Well.... This place has changed.
— Skeleton Player Characters
The Crater is a Zone in the southwestern corner of the map. The place is filled with Beak Things feasting upon packs of Swamp Raptors. It is a very hostile environment and most of the ruins are empty.
Because of shape of the crater, with high borders on all sides, it can be difficult to pathfind to enter and exit this Zone.
Inhabitants
There are no Major Towns or Minor Outposts in The Crater. This zone does not spawn Camps.
Ancient Locations
These are places which do not have competent inhabitants. Ancient Locations are usually lost outposts or ruins. Beware: sometimes these locations contain territorial protectors such as Security Spiders.
Aesthetic Ruins
These locations show up on the map, although the player cannot interact with anything at this location.
- Empty Lab x3
Nests
Nests are temporary locations which can spawn randomly and typically belong to Animals.
Homeless Spawns
These are squads which spawn without being tied to a location, camp, or nest. This list is in order of likelihood.
Environment
Weather
This zone has the 'wetlands south' season. Seasons may cause harmful Weather Effects or be purely aesthetic.
- Heavy Rain
- Light rain
- Swamp rain no wind
- Clear nothing
Gallery
Tips
There are a lot of Beak Things in this zone, so if you plan to venture here, be sure to either have characters with high Athletics skills or combat skills, and if needing a damage boost, bring weapons with high Beak Thing damage such as Falling Suns or Polearms.
Trivia
- Given the location of this zone overlapping with their neighboring zone, and the Skeleton's dialogue when entering this zone which suggests that this wasn't the appearance back then, this may formerly resemble something similar to The Grid before a great explosion or explosion-like impact in the center caused it to become a "crater".
- A former description of Cat-Lon's CPU directly states this as a fact with the following line "Science and archaeology flourished in the empire until an explosion in the Grid caused a famine.". However, given the fact that the description is replaced, it can no longer be used to support this theory, and it becomes unclear whether such a theory is still valid or not.