RidgeVale

RidgeVale is a medium sized factory town located about a kilometer southwest from Impirius, on the edge of the Mainland Plains Gorge. It is full of various apartment complexes, with the prominent buildings being the northern factory and the construction site in the center of town. While not a spawn city, it is very common to encounter lower level players here, its location making it in the direct path of several common commutes. There are about a dozen buildings here with over a hundred chests between them, including a hospital, bank, factory, and library.

### Building Rundown

**Warehouse** - The warehouse in the northernmost outcast of the town. Six Tier 1&2 Residential chests, and often used as a base for medium-sized clans.

**Factory** - A massive steel mill and distribution facility. Twenty Tier 1-3 Industrial chests, with scattered low level Commercial, Police, Labratory, Military, and Militia chests. A Tier 4 Industrial chest in the top floor manufacturing area is locked with a Green Key.

**Hospital** - Large medical building in the north. Twenty Tier 1-2 Medical chests, with two Tier 3 Medical chests locked with Purple Keys: one in the second floor emergency room, the other on the roof. There is a fire escape on the west side that goes from the ground directly to the roof.

**Parking Garage** - Multi-level parking garage with many windows. Nine Tier 1-4 Commercial chests, with very little detail or cover. Often used by ghillie snipers for its multiple open sightlines around the entire town and quick escape options.

**Library** - Two-story structure overgrown with vegetation. Six Tier 1-4 Residential chests, also a common ghillie sniper spot for its many well-covered sightlines into the construction site.

**Deck Apartments** - Double decker apartment complex with a shared deck space. Eight Tier 1-4 Residential chests, with Furnaces in almost every apartment.

**Café Apartments** - Combination apartment complex and café. Five Tier 2-4 Residential chests, with a couple Commercial in the lower area. There are Furnaces in the kitchen, and a fire escape on the south wall into an alleyway.

**Row Apartments** - White-walled apartment complex with much larger rooms. Eighteen Tier 1-4 Residential chests, with Furnaces in every apartment. There is a closet players can become trapped in on the first floor in the northernmost partition.

**High Rise Apartments** - Six floors of very long single-room apartments. Fourteen Tier 1-4 Residential chests throughout, with a Tier 5 Residential on the roof locked with a Gray Key. There are Furnaces in every apartment, and a Crafting Table in the top western section. There are several convenient sightlines in this building that are large enough for bullets, but not for players.

**Office Complex** - Six floors of meeting rooms, cubicles, and an archives room. Fifteen Tier 1-4 Commercial chests, with a locked Tier 5 Commercial chest on the roof requiring a Gray Key. The main staircase is made of stone slabs, and as such is very often landmined due to their ease of concealment.

**Construction Site** - The large open ground that is under construction within the center of town. Requires more exploration, I got shot at when I tried to look around here.

**Western Apartment Block** - Several floors of copy-pasted apartments. Ten Tier 1-4 Residential chests, with a Tier 2 Militia chest on the third floor. Furnaces in every apartment, otherwise uninteresting.

**Medical Apartment Block** - Several floors of copy-pasted apartments with a palette swap. Six Tier 1 Medical chests, with a Tier 3 Medical chest on the roof locked with a Purple Key.

**Eastern Apartment Block** - Several floors of copy-pasted apartments. Eight Tier 1-3 Residential chests, with a Tier 5 Residential chest on the roof locked with a Gray Key.

**Bank** - The southernmost building, a middlingly secured building with a parking garage below and in heavy disrepair. Four Tier 1-3 Commercial chests, Three Tier 1-2 Police chests, and a Tier 5 Commercial chest locked with a Gray Key. Piles of Ammo Crates are on the roof, there are Furnaces and Crafting Tables in the lobby, and there are almost a hundred storage boxes throughout the spacious interior. The armored car parked outside has a Tier 2 Police chest within, and almost thirty storage crates, making it a perfect base location.

### Lore

There are many things within RidgeVale that tell us what happened to this poor desolate city. There is a written diary entry within the Western Apartment Block that reads as follows:

*I thought the earthquake was enough for this town... guess god had to smack us with an apocalypse as well... Bet I'll last longer than those preppy Impirius fools*

From this citizen's account, we know that there was an earthquake that hit the location just before the beginning of the infection's spread. This is likely the reason behind the construction, and why many of the buildings seem in a much worse state than their counterparts in further locations like GeddysBurg. We can also infer that there was some animosity between this small suburban area and the massive city whose shadow they sat in.