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A locked ancient outpost building in north-east Stobe's Gamble containing a complete, intact armour workshop. The door is security level 72, and behind it sit a Masterwork Black Plate Jacket and Masterwork Samurai Boots — the cleanest lockpicking exam in the game.

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The Lost Armour Store is an Outpost s-I building in the north-east of Stobe's Gamble, an ancient location left behind by the Second Empire. It is not a settlement and it has no shopkeeper. It is an armour workshop that was locked up and then forgotten.

A level 72 door

The whole difficulty of this location is written on the door: it is locked, at security level 72.

No garrison, no patrols, no spiders. Getting in requires exactly one thing — enough Lockpicking, or enough bodies to break the door down. Two containers inside carry their own locks:

ContainerSecurity level
Front door72
Safe74
Metal Chest57
TipStobe's Gamble itself is far more dangerous than this building. The zone has Landbat swarms of 18 to 30 adults, acid lakes and skilled Karate Drifters; the Anti-Slavers capital of Spring sits on top of this volcanic badland. The real gate is reaching the door, not picking the lock.

What is inside

What makes the Lost Armour Store unusual is that it is not a pile of scattered junk — it is a complete armour production line, still standing where it was left.

Furnishing
Heavy Armour Smithy
Plate Beating Station
Chainmail Sheet Fabrication Bench
Leather Tanning Bench
Leather Armour Crafting Bench
Chain Armour Crafting Bench
Chainmail storage box
Storage: Armour Plate x2
Security level 74 Safe
Security level 57 Metal Chest

Ordinary loot is crafting stock in modest amounts — Armour Plating, Building Materials, Steel Bars, Copper, Chainmail Sheets and cats.

The headline items come from the Artifacts system

What actually justifies the trip is the gear the Artifacts system spawns here:

ItemGrade / manufacturer
Black Plate JacketMasterwork
Samurai BootsMasterwork
PolearmEdgewalker I
Armoured RagsSpecialist
Horse ChopperSkeleton Smiths I

Masterwork is the top of the armour quality ladder (Prototype → Shoddy → Standard → High → Specialist → Masterwork), and the Black Plate Jacket is one of the highest-protection chest pieces in the game. Two top-tier armour pieces for one lockpick is an absurd mid-game return.

What it means for the player

In design terms the Lost Armour Store is a very clean skill check: it tests Lockpicking and travel, not combat.

For a stealth or thief-oriented squad it is the highest-priority target in Stobe's Gamble — earlier and easier than anything in Spring. For base builders, that intact workshop is also a useful reference: it shows exactly which benches a full armour line needs.

NoteThere is no garrison here, but other ancient locations in Stobe's Gamble — the Secret Drug Farm, for example — do have Security Spiders. Do not carry the "no guards" assumption next door.

See also