Walkthrough for A Seeker at the Gates quest in Horizon: Steel Frontiers. Includes steps for Errands, Main Quests, Hunting Grounds, and Side Quests like Shortage of Supplies and Underequipped.
Walkthrough
- 1Errand: Shortage of Supplies
- Go to Mother's Crown and find Sona at the North Gate to start the errand.
- 2Buy the Carja Sharpshot Bow and Carja Sling from the Merchant if you haven't already.
- 3Upgrade carry capacity options.
- 4Head South Gate, go west to a Lancehorn grazing site. Watch out for Sawtooths.
- 5Use Tearblast Arrows from the Carja Sharpshot Bow to kill Lancehorns by targeting their back tanks.
- 6Collect a Lancehorn Lens.
- 7Return to the path, follow it south to find Orn atop a rock structure.
- 8Use climb holds to reach Orn and give him the Signal Arrows.
- 9Rappel and zip line down, then return to Mother's Crown.
- 10Climb the Watchtower by the North Gate (using handholds behind where Sona was) and talk to Sona to finish the errand.
- 11Main Quest: A Seeker at the Gates (Part 2)
- Rappel down from the watchtower.
- 12Head north to Corrupted Zone 02, which contains three Corrupted Grazers.
- 13Corrupted Grazers will attack; find a vantage point (a small rock structure is available).
- 14Use Tearblast Arrows to defeat the Corrupted Grazers and clear the zone.
- 15Head west to the Carja Border Fort.
- 16Vallymeet Hunting Grounds
- North of the first Corrupted Zone, follow the path to the cliff side and climb up to the camp.
- 17Talk to the Keeper.
- 18Fire Fight Trial: Damage four machines by shooting the Blaze tank on a Strider with a Fire Arrow. Achieve in 40 seconds for Blazing Sun.
- 19Freeze Trial: Freeze and kill 5 machines within 1:30 using a Freeze Bomb and a single killing blow. Blazing Sun for this.
- 20Shock Trial: Requires a Shock weapon. Shoot off three underbelly canisters from a Bellowback within 1:00 for Blazing Sun. Use Tripcaster shock traps and Tearblast Arrows on stunned Bellowbacks.
- 21Side Quest: Underequipped
- From the Vallymeet Hunting Grounds camp, head west to the Hunter's Gathering campsite.
- 22Talk to Lubavad to receive the quest.
- 23Find a Grazer Training Dummy behind tents.
- 24Find another Grazer Training Dummy to the right further in the campsite.
- 25Climb a pole with climb holds next to the second dummy, jump to a ledge.
- 26Head towards the mountains, find a ravine with a log. Use climb holds to get up to the log and follow the path to a tightrope.
- 27Cross the tightrope to find Banuk Artifact: I Name You.
- 28Use the zipline to return to Hunter's Gathering.
- 29Head east from the campsite, follow the path south, then east (past a campfire) to an overturned cart.
- 30Continue past machine carcasses to find the wrecked caravan.
- 31Talk to Marzavid and give him the item.
Tips
- Recommended level by this point is 18.
- Upgrade all carrying capacities to 3 or higher.
- Acquire green weapons and complete their tutorials, or use Carja variants (Sharpshot Bow, Tripcaster, Sling).
- A good loadout includes: Hunter Bow, Carja Sharpshot Bow, Carja Tripcaster, and Carja Sling or Blast Sling.
- Tearblast Arrows are effective against Lancehorn tanks.
- For the Shock Trial, use the Tripcaster to set up shock traps and follow up with Tearblast Arrows on the Bellowback's canisters.
- Completing "Shortage of Supplies" finishes the errand.
- Clearing Corrupted Zone 02 completes that objective.
- Completing Hunting Grounds trials earns rewards and potentially Blazing Suns.
- Completing "Underequipped" yields quest rewards.
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