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A Second Empire supply depot that works like an unstaffed general store — building materials, medical supplies, weapons and armour all in one building. It is also the only source of Ancient Nutri-Rations in the game, and there are bedrolls inside.

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The Old Empire Supply Outpost is a building type left behind by the Second Empire, with several examples across the continent. Its contents are easy to summarise: an unstaffed general store.

It is full of random supplies covering every kind of resource you need for an outpost, plus armour and weapons spawned through the Artifacts system, and large amounts of medical supplies.

Where they are

RegionNote
Sniper Valley—
The Pits East—
The Crags—
Stobe's GambleCovered separately on this site as Old Empire Supply Post

Guards

There may be a few Security Spider II present, which will attack you on sight.

Security Spider IIs are a smaller version of the standard Security Spider with far less HP and strength, but their size lets them manoeuvre easily around furniture — which is exactly the problem indoors, in a building packed with crates.

The one thing only found here

Ancient Nutri-Rations spawn exclusively in Old Empire Supply Outposts.

PropertyValue
Nutrition125 nu
Weight1 kg
Size2x2
Average price1,143 Cats

The item description reads: an ancient food ration that must be thousands of years old, a sealed container holding a dense cake that is surprisingly filling, covered in printed writing and symbols you do not recognise.

TipAncient Nutri-Rations are not included in the "_all food" vendor list, so they never receive a markup. That means their value-per-nutrition ratio never changes. Their more common equivalent is the Ration Pack.

The Second Empire was Skeleton-dominated and had no need to eat — yet it was still capable of producing some of the most nutritious food available to humans and their subspecies.

Guaranteed loot

Each outpost has its own guaranteed artifacts. The building's artifact value is Gear 40,000 Cats, so the output leans heavily towards weapons and armour:

Sniper Valley

ItemQualityLocation
Ninja BladeEdgewalkers Edge Type 1In the metal chest on your right as you enter
LongcoatMasterworkBottom floor, in one of the chests near the stairs
JitteCatun Scrapmaster No.2Unlocked container on the bottom floor
KLR Series Leg (left)SpecialistTop floor, inside the locked wooden chest
Heavy PolearmSkeleton Smiths Mk I—

The Pits East

ItemQualityLocation
Iron StickEdgewalkers Edge Type 1Unlocked container on the bottom floor
Mercenary PlateSpecialistBottom floor, in one of the chests near the stairs
Long CleaverSkeleton Smiths Mk I—
NaginataSkeleton Smiths Mk I—

The Crags

ItemQualityLocation
LongswordSkeleton Smiths Mk II—
Samurai ArmourSpecialistBottom floor, in one of the chests near the stairs
Ringed SabreSkeleton Smiths Mk I—
Ninja BladeCatun Scrapmasters No.3—
Short-CleaverCatun Scrapmasters No.3—

What it means for the player

Supply outposts serve three purposes at once:

  1. The first cartload of outpost resources. Building materials, iron plates and fuel in one stop, with nothing to pay.
  2. A free batch of medical supplies. The first thing any expedition runs out of.
  3. A bed. Several bedrolls inside give a beaten-up party a safe place to rest — in Sniper Valley or The Pits East that alone justifies the trip.
NoteThe real cost is not inside the building, it is the road. All three outposts sit in danger-level 4 regions. Make sure you can get back out before you go in.

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