Follow our step-by-step guide to complete The Eye of the Earth main quest in Horizon Forbidden West, including finding Minerva, exploring the facility, and interacting with the Fabrication Terminal.
Walkthrough
- 1Head west, then southwest, and ascend stairs. Go through a doorway to find a lab.
- 2Attempt to go north through a door, then pry it open and climb an elevator shaft.
- 3At the top, go south, turn left (east), and pry open a door to the south to reach a circular data storage chamber.
- 4Go east (Minerva blocks west doors). Use your Pullcaster to remove grates from two vents (north and east).
- 5Plunder the cache in the north vent. Enter the east vent.
- 6Inside the vent, climb the handholds on the eastern wall.
- 7Turn right (south) and head down a shaft. Find a breach in the duct to the left (east) to get a Greenshine Fragment.
- 8Continue south, then west to a dead-end shaft. Drop down.
- 9Return to the wall and climb up to an elevated vent. Follow it east, then southeast to exit outside.
- 10Crawl around stalactites. Head south uphill, switchback north, and use a grapple point.
- 11Climb onto stalactites, work your way right, then around to the far side, and right again to a ledge.
- 12Leap and glide north to a lower ledge across a gap. Climb the cliffs to the northeast.
- 13Use a grapple point when high enough and keep climbing to another snowy ledge.
- 14Pry open loose rocks to re-enter the facility.
- 15Proceed to a circular chamber. Head upstairs, rappel down, and insert the GAIA Kernel into a node.
- 16Explore the facility. Head downstairs north into a circular room.
- 17Enter a room to the west and interact with the Fabrication Terminal. You must interact with it to trigger dialogue, though you don't need to unlock overrides.
- 18Explore other rooms for commentary if desired, then return to GAIA.
- 19After the conversation with GAIA, choose one of the three objectives: [The Broken Sky], [The Sea of Sands], or [Seeds of the Past]. This sets the active quest but can be changed later.
- 20Leave via the western exit. The main quests [The Broken Sky], [The Sea of Sands], and [Seeds of the Past] will start. You will also unlock The Base.
Tips
- You can choose any of the three main quest objectives offered by GAIA; your choice is not permanent.
- Completing this quest unlocks The Base and access to the western half of the Forbidden West.
- Base of operations secured
- GAIA rebooted
- Access to western Forbidden West
- New main quests: [The Broken Sky], [The Sea of Sands], [Seeds of the Past]
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