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
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