Lab Area 37 guide: unlock, cold protection, bosses and the Labyrinth

Lab Area 37 opens with Xiaoming’s quest Distress Signal (level 20 since update 2.1.3): it gives one Lab Area Ferry Ticket and unlocks buying more at the Tech Center for 7,150. Take the boat at the Lumber Mill west dock in Farm Town, then complete Distress Signal II by activating the beacon in the south-west, across the bridge from the landing, and extracting. After that the bunker teleporter can send you there.

Cold

Cold rises to level 1 on a sunny day, 2 in bad weather, and 3 to 4 inside zones marked with ice icons. When your cold protection is below the current level you lose heat, and at the end of the gauge you get Frostbite, damage over time. Night and blizzards raise the cold level.

Gear	Cold protection
Anti-Hypothermia Helmet or Armor	2 each
Cold-Res Work Helmet, Work Suit or Lv.3 Work Suit	1.5 each
Beanie, Padded Jacket, Steel Helmet	1 each
Lv.4 Snowfield Helmet or Body Armor; Fleeze’s and Igny’s gear	1 each
Lv.2 and Lv.3 Snowfield gear	0.5 each
Warming Stone totem	1

Bonfires add 1 for a while; light unlit ones with a Cippo lighter. Buildings insulate you (update 2.1.3 fixed several that did not). Frostbite Ointment cures Frostbite, and since update 2.0.33 so do the Hot-Blood Injector, any alcohol and Cola. Jeff’s quest New Route unlocks buying the Beanie, Padded Jacket and Frostbite Ointment.

Getting around

• Extraction points: Village (north-west), Makeshift Observation Post (south), Weather Station (east), Visitor Center (north) and Substation (west).
• Horses: mount one to cross the snowfield faster; Carrots speed them up.
• Auto-turrets guard the Military Base. A Simple Hacking Device used on the PC in the turret building switches them off once Xiaoming’s hacking upgrade is unlocked.
• Tank Garage: update 2.3.30 added two safes and a weapon crate (each a chance to spawn).

Bosses

Boss	Health	Drops
Killa	415	RPK, 6B13 Killa armor, Maska-1SCh KE helmet
Tagilla	610	AK-74U (Tagilla Mod), AVS TE, UBEY, Superfors DB 2020
Goofy Goose	550	AK-103, Lv.4 heavy armor and helmet; chance of the Space Lab No. 2 Key
Hunter	450	Recurve Bow, Padded Jacket, Hunter’s House Key
Igny and Fleeze (Weather Station)	350 each	BSG-F and BSG-I, their own armor and helmet, Labyrinth Intel or Intel File
Snow-Bot	320	Snowball Gun enhancement printing data, Computing Core

Guides report that wearing Killa’s helmet gets you into Tagilla’s Storage Area warehouse, the target of Mud’s quest Disguised Infiltration. Since update 2.1.2 Killa’s helmet and armor shorten the wait before stamina recovers, Tagilla’s gear raises healing, Goofy Goose has 550 health instead of 600, and the two Lab Area 37 bosses deal 9.1% less damage. Wolves have a 20% chance to drop a Top Pelt, and the Tundra Wolf King drops up to 5 pelts (update 2.1.3).

Alex and the 3D printer

The Unknown Creature quests start in Lab Area 37. Earn Trust (kill 10 enemies here) leads to Repair the Printer, after which you can use the 3D Printer yourself; Xiaoming’s Build a 3D Printer adds one to the bunker. Later quests reward printing data for weapon modules.

The Labyrinth

The Labyrinth is under the Farm Town Sanatorium. Its quests need level 22 since update 2.1.3.

1. Major Client sends you to the Sanatorium.
2. Mysterious Keycard: print a Prototype Keycard at the 3D Printer from a Lv.1 J-Lab Certificate, a CPU and 3D Printing Materials. The reward is a Labyrinth Keycard, and more can be bought at the Tech Center (price cut from 13,500 to 8,500 in update 2.1.2).
3. Into the Labyrinth: go through the Sanatorium restroom door (Sanatorium Restroom Key) and the encrypted door (one Labyrinth Keycard per entry), then install four cameras.

Killa and Tagilla also appear inside. Killa drops the Iron Gate Key and Tagilla the Interrogation Room Key, each 50% of the time; both keys also spawn in Lab Area 37. The Labyrinth Lounge Key drops from its scavengers and cannot leave the map. Since update 2.1.2 enemies there no longer dodge roll.