Player Hideouts
Player Hideouts
Player Hideouts are an elaborate system for players to indulge in legal and illegal activities, namely lab raids. The player hideout is also commonly known as the "Rebel Hideout".
The player hideout should not be confused with gang hideouts or warehouses.
The entry-level basic Hideout can be purchased at Rebel by approaching the bunker marked "Player Hideout Entrance" on the map. Using your Windows key at this bunker will give you the option to "Buy Hideout" which will take funds from your bank and provide you with a player hideout. The purchase value will be included in your net worth.
Once purchased, you can enter the player hideout using your Windows key. The inside of the bunker starts as an empty and rugged-looking building. The hideout can be upgraded with resources and materials found in lab raids. Using your Window's key at the electrical box on the wall will show you available purchases and upgrades.
Lab Raids
Periodically a notification will go out to the entire server that a Labs raid will start soon. To join the queue for a lab raid, enter your hideout and Windows key on your red entrance door and "Join Raid". When the timer expires, you will be teleported into the raid automatically. You must have a weapon in your hands to join the raid. These raids are KOS Zones which means you are free to shoot and be shot by other players in the raid without initiation.
Once you spawn into the lab raid, you will be locked inside until you locate an Extraction Point. Standing in an Extraction Point for some time will teleport you back to your hideout with all your physical and virtual items.
Upgrading the Hideout
Hideout upgrade items are found in lab raids. Raids yield various useful items; some exist solely to upgrade or unlock hideout features such as spark plugs and power cables. You can find the "Upgrade Hideout" option by viewing the electrical panel on the wall.
Each unlock typically has further upgrades to improve the feature. For example, Stash 2 offers more storage than Stash 1.
Check each unlock for required items or upgrades. Many upgrades require other unlocks to be made first. The first upgrades immediately available for cash are your stash and vents.
Generator Upgrade
The generator upgrade provides electricity used with many other upgrades. This requires the "Dry Fuel" to operate. If you run out of fuel, your hideout will be without power and turn off powered upgrades. Generator upgrades are one of the most crucial progressions across hideout unlocks.
Stash
The stash upgrade provides a physical and virtual inventory to store items within your hideout. Without it, you risk leaving your hideout with these items to store them elsewhere, such as your home.
Vents
Installing vents in your hideouts helps prevent your electronic upgrades from overheating. Vents are a dependency for some integral upgrades such as the intelligence center.
Workbench
The workbench upgrade grants you a standard crafting bench with the additional "Hideout" menu for creating upgrade parts. The workbench requires power to craft items.
Lavatory
Your private shitter. The lavatory upgrade will allow you to craft additional components required for upgrades. The lavatory is accessed in the same location as your stash.
Intelligence Center
The intel center upgrade will allow you to craft additional components required for other upgrades.
Security Upgrade
The basic security upgrade will make it more difficult for the police to raid your bunker; you will be notified if they are successful. Later upgrades unlock security cameras viewable through the app on your phone with a purple space invader icon called "Cameras".
Water Collector
You can refill water bottles with the water collector. Upgraded water collectors are required for the home brewing kit and lavatory upgrades.
Heating
Make your hideout a home by installing heating. Upgraded heating is a requirement for other upgrades such as later stash unlocks and the home brewing kit.
Library
Unlocking a hideout library grants more XP during lab raids.
Air Filtering Unit
Air filtration is sensible in an underground unit. This upgrade will increase your crafting speed.
Solar Power
Generating power from the sun significantly reduces your generator's fuel consumption. Solar panels are required for the final Bitcoin farm upgrade.
Shooting Range
Test your newly acquired firearms at your private range. Insert joke about Tariq here.
Rest Space
Settling in your cosy rest space allows you to regenerate health slowly.
Lighting
As the name suggests, this upgrade provides lighting in your dingy bunker. Lighting is also a requirement for other unlocks.
Home Brew Kit
This upgrade functions as the "Booze Generator" where you can distil moonshine in the privacy of your bunker.
Computer
Your computer can be used to access the dark web.
Med Station
You can craft better medical supplies with the med station. Further upgrades are required for intelligence center upgrades.
Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin Mining requires Graphics Cards found through various activities on the island. Each Bitcoin miner can hold 15 graphics cards and requires power to operate. Occasionally a graphics card may break and can be removed from the rack. You can use Bitcoin on the dark web.
History
Origins
Hideouts and lab raids were introduced in Kamdan Life V2's 5.5 update; hideout owners may notice that this system was heavily inspired by "Escape from Tarkov". Player hideouts and raids introduced an entirely new avenue for combat and progression. This feature alone saw over 100 items added to the server.
Nutrition Upgrade
Modelled as a small kitchen space, the nutritional centre provided additional food recipes with various bonuses. Nutrion items such as Monster Energy drinks, and Beef Stew were exclusive to hideout crafting. The upgrade was eventually removed to make restaurant businesses more viable.
Upgrade Requirement Flowchart
Credit
Scotty Veitch - Made a flow chart back in 2022 when the update was released and inspired me to create my own updated and colour-coded version. Thank you - you helped me wrap my head around hideouts and not cry.
