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Blood Bandit CampReport

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Randomly spawning camps of the Bloodraiders in Spine Canyon, and the only fixed asset they own anywhere. The camp beds are free, once you have dealt with 3 to 10 bandits who are hostile to literally everyone.

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Blood Bandit Camps, also called Bloodraider Camps, are randomly spawning camps belonging to the Bloodraiders. They can only spawn in Spine Canyon, up to four at a time.

NoteOn this site "Reavers" means the Reaver faction specifically. The Bloodraiders are a completely separate bandit group at −100 relations with every faction in the game. The names look related. They are not.

Why a random camp gets an article

Because these are the only static locations belonging to the Bloodraiders anywhere on the map. They have no city, no fort, no headquarters — these temporary camps, which appear and vanish at random, are the organisation's entire real estate.

TipLooting items from the camp wipes it off the map, once its occupants have been defeated. That makes a Blood Bandit Camp single-use. Clear it and it is gone until the next one rolls.

Who is inside

The standard spawn is 3x Bloodraider Patrol, each of 3 to 10 Blood Raiders. A full camp can therefore be holding thirty of them.

Bloodraiders spawn as Greenlander at relative chance 100 and Shek at 35, and the faction starts at −100 relations the moment you discover them. There is no negotiating here.

What is in the camp

Each camp spawns 2 to 7 items at random, with these relative chances (higher means more common).

ItemRelative chance
Cup300
Water Jug200
Wooden Bowl200
Damaged Book100
Empty Grog Can100
Book50
Chewsticks50
Dried Meat50
Greenfruit50
Hashish22
Cactus Rum5
Grog5

Which is to say the haul is mostly junk — cups, bowls, empty cans. The real value is the camp beds.

The camp beds

Blood Bandit Camps spawn camp beds, and those beds are free for the player to use. Spine Canyon is a rocky shelf where the sandstorms almost never stop, the extreme sandstorms give stat debuffs to unprotected characters, and the zone contains exactly one settlement — the Cactus Den, which belongs to the Sand Ninjas.

In terrain like that, a bed you can take by force is worth far more than the cups sitting next to it.

One odd detail

NoteBlood Bandit Camps can spawn in the far north of Spine Canyon, yet Bloodraider patrols do not spawn in Skimsands or The Great Desert at all. Their patrols only appear in the Grey Desert and The Eye. That leaves the camps quite isolated from their own area of activity — unusual compared to other camped factions like the Dust Bandits or the Rebel Farmers.

In other words, the camp you stumble into in northern Spine Canyon is a very long way from where its owners normally operate.

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