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The Last Caretaker Music Cartridges: Where to Find All 12 and How to Play Them

Short answer: Music cartridges are tracker-music tapes you pick up around the world: 12 titles by Roz, Jogeir and Purple Motion, 65 copies in all. Play them on a Data Recovery Deck (skill tier 6): with the cartridges in your inventory, use Customize on the deck, open Cartridges, add them and press Play. Central Warehouse Alpha and York Grave hold four titles each, the most of any place. Each cartridge is also a memory item worth 20 Adaptability, 25 Creativity, 25 Focus and 20 Patience, and a human grown with it uses it up, so listen first.

All 12 cartridges and where they lieEvery memory item and its points

Game version: Early Access, Update 6 (0.10.0)

Play a Music Cartridge, Step by Step

  1. Unlock the Data Recovery Deck. Skill tier 6, 1 skill point. Skill planner
  2. Build it and put it down. 1 Alloy Frame, 1 Battery Cell and 1 Logic Chip.
  3. Pick up cartridges. Central Warehouse Alpha and York Grave hold four titles each; the table below has every place.
  4. Load them. Cartridges in your inventory, then Customize, Cartridges, add them and close.
  5. Press Play. F on a keyboard, Y on a controller. Silent? Raise Volume in Customize and the music volume in Options.

All 12 Music Cartridges and Where They Lie

65 copies in all. The numbers after each place are its map coordinates; ×2 means two copies lie there.
CartridgeCopiesWhere it lies
Angerkoskiby Roz5
  • Courier Sieve Node Facility (169, -2)
  • Habitat Node 05-14.5 (90, -56)
  • SGS-NW-150-6850 (16, -44)
  • MCV-12 Eternal Flame (89, 47)
  • Navigation Beacon 49 (33, 6)
Breakdownby Roz4
  • Habitat Node 09-4 (82, 17)
  • York Grave (85, -75)
  • Refuel Outpost Theta (84, -45)
  • Nomads Tower (74, -31)
Chiptropolisby Jogeir5
  • Lazarus Complex (69, -2)
  • Sanctuary Dock 12 (88, 27)
  • Quarantine Stack Chorus (147, -32)
  • MCV-12 Eternal Flame (89, 47)
  • Habitat Node 04-7 (83, -15)
Fluctuationsby Roz5
  • Eden Cradle (167, 34)
  • Central Warehouse Alpha (66, 22)
  • Quarantine Stack Amen (146, -38)
  • York Grave (85, -75)
  • Nomads Tower (74, -31)
Guitar Slingerby Jogeir5
  • Lazarus Complex (69, -2)
  • Quarantine Stack Dawn (150, -46)
  • Sanctuary Dock 37 (11, 8)
  • MCV-17 Dead Breath (74, -74)
  • SGS-S-150-6300 (81, 60)
Keys to Imaginationby Jogeir6
  • Habitat Node 02-23 (48, -48)
  • Platform Omega (90, 6)
  • Central Warehouse Alpha (66, 22)
  • Quarantine Stack Amen (146, -38)
  • Helios Reserve Gemini (60, -26)
  • York Grave (85, -75)
Loneliesby Roz7
  • North Bastion ×2
  • Eden Cradle (167, 34)
  • Habitat Node 02-23 (48, -48)
  • Salem Grave (108, 54)
  • Central Warehouse Alpha (66, 22)
  • Refuel Outpost Theta (84, -45)
Poushkiby Jogeir5
  • Salem Grave (108, 54)
  • Courier Sieve Node Facility (169, -2)
  • Helios Reserve Gemini (60, -26)
  • Navigation Beacon 15 (69, -53)
  • York Grave (85, -75)
Second Realityby Purple Motion6
  • Eden Cradle (167, 34) ×2
  • Lazarus Complex (69, -2)
  • Habitat Node 03-12.3 (98, 16)
  • Habitat Node 05-14.5 (90, -56)
  • Refuel Outpost Gamma (47, -7)
Starshineby Purple Motion6
  • Central Warehouse Alpha (66, 22)
  • Black Vein Station (49, -70)
  • Talon Offshore Proving Deck (96, 58)
  • Helios Reserve Gemini (60, -26)
  • Navigation Beacon 15 (69, -53)
  • Habitat Node 01-2.5 (68, -78)
Touchin’ the Chipby Jogeir5
  • The Last Listener Station (115, 11) ×2
  • Salem Grave (108, 54)
  • Habitat Node 09-4 (82, 17)
  • Talon Offshore Proving Deck (96, 58)
Turbulenceby Purple Motion6
  • Black Vein Station (49, -70)
  • Quarantine Stack Amen (146, -38)
  • North Bastion
  • Talon Offshore Proving Deck (96, 58)
  • Habitat Node 01-2.5 (68, -78)
  • Nomads Tower (74, -31)

Find any of these places on the interactive map.

What Music Cartridges Are

What are music cartridges in The Last Caretaker?

Music cartridges are tracker-music tapes you pick up around the world and play on a Data Recovery Deck. There are twelve titles, by Roz, Jogeir and Purple Motion.

The Data Recovery Deck and its music playback came with Update 5.

Are music cartridges the same as PECO game cartridges?

They are not the PECO game cartridges. Those hold mini-games: carry one to a PECO terminal, open the Cartridge screen and install it, and the game stays on every terminal.

See also: the Rising Tide game cartridge and Memory for Aron

Where to Find Music Cartridges

Where are the music cartridges?

65 copies of the twelve titles lie in the world, each title in four to six places, so you do not need one exact spot. The table lists every place with its map coordinates.

See also: the table of all places · interactive map

Which place has the most music cartridges?

Central Warehouse Alpha (66, 22) and York Grave (85, -75) hold four different titles each: Central Warehouse Alpha has Fluctuations, Keys to Imagination, Lonelies and Starshine; York Grave has Breakdown, Fluctuations, Keys to Imagination and Poushki. Seven more places hold three each: Eden Cradle, Helios Reserve Gemini, Lazarus Complex, Nomads Tower, Quarantine Stack Amen, Salem Grave and Talon Offshore Proving Deck.

See also: the Warehouse

How to Play Music Cartridges

How do you play a music cartridge?

You need a Data Recovery Deck. It unlocks at skill tier 6 for 1 skill point and is built from 1 Alloy Frame, 1 Battery Cell and 1 Logic Chip. Build it, then put it down where you want the music.

With the cartridges in your inventory, use Customize on the deck, open Cartridges, add the ones you want and close the menu, then press Play. You can load several at once.

Play and pause is F on a keyboard and Y on a controller, while you stand in front of the deck.

The Customize menu also has Loop and Shuffle, and Eject cartridge puts every loaded cartridge back in your inventory.

See also: making the parts

Why does the Data Recovery Deck play no music?

No sound usually means a volume setting. Check the Volume slider in the deck’s Customize menu, then the music volume under Options, Audio.

See also: other fixes

Music Cartridges as Memory Items

What do music cartridges add to a human?

Every music cartridge is also a memory item for growing humans, worth 20 Adaptability, 25 Creativity, 25 Focus and 20 Patience. All twelve titles give the same points.

A cartridge loaded into a Lazarus rack is used up by the human it grows, so play it first, or keep one copy for the deck and spend the spares.

See also: every memory item · Human Calculator

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