What are Treasure Hunts and why do I need to do them?

These optional tasks will lead you to locked stashes and shelters that will always contain a lot of resources, Prestige coins, ammo, and 3 perk magazines. You can get all their locations by talking to scouts or buying the Treasure Hunt map. This map will become available after upgrading your homebase’s Cartography facility to LV2. You can then spend ethanol to buy the map from your homebase or any backpacker traders. There are only a total of 10 Treasure Hunt missions in the game.

Treasure hunts will often include clues and sometimes puzzles on how to open them. Some may even require finding the key or properly activating a contraption to unlock the door to their stashes. To start one, you'll have to read the first clue left inside yellow boxes in the marked area. The clues are often found in the immediate vicinity, left by the owners or creators of the contraptions if there are any. Make sure to look around for notes and read them. (Or you can just refer to our videos in this section)