Ridge Dispatch revises a guide when the live game moves. Event routes, legendary crafting, and region tips are checked against the public patch they name. A note about Mutation Invasion or Test Your Metal can go stale after a later season changes spawns, rewards, or menu names. We keep the patch date on the page so you can see what build we walked.

Accuracy here is editorial, not a promise that your next Scorched Earth will drop a specific plan. Enemy health, stash weight, and armor values shift between updates, including the 2026 armor pass in The Backwoods and the unique-item crafting added with The Slasher. Keep the guide title when you write in, so we can compare it with the current client.

If a published step no longer matches the game, contact the desk with the guide name and your platform. We will re-walk the route or perk, correct the page, and say whether the old trick died in a hotfix or only on one difficulty of an expedition.