Outlast Trials - Item Guide

Item Guide for Outlast Trials

Introduction

40 hours of playtime experience. Rarity of the items are not official, I classified them with my experience. Some of the items are mentioned by other players that commented to this guide or the players from the official discord of Outlast.[discord.gg]

Hope y'all like it.

Written by Fxasa

Small Items

These items are small and doesn't affect speed and stamina of the players. Some of these items are throwable which can stun the enemies. The throwable items have different effects on different types of enemies.

• Lockpick: Used while opening locked containers which can be tool and first aid boxes. Can be found anywhere.
  Common item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Bandages: Added into to the game in the Prime Time Update. It can be used to stop bleeding.
  Common item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Small/Large Medicine: Makes the player gain health. Can be found in anywhere. Especially in the first aid boxes. Large ones can be found in locked first aid boxes. With the Update #3, medicine bottles can now be used as throwable items after being emptied with the AMP Recycle.
  Small → Common item.
  Large → Uncommon item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Small/Large Battery: Recharges the night vision goggles. Can be found in the tool boxes and on the ground. Small ones can be found in door traps by disarming them, triggering traps doesn't count. Large ones can be found in locked tool boxes.
  Small → Common item.
  Large → Uncommon item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Antidote: Makes the player regain their sanity. Can be found anywhere. Especially in the first aid boxes. Antidote can also be located when the sanity bar is completely empty in other words when the player is in psychosis.
  Common item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Adrenaline: Causes the player to have infinte stamina and a faster movement speed for a limited time. Can be found anywhere.
  Common item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Rig Recharger: Recharges the players rig after a use. Can be found in the tool boxes and the "Confidential"/Gift Room.
  Uncommon item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Syringe: Let's the player revive dead players. Players can revive other players that are bleeding out but this item will not speed up that process. Players that lose all their health and go down, and then proceed to bleed out or be killed, will be considered dead and can be brought back using this item. This item can only be found in glass boxes that can be found on walls.
  Uncommon item.
  
  To simplify: Players that are bleeding can be revived without this item, but dead players can only be revived with a syringe.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Brick/Bottle: Throwable items. When throwable items hit the enemies, the enemies will be stunned for a short time or the insane player-like enemies will be avoided completely. While enemies hit by bottles get stunned for a short period of time, minion enemies, enemies that are not the boss of the trial, that got hit by bricks fall, allows more time for player to escape. These items can also be used to disarm traps like: psychosis mines, duck TNTs, electricity floor traps. Throwing bricks and bottles can distract enemies and make them move towards the place that they are thrown to. And with the amplifications these items' effects can be more powerful. Can be found anywhere except in first aid and tool boxes. With Update #3 bricks are now able to break locked containers with the AMP Lock Breaker. With Update #4 bricks now have infinite use when thrown in the environment. However, they now break instantly after thrown at an enemy or a trap.
  Common item.
  
  
• Heart: Literally a heart, it is also a throwable item. Does not stun enemies like bottles and bricks, it is used to complete the games in the Fun Park map. Can disarm traps.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Microwave Trigger: A device that is used to kill the witnesses in the trial "Vindicate the Guilty". This device has a certain range. Thus, the player should be close enough to activate the device and should keep the certain range. After this device is used a cooldown occurs for a few seconds with beeping noises. Then it can be used again.
  Mission item.
  
  Microwave Trigger
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Microwave Trigger when it is not ready
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Microwave Trigger when it is ready
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Tracker: A device that is used to locate the objectives. This device has 7 red lights that indicates the location of the objectives. 2 of them shows the y coordinates, the floor the objective is at, near the upward and downward arrows. The other five of them are located at the middle which show the distance between player and the objective in x and z coordinates. The more the red lights at the middle the less is the distance between player and the objective. If upward and downward arrow lights are not on that means the player is on the same floor with the objective. In the trial "Vindicate the Guilty" the objectives are witnesses.
  Mission item.
  
  Tracker
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tracker at 0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tracker at 1 and Up
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tracker at 2
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tracker at 3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tracker at 4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tracker at 5
  

Non-stored Small Items

These items are not stored in your inventory, they have no effect on stamina or speed.

• Keys: Used to open gates. Can be found in symbol-marked human bodies in the "Police Station" level.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Posters: Generally the secondary objective in a trial. Founding all of the necessary amount increase the XP and the money gained after finishing the trial. Required for A+
  Mission item.
  
  
• Gifts: Added to the game with the Christmas update of 2023, Winter Kills. Instead of posters, there are gifts. Gifts are the secondary objective in the Winter Kills 2023 program. All gifts have the same design. Founding all of the necessary amount increase the XP and the money gained after finishing the trial. Required for A+
  Mission/Event item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Tickets: There are 4 tickets which are one of the main objectives of the map Fun Park. They are used to get inside the Root Canal. In order to get the 4 tickets, players must complete the games inside the Fun Park. The games are random instead of the one on the left of the ticketer.
  Mission item.

Big Items

These items decrease the player's movement speed and stamina. They can not be stored in inventory.

• Gasoline: Used for refueling the generators.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Bleach: Used for cooking the food for the children in the "Orphanage" map.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Mannequin Children: Mother Gooseberry's children, they are mannequins and in the trial they are shredded in the farm house in the "Fun Park" map.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Boxes: Boxes of documents that contain your public and private information in the tutorial. You have to destroy them in the shredder. And also when the player is reborn - finishes the game - the player is required to place the new boxes of documents of their public and private information.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Acid Bucket: Used for pouring Nitric Acid into the fountain to destroyed the evidences in the "Vindicate the Guilty" trial. Running while holding the Acid Bucket makes Nitric Acid to pour on the player and decreases the health in small amounts.
  Mission item.
  
  
• Human Heads: Found inside the puzzles of the "Vindicate the Guilty" trial and they are referred as evidences. They after solving the puzzle they should be put at the fountain where they are going to destroyed via Nitric Acid.
  Mission item.

Secrets / Secret Items

These items are classified as secret or extremely rare items. These items can be big or small and stored or unstored in inventory.

• Gift Room / "Confidential" Room / Secret Room: A secret room which is opened by pressing 2 buttons that are on the same level simultaneously, in other words at the same time. This room contains many items, it helps the players tremendously. Randomly spawns. In solo runs the 2 buttons must be pressed in a certain amount of time.
  Secret
  
  Gift Room Entrance Example:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Known locations:
  
  • Police Station: Basement, laundry room.
    
  • Police Station: Interrogation room.
    
  • Fun Park: Behind the Root Canal's first obstacle, dark room.
    
  • Fun Park: Under the Root Canal's stairs, dark room.
    
  • Orphanage: The bathroom on the left of Class 4.
    
  • Orphanage: The little house at outside on the left of "Jesus".
    
  • More will be added later on.
  
  
• Master Key: Used as an unlimited lockpick that opens the locks in an instant. Can be found in the gift room. Super efficient in hard mode or solo runs. This item can be stored in inventory.
  Gift Room Item
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Energy Booster: Used to increase the maximum energy, stamina of the player. Can be found in the gift room. This item can be stored in inventory.
  Gift Room Item
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Health Booster: Used to increase the maximum health of the player. Can be found in the gift room. This item can be stored in inventory.
  Gift Room Item
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Battery Booster: Used to increase the maximum nightvision battery capacity of the player. Can be found in the gift room. This item can be stored in inventory.
  Gift Room Item
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Evidences: Collecting the required amount will reveal the lore of the game. Randomly spawns in specific locations.
  Rare item.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Difficulties

There are different types of difficulties that change the effects, rarity or abundance of items.

Item Difficulties

Limited Items: Amount of items find in the trial is limited.




Limited Items II: Greatly reduced items.




Locked Items: Most items can only be found in locked containers.




No Technical Items: No technical items can be found in the Trial. (Batteries, Rig Rechargers)




No Medical Items: No medical items can be found in the Trial.




No Rigs: Rigs are disabled during Trial.




Thief Loadout: Start the Trial with 2 lockpics and one less inventory slot. Most items in locked containers. Rigs cooldown time is increased.




Naked and Afraid: No rigs, one medicine, one antidote, and one battery. No items in the Trial.

Trap Difficulties

Trap difficulties change the amount of small battery that can be found.
(more electrical door traps = more small battery)




Extra Traps: The Trial is filled with traps.




Increased Traps: Additional and deadly traps.




Maximum Traps: Maximum and deadly traps.




Unreliable Doors: Extra barricaded, trapped and blocked doors.

AMPs

There are some AMPs that change the effects and use of items. All of the AMPs can be bought for 3 tickets. Some AMPs can only be obtained at certain levels.




Double Doses: Syringes can be used twice.






Cacophony: Bricks and bottles are noisier, making them better distractions for enemies.






Strong Arm: Bricks and bottles pack a stronger punch when thrown at an enemy.






Recycle: Consumed medicine bottles will become throwable items.




Surplus: Start Trials with a random item in your inventory (medicine, antidote, bottle or brick).

Lock Breaker: Throw a brick to break open locked containers.

Rig: X-Ray

There are 4 rigs and one of them is X-Ray:


X-Ray allows the player to see through walls for a limited time. Player can see enemies and items. This X-Ray also allows other players to see enemies even if they don't have X-Ray equipped.

The upgrades that allow players to see items through walls are the 3th and 4th upgrades:

Resources Intel: X-Ray reveals consumable items nearby. (Medicines, Batteries, Adrenaline, Bricks, Bottles, Lockpics, Syringes, Rig Recharger, etc.)

Classified Intel: X-Ray reveals sensitive items nearby. (Documents, Posters, Booster Items, Master Key, Mines, Traps, etc.)

And also if the player doesn't have and can't find a battery, player can use the property of the 6th upgrade to recharge the NV battery.

Battery Transfer: Using X-Ray recharges Night Vision battery.

Summary

To summarize, there are 3 types of items with different rarities and there are different types of difficulties, AMPs and rigs that change the effects, rarity and abundance of items.

Items

Small Items

• Antidote (Common)
  
• Adrenaline (Common)
  
• Small / Large Medicine (Common) / (Uncommon)
  
• Small / Large Battery (Common) / (Uncommon)
  
• Lockpick (Common)
  
• Master Key (Secret)
  
• Syringe (Common)
  
• Rig Charger (Uncommon)
  
• Health / Battery / Energy Booster (Secret)
  
• Brick (Common)
  
• Bottle (Common)
  
• Heart (Mission)
  
• Microwave Trigger (Mission)
  
• Tracker (Mission)

Big Items

• Gasoline / Fuel Can (Mission)
  
• Boxes (Mission)
  
• Bleach (Mission)
  
• Mannequin Children (Mission)
  
• Acid Bucket (Mission)
  
• Human Head (Mission)

Non-Stored Items

• Evidences (Secret)
  
• Keys (Mission)
  
• Posters (Mission)
  
• Tickets (Mission)

Difficulties

Item Difficulties

• Limited Items
  
• Limited Items II
  
• Locked Items
  
• No Technical Items
  
• No Medical Items
  
• No Rigs
  
• Thief Loadout
  
• Naked and Afraid

Trap Difficulties

• Extra Traps
  
• Increased Traps
  
• Maximum Traps
  
• Unreliable Doors

AMPs

• Double Doses
  
• Cacophony
  
• Strong Arm
  
• Recycle (Update #3)
  
• Surplus (Update #3)
  
• Lock Breaker (Update #3)

Rigs:

• X-Ray

[Fxasa]

Guide updated with Update, Prime Time

[Fxasa]

Nothing significant changed except the item brick's properties at release

[Gabriel]

It's also good to know that the heart item can be used to destroy traps aswell! can be useful to clear an area of traps since it has a infinite supply!

[Fxasa]

Guide updated with Update #4

[Fxasa]

Guide updated with Update #3

[Fxasa]

Updated the guide

[CASCÃO]

@Amorking25 it's a random drop

[Viatus]

waw

[Amorking25]

How to get a backpack?

[Slatty]

Thank you so much