Blackout
Live now“Skier has discovered a vulnerability in the Lab’s security system and plans to strip the facility clean. Information this valuable was never going to stay secret for long, and now all kinds of interested parties are converging on the underground complex — each with their own motives. However, someone else was already one step ahead: a team of unidentified operatives in black had infiltrated the Lab. What they’re searching for remains unknown, but their presence poses a serious threat.”
Blackout hit the servers on July 14 with patch 1.0.6.5 — and it’s the biggest shake-up The Lab has ever seen. The lights are out for good, a new boss crew has moved in, and every keypad in the facility answers to a single code. It’s also the warm-up act for Kord Breach, Tarkov’s first full season — the Black Division you meet here is clearly not done with us yet.
What changed on The Lab
- Total darkness: the lights cut out a few minutes into the raid and cannot be turned back on.
- The Wedge, a former SAS operative, runs the facility with his Black Division squad.
- They throw Model 8230 CS gas grenades — and for the first time you can loot those grenades off bodies and use them yourself. Toss one into a corner room and smoke the campers out, just like Wedge’s boys do.
- The Wedge carries the TerraGroup Labs arsenal storage room key (Blackout) in his pockets; his guards and Black Division fighters can drop it too.
- Only two extractions: Parking Gate and Hangar Gate — both must first be activated from the system admin’s office.
- Every keypad lock opens with one 4-digit code from the system admin’s office. It rerolls every raid — no point memorizing it.
- No transit out of The Lab (transits in still work), and the raid timer is down to 25 minutes.
How to get in
- TerraGroup Labs access keycard is on sale at Therapist LL3 (~166,500 ₽) and Ref LL3 (14× GP coin).
- Cheapest ticket — Mechanic LL3 barter: 1× Bulbex cable cutter + 1× Pipe grip wrench + 2× Pliers Elite.
Event quests
- Wrench and Waterboarding (Skier)
- Key to Every Door
- My Blood Type Mark is on the Sleeve
- Patch the Vulnerability
- If I Can’t Have It
Finish the questline for the legendary Going Dark achievement.
Tarkov-Market tips
- NVG or thermal is not optional here — whoever sees first, wins. Pack a flashlight as a backup.
- First stop — the system admin’s office: the door code and the extraction activation in one visit.
- That one code opens rooms that normally cost millions in keycards — the best loot window The Lab has had in years.
- Don’t walk past the gas grenades: strip them off Black Division bodies and cook a room before you push it.
- 25 minutes and no transit out — plan a tight route towards Parking Gate or Hangar Gate before you load in.
- Check flea prices for the cable cutter, pipe wrench and pliers right here on the site — the Mechanic barter is usually the cheapest way in.