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Verified for the August 2026 patch · updated Aug 20, 2026

Power Plant

The island's beating heart since the Power Trip update — cooling towers, a restorable grid, and a red keycard behind the blue door.

At a glance

Puzzle
Blue keycard
Cards needed
Fuses
1
Rad protection
25 rad protection
Recycler
Yes, on-site
Puzzle reward
Red keycard + 4 crates
Run the Power Plant puzzle → step-by-step · 6–9 min

Power Plant has always been a blue-tier staple. Since the August 2026 Power Trip update, it’s also the center of an island-wide electrical network — players can restore the plant to power machinery, events, and rewards at monuments across the map.

Why you’re here

Two reasons now. The classic one: the red keycard and four crates behind the blue door. The new one: the restoration system — bringing the plant online unlocks activity across several connected monuments, which keeps traffic (and fights) at this monument high all wipe.

The layout

Cooling towers over a sprawl of turbine halls and office structures. The puzzle threads through three buildings: a switch under the stairs of the corner building, a timer at the slanted-roof building, then the main building where green card, switch, fuse, and blue reader chain together. Radiation sits around the 25-protection mark in the hot zones — wear a hazmat.

Route and circuit: Power Plant puzzle guide. Patch context: what Power Trip changed.

Loot worth the trip

  • Red keycard in the blue puzzle room
  • 4 crates (wood/military) behind the blue door
  • Powered-monument events since the August 2026 Power Trip update