The Dark Conduit
The Dark Conduit is a cargo collection facility from which a cargo drone launches to pick up and return caskets of supplies. The drone's launch control panel is without power when you find it, but if you explore the depths of this facility and restore power, you can reap multiple, powerful rewards from all across the map.
| Objectives |
|---|
| Restore power to the cargo collection drone launch control. |
| Recover the contents of each cargo casket. |
| Rewards |
| Crystal Heart (after you restore power to the launch control) |
| Star Shot (cargo casket contents) |
| Difference Engine (cargo casket contents) |
| Galvanized Resupply Band (cargo casket contents) |
| 15 Hardened Iron (cargo casket contents) |
| 927 Scrap (cargo casket contents x2, amount may vary) |
Cargo Caskets
If you run across a lighted casket lying around in the dust of N'Erud, you know that The Dark Conduit is in this world area. Make a note of the casket's location and keep an eye out for four more just like it. You should find a total of five such caskets:
These are your first indicator that The Dark Conduit is somewhere in the area as the caskets are a key part of completing the dungeon's objectives. When you find them, leave them alone. You can interact with them, but doing so doesn't open them—there is something else you need to do first, and you do it in The Dark Conduit.
Entering the Facility
There are two ways to get into The Dark Conduit. First is the main entrance, which is the elevator pictured at the top of this page. Second is the parkour route, which rewards you with a treasure chest. To access the facility this way, stand in front of the main entrance and walk around the structure to the right. Walk across the third support beam and jump down the short series of platforms to the right:
Enter the facility through a hole in the wall at the last platform, then jump down and crouch-walk under the pipe:
Once past the pipe, look right to see a treasure chest and look left to see the opening through which you drop down into the cargo drone facility. Go ahead and drop down and you'll see the main entrance elevator on the floor nearby.
The Launch Pad
Whether you take the elevator or the parkour route, you end up on a circular platform that surrounds the cargo drone launch pad. Take care of a few enemies here, including a drone (maybe several), a space crab, and a crab spitter.
You'll see three ramps leading down. A pair of ramps leads to the foot of the large, glass chamber that houses the cargo drone. An outer ramp leads to the launch control panel.
Take the outer ramp ramp to the launch control panel which, at the moment, has no power:
If you look down at the foot of the launch pad in front of the control panel, you'll see a series of six receptacles. The one on the far left has an open casket with some Scrap inside:
You'll fill the other five receptacles with loot in just a bit but, for now, take the passage behind you to enter The Dark Conduit. Rest at the world stone if you need, then begin working your way through the facility. Very near the beginning, you'll see a locked door with a glowing relic visible in the room beyond. That's the Crystal Heart, your reward for completing the dungeon objective:
Keep moving through the facility until you reach a room at its end. Inside, you'll see a red-lighted, locked door in a wall and a tall contraption in the center of the floor. That contraption is the power supply for the launch control and, as you can see, one of the cylindrical power cells is not seated (the one with the yellow light):
Interact with the loose power cell to reseat it. When you do, you'll get the "OBJECTIVE SUCCESS!" message and 100 Scrap, plus the locked door with the red light opens. Walk through to pick up your reward, the Crystal Heart.
But Wait...There's More!
There are still plenty of rewards to reap. Head out of the dungeon and back to that control panel just in front of the cargo drone launch pad. You'll see that there is now power to the controls and you can interact with it:
Go ahead and interact with the panel to activate the launcher and the cargo drone, which will do the rest of the work for you!
Remember those five caskets you found scattered around the world outside? Return to them (or find them if you haven't yet) and now, when you interact with a casket, your character will kick it. That sets off its locator beacon and summons the cargo drone to come fetch it:
Repeat this for all five of the cargo caskets, then return to the launch facility. Now, when you stand at the launch pad controls and look to the foot of the launch pad, you'll see that those five receptacles that were empty now each contain an opened cargo casket, and within each casket is a nice reward:
All that's left is heading down to the foot of the launch pad to pick up all of your loot, which is quite a substantial reward for kicking a few boxes!