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In LIFE LINE, you’ll be preparing medical facilities in the Riverlands for the ACS faction. In this guide, we’ll go over all the required elements, and then give some specific advice on completing the mission.
Prospect Details
- Difficulty: Medium (
) – Mission is insured
- Approximate Time to Complete: 2-3 hours
- Recommended Level: 20 – You’ll need to be at least level 20 to complete this mission, since its objectives includes crafting Tier 3 deployables
- Locations: Forest Biome
- Objectives:
- Reach marked location
- Establish a Medical Outpost
- 2 Beds
- Herbalism Bench
- Crop Plot
- Kitchen Bench
- Kitchen Stove (Note that this is actually referring to the
Biofuel Stove)
Rewards
350
Variants Modifiers
Prospect Notes
Your objective for LIFE LINE is to set up a few sheltered Tier 2 and Tier 3 deployables and couple of Beds at a specified location. This mission is easy, includes drop insurance, and shouldn’t take more than a few hours.
Note that while the mission objectives indicate you need to build 2 Beds, Bedrolls seem to suffice for now.

Preparing for LIFE LINE
You’ll need to unlock the following blueprints to complete the mission:
Wood Bow or better
Stone Arrows or better
Stone Knife or better
Iron Pickaxe or better
Bedroll
Campfire
Crafting Bench
Crop Plot
Anvil Bench
Mortar and Pestle
Steel Bloom
Epoxy
Stone Furnace
Herbalism Bench
Carpentry Bench
Wood Bed – Currently not required for the mission, though that may change
Machining Bench
Cement Mixer
Concrete Furnace
Kitchen Bench
Biofuel Stove
As always, bringing Orbital gear will speed things up significantly. A knife, pickaxe, and the MXC Furnace are probably the most useful items to take with you on your drop. In particular, bringing at least a
Dong or
Kuang pickaxe will speed up your mining significantly.
Mission Walkthrough
Step 1: Teching to Tier 3 & Crafting Deployables
You’ll land in a Forest biome, the Riverlands. This area has high-level bears and wolves, so move cautiously as you craft any essential supplies you didn’t bring from orbit: bow and arrows, knife, campfire, and armor. Start making your way towards the bottom right corner of C-3, sticking close to the river whenever possible. Hunt every animal you see, and don’t stop killing creatures until you’ve collected at least 40 Fur and 40
Leather — you’ll need all the fur for the 2 Bedrolls you’ll make later. Note that this includes the 20 Leather you need for the Crafting Bench.
Also collect any Silica you find, since you’ll want it for
Concrete Mix later in the mission. While you’re heading southwest, resist the urge to jump off the waterfalls — sometimes, you’ll be able to land safely at the bottom, but other times…

It’s best to find a safe way down; you can usually go slowly down even very steep cliffs if you move carefully and horizontally relative to the cliff. We’re heading to C-3 because there’s a massive cave there at the top of the hill, complete with fish pond! In this cave, you should be able to craft everything you need:
Crafting Bench – The first step to any serious crafting
Crop Plot – Mission Objective
Carpentry Bench – Required for the
Refined Wood many objects require, including the Wood Beds (which are also made at this bench)
Herbalism Bench – Mission objective
Anvil Bench – Required for all the nails you’ll need — you should prioritize crafting an
Iron Pickaxe if you didn’t bring a steel equivalent from Orbit
Machining Bench – The next step in your crafting
Cement Mixer – You’ll need
Concrete Mix for the Concrete Furnace
Concrete Furnace – The Biofuel Stove requires
Steel Ingots
Kitchen Bench – Mission objective
Biofuel Stove – Mission objective
If you get incredibly unlucky with the ore spawns, it’s possible you’ll need to head to another cave. There are a few in B-3, which is the direction your objective is in — Icarus Intel is a great resource for finding caves if you need more ore.
If you didn’t collect all the fur you needed before reaching the cave, take breaks from mining to do more hunting; this is a good way to remove the cave debuff while you’re at it. This is also a good time to collect Silica and
Sulfur,
Sticks, and anything else you can’t get in the cave. Between your hunting and mining, you should quickly collect the resources required for everything you need to place in the Medical Outpost. Once you craft the following deployables, you’re ready for step 2:
Step 2: Setting Up the Medical Base
Once you’ve crafted all 6 deployables, pick them up, and also grab all your equipment (you’ll need an Axe and your weapons at a minimum). You should be able to just barely carry everything, even if you don’t have any equip load talents. You’ll need to reach the blue circle in B-2/B-3, which is just around the mountain to the west — you can get there via C-4. There are some narrow areas with Bear spawns, so go slowly and pay attention to your surroundings.
Make your way to the blue circle on the map and then start setting up. You’ll need to cut down some trees and craft building pieces. Place a 2×2 floor, then place the deployables on the floor (don’t forget you need to place the Kitchen Bench before you can place the Biofuel Stove). Then place most of the wall, put a roof on, and finish the wall (you don’t need a door since you aren’t going to go inside). Finally, place the Crop Plot anywhere inside the blue circle, and your mission is complete! You can now head back to your dropship.
If you don’t want to hike all the way back, there’s a trick you can use to teleport back to the dropship. First, deconstruct the base you just built to get the wood back (it doesn’t need to stay up once you finish the mission objectives, we promise). Then destroy the building pieces, and then a few ramps with the resources you get back. Build ramps up the side of the mountain to the east, picking up the ones below you as you climb (so you can reuse them).

Once you’re about 10-15 pieces high, stand right next to the mountain and open the [Esc] menu and use the “Unstuck” option. If you’re high enough up, you’ll get a “No Unstuck Location found” message — select “Yes”, and you’ll be teleported directly into the drop pod! If you get sent back to the ground, just climb up again, and this time go a bit higher.

We hope this guide for LIFE LINE was helpful! Feel free to leave questions or suggestions in the comments below.
Your difficulties with travelling River Lands are due to the fact you are always in hurry to finish as fast as possible with primitive tools.Nowhere bridge etc. are necessary. There is always a path, everywhere. In some places you can climb a cliff without even jumping, somewhere there is a soft path. Look at the map, you can see most of the safe ways.
There are three types of waterfalls:
Hi samyala, thanks for the waterfall tip! However, I tested all the waterfalls before C-3 and found that I survived a number of jumps where I wasn’t able to swim at the top of the fall — could you explain the map color hints a little more?
As far as difficulties traveling go, you’re right, I am always in a hurry to finish as fast as possible! The goal with these guides is to give people a quick ‘n dirty way to complete the mission 🙂 Having to follow the safe path in the Riverlands can sometimes mean taking a minute or more to work your way around a cliff, whereas by building you can continue straight ahead with no delay; that’s why I include such tips in the guide.
The guide also includes a route map that follows a safe path, but sometimes players might find themself somewhere that building will save them time.
I missed the road map. Your path is the one I took to get to C3 — because of the landing spot.
Color tip : Rather dark blue, meaning you can swim.
The Big One before C3 is right in the middle of D3 (Darn, I wish your comment box wasn’t black on black and could see what i’m typing!). And yes, one can survive jumping from a very small waterfalls.
Just complete the same mission in “hard” mode, I did it even faster. A good prospect to farm 100 exotics each time.
Building brides : Time to collect materials, may crash after three floors without pillars, you sure it’s quicker ?
For your way of playing, I totally get it. It’s just I know Riverland pretty well now, having built a few radar there — so you can imagine I travelled all round the place looking for gold and copper. That’s why was surprise by all your construct to travel.
Please note bed doesn’t mean real bed, bedroll is enough.
Weird, in previous missions when you were supposed to place Bedrolls, they explicitly wrote bedrolls. Thanks for the info, I’ll update the guide… sounds like they need to get someone else to write mission objectives.
They also wrote “kitchen stove” instead of biofuel stove, which had me 20 minutes looking for it in the tech tree. Thanks for the guide.
I see that I copied their mistake in our guide — I’ll correct it, thank you for mentioning it.