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Blight Explorer achievement in Borderlands 2 (Xbox 360)

Blight Explorer

Discover all named locations in Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus, and Sawtooth Cauldron

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How to unlock the Blight Explorer achievement

  • A BatwomanA Batwoman
    01 Oct 2012 03 Oct 2012 26 Feb 2017
    Discovered all named locations in Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus, and Sawtooth Cauldron.

    26/26 Locations

    In total, you'll need to find 18 locations across all 4 of these areas. Keep in mind this achievement is *TIME* Consuming. You'll also need to uncover the whole map of that area. Here is a list of all areas for this achievement;

    It might help to explore ALL the edges of the map as well where the dark blue shadow is that looks hidden on your map. You can tell if you completed the map area by the white lining around the map. I strongly suggest that you re-look your map to see the hidden shadows.
    Please NOTE that you might not be able to get all the areas. You might have to beat the story mode first.

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    Arid Nexus; Badlands (Borderlands 1 Map 3/3)

    *T.K. Baha's House – His house is right where the one in the first one was. Same spot! South Corner of the map has a basement full of money!
    *Hyperion Info Stockyar – After beating Saturn you’ll be able to access this area using a lift elevator crossing a highway. Hyperion Robots and building shouldn’t miss during Story Mission.
    *Fyrestone – Right from the beginning? Or is it?
    Borderlands 2Secret AchievementThe Secret Achievement achievement in Borderlands 2 worth 20 pointsContinue playing to unlock this secret achievement


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    Arid Nexus; Boneyard (6/6)

    *Eridium Pump Station 1 – Station has robots and Engineers. Shouldn’t miss if you’re trying to uncover the whole map.
    Pump Station 2 - Have to use an elevator next to the catch-a-ride. Go down the elevator and uncover the map. Should get if you do the story mission.
    Pump Station 3 - You might have to go back to this or during story mission not sure drive a car to it and get out to uncover could be bad guys here. It's in the North west side of your map.
    *Hyperion Truth Network – Right ahead from where you spawn have to wait till after completing the story or a side mission I’m not for sure on this. Should open then.
    *Loader Maintenance Depot – Right next to Hyperion House where tons of enemies are.
    *Transmix Regulator Station – A pipe will lead you here but you have to blow up one of the pipe sides to get inside the pipe. To do so use the ramp to ram the car into the pipe side that is glowing green. Should be during a mission you can do this.

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    Sawtooth Cauldron (7/7)

    ( This area is highly confusing and a pain there is only one travel station. To get out of this place you’ll have to really look at your map for a small slim ramp leading to the travel station. )
    *Main Street Reservoir - You’ll see this area after the side mission with putting up flags for Brick.
    *Smoking Guano Grotto – Has more enemies here in a smaller cavern/grotto has lava on the bottom level. Elevator is here to get to the top of Buzzards Nest.
    *The Buzzard Nest - Have to take Elevator in the Smoking Grotto up to it. The last area you’ll get on your map. It’s very missable** Buzzards are up here. Last side mission for Sawtooth is up here to collect or do.
    *Avie's Camp - (EXTREMELY MISSABLE AREA)** Have to jump off the SW corner of The Buzzards Nest. To get to the Buzzards Nest you have to use an Elevator. The camp there has a teddy bear head on a chair and some Loot!
    *Cramfist's Foundry – Enter from Avie’s Camp or Main Street. Bunch of enemies here.
    *Scalding Remnants - Thrassers and bandits are here. A lake of water is around the couple bandit camps. Really awesome looking place during the day.
    *Sawtooth Stilts – Should be down a hill in an area by tons of enemies might be over whelming in not a high rank. By a save spot this is also how you get back and forth from getting out of Sawtooth.

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    Eridium Blight (10/10)

    *Human Dwelling Place - You’ll meet a robot here named Mal. He wants to be human so you’ll do side missions for him to become human. It’s Mal’s house pretty much. Ore Chasm is right next to here.
    *Bruiseboulder Quarry - You should drive on this road to Arid Nexus during the Story Mission. Should just show up when you drive through.
    *Eridium Extraction Plant – Past a big opening door with two robots that spawn in front of it. Ton’s of Robots here.
    *Infused Grotto – To get to this have to shut off main power from the turret gun that’s by the first opening door where the spawn entrance is. It’s underground and it looks like a purple cave filled with Bullymongs and Rakks. You can also drop in on it from Quarry next to the Catch-a-Ride.
    *The Slag Scar – By/Under broken bridge right from where you spawn. Bullymongs are down here has a purple crack texture.
    *Grandma's House – Should be right next to the bandit camp Slag Scar. Has a white fence in front of it. During a side mission “To Grandma’s House we go.” It’s Jack’s Grandma’s house on a hill.
    *Stagma Vapour Extraction – During a side mission. It’s past a bridge next to Lava. Should be a bandit camp.
    *Slagma Refinery - Middle area of the map next to the Slag Scar Bandit Camp.
    *Mount Hellsfront – Next to a Lavafall. Bandit Camp here right by the “Kill yourself” Mission.
    *Lover's Leap – Past Lavafall, up a latter during a side mission “Kill yourself” with Jack he wants you to jump of the edge. DON’T! You get more XP when you press the button and a gun. It’s in Mount Hellsfront.

    This achievement helps go towards the World Traveler Achievement;
    Borderlands 2World TravelerThe World Traveler achievement in Borderlands 2 worth 150 pointsDiscover all named locations


    Credit goes to whoever made this large map on PS3trophies.
    Here is a heavy spoiler with all the maps location if needed for World Traveler (Click on Map):



    Video guide thanks to BlackoutGamersUK

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    TalentedPlaceboSo, I had all my map uncovered, but I was missing Eridium Pump 2. I was playing co-op, and my connection timed out when me and my friend were entering this area. When I came back, he was already inside it, so I didn't technically discovered the area. And, as it is an underground area, the map should be uncovered in that area. When I entered it, the achievement poped up.
    Posted by TalentedPlacebo on 01 Sep 14 at 03:05
    biegeeinheitGreat!clap
    Posted by biegeeinheit on 01 Jan 15 at 00:29
    Orran DuraiSawtooth Cauldron is so annoying...
    Posted by Orran Durai on 04 Aug 17 at 10:46
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  • MAJORPOOPYMAJORPOOPY
    23 Sep 2012 23 Sep 2012 24 Sep 2012
    For this achievement, you will need to discover all named locations in Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus, and Sawtooth Cauldron.

    This achievement is actually pretty easy, just time consuming. You will discover most of the areas while progressing through main quests and side quests. Some areas will take a bit of extra exploring. The way you tell if an area has yet to be explored is by looking at your map for gray areas. If part of your map is grayed out, it still needs to be discovered. You can tell if the whole area is discovered if there are no gray areas and there is a clear cut white border around the edge.

    For this particular achievement, you will actually need to travel to 4 different locations. Those are: Eridium Blight, Arid Nexus - Boneyard, Arid Nexus - Badlands, and Sawtooth Cauldron.

    The only location that may cause you some difficulty is in Eridium Blight. You'll see a gray area right in the middle of the map near the fast travel station. When you go up to it, you'll see that the entrance is covered with lasers. To disengage them, follow the wire to the tall tower along the wall. Go through the door and lob a grenade up to the fuse box. (You'll see it sparking where the wire ends.) Alternatively, you can try to position yourself to get a shot on the fuse box. After you shoot it, the lasers on the door will be gone and all you have to do is drop down into the cave.

    Edit: Sometimes there are other locations inside of areas. For example, Eridium Blight has an area you can travel to called Ore Chasm. You have to go to it by vehicle or walking because it has no fast travel inside of it. You can find these on the map by looking for the exit arrows. If when you highlight the exit arrow and it shows a place you have yet to travel to (or has no fast travel connection) you should check it out.

    Edit #2: User Ladybusiness has pointed out another hard to find location. In Sawtooth Cauldron once you reach the top of the Buzzard Nest (big platform in the middle of the map), you will need to jump off of the SW corner into a small camp to reveal an area. There is a small bit of loot in this camp as well.

    If you have any questions, comments, or need help finding a location, feel free to PM me.
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    Calex dEUSSame here, saw tooth was the last one.
    Posted by Calex dEUS on 01 Oct 12 at 16:21
    Frankie DrumsNYAvie's camp here as well.
    Posted by Frankie DrumsNY on 02 Oct 12 at 03:05
    Dannnnn The ManI was having a problem with this one then i found out that to discover pump 2 you have to take the lift down underground.

    use this map to find where pump 2 is.

    http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8316/8043460651_0a799c1b4....jpg
    Posted by Dannnnn The Man on 04 Oct 12 at 01:40
  • oG YeahoG Yeah
    24 Sep 2012 24 Sep 2012
    Okay, after double, triple, and quad checking I finally got this after thinking for the longest time it was glitched! World traveler still hasn't popped tho... :(. Note: This solution will probably only apply to people in co-op games and most likely not solo but... Yeah... All of my areas have been explored completely no gray spots but upon doing the data mining quest in Arid Nexus on my second playthrough I had to go to different pump stations in my game which was solo for the time. Upon entering the second pump station i got blight explorer! Anyone that did their first playthrough co-op try going to the different pump stations in a game by yourself. The misleading thing is the pump stations aren't greyed out yet they can be discovered. Also, the reason i believe it didn't pop for me because in my first playthrough i did co-op and i think someone else went down to the pump station for the quest and activated that one himself, with me not going down there because i was activating a different pump station. So, check every pump station if you cannot for the life of you find your missing location! :p
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    Cringer85MY LIFE SAVER!!!
    Posted by Cringer85 on 09 Jan 14 at 20:18
    Dan vasNormandyThumbs up from me! Pump Station 2!
    Posted by Dan vasNormandy on 06 Nov 14 at 13:33
    Runner eGirlpump station #2 for me as well, thank you for the tip!!!
    Posted by Runner eGirl on 03 Jul 15 at 04:32
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