Looted RuinsReport
English：Looted Ruins · Locations
A Second Empire ruin on the northern coast of the Howler Maze whose name is its own contents note — it has already been emptied. The entire loot table is a Damaged Book and some Leather, and the only intact building is an empty outpost.
The Looted Ruins are a Second Empire location on the northern coast of the Howler Maze. The name is not an adjective, it is a status report — this place really has been emptied.
Current state
The site consists of a couple of ruined buildings plus one intact Outpost s-III — which is empty.
| State | Buildings |
|---|---|
| Intact | 1x Outpost s-III (empty) |
| Ruined | 3x Outpost s-III, 2x Outpost s-IV |
The loot list is astonishingly short:
- Junk — Damaged Book
- Crafting materials — Leather
That is the whole of it.
Who is here
Crabs patrol the area, and there may be a Crab Nest nearby.
The Howler Maze as a whole has no towns and no outposts and spawns no camps. Its actual residents are crabs, up to 19 nests at once, plus escaped slaves who have drifted in from surrounding United Cities territory.
Who looted it
The game does not say.
But lining up the three Second Empire sites in the Howler Maze sketches something: Archive Town still holds plenty of materials and components, Lost Town is rubble, and here even the containers are bare.
There is a player-character line on the Howler Maze zone page that speaks to exactly this:
It's almost completely gone now... The city that used to be here, I wonder what's left — Skeleton player characters
Escaped slaves out of United Cities territory have wandered this island for years. As an answer to who stripped the place, that requires the fewest extra assumptions.
What it means for the player
This is a location you can skip.
Its practical value is close to zero — two loot entries, one empty building, and a randomly placed crab pack. If you are running the Howler Maze, Archive Town is the stop with things in it.
The Looted Ruins matter for something else: they are one of the few locations in the game that explicitly says somebody got here first. Most Kenshi ruins assume you are the first to arrive. This one tells you plainly that you are late.