This guide will show you how to complete A Gift From The Past, a main quest in Horizon Zero Dawn. Read on to learn the objectives, strategies, location, and rewards for the A Gift From The Past main quest.
Previous Quest | Next Quest |
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- | Lessons Of The Wild |
List of Contents
Quest Name | A Gift From The Past |
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Quest Giver | None. This quest triggers immediately after the first cutscene. |
Rewards | - - |
Recommended Level | - - |
Percent (%) Completion | - - |
Description | Trapped underground, Aloy searches for a way out - and makes a discovery that will forever change her life. |
Objectives | |
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1 | ![]() Follow the displayed waypoinst and head deeper into the underground facility. |
2 | ![]() When prompted, examine the Focus worn by the corpse. |
3 | ![]() Climb up the stairs towards the locked door. Turn right at the top and follow the path into the southern room. |
4 | ![]() Use your Focus to scan the Code Nexus. This will show you the Holo Lock code. |
5 | ![]() Match the Holo Lock display to that of the Code Nexus (red segment facing down). This unlocks the way out. |
6 | ![]() Return to the previously locked door and open it. |
7 | ![]() Head deeper into the facility, following the waypoints as you go. |
8 | ![]() Using your Focus, scan the hologram datapoint Happy Birthday Isaac! |
9 | ![]() Proceed further into the facility. Follow the waypoints to reunite with Rost. |
For players looking to get all of the game's Collectibles, this is the first area that will have Audio Datapoint logs laying about.
Navigate to each one by paying attention to the box icon that appears in the compass radial. Scan them using your Focus to collect their data.
Some areas in the cave facility, notably the doorways blocked by stalagmites and stalactites, will not be accessible to young Aloy.
Make sure to keep them in mind for later as it is here that you will find your first Power Cell and Metal Flower.
Main Quest Walkthroughs | |
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A Gift From the Past | Lessons of the Wild |
The Point of the Spear | Mother's Heart |
The Proving | The Womb of the Mountain |
A Seeker at the Gates | The City of the Sun |
Maker's End | The Grave-Hoard |
To Curse the Darkness | Deep Secrets of the Earth |
The Terror of the Sun | The Heart of the Nora |
The Mountain That Fell | The Looming Shadow |
The Face of Extinction | |
Main Quests - Nora Tribe | |
The War-Chief's Trail | Revenge of the Nora |
Main Quests - Oseram Tribe | |
The Field of the Fallen | Into the Borderlands |
The Sun Shall Fall |
Frozen Wild Main Quest Walkthroughs | |
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Into the Frozen Wilds | The Shaman's Path |
For the Werak | Firebreak |
The Forge of Winter |
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