I started documenting all kind Buildings, Bridges, Swedish Culture, Trucks, etc, which I found on my hikes through the wonderful world of GZ. I categorized them in specific chapters I called “routes”, because I mostly avoid fast travel and hike to every location I want to go.
Route 1: Electrical Power Lines - Click here
It’s important to keep fit in this hostile world so I love to run hike trails to relax and absorb the beauty of the Swedish nature.
Today I did a Electrical Power Lines hike which I started at 75, 1932. Not sure if those smaller poles with wires are part of the electrical net, but it didn’t matter for my run. Everything was perfect. The sun was shining, and very important no machines in sight. And to make sure this was going to be be a good fitness exercise, where I could run fast when needed I packed a minimal backpack. Just enough to make it back alive if things got rough.
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I ran until I reached the big masts at 79, 1101 and started following them, keeping an eye out for seekers and listening for the oh so familiar sounds of the machines.
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The masts stood in a more or less straight line and crossed some rather open fields where I was obviously open for attack by machines. I decided not engage in fights if I could. I would just keep running, hoping this day was my lucky day. Afterall it was supposed to be a relaxing run. So far so good!
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On the next picture you see that at a certain point the lines bend slightly to the right. Leading toward a more wooded terrain. Here it was trickier to see if machines were close. Also it was getter darker. After a mile or so the power line ends at -3148, 1616. Close to an area called Glennaröd.
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I had just time to take the last photograph, when I was almost spotted by a trio of angry Hunters. Time to go prone and flee unseen, get home, get a shower, and dream of an another hike cross country.
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Route 2: Cave- and underground locations (except bunkers) - Click here
Contains spoilers!
Today I waited till the weather cleared, because it was raining all the time with some
occasional thunderstorm. My plan was to visit all caves and underground locations that are known to me.
I started in the Marshland region at an Cave Dock and had planned to finish the hike in the south of the South Coast region.
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-3080, -3080 (ML)
On this hike I encountered 4 caves, each of which has two different openings in the rock. The next two photo’s show the two entrances of the same cave.
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West 4594, -838 (HI)
The next underground structure has some hazardous green stuff on its path down.
Be careful where you walk and be quick. (But is not accessible at the moment, hopefully this will be back.) Edit: with the '21 may update this hidden cave is accibleble again.
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5663, -46 (HI)
This cave isn’t very deep, but it looked like there was a deeper cave-in in the past before the cave-in. It is on Himfjäll Island near a large wooden lookout.
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3157, 64 (HI)
From Himfjäll Island I travelled to the Farmlands Region to make a picture of this cave-like structures near Annagruvan, where I found 3 caves. The first and second cave have 2 exits. Very nice to visit on a sunny day.
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Passage cave -1738, -1419 (FL)
On Archipelago near Kalviken I found two other caves close together, each also having two openings where you can enter (or exit). (Revamped with Companion Update)
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Entrance at 3056, 3072 (A)
The second double entrance cave has some sort of Tick infestation, so be aware of that if you visit. Deeper in you will find beds in an octagon configuration.
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Entrance at 3294, 2906 (A)
The next photo is of a cave that might been previously inhabited by an animal, I am not sure. But I nearly died there, of that I am sure, so do take care!
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409, 3436 (A)
The sun was getting lower I had to hurry to get to the next places before dusk. I wanted to make photo’s when it was still light. Only a few more places to go. First to Måsskär! This cave has water that is damaging when you fall in.
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-1673, 3859 (A)
Not a cave, but… a big squarish “Dig Hole” in the middle of nowhere in the North Coast region with no obvious purpose. This hole has been removed with the New dawn Update.
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323, -4456 (ML)
After the november 2020 update there were several deep holes in the Norrmyra Arena, one of which led to a cave. These structures were removed from the game in the Dec 2020 update, and replaced with nine 1.5mtr round hatches. Still, we like to remember how it was, with these pictures.
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Arena cave entrance
Muskudden Rail tunnel, which connect the railroad Bridge (coming from Rö) to Muskudden Port Bunker. Following the tunnel is a bit of a puzzle, you need to circumvent the locked doors at -4439, 113.
And with that last click of the camera I could return home again. I was happy, even though it was a long tiring run, it also was a beautiful and wonderful hike. I always will be wondering if I missed some secret place somewhere, that would have fit this cave route. Anyway, I add them when I find them.
After the forest revamp - may update 2021
FNIX Cave on the south-side of Tylöveden Mountain
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Here we have a cave-like cavity, where you can drop in but not climb out again.
In 2020 this was a shallow hole in the ground with 2 sleeping bags, later a big boulder was put there. Not sure why, but a cavity was left.
Route 3: Färgglada Lastbilar (Trucks) - Click here
Colorful Trucks
When I was running around the Swedish regions and checking locations for weapons, I came across some nice ‘Ville’ Trucks. First pic I made were from the trucks of the Benso fuel company, which were standing near a Benso gas pump station, all neatly in a row.
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But the next Benso truck I saw wasn’t that neatly parked. We will never know what really happened. I did not stop to investigate. But look at its beautiful colors.
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Near the Police Station I saw this Post Office truck with it’s precious cargo of parcels and letters nevermore being delivered. Love letters withering away together with bills.
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In passing this abandoned truck, I thought of the Hollies song “He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother”, though this truck is endlessly carrying its brother without moving an inch.
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Running past and through farms and homesteads, I took a shot of this truck with air- or water tanks as its cargo. Not so often seen. Green with blue, how do you do!
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And ofcourse the many ‘burney gray’ victims of war were also around, and even though they make a less beautiful picture, they are a part of it all, and they can’t and may not be denied.
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Next one where I stopped to make a photograph, was this a green army truck with a red army container, a nice color combination. Just like a red beret commando standing firm, not giving way!
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Another truck that I saw regularly was the Kundsam Livsmedel (food) trucks. Food is one of the most important things we need. And it is scarce now. But we have a lot of empty food trucks.
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This truck carrying a tractor I found in the snowy Marshland Region after the landfall update (feb 8 2022) It had a little accident with a fallen tree, and ended up at a road sign.
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I have been running the equivalent of 1.5 times the Earth’s circumference, and today I decided to take pictures of the towering structures I encountered. On the first picture I captured an Air Surveillance Radar (LSTAR) on a bunker just like the ones on the many Radar masts.
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When I see this lone windmill below, I can’t but think of the story of Don Quixote who thought these were giants with waving arms, trying to kill him. I better stay clear of the “waving arms” just to be sure.
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The masts of the Ski-lift carrying the carts are a wonderful sight against the snowy backdrop. Just for a minute the sounds of the harvester nearby silenced in my mind!
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This wooden lookout tower has a nice triangle base shape design, there are two of these type on Himfjäll Island and two in the Farmland region, one of which is in a Sovjet camp.
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The tall Radar masts like the one on the picture, are easy to spot, but are also easy to erroneously dismiss them as ones you have already seen. I found eleven masts so far. Some are tethered and some are firmly anchored on solid ground or buildings.
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The steel Mining Tower is my favorite. It has that industrial look with broad steel steps. All the way up it makes a good sniper spot, if it wasn’t located in a wooded terrain.
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This Beauty is a Water Tower of which I found four. This one in Himarvet and the one in Östervik have a red door in the center column (locked). The one near Hjortqvarns Sågverk, strangely enough, has no door. The assault base update gave us the fourth one located in the Myrdalen area. All of them have a radio mast on top. Making them one of the highest man made structures in GZ.
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I’ll end this run with a picture of two tall and slender factory chimneys reaching pointless for the skies, and becoming nothing more than a resting place for birds.
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Route 5: Vapenkassun & Ammunition Förråd - Click here
Weapon Caches and Ammo Storage
When you run around the game world you’re bound to come across these colorful concrete cubes. Some have discrete colors and are perfectly hidden in the environment, but some like this Red one in the Farmlands, seems to want you to know it’s here for you to take what you need.
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On the next photo (which I took in the Farmlands as well), you see this light colored cube which had me thinking for a while what color it was. I’m still not sure, but I settled on Ivory.
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Another ‘Förråd Kub’ I saw on my run through the Farmlands Region had a bluish complexion and would be quite easily spotted in day time, but in the misty nights it would not.
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Did I tell you that I like the color red? Well it’s the last red one I have found so far. This one is next to a Radar mast in the South Coast Region. This is the type without a roof, and instead it has crane hooks.
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Not sure when this black colored Vapenkassun was added in the South Coast, but it was before “Dark Skies”. The door is stuck, but we can crawl in, however there is no loot in there.
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In the next Farmland Bunker I found blue triplets cubes. They are the numbers 24, 25 and 26 in this list. Not very good photographic conditions though due to the gas.
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And to make sure this was going to be be a good fitness exercise, where I could run fast when needed I packed a minimal backpack. Just enough to make it back alive if things got rough.
