Borderlands 4 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

Borderlands 4 Trophy Roadmap

• Estimated trophy difficulty: 5/10
• Approximate amount of time to platinum: 100-150 hours
• Offline Trophies: 35 (1, 4, 14, 17)
• Online Trophies: 0
• Number of missable trophies: there are no known missables at this time, but some trophies are still undergoing confirmation (currently missing some side missions and easter egg trophies). Missions are replayable. After the story you can start a new character at Level 30 on post-story save with all side content immediately accessible, so everything is replayable.
• Glitched trophies: Nothing Yet
• Does difficulty affect trophies?: Only for “Gear Five!” you must play through Ultimate Vault Hunter 1-4 difficulties to reach Rank 5 (highest difficulty). All other trophies can be done on ‘Easy’ difficulty.
• Hardest Trophy: Gear Five!
• Minimum Playthroughs: 1
• PS4/PS5 Autopop, Save Transfer, Crossbuy: No PS4 version available
• Free-Roam / Level Select after Story?: Yes, there is free-roam and mission replay after the story. Can fully explore after the story and clean up remaining side content. Missions are replayable at any time through Missions Menu > Replay.
• New Game+ Mode?: No
• Supports Manual Saves?: No, only 1 Autosave
• Release Date: September 12, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to the Borderlands 4 Trophy Guide! The trophies require completing all 25 Main Missions, 98 Side Missions, 53 Activities, discovering all 191 Map Locations (unfogging whole map), 3 Primordial Vaults (requires 9 Vault Fragments), any 80 Contracts (mini-quests), 10 Personal Vehicles, 3 World Events, a Legendary Item in all 9 Equipment Slots, completing a Gear/Manufacturer Challenge Category, and reaching Ultimate Vault Hunter Level 5 (Endgame Challenge).

The best approach is to focus on the story first and do as much side content as possible along the way. Rushing just the story missions isn’t recommended because you’d be severely underleveled and enemies will show red skull icons which makes it very difficult. Since you need to complete all side missions anyway it will be more efficient to work on it during the story to level up. However, everything can still be done after the story too. After the story you access to all areas and can clean up what’s left.

Step 1: Finish Story (Any Difficulty), Unfog Map, do any Side Missions & World Events you see [25-60 Hours]

For the first step, play through the story any way you like. It doesn’t matter what character and difficulty you choose.

Along the way you should unfog the map and work on side missions. You must finish all 98 side missions for trophy “Grassroots Campaigner”. Doing side missions as you go is beneficial to level up. The contracts (from contract boards) don’t count as side missions and can be ignored during this step. So just focus on the story and any side missions you run into. You can still clean up missing quests after the story in free-roam.

Keep the following in mind:

• Keep any legendary items you find. You need a legendary in every equipment slot for the “I Earned This” trophy.
• Work on a Gear/Manufacturer Challenge from the start. You can view these under Missions > Challenges. If you work on these throughout the game you won’t have to farm kills later.
• Watch out for the 3 World Events, they are rare random spawns: Goredello, Airship, Creep Impact. They get marked on the map when they’re available. Each one unlocks a trophy. Also defeat a ‘World Boss’ inside a white bubble that randomly appears.

Here are lists of all main and side missions including walkthroughs and locations for all of them:

• Borderlands 4 – All Main Missions (Chronological Story Order)
• Borderlands 4 – All Side Missions (by Starting Area)

Step 2: Primordial Vaults [2 Hours]

You must finish all 3 Primordial Vaults (combat arenas) for the “Nothing Left to Guard” trophy. Collect all 9 Vault Fragments to make the Vaults appear. Each Vault consists of 3 waves of enemies with a boss at the end. They scale to your level and can be done on Easy difficulty.

• Borderlands 4 – All Vault Fragment Locations
• Borderlands 4 – Primordial Vault Locations

Step 3: Activities [10 Hours]

There are 53 activities, you must finish all of them for the “Ruler of Everything” trophy. These include: 9 Order Silos, 14 Safehouses, 11 Ancient Crawlers, 7 Abandoned Auger Mines, 6 Order Bunkers, 6 Ripper Drill Sites.

The Order Silos and Safehouses unlock fast travel points on the map. The Auger Mines, Order Bunkers, Ripper Drill Sites are enemy encounters with a boss at the end. After the story they are scaled to around Level 40. If you are not sufficiently leveled you can clean up side missions first.

• Borderlands 4 – All Activity Locations

Step 4: Side Missions Cleanup [10-40 Hours]

Finish any Side Missions you have left, there are 98 total. Some side missions also lead to otherwise inaccessible map locations. If you already finished a large amount of Side Missions during the story the cleanup will only take a few hours. If you’ve ignored all side content it will take around 40 hours to finish all 98 side missions.

Doing all side missions also unlocks the 4 trophies for doing the Outbounder, Auger, Electi, Claptrap missions.

• Borderlands 4 – All Side Missions (by Starting Area)

Step 5: Discover All Map Locations [1 Hour]

After you finished all main and side missions you will have access to all 191 map locations. They are the question mark icons (“?”) on the map. These include blue pinpoint icons, activities, fast travel points, and Primordial Vaults. You only need to go near them to mark them on the map. They can be tracked by hovering over a map region and pressing . On the left side it will show an overview of “Travel Network” and “Areas of Interest” you have discovered.

• Borderlands 4 – The Fadefields Map Locations
• Borderlands 4 – Carcadia Burn Map Locations
• Borderlands 4 – Terminus Range Map Locations
• Borderlands 4 – Dominion City Map Locations

Step 6: 80 Contracts [10-15 Hours]

For the “Freelance, but Not for Free” trophy you need to finish any 80 contracts. These are accepted from “Contract Boards” found at Safehouses and in Faction Towns. They are short mini-quests with a single objective (Bounties, Collect, Acquire, Trace, Patrol). You can accept up to 5 at the same time, do the ones that are close together.

You can combine this step with reaching Level 50 on a second character class for their personal vehicle. After having finished the story, you can start any other character class immediately at Level 30 with all main missions done and all side content accessible. Go to Title Screen > New Game > Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. The only downside is that the map is fogged again and you need to reclaim the safehouses, but it saves you from a few hours of XP grind later.

Step 7: Ultimate Vault Hunter Level 5 [10 Hours]

Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode is unlocked after the story. It’s a higher difficulty that increases enemy health and damage taken.

After the story you can enable/disable Ultimate Vault Hunter under Pause Menu > Session Setting > Ultimate Vault Hunter Level > On/Off.

To increase your Ultimate Vault Hunter Rank (UVH), you must complete the challenges under Missions > Challenges > Ultimate Vault Hunter (only available after the story).

The challenges are for killing specific bosses on specific UVH ranks. These are typically bosses you encountered during Activities. After defeating the bosses, it spawns a “Wildcard Mission” on the map. Then beat the “Wildcard Mission” to increase your Rank. The Wildcard Missions are regular main missions but with mods that make them harder. These will be a guaranteed spawn after defeating the bosses, not the random weekly Wildcard Missions.

Step 8: Gear/Manufacturer Challenges [1 Hour]

If you have been paying attention to Challenges from the start, you might already have completed these. If not, check which Gear/Manufacturer category you are closest to completing. Then farm the remaining kills in Primordial Vaults, they have lots of enemies and can be replayed infinitely.

Step 9: All Personal Vehicles [30 Hours]

There are 10 personal vehicles. You can view them in Customization Menu > Vehicle > Vehicle Select. When scrolling over them it shows the unlock requirement. The first 6 are all automatic rewards from story missions. The remaining 4 come from the character challenges for reaching level 50 with each of the 4 classes (Siren, Forgeknight, Gravitar, Exo-Soldier).

You can view the character challenges under Missions > Challenges > Character. When you scroll over the challenge it shows the reward icons for each tier, and the final reward for level 50 is the red vehicle icon. Do not confuse with vehicle cosmetics which are unlocked from other challenges/activities/quests and have a red paintbrush icon next to the vehicle icon.

The good news is that after finishing the story with any character, you can start the other characters immediately at Level 30. After the story you can go to Title Screen > New Game – Ultimate Vault Hunter (Level 30) > select Character. This means you don’t have to grind all the way from Level 1, only from Level 30 > Level 50.

If you combined the 80 Contracts with leveling a second character, you will only have 2 characters left to do. The quickest way is to replay Primordial Vaults.

The vehicle unlocks carry over between your characters and across different saves. So after you’ve unlocked them with one character, you will immediately have access to them with all other characters. After unlocking a vehicle you need to claim it under Equipment > press to view mission/challenge rewards > open the Reward box.

Useful Tips, Tricks and Guides:

• Borderlands 4 Wiki (100% Completion)
• Walkthrough
• Side Missions
• Activities
• Collectibles
• Vault Fragments
• Primordial Vaults
• The Fadefields Map Locations
• Carcadia Burn Map Locations
• Terminus Range Map Locations
• Dominion City Map Locations
• Endgame Explained (Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode)
• World Map

Borderlands 4 Trophy Guide

Aw Man, Now We Have to Make BL5 

Earn all trophies.

Earn all other trophies to unlock Platinum (no DLC content required).

Crimson Rising 

Reach player level 10.

Unlocked by reaching level 10 with any character. This will automatically unlock early in the game as one of your first few trophies.

Good Hunter

Reach player level 30.

Unlocked by reaching level 30 with any character. You should reach level 30 naturally by finishing the main story and doing a small amount of side content.

After finishing the story for the first time with any character, you can start any other character class on the post-story save at level 30 from the get-go. If you finished the story below level 30 you can go to Title Screen > New Game > start a level 30 character on the post-story mode and it instantly pops the trophy.

Master of Death and Dance 

Reach player level 50.

Unlocked by reaching level 30 with any character. You should reach level 50 naturally by finishing the 25 main story missions and all 98 side missions, which are needed for other trophies anyway. So don’t worry about this, you won’t need to farm any XP. Should you not reach level 50 by the time you’re done with all quests, accept all available contracts and combine the ones that are close together, or do the Ultimate Vault Hunter Challenges, or replay Primordial Vaults (basically the combat arenas) for fast leveling.

Gear Five! 

Reach Ultimate Vault Hunter Level 5.

First, you must finish the story to unlock Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. You gain access to it after Main Mission 25 – Ultimate Vault Hunter: Wildcard Missions.

Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode is a higher difficulty that increases enemy health and damage taken. In exchange you earn more Cash, Eridium, XP, and higher quality loot.

After the story you can enable/disable Ultimate Vault Hunter under Pause Menu > Session Setting > Ultimate Vault Hunter Level > On/Off.

To increase your Ultimate Vault Hunter Rank (UVH), you must complete the Ultimate Vault Hunter Challenges. Press Touchpad > Missions > Challenges > Ultimate Vault Hunter (only available after the story).

The challenges involve killing specific bosses on specific UVH ranks as seen in the Ultimate Vault Hunter challenges. These are typically bosses at certain activity locations, which can be replayed by interacting with Moxxi’s Big Encore machine at the boss location. These will be marked on the map after defeating the boss once. After you defeated all required bosses it spawns a “Wildcard Mission” on the map. Then beat the “Wildcard Mission” to increase your Rank. The Wildcard Missions are regular main missions but with some mods that make them harder. These will be a guaranteed spawn, not the random weekly Wildcard Mission. So don’t worry, you don’t need to wait for weeks to get a random weekly Wildcard, it will automatically spawn as soon as you finished all the bosses for your rank.

Ultimate Vault Hunter Challenges:

UVH1:

• Kill Bramblesong in UVH 1 (Abandoned Auger Mine, Stoneblood Forest, Terminus Range)
• Kill Bio Armored Omega Thresher in UVH 1 (Fades District, Dominion – requires previously completing Side Missions: One Gassy Issue / One Slimy Issue)
• Kill Bio-Bulkhead in UVH 1 (Synthetic Nave, Dissected Plateau, Fadefields)
• Kill Sydney Pointylegs in UVH 1 (Ripper Drill Site, Hungering Plain, Fadefields)
• Complete Lilith’s “Rush The Gate” Wildcard mission in UVH 1 to unlock UVH 2 – the Wildcard Mission is a guaranteed spawn, gets marked on the map after finishing the 4 bosses

UVH2:

• Kill Shadowpelt in UVH 2 (Abandoned Auger Mine, Cuspid Climb, Terminus Range)
• Kill Core Observer in UVH 2 (Order Bunker, The Howl, Fadefields)
• Kill Rocken Roller in UVH 2 (Abandoned Auger Mine, Ruined Sumplands, Carcadia Burn)
• Kill Frank the Furnace in UVH 2 (Ripper Drill Site, Idolator’s Noose, Fadefields)
• Complete Lilith’s “His Vile Sanctum” Wildcard mission in UVH 2 to unlock UVH 3 – the Wildcard Mission is a guaranteed spawn, gets marked on the map after finishing the 4 bosses

UVH3:

• Kill Battle Wagon in UVH 3 (Ripper Drill Site, Stoneblood Forest, Terminus Range)
• Kill Mimicron in UVH 3 (Order Bunker, Idolator’s Noose, Fadefields)
• Kill the Immortal Boneface in UVH 3 (Ripper Drill Site, Cuspid Climb, Terminus Range)
• Kill Skull Orchid in UVH 3 (Abandoned Auger Mine, Grindstone of the Worthy, Carcadia Burn)
• Complete Lilith’s “Her Flaming Vision” Wildcard mission in UVH 3 to unlock UVH 4 – the Wildcard Mission is a guaranteed spawn, gets marked on the map after finishing the 4 bosses

UVH4:

• Complete Lilith’s “Primordial Vault: Fadefields” Wildcard misson in UVH 4 to unlock UVH 5 (requires previously completing “Primordial Vault: Fadefields”)
• Complete Lilith’s “Primordial Vault: Terminus Range” Wildcard misson in UVH 4 to unlock UVH 5 (requires previously completing “Primordial Vault: Terminus Range”)
• Complete Lilith’s “Primordial Vault: Carcadia Burn” Wildcard misson in UVH 4 to unlock UVH 5 (requires previously completing “Primordial Vault: Carcadia Burn”)

UVH5:

• Complete Lilith’s “The Timekeeper’s Order” Wildcard mission in UVH 4 to unlock UVH 5

The Lookbook is the Cookbook 

Collect 60 cosmetics.

You will automatically unlock more than 60 cosmetics from the rewards you get for finishing all 25 main missions and 98 side missions, which are needed for other trophies anyway. After completing missions you can press in Inventory > Equipment to view the reward packages. Open them for the cosmetics. Some challenges also award cosmetics which you can unpack in the equipment rewards.

You can view all available cosmetics in the Customization Menu. There are 189 cosmetics total but you only need any 60, so don’t worry about this.

• 54 Vault Hunter cosmetics (15 head, 1 body, 38 style)
• 54 ECHO-4 cosmetics (13 attachment, 3 frame, 38 style)
• 47 Vehicle cosmetics (47 paintjobs)
• 34 Weapons cosmetics (34 styles)

Catch-A-Ride 

Collect all personal vehicles.

There are 10 personal vehicles in the game. You can view them by pressing Touchpad > Customization > Vehicle > Vehicle Select. When scrolling over them it shows the unlock requirement. The first 6 are all automatic rewards from story missions. The remaining 4 come from the character challenges for reaching level 50 with each of the 4 classes (Siren, Forgeknight, Gravitar, Exo-Soldier).

You can view the character challenges under Missions > Challenges > Character. When you scroll over the challenge it shows the reward icons for each tier, and the final reward for level 50 is the red vehicle icon. Do not confuse with vehicle cosmetics which are unlocked from other challenges/activities/quests and have a red paintbrush icon next to the vehicle icon.

The good news is that after finishing the story for the first time, you can start the other character classes immediately at Level 30. After the story you can go to Title Screen > New Game – Ultimate Vault Hunter (Level 30) > select Character. This means you don’t have to grind all the way from Level 1, only from Level 30 > Level 50.

The vehicle unlocks carry over between your characters and across different saves as they’re stored on your overall profile save. So after you’ve unlocked them with one character, you will immediately have access to them with all other characters.

Note: at this time I’ve only reached level 50 with Vex. Which vehicle exactly each of the other 3 characters give still needs confirmation.

Personal Vehicles Unlock Requirements:

1. Digirunner – automatic story unlock from Main Mission 3: Down and Outbound
2. Driftblade – unlocked from completing Main Mission 6: Rush the Gate
3. Carapacer – unlocked from completing Main Mission 14: His Vile Sanctum
4. Punchy Whoopster – unlocked from completing Main Mission 10: Her Flaming Vision
5. Sprintcraft – unlocked from completing Main Mission 20: The Timekeeper’s Order
6. Fang Glider – unlocked from completing Main Mission 16: Another Day, Another Universe
7. Skimmer – unlocked from completing Challenge: An Unseen Braid – reach Level 50 as Siren (Vex)
8. Rockslider – unlocked from completing Challenge: Knight Errant (Amon) / Form and Function (Harlowe) / YOLT (Rafa) – reach Level 50 as Forgeknight (Amon) / Gravitar (Harlowe) / Exo-Soldier (Rafa) *needs confirmation
9. Gyrosled – unlocked from completing Challenge: Knight Errant (Amon) / Form and Function (Harlowe) / YOLT (Rafa) – reach Level 50 as Forgeknight (Amon) / Gravitar (Harlowe) / Exo-Soldier (Rafa) *needs confirmation
10. Pulsor – unlocked from completing Challenge: Knight Errant (Amon) / Form and Function (Harlowe) / YOLT (Rafa) – reach Level 50 as Forgeknight (Amon) / Gravitar (Harlowe) / Exo-Soldier (Rafa) *needs confirmation

Fast Leveling Strategy:

With some smart planning you can minimize the level grind to just 2 characters.

• You will reach Level 50 automatically on one character by doing all 25 Main Missions + 98 Side Missions.
• You can pair the 80 Contracts for the Freelance, but Not for Free trophy with another character. Start a character after the story in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode to farm the 80 contracts, this starts you out at Level 30 and doing 80 Contracts should get you to Level 50.
• For the last 2 characters, start them at Level 30 in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode. Then replay the Primordial Vaults (combat arenas) which give roughly one level up per 20-30 minutes.

I Earned This 

Equip legendary gear in every slot.

Legendary Gear is colored in orange. It’s the rarest grade of equipment you can find. However, at Level 50 in the endgame it drops more frequently.

Odds are you will get one of each legendary piece automatically while working on other trophies. Doing all 98 side missions and grinding 80 contracts will have you defeat lots of enemies and you will get a bunch of legendaries from it. However, the big randomness is getting one for every slot, which means all 9 slots total (not just weapons). If you have a friend who has a full set of legendaries, they can drop them to you. You can even duplicate legendaries by backing up your save, dropping them to a friend, then copy back your save to have the items back (then both players have a copy of the items).

The following 9 equipment slots must be legendary:

• 4 Weapon Slots
• 1 Repkit
• 1 Ordnance (Grenade)
• 1 Class Mod (the bottom left slot)
• 1 Shield (the bottom middle slot)
• 1 Enhancement (the bottom right slot)

Class Mods and Enhancements start dropping more frequently after Level 25+. Whenever you find a legendary, keep it in your inventory or send it to your bank (in inventory mark it with Filter > Bank > hold to ‘Send to Bank’). You can find your Bank in the faction towns, for example in The Fadefields > The Howl > The Launchpad.

After reaching Level 50, here are the best ways to get legendary gear:

• Play to Ultimate Vault Hunter Level 5 – see the “Gear Five!” trophy. The higher the Ultimate Vault Hunter level, the better the loot.
• Sometimes regular vending machine will sell legendaries as the “item of the day” after you reach level 50. You can check all vending machines, they refresh their inventory every 30 minutes. They are expensive but if you sell a full inventory of other items it should be enough to buy a legendary.
• After beating the story you unlock weekly challenges. Once a week you can get a legendary from the weekly Wildcard Mission, and from the weekly Maurice’s Bounty machine.
• Repeating Primordial Vaults (basically combat arenas), there are lots of enemies in them and a good chance some of them drop legendaries after Level 50.

Area of Expertise 

Complete any Gear Challenge category.

Gear Challenges can be tracked under Touchpad > Missions > Challenges. They include 9 categories: Pistol / Submachine Gun / Assault Rifle / Shotgun / Sniper Rifle / Grenade / Shield / Heavy Weapon / Repkits.

It’s best to work on at least one category you frequently use throughout the game.

This comes down to personal preference and what suits your playstyle. You can always buy specific weapons/equipment at vending machines. One of the easiest choices is Assault Rifles, they are good all-round wepaons and the challenges are a bit easier than the others.

If you haven’t been working on these from the start, then just grind out whatever challenges you are closest to completing. This can quickly be done by replaying Primordial Vaults (combat arenas) which have lots of enemies.

Brad Equity 

Complete any Manufacturer Challenge category.

Manufacturer Challenges can be tracked under Touchpad > Missions > Challenges. They include 8 categories: Jakobs / Daedalus / Vladof / Maliwan / Tediore / Torgue / Ripper / Order.

These are the 8 weapon manufacturers. Whenever you find a weapon it shows the manufacturer icon on it. Try to stick to weapons by the same manufacturer for most of the game until you have this trophy, so you don’t need to spend hours farming for it later.

This comes down to personal preference and what suits your playstyle. You can always buy weapons of specific manufacturers at vending machines. One of the easiest choices is Jakobs, they are the kinetic weapons and the challenges are a bit easier than some other manufacturers.

If you haven’t been working on these from the start, then just grind out whatever challenges you are closest to completing. This can quickly be done by replaying Primordial Vaults (combat arenas) which have lots of enemies.

Ruler of Everything 

Complete all activities.

There are 53 activities, when unfogging the map they get marked as question mark icons “?”. When you go close to them their activity type is revealed and you get an objective in the top left of the screen that shows what to do.

» Borderlands 4 All Activity Locations

Arena Grande 

Complete the Goredello world event.

Goredello is 1 of 3 random world events. The world events happen very rarely and it’s luck-based. The game doesn’t notify you when one is available and they disappear after a short time. When available, the world events will be marked on the map at the zoom level where side mission icons are visible, but not when fully zooming out on the map.

If the Goredello event spawns it will be in Terminus Range > Cuspid Climb > Goredello (a named blue pinhead icon).

In this event you must enter a fighting ring. Then you fight for 3 rounds, during a time limit you must defeat as many enemies as possible to get better rewards. You don’t need to get the highest reward. You just need to complete the event regardless of how well you do.

Reverse Abduction 

Complete the Airship world event.

Airship is 1 of 3 random world events. The world events happen very rarely and it’s luck-based. The game doesn’t notify you when one is available and they disappear after a short time. When available, the world events will be marked on the map at the zoom level where side mission icons are visible, but not when fully zooming out on the map.

If the Airship event spawns it will be in The Fadefields > Hungering Plain > The Flarewell (a named blue pinhead icon).

In this event you get sucked up into an airship. Inside the airship, destroy as many items and enemies as possible before the Airship departs. A timer will be shown in the top left corner. There will be a total of 4 airships in a row. When the timer ends, leave the airship, then wait for the next one to appear and repeat. The more damage you cause, the better your reward will be. What reward you get doesn’t matter for the trophy, you just need to complete the event. Then after the last airship flies away it will unlock the trophy.

Shoot the Moon 

Complete the Creep Impact world event.

Creep Impact is 1 of 3 random world events. The world events happen very rarely and it’s luck-based. The game doesn’t notify you when one is available and they disappear after a short time. When available, the world events will be marked on the map at the zoom level where side mission icons are visible, but not when fully zooming out on the map.

Freelance, but Not for Free 

Complete 80 contracts.

Contracts are accepted from “Contract Boards”. They are found at Safehouses and in every Faction Town (The Launchpad, Carcadia, Belton’s Bore).

They are short mini-quests with a single objective. These include:

• Bounties: killing a specific enemy
• Collect: kill certain enemy types to collect their items
• Acquire: retrieve a specific object
• Trace: locate a specific item in a search area
• Patrol: kill a group of enemies

You can only have 5 contracts active at the same time. The best approach is to combine ones that are close together and quick to do. They can all be tracked and the objectives will be marked on the map. Since you will need to reach Level 50 with each character class to unlock their personal vehicles, it would be most efficient to do the 80 contracts on a second character. After the story you can start a new character at Level 30 in Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode with all story content cleared. The only downside of doing it this way is that the entire map gets fogged on the new character and you’d need to reclaim the safehouses to access the contract boards. The upside is that you will get from level 30 to level 50 on the second character while farming the contracts, so it’s one less character to level for their personal vehicle.

Unfaded 

Discover all map locations in The Fadefields.

» The Fadefields Map Locations

The Mountain Provides 

Discover all map locations in Terminus Range.

» Terminus Range Map Locations

Churn the Burn 

Discover all map locations in Carcadia Burn.

» Carcadia Burn Map Locations

Useful Citizen 

Discover all map locations in Dominion City.

» Dominion City Map Locations

Pop Out 

Defeat a World Boss.

World Bosses are randomly encountered in big white bubbles. These are random luck-based spawns. You will sometimes find these big white bubbles in the open world but they are rare spawns:

As soon as you enter a white bubble, it will spawn a powerful boss. Defeat one boss in a white bubble to unlock the trophy.

Make sure you stay within the white bubble. If you step out of it or die, the bubble immediately disappears and the world boss is gone. Then you need to get lucky to find another white bubble. Compared to world events they are much more frequent though. You should see dozens of these while playing through the story and finishing all side missions. They seem to be slightly more common in the regions “The Fadefields” (southern region) and “Terminus Range” (north-east region).

Nothing Left to Guard

Defeat all Guardians in Primordial Vaults.

There are 3 Primordial Vaults, they are effectively the combat arenas. Defeating the Guardian bosses at the end of all 3 Primordial Vaults unlocks this trophy.

Each main region has one Primordial Vault (The Fadefields, Carcadia Burn, Terminus Range). Dominion City doesn’t have a Vault. You must find 3 Vault Fragment collectibles in each region to obtain the Vault Key. Then the Primordial Vault icon appears on the map. When you approach it, a pillar will come out of the ground where you can insert the key. Then a purple portal appears, go through to enter the Primordial Vault. There will be a side quest at the start of each vault. Accept it, then a yellow ramp activates. Use the ramp to be catapulted into an arena where you must defeat waves of enemies. You must fight through 3 arenas, then you fight the Vault Guardian boss in the 4th arena. Defeating the boss gives you access to a permanent power-up and counts towards the trophy progress.

The Primordial Vaults scale to your own level. They can be done on Easy difficulty (Pause Menu > Session Settings > Difficulty = Easy). They take about 20 minutes each. They are also a great way to farm XP for level-ups, and kills for challenges.

For the Fragments/Vault Locations refer to:

» Vault Fragment Locations

» Primordial Vault Locations

Pale Blueberry Dot

Complete all Outbounder missions.

Unlocked by completing the Faction Questline in The Fadefields region for the Outbounders faction. It consists of 3 Side Missions:

1. Null and Void
2. All Charged Up
3. Bound for Launch

Who’s the Boss? 

Complete all Auger missions.

Unlocked by completing the Faction Questline in Terminus Range region for the Augers faction. It consists of 4 Side Missions:

1. Mob Mentality
2. Mob Rules
3. Angry Mob
4. Mob Justice

Mole Money, Mole Problems 

Complete all Electi missions.

Unlocked by completing the Faction Questline in Carcadia Burn region for the Electi faction. It consists of 5 Side Missions:

1. Enter the Electi Part 1
2. Enter the Electi Part 2
3. The Council Divided
4. A Traitor Within
5. The Mole’s Gambit

Widely Beloved Mascot 

Complete all Claptrap missions.

Unlocked by completing 5 specific side missions that involve Claptrap:

1. No Place Like Home
2. Sum of His Parts
3. Potty Mouth
4. Peak Performance
5. Father of the Glide

Grassroots Campaigner

Complete all side missions.

For this you need to complete all 98 side missions (excluding DLC).

For all their locations and walkthroughs for each one, refer to Borderlands 4 All Side Missions.

False Idolator 

Complete mission “Rush the Gate”.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Main Mission 6: Rush the Gate.

As If Moved by an Occult Hand 

Complete mission “His Vile Sanctum”.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Main Mission 14: His Vile Sanctum.

Long Live the Queen 

Complete mission “Her Flaming Vision”.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Main Mission 10: Her Flaming Vision.

Howling on the Moon 

Complete mission “Another Day, Another Universe”.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Main Mission 16: Another Day, Another Universe.

Everything Breaks

Complete mission “The Timekeeper’s Order”.

Automatic story-related trophy, cannot be missed. Unlocks after Main Mission 20: The Timekeeper’s Order.

Glucose Guardian

Tip Moxxi.

You automatically visit Moxxi’s bar at the end of Main Mission 7: Wrath of the Ripper Queen, and you can return to it at any time. It’s located in Carcadia Burn > Ruined Sumplands > Moxxi’s Bottoms Up! (fast travel icon on map).

On the front counter of the bar, there’s a tip jar. Simply insert a small tip ($100) or big tip ($1000) and the trophy will unlock.

Cut That Out

Find the cutout of Dr. Patricia Tannis.

this trophy is currently unknown

All Things Vend 

Deliver the contents of the Legendary Vending Machine.

currently unknown – a legendary vending machine is encountered during Side Mission: Vend of the Line, but completing the mission doesn’t give the trophy. You can also find a weekly legendary vending machine “Maurice’s Black Market” after the story. Can also bring “Lost Capsule” collectibles to vending machines in safehouses, though they aren’t legendaries. It might be related to one of those things or another unrelated easter egg.

Rift Incompatible 

Find Oddman’s final resting place.

You first meet Oddman as part of Side Mission: Exit Through the Rift Shop. At the end of this mission, Francis Oddman will die. The remaining step to find his resting place is currently unknown.

Note: at the end of Side Mission: Exit Through the Rift Shop, you can choose whether to punch or shoot Oddman. It’s currently unknown if this affects the trophy. Punching him causes him to fall into a purple rift that teleports him away. Shooting him results in him dying immediately without being teleported away. Until this is confirmed, it’s best to keep a backup save from the end of the mission, or stop playing at that objective and return to it later. Worst case, if this turns out to be missable, you can always start a new level 30 character in Vault Hunter Mode after finishing the story for the first time. This starts you out with the story completed and all side content immediately available, so could quickly replay the mission from there.

Guac is Extra 

Find Dave the Burrito.

this trophy is currently unknown

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