Mystery Lake Supply Caches

Mystery Lake Supply Caches
One of the hidden supply caches.
Episode	Episode 2
Missions
Current	Mystery Lake Supply Caches
Region	Mystery Lake Forlorn Muskeg Broken Railroad

Spoiler Warning: This page may contain spoilers from the story of The Long Dark.

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There are several supply caches hidden around Mystery Lake. Most are left by hunters or campers. Some are left by off-grid "preppers" waiting for the government to fall, or the end of the world, or some such nonsense. In-game description

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Mystery Lake Supply Caches is a side mission in Episode 2 of the story. There are six caches to be found in total. To unlock the individual tasks, one has to find a corresponding note or letter first.

Objectives

• Find the cache near the old Hunting Lodge in the Broken Railroad region.
• Find the cache at the end of the ravine in the Broken Railroad region.
• Find the cache in the Clear Cut in Mystery Lake.
• Find the cache under some tree roots in the Forlorn Muskeg.
• Find the cache in Alan's Cave in Mystery Lake.
• Find the cache near the entrance to Forlorn Muskeg region from Mystery Lake.

Loot

• The cache near the old Hunting Lodge.
  • ~30% condition Mukluks and more.
• The cache at the end of the ravine.
  • Wool Longjohns and more.
• The cache in the Clear Cut.
  • Nothing notable, just 2x Tomato Soup, Lantern Fuel, Antiseptic and an Energy Bar.
• The cache under some tree roots.
  • A worn Balaclava, a Firestriker, 1 Accelerant and a mouldy Granola Bar.
• The cache in Alan's Cave.
  • Food and water
• The cache near the entrance to Forlorn Muskeg region from Mystery Lake.
  • Nothing notable, just 3x Accelerant, Pinnacle Peaches and a Tinder Plug.

Walkthrough

To find the caches, you first have to find the matching note or letter. These can be found in the following places:

• At the backside of the stairs at the entry of the Hunting Lodge; leading towards the Hunting Lodge cache. This cache contains a letter which unlocks the quest Aurora Hatch.
• At a corpse leaning on the logs of a crashed log wagon of the log train in Forlorn Muskeg, near the entrance to the Broken Railroad region; leading towards the ravine cache.
• On the desk inside one of the lake cabins (the one next to the cabin for which you need the key #2); leading towards the Clear Cut cache.
• Inside a pickup truck next to a yellow train/engine near the collapsed bridge in the Broken Railroad region; leading towards the tree root cache.
• On a metal desk on the second floor of the Carter Hydro Dam; leading towards the cache in Alan's Cave.
• On the table inside the new Forestry Lookout; leading towards the cache near the entrance to Forlorn Muskeg.

Transcripts

Whenever Mackenzie finds a Hidden Cache, he will say a variation of these lines:

• Mackenzie: "I knew I'd find something here."
• Mackenzie: "There you are."
• Mackenzie: "I've been looking for you."
• Mackenzie: "Well well...what have we here."
• Mackenzie: "Found it!"
• Mackenzie: "Ah ha...here it is."

Gallery

One of the hidden supply caches.

One of the notes which lead towards the caches.