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Borderlands 2 Game of the Year eGuide Optional Missions

Minecart Mischief

Mission Briefing

You found an ECHO Recorder explaining that all minerals must be pulverized by the rock crusher at the end of the mining track. If you can get the mineral chunk to the rock crusher, you’ll be able to access whatever goodies it holds.

Availability: Locate the ECHO Recorder at the Abandoned Mining Site in Caustic Caverns after “Bright Lights, Flying City.”

Unlocks: —

Mission Reward: Caustic Caverns

Level Money XP Gear

17

4 Eridium

2903

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Caustic Caverns

Fight your way around the perimeter of Caustic Caverns in a counter-clockwise direction until reaching the Abandoned Mining Site. Take a minute to eliminate the area’s thriving thresher population, then locate the ECHO Recorder affixed to the post near the rail tracks. And so begins the Minecart Mischief mission…

Follow the tracks to the west across the bridge, and head into the mouth of the tunnel. There, you’ll find an abandoned minecart filled with rocks bound for the crusher. Get behind the cart and push it along the tracks toward the gate to the east. You may need to battle any remaining threshers and varkids in the area as you push, so try to build up a head of steam and shove the cart forward so you can fire off some rounds while the cart rolls ahead on its own. This is a far easier thing to do if you cleared the area of enemy creatures prior to starting the mission.

Use the valve on the left to open the gate and continue on into the varkid-infested tunnel ahead. Equip a Fire weapon to burn the varkids alive, and keep on pushing to the next gate. Once again, turn the valve on the left beside the gate to open it and continue on. The valve controlling the third gate is on the right. Keep your eyes peeled for varkid pods, and attack them at once—this is not the time to be farming Badass and Super Badass Varkids!

Varkids are super vulnerable to Fire, and the flames make it easier to track them in the darkened tunnel.

Continue pushing the cart until it topples off the edge onto the conveyor belt below. Now, pull the floor level beside the track to activate the crusher. Do your best to maintain your position on this upper level while the ore is pulverized; there will be plenty of time to explore the rest of the Infested Warehouse soon enough. Fend off the remaining varkids, and collect the raw Eridium that is spit out from the crushing device. Turn in right where you pick up the raw Eridium, then take some time to explore the upper and lower levels of this corner of the Infested Warehouse before exiting through Dahl Deep Core 06.