Archive TownReport
English：Archive Town · Locations
A Second Empire town in the Howler Maze, mostly rubble but with a handful of intact buildings whose doors still open — one of them a library. Think before you open them. What is usually behind those doors is a crab nest.
Archive Town is a Second Empire settlement left on the Howler Maze. Today most of it is ruin, but several buildings are still standing — one of them a library.
A town on an island with nobody on it
The Howler Maze is an island, tied to the mainland by water-covered land bridges. The zone has no major towns and no minor outposts and spawns no camps; its real residents are Crabs, with up to 19 crab nests active at once, plus the occasional escaped slave who has wandered in from surrounding United Cities territory.
In other words, it is a thoroughly abandoned island with three Second Empire locations on it: Archive Town, Lost Town and the Looted Ruins.
Buildings
| State | Buildings |
|---|---|
| Intact | 1x Library, 2x Outpost s-I, 1x Outpost s-II, 1x Old Storm House |
| Ruined | 2x Old Storm House, 4x Outpost s-II |
The "Archive" in the name is that library. It is worth a second look — most Second Empire locations in the game are military or industrial: the four Ashland Domes, the Lost Armoury, the Old Empire Supply Outpost. Towns with libraries are not common.
Loot
Archive Town produces materials and junk. No AI Cores, no blueprints.
Junk
Tools, Motor, Capacitor, Wrench, Damaged Book, Grind Machine
Trade goods
Crafting materials
Raw Copper, Copper Alloy Plates, Raw Stone, Raw Iron, Leather, Armour Plating, Electrical Components, Iron Plates, Building Materials, Fuel
What it means for the player
Archive Town's position is clear: a low-to-medium risk, low-to-medium reward scavenging site.
There is no garrisoning faction here, only animals; no locks and no traps. Whether the trip pays off comes down to one thing — can you handle crabs. An individual Crab is not much trouble, but one nest spawns 5 to 30 at a time, and the island supports up to 19 nests.
For anyone running the eastern United Cities route, Archive Town and the Looted Ruins fit in the same trip — both sit on the Howler Maze, with the crabs' ground in between.