Lab RuinReport
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An ancient lab in The Crater that was emptied long before you arrived. There is still loot in it now and then, but never the good stuff — and the Tech Hunters mapped it with great precision precisely because there is nothing left worth hiding.
A Lab Ruin is an ancient laboratory in The Crater — except that it is wrecked.
The difference from its relatives, the Ancient Tech Lab and the Ancient Labs, is blunt: somebody got here first. This lab was destroyed and/or looted before the player could reach it, and what remains is what other people passed over.
Why it is mapped so precisely
The wiki records one detail worth chewing on: the Tech Hunters have mapped these locations with great precision.
That is a statement in itself. The Tech Hunters live by picking over ancient ruins; nobody knows better which sites still hold stock and which are stripped. A place that is charted in detail and shared openly is usually a place that is no longer worth keeping quiet about.
What is still in it
The spawn distribution is simple: everything is equally likely except three items.
| Band | Items |
|---|---|
| Extremely likely | Raw Stone |
| Normal odds | Armour Plating, Copper Alloy Plates, CPU Unit, Damaged Book, Gears, Generator Core, Iron Plates, Medical Supplies, Motor, Power Core, Press, Robotics Components, Skeleton Muscle, Steel Bars, Tools |
| Rare | Electrical Components, Skeleton Repair Kit |
On a good day this place hands you a CPU Unit or a Power Core. On a bad day you walk out with a sack of rocks.
The lab is not the hard part — The Crater is
The Lab Ruin has no permanent garrison: no Security Spiders, no Skeletons. The barrier is the region it sits in.
The Crater is an enormous bowl with sheer walls and a flat floor. Getting in is easy; getting out depends on your luck, because those steep walls wreck character pathfinding. There are no people in it, no water and no plants — only Beak Things and the things Beak Things eat.
The same bowl also contains several Empty Labs, plus one genuine Ancient Lab to the north — and that northern one is the version that actually holds AI Cores.
What it means for the player
The Lab Ruin is a "walk in while passing" kind of place: no guards, no puzzle, no risk premium — and correspondingly ordinary rewards. Its real value is twofold:
- It is one of the few structures in The Crater where a squad can stop and breathe.
- It occasionally drops a high-unit-price part such as a CPU Unit, which is real money to an early or mid-game squad that cannot yet buy components.
As for the sack of Raw Stone, take it only if you have the backpack space.