout to the location to cut down the amount of time it takes for your scouts to travel.
- Some locations trigger dilemmas that can cause you to lose a scouting party, such as Tesla City. The loss of your party is random, so you can save your game before searching the location and reload your game if your party ends up dying on the first attempt. This is known as “save scumming” and is sometimes considered cheating.
Scout Locations – The Arks
| Location | Rewards | Discovers |
|---|---|---|
| Abandoned Supplies | steel (28), Steam Cores (1) | Broken Automaton, Icefall Mine/Mountainside Cave |
| Broken Automaton | Automaton (1) | Lost Dreadnought, Icefall Mine/Industrial Ruins |
| Icefall Mine | Coal (201), Steel (88) | |
| Industrial Ruins | Coal (208), Steel (126) | |
| Lost Dreadnought | Coal (50), Steel (100), Wood (100), Steam Cores (3), Factory technology | Snow Dune, Snowy Hill |
| Barren Hollow | Stepping stone (nothing) | Mountainside Cave |
| Cracked Ice | Nothing | Steam Lorry, Wrecked Vehicle |
| Mountainside Cave | Wood (164), Raw Food (45) | |
| Empty Shelter | Nothing | Abandoned Sawmill, Manchester Dreadnought |
| Abandoned Sawmill | Wood (193) | |
| Snow Crawler | Steam Cores (3) | |
| Misty Valley | Steel (71), Coal (112) | Windswept Snowfield |
| Windswept Snowfield | Nothing | Frozen Pond, Snowbound Dreadnought |
| South Pass | Wood (112) | Cracked Ice, Lone Boulder |
| Lone Boulder | Nothing | Research Outpost, Ruined Warehouse |
| Frozen Pond | Nothing | Supply Trailer, Isolated Shelter |
| Supply Trailer | Steel (127), Steam Core (3) | |
| Broken Tree | Stepping stone (nothing) | Snowy Hill, Steam Lorry |
| Damaged Snowcat | Steel (125) | |
| Snowbound Dreadnought | Coal (169), Steel (129), Steam Cores (3) | |
| Ruined Warehouse | Raw Food (54), Wood (133) | |
| Discarded Equipment | Steel (129), Steam Cores (3) | |
| Snowy Hill | Stepping stone (nothing) | Isolated Shelter, Research Outpost |
| Steam Lorry | Steel (130), Steam Cores (3) | |
| Isolated Shelter | Raw-food (55), Steam Cores (3) | |
| Research Outpost | Coal (172), Steam Cores (3) | |
| Expedition Camp | Wood (108) | Broken Vehicle |
| Broken Vehicle | Steam Cores (1) | Observation Tower, Supply Depot |
| Observation Tower | Wood (134) | New Manchester, Snow Dune |
| New Manchester | Quest objective | |
| Snow Dune | Nothing | Mountainside Cave |
| Wrecked Vehicle | Coal (138), Steel (78) | |
| Manchester Dreadnought | Steel (108), Steam Cores (3) |
Information gathered from personal playthrough. Values may vary very slightly for each player.