Soupstock Lode

Talking to Gary the Goblin here unlocks The West Pole.

Soupstock Lode
Area	West of the Mountains
Unlocked by	Ask the mayor of Breadwood about the soup shortage Revealed by Crazy Pete, if he's your pardner Possibly revealed by using disposable binoculars in Fort Memoriam Wandering in region E

Items

Outside

• Meat or nuggets from the ore cart.
• Can harvest tuna cactus if you have Foragin' 2

Level 1

• In the locker is 3-8 Mining supplies.
• Opening the toolbox locked to the bench (requires Lockpickin' 2 and a needle) yields a hammer and a monkey wrench.
• 2 pools of bowls of soup can be mined, if you have a suitable vessel
• A dense bean-iron nugget may be mined at the bottom left corner (with a pickaxe, and the Master Cookery skill).

Level 2

• In the knapsack you can find a cultist mask

Level 3

• 2 pools of bowls of soup can be mined, if you have a suitable vessel
• 1 pools of bowl of soup is found at the right side of the level, requiring 20% Hot Resistance

Bad Guys

Hardest fight
Bad guys	4 of a spitting soupsnake a muscular soupsnake an eldritch soupsnake
XP (kill)	120 - 129
Drops	30 - 60 meat stewed snake 3-5 of snake spleen snake venom bladder snake liver
	Venom: 2 - 4 Medicine: 2 - 4

Harder fight
Bad guys	3 of a spitting soupsnake a muscular soupsnake an eldritch soupsnake
XP (kill)	80 - 86
Drops	20 - 40 meat stewed snake 1-2 of snake spleen snake venom bladder snake liver
	Venom: 1 - 2 Medicine: 2 - 4

Easy fight
Bad guys	2 of a spitting soupsnake a muscular soupsnake an eldritch soupsnake
XP (kill)	40 - 43
Drops	10 - 20 meat stewed snake
	Venom: 1 - 2 Medicine: 1 - 2

• On level 3 you can grab a handful of snakes from the pool for repeated combat. The number of snakes and rewards depend on the number of fights you have done.
  • The 1st three fights are relatively easy ones, against just 2 snakes.
  • Your 4th and 5th fight have a chance of being harder, against 3 snakes
  • Your 7th and 8th fight have a chance of being hardest, against 4 snakes
  • Subsequent fights are always hardest.

Notes

• Fixing the lift requires the monkey wrench. The combination to get the lift working are as follows:
  1. First Screw (1) four times
  2. Second Screw (2) two times
  3. Third Screw (3) six times
• Alternatively, you can smack the elevator into shape by using the perk Percussive Maintenance.
• On the 3rd level, after unlocking the lift, you may notice a crack in the wall. With an El Vibrato transponder (and a pickaxe) you can break through to an El Vibrato Chamber.
• Defeat the snakes to get stewed snake to increase your Hot Resistance to 20% in order to pass the cracks and get the last bowl of soup
• The name Soupstock Lode is most likely a reference to Comstock Lode which was a silver mine.