Borderlands 4 contains 98 Side Missions. Here you can find walkthroughs for all of them, including their starting locations and unlock requirements. Completing all 98 side missions unlocks the Grassroots Campaigner trophy & achievement.
After the story there’s still free roam and you can clean up any side content you have left. It’s recommended to do as much as possible during the story to level up. This is more efficient as it makes progress in the main missions easier. Side Missions get marked on the map by blue “!” exclamation points when unfogging the area around them. You should unfog the map early on so that you see when new side missions appear. New ones get added when you progress through the story. The contracts (miniquests from contract boards) don’t count towards the 98 side missions. Only the ones given by NPCs with blue exclamation marks count as side missions.
Side Quests by Area
Note: side missions that are part of questlines are listed under the area where the questline starts. Example: Brew-ha-ha technically starts in Coastal Bonescape, but is part of the questline in The Low Leys. Questlines are indented bullet points in the list.
Current Progress: 93/98 Side Missions done. The remaining ones are believed to be unmarked and to trigger by helping people in need who give you radio calls, similar to the unmarked “Breeding Daisies“. If you find a mission not yet listed please leave a comment with the starting location / quest giver.
The Fadefields
Coastal Bonescape
- Abduction Injunction
- Hangover Helper
- Meat is Murder
The Howl
- Ready to Blow (*can also start in Idolator’s Noose)
- No Place Like Home (*can also start in Hungering Plain)
- Sum of His Parts
- Breeding Daisies
- Whack-A-Thresher
- Carried Away
- Droning On
- Drone Ranger
- The Kairos Job
- Scoundrel Roundup: Glitch
- Scoundrel Roundup: Kilo
- Free for the TASKing
- TASK and Ye Shall Receive
- TASK Master
- Working For Tips
- Null and Void
- All Charged Up
- Bound for Launch
- PowerDrop
- Savage Salvage
Hungering Plain
- No Place Like Home (*can also start in The Howl)
- Finway’s Cup
- Exit Through the Rift Shop (*can start in Hungering Plain / Ruined Sumplands / Cuspid Climb / The Low Leys)
Idolator’s Noose
- Electroshock Therapy
- Electroshock Therapy: The Second Session
- Ready to Blow (*can also start in The Howl)
Dissected Plateau
- Gone Are My Leggies
- To the Limb It
- To the Limb It: Redux
- To the Limb It: Couples Therapy
- Primordial Vault: Fadefields
Carcadia Burn
Lopside
- Potty Mouth
- Imminent Jest
Grindstone of the Worthy
- The Power Ballad of Rodd Vomit
- Vicious News Cycle: Cannon Fodder
- Primordial Vault: Carcadia Burn
Ruined Sumplands
- Fault Hunting
- Vend of the Line
- Enter the Electi Part 1
- Enter the Electi Part 2
- The Council Divided
- A Traitor Within
- The Mole’s Gambit
- PB&J
- Her Own Funeral
- Broken Ships
- Vicious News Cycle: Hot Tag
- Vicious News Cycle: Mine Time Live
- Exit Through the Rift Shop (*can start in Hungering Plain / Ruined Sumplands / Cuspid Climb / The Low Leys)
Tonnage Peel
- And Welcome to the Jam
- Ripples and Rituals
Terminus Range
Cuspid Climb
- Flat Kairoser
- Peak Performance
- Wayward Gun
- Way Too Chill
- Exit Through the Rift Shop (*can start in Hungering Plain / Ruined Sumplands / Cuspid Climb / The Low Leys)
Stoneblood Forest
- Father of the Glide
- Crack This Guy’s Back
- Sage Against the Machine
- The Next Quest Thing
The Low Leys
- Mob Mentality
- Mob Rules
- Angry Mob
- Mob Justice
- Tandem Access Memory
- La-La-Last Call
- Ain’t No Sham in It
- Brew-ha-ha
- Never Meet Your Heroes
- The Importance of Being Furnished
- A Brother in Need
- It’s a Whole Phase Situation
- Returned to the Mountain
- A Call for Help
- Primordial Vault: Terminus Range
- Exit Through the Rift Shop (*can start in Hungering Plain / Ruined Sumplands / Cuspid Climb / The Low Leys)
Dominion
Carcadia District
- Price of Freedom
- Price of Freedom Pt. 2
- Price of Freedom Pt. 3
- Joe & Sue
- The Black Market
- Overwriting a Wrong
- Bad Seed
- Bad Seed Pt. 2
- The Cat’s Pajamas
Terminus District
- AAA for Effort
- Below the Surface
- No-Escape Room
- Love in the Time of Eridium Poisoning
Fades District (only accessible after reaching Main Mission 19: Plan Z)
- Old Raymond
- Old Lads
- Old Tricks
- One Gassy Issue
- One Slimy Issue
